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When the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) was founded in 1940, The Old Sorrel was already twenty-five years old, but the King Ranch registered him amongst the very first horses that the AQHA accepted for registration. He was given number 209 in the registry, and registered as bred by George Clegg of Alice, Texas.
Wimpy was foaled on the King Ranch in Kingsville, Texas on March 3, 1937. [1] However, the original application listed his foaling date as April 3, 1937, and the original stud books gave his foaling year as 1935. [2] He was a son of Solis, himself a son of Old Sorrel, the King Ranch foundation stallion.
Skipper W (1945–1963) was an American Quarter Horse and a famous breeding stallion. Despite not being shown in many horse shows, he went on to become the senior stallion of his breeder's reproductive program. Although he sired only 132 offspring, the products of his breeder's program are still often known as "Skipper W" horses.
Lauro Cavazos, who served as the first Hispanic United States Cabinet officer, was born on the King Ranch during his father's service as a ranch foreman in January, 1927. Example of a King Ranch; a Ford F-250 (2005–2007) On November 18, 1936, Luther Blanton and his son, John, trespassed on the ranch by crawling through the fence surrounding it.
It was R. L. Underwood's linebreeding program to preserve the Copperbottom bloodlines [4] that produced Cutter Bill, a 1955 palomino Quarter Horse stallion, AQHA registration #53703. [5] [6] His sire, Buddy Dexter, was the inbred progeny of a father to daughter cross along with some linebreeding throughout the pedigree. [6]
Doc Bar died on July 20, 1992, [1] and was buried on the Jensen/Ward Doc Bar Ranch in Paicines, California. [4] Doc Bar was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 1993. [5] In 2007 Western Horseman magazine chose Doc as number two on their list of top ten ranch horse bloodlines. [6]
Foaled at King Ranch in Texas, Assault was sired by Bold Venture, who had won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes in 1936. [2] His dam was the unraced Igual, by Horse of the Year Equipoise. Assault's third dam was Masda, who was a full sister to Man o' War.
The closest imported horse in his pedigree was his maternal granddam, the Polish-bred mare *Szarza, As such, Khemosabi was a product of Arabian bloodlines that had been developed in the United States for several generations, and therefore was promoted as an "All-American" horse. Khemosabi was foaled in Husband's back yard in Whittier, California.