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Zippos Mr Good Bar (1984–2016) was a registered American Quarter Horse with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). He is an American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee for 2019. He was known for his show career and as a top sire. He was 32 years of age in 2016 when he died.
A Superior Race horse must have earned at least 200 AQHA racing points by winning races, and even more in stakes races. A Race Register of Merit is the lowest level of racing award earned from the AQHA, and is gained when a horse attains a speed rating of 80 in a race, whether or not it wins the race. [10]
The memorial statue "Dash for Cash" in front of the American Quarter Horse Association museum in Amarillo, Texas. The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum was created by the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), based in Amarillo, Texas. Ground breaking construction of the Hall of Fame Museum began in 1989. [1]
This is determined by the amount of prize money won by the sire's progeny during the year. It is restricted to stallions which are based in North America, but currently includes earnings from overseas races in Great Britain , Ireland , France , Italy , Germany and the United Arab Emirates as well as domestic earnings.
Howard Pitzer bought Two Eyed Jack in 1964 to cross on Pitzer's Pat Star Jr mares, after the horse had already earned many of his lifetime 217 AQHA open halter points. . Owned by Pitzer, he earned the rest of those halter points, as well picking up another 46.5 points in Western Pleasure, 7 points in hunt seat, 3 more points in Western Riding, 3 in working cow horse and 6 points in reini
In 2002, [5] he was the youngest stallon to secure the NRHA million dollar sire title. He is the first all-time leading sire for the National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRHCA). High earners in AQHA shows include Bald N Shiney, Shining Smokin Spark, and Shiners Diamond Jill. [5] He was also a broodmare sire.
He became an AQHA Champion and earned a Superior in halter. [15] Once Eternal Pete got his AQHA Championship, he and Dar competed in state reining competitions, which they won for two consecutive years. [12] Eternal Sun was a leading sire in six AQHA categories. According to Dar, Howard said that "there weren't many horses that paid their own way.
One of his foals, Leo Maudie, earned the highest showing and racing honor the AQHA has when he earned an AQHA Supreme Championship in 1971. [8] He was an outstanding sire of broodmares, many of his daughters going to on produce racehorses as well as show horses. [5] Leo's daughter Leota W was the 1947 Co-Champion Quarter Running Two-Year-Old Filly.