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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.
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.
He proved himself worth breeding through ranch work on the ranch, before being used as the foundation of the King Ranch Quarter Horse linebreeding program. [2] He died in 1945, with his last foal crop being in 1943. [1] He was a sorrel stallion bred by George Clegg of Alice, Texas and sold by Clegg as a foal along with his dam for $125 to the ...
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.
Dry Doc, Little Peppy, Peppy San Badger, and Mr San Peppy were all King Ranch horses that Welch trained and showed. In 1983, the King Ranch purchased Dry Doc. Welch had won the Futurity on Dry Doc and had also beat his son, Greg, who was riding Mr San Peppy. [19] In 1999, Welch suffered a stroke. [7]
The South Texas region that encompasses the four divisions of the historic King Ranch, established on the banks of the Santa Gertrudes Creek by Richard King in 1853, is rich in wildlife and ...
Jim, former milk cart horse used to produce diphtheria antitoxin; contamination of this antitoxin inspired the Biologics Control Act of 1902; King, a foundation sire of the Quarter Horse breed; Marocco or Bankes's Horse, a late 16th- and early 17th-century English performing horse; Muhamed, German horse allegedly capable of solving cubic roots
Helen Kleberg was the only child of Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. and Helen Campbell Kleberg. Robert Kleberg Jr. was the son of Robert Kleberg and Alice King-Kleberg, who was the daughter of Henrietta and Richard King, founder of the King Ranch. [3] [4] Her father developed the Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle. [5]