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When Bronson's motorcycle is inadvertently damaged by a careless gasoline attendant, a grizzled old-timer named Alex (Keenan Wynn) lets Bronson use his ranch to make repairs. Alex shows Bronson his old bike, a 1937 Rudge Ulster, that had been in storage for years. Soon, both are riding again and, since Alex had promised his wife Nora to abandon ...
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.
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. ... Records show a Mexican range cow cost $6 in 1854, a mustang horse cost $6, and a stud horse cost $200–300.
The ranch’s quarter horses are descended from Old Sorrel, one of the foundation sires of the American Quarter Horse breed, crossed with North Texas’ Biggs Cattle Company cattle horse lines.
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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 ...
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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]