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Old Sorrel was foaled in 1915 and was sold that same year to the King Ranch of Texas. [2] 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]
Outside of the American Quarter Horse Association's Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas. The American Quarter Horse Association was born at a meeting on March 15, 1940, in Fort Worth, Texas. The original idea had come from articles published by Robert M. Denhardt during the 1930s about the history and characteristics of the quarter horse.
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.
Jewel's Leo Bars (1962–1978), commonly known as "Freckles", was a sorrel American Quarter Horse stallion sired by Sugar Bars, out of Leo Pan by Leo.He is considered to be one of the early cutting horse foundation sires, most notable for his influence on the performance horse industry.
Traveler (died 1912), was a foundation sire of the American Quarter Horse breed, but mystery surrounds him as his breeding is completely unknown. [1] It is reported that Traveler was born around 1880 in upstate New York, and was shipped in a boxcar to Texas in the early 1880s to pull Fresno scrapers for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Marion Flynt (1904 - 1987) was a cattle rancher and owner of the Square Top 3 Ranch in Midland, TX., home to many legendary horses including two foundation cutting horse sires, Jewel's Leo Bars (Freckles) and Rey Jay. [1] Flynt was known in cutting horse circles as "Mr. Cutting Horse".
For example, there are three major foundation sires of the Thoroughbred, and another 24 or 25 minor foundation sires, along with 74 foundation mares. An example of a foundation bloodstock pedigree line within a breed are the Crabbet lines from the Crabbet Arabian Stud farm in England. These animals were bred by the same program for 92 years ...
This category is for individual horses who served as foundation sires for their breed. Pages in category "Foundation horse sires" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.