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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 ...
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.
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.
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]
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; ... At the time, the ranch grazed cattle, horses, sheep and goats.
Later, Byrne James of Encinal, Texas, bought King from Alexander for $325. It was James' wife that changed the horse's name from Buttons to King. [2] [6] James broke King and used him for roping and other ranch work, but when James joined the New York Giants organization to play baseball, King was sold to Win DuBose of Uvalde, Texas, for $550. [6]
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
Upon recovering from the illness, Peppy San Badger was sold to the King Ranch of South Texas in 1977, where he remained a breeding stallion until his death. [ 2 ] Peppy San Badger was trained by trainer and rider Buster Welch, the same trainer who had ridden his sire, Mr San Peppy, to the win in both the 1974 and 1976 NCHA Open World Championships.