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Glover, Diana "Highest Honors" Quarter Horse Journal" March 1994 p. 72-79; Huffman, Christi L. "They Earned a Place" Quarter Horse Journal March 1998 p. 68-75; Jennings, Jim "1992 Hall of Fame inductees" Quarter Horse Journal May 1992 p. 66-69, 147; Rusk, Rebecca "It Happened in 1989" Quarter Horse Journal January 1990 p. 68-69
Impressive (April 15, 1969 – March 20, 1995) was an Appendix Quarter Horse, who earned his full AQHA registration in 1971. He was the 1974 World Champion Open Aged halter stallion, the first such World Champion in his breed, despite carrying only 48 halter points in total. He sired 2,251 foals, of which thirty went on to be World Champions ...
A winner of 12 Grade-1 stakes events, Danjer won 22 career races and was the 2021 AQHA World Champion, plus 2020 and 2021 AQHA Champion Aged Horse and Aged Gelding.
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
Each Labor Day, two-year-old horses and their teams travel to Ruidoso Downs to run the richest quarter-horse race in the world. A $3 million purse rides on how fast these horses can sprint 440 feet.
Another grandson, Tonto Bars Hank, sired all around horses. Jewel's Leo Bars (Freckles), an outstanding cutting horse and sire of cutting horses, was another grandson of Three Bars (TB). Impressive, a triple descendant of Three Bars, became the most prepotent sire of Quarter Horse halter horses from the 1970s through the 1990s. [5]
Shining Spark reached leading sire status for the first time in 2003. He kept that status until September 2021. He was the first sire to reach Three Million Sire Status in the NRCHA. He is the Number One Maternal Grandsire of Cow Horse Money Earners per Equi-Stat records. [3] [5]
The list below shows the leading Thoroughbred sire of broodmares in North America for each year since 1924. This is determined by the amount of prize money won during the year by racehorses which were foaled by a daughter of the sire. The most frequent sires on the list are Sir Gallahad III (12), Mr. Prospector (9), Princequillo (8), and Star ...