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By 1976, the Roses had bred or acquired many Quarter Horses who became American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) show horses, hall of famers, and important sires. [4] They were showing cutting horses around the country. In 1975, they got the opportunity to stand American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee Peppy San on their Gainesville, Texas ...
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For example, at the 2007 Fall Yearling sale at Keeneland, 3,799 young horses sold for a total of $385,018,600, for an average of $101,347 per horse. [2] However, that average sales price reflected a variation that included at least 19 horses that sold for only $1,000 each and 34 that sold for over $1,000,000 apiece.
Somethingroyal's dam Imperatrice was a stakes winning mare who was bought by Chenery at a dispersal sale in 1947 for $30,000. Imperatrice was the dam of six stakes winners but is now best known for producing Somethingroyal, who raced only once, finishing unplaced. [3]
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 ...
It is an example of Cockney rhyming slang. The "berk" in Berkeley is pronounced / ˈ b ɑː k /, but in Cockney it is pronounced / ˈ b ɜː k /, as in American English. The Hunt-class mine countermeasure vessel HMS Berkeley was named after the hunt. Berkeley Square in London is named after the family.
[1] [2] Cutter Bill was owned by the flamboyant Texas millionaire Rex Cauble who in 1962 decided to campaign Cutter Bill with Sonny Perry in the saddle showing him. In order for Cutter Bill to compete in as many shows as possible that year, Cauble flew Cutter Bill and three other horses on his private jet to various shows.
Songbird (foaled April 30, 2013) is a retired US Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who was a two-time Eclipse Award winner. She won thirteen times, nine of them in Grade I races, and had career earnings of almost $4.7 million.