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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; Wohlfarth, Jenny "'97 Brings Eleven" Quarter Horse Journal March 1997 p. 64-67
Eternal Sun's dam Sierra Glitter set a record price for a Quarter Horse when the final bid for her was $14,200. Parker McAvoy of Rio Vista Farms out of Fresno, California, acquired Sierra Glitter that day. [7] American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee B.F. Phillips, Jr., of Frisco, Texas, attended the sale and purchased three horses. His ...
Joe Reed P-3 sired six horses that earned a Race Register of Merit. Many of his daughters became the dams of Race Register of Merit earners. His son Joe Reed II was the Champion Quarter Running Stallion for 1942–1943. [8] His grandson Jose Uno was inducted into the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) Hall of Fame. [9]
A quarter horse meet is held from January through March. The track’s most notable race is the Super Derby, a race first ran in September 1980 now at the curren distance of 1 + 1 ⁄ 16 miles (1,700 m). It was once a top race for 3 yo’s and horses such as Tiznow won the race. The race, along with the track suffered a precipitous decline and ...
On her dam's side, she traced to Louisiana Quarter Horse bloodlines as well as to the AQHA Hall of Famer Peter McCue. [5] [12] When mature, Chicado V stood 15.0 hands (60 inches, 152 cm) tall. She was a brown mare, with a connected star, stripe, and snip on her face as her only markings, or identifying marks. Earl Holmes, a longtime trainer who ...
On April 10 Bernard de Marigny, Julius C Branch and Henry Augustine Tayloe organized the Spring Meeting of The Louisiana Jockey Club at the Louisiana Race Course. [3] Tayloe was a member of the founding dynasty of American horseracing: the son of John Tayloe III, founder of the Washington Jockey Club, imported the first Epsom Derby winner Diomed, bred the foundational American thoroughbred Sir ...
Cutter Bill (1955–1982) was a Quarter Horse stallion and the 1962 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Open World Champion cutting horse with record earnings for the year. He also won the 1962 American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Honor Roll cutting horse award which made him the first horse to have won both the NCHA and AQHA awards ...
Bush track is a term used in horse racing to describe unsanctioned, informal horse races run in rural areas of the United States and southern Canada. Quarter horses, ridden by amateur jockeys, are raced on makeshift tracks, often set up in the field where the horses are pastured using barrels or other natural landmarks as the track interior.