Ten added to US quarter horse Hall of Fame

Poco Tivio

Ten novel inductees are to bring together the 144 people as well as 89 horses already inwards the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.

The v horses as well as v menwill live honored at the 2013 American Quarter Horse Association Convention inwards March 2013  inwards Houston.

The horses are: Fillinic, Freckles Playboy, Lady Bug’s Moon, Miss Olene as well as Poco Tivio.

The men who volition live honored are: Bill Brewer of Amarillo, Texas; Kenny Hart of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico; Frank Merrill of Purcell, Oklahoma; the belatedly Guy Ray Rutland of Independence, Kansas; as well as Greg Whalen of Clements, California.

Induction into the Hall of Fame is 1 of the highest honors inside the American Quarter Horse community, as well as it is reserved to those who stimulate got made an particular contribution to the American Quarter Horse.

Bill Brewer of Amarillo, Texas, was the executive vice president for AQHA from 1992 to 2009. During his tenure every bit executive vice president, the association registered its 5 millionth Equus caballus as well as grew to a membership high of to a greater extent than than 350,000. In a career alongside AQHA that lasted most twoscore years, Brewer’s legacy was 1 of improved client service, efficiency as well as fellow member benefits.

Kenny Hart of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, was a winning quarter Equus caballus jockey for 35 years. He rode his firstly fit race inwards 1962, as well as inwards 1977, he became the firstly jockey to overstep $1 1000000 inwards annual earnings. In 1985, Hart was the AQHA champion jockey, every bit good every bit the leading jockey past times coin earned as well as past times races won. In 1979, 1981-83 as well as 1985, he was the leading jockey past times races won. Hart instantly serves every bit a steward at Ruidoso Downs, where he has been inducted into the track’s hall of fame.

Frank Merrill of Purcell, Oklahoma, co-founded Windward Stud, a stallion station as well as breeding functioning that bred to a greater extent than than 25,000 mares as well as stood 92 stallions at dissimilar times. Merrill joined the AQHA Board of Directors inwards 1980 as well as was appointed to the Executive Committee inwards 2003. He served every bit president inwards 2007-08. Frank as well as his wife, Robin, are also known for their ongoing interest inwards cutting.

The belatedly Guy Ray Rutland of Independence, Kansas, was a leading breeder of racehorses. The rancher as well as his wife, Mildred, bred the earners of $1,954,309 inwards quarter Equus caballus racing. Among the horses they bred were Pacific Dan, the 1974 champion racing 3-year-old gelding who laid 6 runway records, as well as his sire, Pacific Bailey, 1 of the leading sires of racing Register of Merit earners inwards the 1970s as well as 1980s. In 1967 as well as from 1970 to 1977, Rutland was the top breeder of winning racehorses.

Greg Whalen of Clements, California, is a longtime breeder as well as globe champion exhibitor of quarter horses. His firstly globe entitle was inwards 1974 alongside Opie’s Pride at the firstly AQHA World Championship Show. Whalen was an AQHA jurist for fourteen years as well as began breeding quarter horses inwards 1962. He as well as his wife, Mary, stimulate got bred foals earning 7,821 halter points as well as 700.5 performance points inwards all divisions, alongside to a greater extent than than $210,000 inwards AQHA Incentive Fund earnings. Whalen was also known for preparation amateur as well as youth competitors to the top, as well as for mentoring immature trainers.

Fillinic was associated alongside the belatedly Greg Ward of Tulare, California, who rode her to many championships inwards reined moo-cow Equus caballus contest earlier commencement his family’s breeding programme approximately her. The 1957 chestnut mare was past times Arizona Junie as well as out of Alouette past times Master Boss (TB). She produced 10 foals that earned $130,834, including Reminic, her 1978 stallion past times Doc’s Remedy, who earned to a greater extent than than $90,000 earlier becoming a sire of horses that stimulate got earned most $4 1000000 inwards reining, cutting as well as reined moo-cow Equus caballus competition. Fillinic was inducted into the National Reined Cow Horse Association Hall of Fame inwards 2003.

Freckles Playboy

Freckles Playboy was a leading sire of western performances horses. The 1973 sorrel stallion past times Jewel’s Leo Bars was out of the Rey Jay mare Gay Jay as well as was bred past times Marion Flynt of Midland, Texas. In 1976, Freckles Playboy was the co-reserve champion at the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity, the start of a successful cutting career that would run along until 1980. In the breeding barn for possessor Kay Floyd of Stephenville, Texas, Freckles Playboy sired offspring that earned $24.56 1000000 inwards NCHA competition, $125,696 inwards National Reining Horse Association competition, $285,596 inwards National Reined Cow Horse Association contest as well as $176,970 at the AQHA World Championship Show.

Lady Bug’s Moon is known every bit a broodmare sire of top racehorses as well as barrel racing horses. The sorrel stallion was foaled inwards 1966, the boy of Top Moon as well as out of FL Lady Bug past times Sergeant. On the racetrack for possessor as well as breeder Marvin Barnes of Ada, Oklahoma, Lady Bug’s Moon earned $191,536. He sired the earners of to a greater extent than than $4 million, including 1 globe champion, Chicory Moon. He also sired Shawne Bug, a leading sire of barrel racing horses. In the 1982 All American Futurity, Mr Master Bug won as well as Miss Squaw Hand was second. Both were out of Lady Bug’s Moon daughters. At the fourth dimension of the stallion’s popular off inwards 1995, he was the 5th all-time leading broodmare sire of earners.

Miss Olene, a 1957 bay mare, was the production of quarter Equus caballus racing royalty. Her sire, Leo, as well as her dam, Barbara L past times Patriotic (TB), are both members of the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. Miss Olene became a winning runner, alongside earnings of $31,022 as well as a tape of 11-3-3 inwards 33 starts. She produced 17 foals that earned $700,673 on the runway inwards the 1960s as well as 1970s. Her 1972 foal, Little Blue Sheep, was the globe champion aged mare twice. Of the 17 foals Miss Olene produced, xv were starters, as well as the unraced foals went on to hit black-type performers. She was bred past times the belatedly Bruce Green of Purcell, Oklahoma, as well as was concluding owned past times Herbert Dillon as well as Myron Palermo of Houston.

Poco Tivio was foaled inwards 1947 on the famed Waggoner Ranch. Sired past times Hall of Famer Poco Bueno as well as out of Sheilwin past times Pretty Boy, Poco Tivio was a amount blood brother to Hall of Famer Poco Lena. Poco Tivio began cutting merely every bit the sport was commencement to accept off, as well as inwards 1952, Poco Tivio headed the firstly listing of AQHA Champions. He was shown inwards cutting, reining as well as reined moo-cow Equus caballus contest past times trainers Milt Bennett, Don Dodge as well as Charley Araujo earlier going to the breeding barn as well as becoming known every bit a sire of horses that showed every bit good at halter every bit they did inwards cutting, siring 10 AQHA Champions. He was owned past times Floyd Boss of Fresno, California.

 

» The American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame is housed inwards the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum inwards Amarillo, Texas.

 

 

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