Legends, Volume 3 Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares

by Goodhue, Jim; Guenther, Kim; Holmes, Frank; Ciarloni, Diane

• ISBN13: 9780911647709
• ISBN10: 0911647708
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Western Horseman

Summary

Just like the previous twoLegendsbooks, this one also profiles a number of stallions and several mares who gained fame in the American Quarter Horse Association. While some of them played roles in the formation of the breed, others are more contemporary. Some gained fame on the track, while others carved their niches in the show ring, and some did both. Many are also household names in the Quarter Horse industry because of their additional impact on the breed as sires and dams. Each chapter is about a specific stallion or mare, and includes a four-generation pedigree, a summary of the horse's performance record and sire or production record, and many photographs.

Author Biography

Various contributors include Diane Ciarloni, Jim Goodhue, Kim Guenther, Frank Holmes, Betsy Lynch, and Larry Thornton.

Table of Contents

Steel Dust	p. 6
Old Sorrel	p. 12
Flying Bob	p. 28
Maddon's Bright Eyes	p. 40
Showdown	p. 52
Royal King	p. 62
Jackstraw (tb)	p. 76
Piggin String (tb)	p. 88
Poco Lena	p. 98
Poco Pine	p. 112
Poco Dell	p. 124
Quo Vadis	p. 136
Question Mark	p. 146
Two Eyed Jack	p. 160
Mr Gun Smoke	p. 168
Hollywood Jac 86	p. 184
Author Profiles	p. 202
Notes	p. 205
Photo Index	p. 206
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Excerpts

From chapter titled "Hollywood Jac 86"

Despite his name, Hollywood Jac 86 didn't look like a celebrity. He wasn't handsome. He wasn't big. He wasn't at all impressive at the end of a lead shank. He was a 14.3, sandy-colored palomino with a dark-dorsal stripe and floppy ears. Yet when Hollywood Jac stepped to center stage, he had undeniable star power. His drop-to-the-basement way of stopping literally revolutionized the style of reining. He passed this ability on so consistently that it became the signature trait of the Hollywood Jac family line.

Hollywood Jac 86 was bred by John and Mary Bowling of Sumner, Iowa. The Bowlings were well known for their strong performance lines. They owner Jac's sire, Easter King, an own son of King P-234. Their broodmare band boasted more than 2 dozen daughters of Hollywood Gold, who was known in the 1950s and 60s as the "King of the Cutting Horse Sires." Among those daughters was Miss Hollywood, herself a Register of Merit-earner. In 1967, she foaled Hollywood Jac 86.

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