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SPEEDLINES
World Champion and AQHA Hall of Fame Horse Streakin Six, sire of A Streak Of Fling.
Moon Fling, the dam of
A Streak Of Fling, winning the 1985 Vespero Express Stakes.
“He asked Jerry if he would hold the check for a week because he wanted to take him home to see if he rode. He wanted to make sure he was sound, and that he rode because he wanted to be able ride him.” -Lisa Fulton
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The Fultons purchased A Streak Of Fling from Jerry Sipes.
A Streak Of Fling winning a 2002 Allowance at Remington Park.
he wanted to take him home to see if he rode. He wanted to make sure he was sound, and that he rode because he wanted to be able ride him.”
Lisa continued about the reaction to this request. “When I listen to Jerry’s side of the story when they loaded the horse on John’s trailer, which was a 40-foot pipe canvas topped trailer with calves in it. They used a piece of plywood to separate Streaker from the calves. Jerry’s wife gave him the biggest butt chewing after he loaded that nice horse on that pipe trailer with three cowboys and those calves. They arrived home about 2 am. It was late October.”
She recounted how Jerry Sipes must have trusted Brian and his friends. “That is how that all got started and I think about those three ole cowboys dickering on that stud. Jerry Sipes let them take him and he kept that check for a week. Brian called him said, ‘He rides good, you can go ahead and cash that check.’”
way ticket, and would you pick him up at the airport and take him to go look at this horse?’ I contacted John Rothwell, another one of Brian’s good buddies and he was coming home from Texas and would he be able to stop in Norman. He planned it so he was coming home just at the right time.”
She continued, “So, I got John and Billy together to get that part of it set up because it was really tough getting Brian convinced to go look at the horse. He went and Billy picked him up and they went and met Jerry Sipes and looked at Streaker. Then, they had to go have coffee and visit about it a little. Then, they went back to Jerry’s place. Brian was trying to dicker him down and then John arrived. I think back about this and how fun it had to be to have two of his best friends with him to decide whether this horse was the type he wanted.”
Brian bought the horse with one stipulation. Lisa explains, “He asked Jerry if he would hold the check for a week because
She added this about the frustration she found in finding Brian the right stallion. “I remember quoting many years ago, ‘We are going to be 99 years old before we find a horse that Brian truly likes,’ because he was so picky.”
Lisa tells how the search did finally end with A Streak Of Fling, “We had a lead on
A Streak Of Fling in the fall of 2003. Brian was busy shipping cattle and calves, and he didn’t have time to look at this horse. So, I called Jim Bailey in Norman, Oklahoma, where the horse was and asked him to look at him and see if this horse was worthy of Brian coming down and looking at him. Jim did and he called Brian back and told him he was worthy of a look. Brian was still dragging his feet because he didn’t have time to go and that was the problem.”
Lisa was undeterred and got a couple of friends to help. “I got a hold of his classmate Billy Etbauer, they grew up together, and I told Billy, ‘I am going to buy Brian a one-
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