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VITAL SIGNS ARE GOOD
The 2000 red roan mare Vital Signs Are Good was by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Vitalism by An Awesome Mister. She was bred by Kristin T. Rinkenberger of Morton, Illinois, and was last owned by Joe and Karen Moran of Laguna Hills, California. She won the AQHA 2-year-old western pleasure world championship in 2002 and continued winning. She earned
13 world championships, eight reserve world championships and eight Superiors. She earned $288,581 before becoming a broodmare. Of
her 24 foals, 18 have been performers, including two open world champions, an amateur world champion, two open reserve world champions and the earners of 3,132.5 points. Her offspring have earned $67,561 at AQHA world shows and $374,586 in National Snaffle Bit Association competition. She died January 24, 2017.
BILLY ALLEN
Billy Allen was born into a family of farmers who had working horses, not show horses. He grew up dreaming of being a world champion roper and rodeoed for a while, but in his mid- 20s, he started training horses instead. Since he started roping in AQHA, Allen has earned 11 world championships in halter, heading, heeling, reining and working cow horse. In 1976, Allen campaigned three different horses to year-end high-point titles in reining, tie-down roping and team roping. In addition to training horses, Allen established Billy Allen Feed Co. Allen is a 30- year breeder and a longtime judge who taught at AQHA judges seminars. He is a past president of the Kansas Quarter Horse Association and was inducted into the KQHA Hall of Fame in 2005.
ZIPPOS MR GOOD BAR
JOHNE DOBBS
AQHA Past President Johne Dobbs has spent her life with American Quarter Horses. She began competing in the youth division and then started in amateur competition in 2016. Her children also grew up showing in AQHA. She established Johne Dobbs Insurance Agency in 1992. Dobbs was a youth adviser and director for the Illinois Quarter Horse Association before becoming an AQHA director in 1997. She served on the marketing, equine research, and nominations and credentials committees. She was elected to the AQHA Executive Committee in 2010 and served as president in 2013-14.
Zippos Mr Good Bar was by American Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Zippo Pine Bar and out of Tamara Wess by Blondy’s Dude. He was bred by Norman Reynolds of Lexington, Nebraska, and was last owned by John and Sondra Narmont of Auburn, Illinois. From the breeding shed, Zippos Mr Good Bar passed on his good looks and his winning ways. His foals have earned 22 AQHA world championships, 17 reserve world championships and 286 Superiors. They have earned more than 5,000 points in Palomino Horse Breeders of America competition and almost 63,000 in AQHA competition. Zippos Mr Good Bar’s offspring have earned $3.2 million in the show ring. He was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame in 2000. He died July 22, 2016, and was buried at Richland Ranch. His daughter Vital Signs Are Good joins him in the Class of 2019.
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