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Johnny TroTTer
Gordon Crone Special Achievement Award
Courtesy AQHA
AQHA Past President Johnny Trotter has served the industry for years, and now adds another accomplishment to his record, as he is the recipient of the Gordon Crone Special Achievement Award given to a man for his service to the racing industry.
Trotter is the CEO of Livestock Investors LLT and owns Bar G Feedyard near his home at Hereford, Texas. He has been an AQHA director for more than a decade, and served on the Association’s executive committee, standing as president in 2014-2015.
Trotter was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2015 and works tirelessly as one of the country’s largest feedyard owners, horse breeder, community leader and philanthropist.
Trotter is very involved in his local
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2015 World Champion Chariot racing Team
Moonshine Boogie (grey on left, the right chariot horse) and First Element (on right, the left chariot horse) with driver Josh Theurer
community, having served on the West Texas A&M University Foundation, West Texas A&M University Alumni Association and the Make-A- Wish Foundation. He is a former member of the Texas Cattle Feeders board of directors and was the 2006 recipient of the Tri-State Fair Western Heritage Award. He is a member of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame.
His involvement in the American Quarter Horse industry is focused on racing, roping and horses used for ranch work and breeding. In his own name, Trotter has bred and/or raced the likes of champion and sires One Famous Eagle and Hez Our Secret ($887,426) and runners like Bodacious Dash ($756,495), Bodacious Eagle ($634,902), Dash Back Perry ($226,642), Bay Eagle Glory ($223,553), Famous Little
Johnny Trotter
Reba ($192,612) and many more. He is also an avid team roper and
participates in numerous ropings, including the World Series of Team Roping.
Previous Gordon Crone Special Achievement Award winners:
2014–Will Fisch 2013–Matt Witman 2012–Tom Lepic 2011–Leverne Perry 2010–Dr. Steve Fisch 2009–Paul C. Jones 2008–John Andreini
2007–Dee Raper
2006–Russell Harris
2005–Jerry Windham
2004–Duayne Didericksen
2003–R.D. Hubbard
2002–Edward Allred, Jim Helzer, Ben Hudson (tie) 2001–Joe B. Turner, Jr.
2000–Frank “Scoop” Vessels III 1999–John Bassett
1998–Jack Brooks
1997–Blane Schvaneveldt 1996–Edward C. Allred 1995–Joe Kirk Fulton 1994–Spencer Childers
Jason Udy, Josh Theurer & Owen Udy of the OK Boys
Owners: Jason & Owen Udy, Ed Hibbard and Richard Maughn, Wasatch Slopes Racing Association
Driver: Josh Theurer
MOOnSHinE BOOGiE
si 100, $10,292, 8, g.
(Cashin Man-Fly Boogie Fly, Dash Ta Fame) Breeders: Gordon & Claudia Case
Owners: Maughn, Hibbard & Udy
FiRST ElEMEnT
si 96, $62,256, 6, g.
(Volcom-As Blazin Goes, Chicks A Blazin) Breeder: P. K. Thomas
Owners: Maughn, Hibbard & Udy
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