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AQHA
HALL OF FAME 2011
streakIn la Jolla
Courtesy AQHA
Ifthere are a couple of things that all horses in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame have in common, it is heart and
class, those undefinable and unmeasurable intangibles that make a horse want to be great.
Streakin La Jolla had heart. And he had class.
“He was a gentleman,” said Alvin “Bubba” Brossette, who in 1988 rode Streakin La Jolla to score in the Sound of Summer Derby at Delta Downs. “He was a stakes horse, and he was all business. He needed very little school- ing in the gate. Everything was pretty much automatic to him. He was never a horse to get antsy or panic. He was just a perfect horse to ride. He knew his job, and he did it. And it wasn’t that he got it from repetition or train- ing—it was kind of natural. He just naturally knew what his job was.”
Bred by the Frisco, Texas-based partner- ship of AQHA Past President B.F. Phillips Jr. and Delbert Smith, Streakin La Jolla was by Streakin Six and was foaled in 1985 out of the winning Raise Your Glass-TB mare Bottom’s Up. Trained by Mike Lyles, he was undefeated in eight career races, his last being a vic-
tory in the consolation for the All American Derby-G1. Streakin La Jolla retired with earn- ings of $56,227.
Streakin La Jolla entered stud in Louisiana in 1989. The rest is, as they say, history. His stallion career began under the management
of Drs. Rick and Brad Boutte at their Pleasure Time Farm. Streakin La Jolla then spent several more years under the care of Jude Robicheaux, First at Robicheaux’s Shoestring Stud Farm, and then the horse moved with Robicheaux to L-J Farms in Alexandria, Louisiana.
As Streakin La Jolla was gaining in national prominence, he was purchased from Lee Ray Hayes in the summer of 1999 by Robert and Karen Nunnally of Georgia. The Nunnallys made the decision to move Streakin La Jolla
to Granada Farms in Wheelock, Texas, for the 2000 breeding season.
To say that Streakin La Jolla was a hit in Texas would be an understatement. Under the
care of Jimmy Eller and the staff at Granada Farms, he bred several books of more than 200 mares each, including some of the very best broodmares in the business.
Streakin La Jolla was retired from stud duty shortly before his untimely death on June 18, 2009. The racing industry’s ninth-all-time- leading stallion has sired the earners of more than $23.9 million, including champion and leading sire Mr Jess Perry and world champion Streakin Sin Tacha, in addition to 81 other stakes winners. His lasting contributions to the American Quarter Horse racing industry will be remembered for many years, as his offspring are still winning and demand for his daughters as broodmares remains high. Streakin La Jolla’s daughters have produced the earners of more than $21.2 million, making him the ninth-all- time-leading sire of broodmares, and in 2011, they produced the earners of $3,742,909, mak- ing his fifth for the year.
“This kind and big-hearted horse will be remembered and missed by all whose lives he touched,” said the Nunnallys.
Robert and Karen Nunnally accept Streakin La Jolla’s Hall of Fame plaque from outgoing AQHA President Peter J. Cofrancesco III.
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