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story courtesy AQHA
The 2018 Hall of Fame Inductees were honored at this year’s AQHA Convention on March 4 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Congratulations are in order for the connections of the five horses and six horsemen who were inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame at the 2018 AQHA Convention in Jacksonville, Florida.
The 2018 American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductees were honored at the Hall of Fame Banquet on March 4 at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida.
“Induction into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame is the highest honor possible in our Association, and we welcome these deserving individuals into the Hall of Fame,” said Craig Huffhines, executive vice president of the American Quarter Horse Association.
The horses inducted into the Hall of Fame are the stallions Otoe, Runaway Winner, The Ole Man and Smart Chic Olena; and the mare Maroon (TB).
The horsemen are AQHA Past President Gene Graves of Grand Island, Nebraska;
Dr. Tom Lenz of Louisburg, Kansas; Robert Sutherland of Overland Park, Kansas; Georga Sutton and her late husband, Raymond Sutton, of Gettysburg, South Dakota; and Hawaiian Princess, breeder and horsewoman Abigail Kawananakoa of Honolulu.
OTOE
The 1960 stallion was bred by Bud Warren, who owned such sires as Sugar Bars, Leo and Jet Deck. Otoe was purchased by Dr. Jack Donald’s Donald Ranch at El Paso, Texas, for $20,000 as a yearling. Throughout his career, the stallion succeeded
in everything he did. On the track, he won five of 13 races, finished second or third in another five and finished off the board only twice. As a halter horse, he won 20 out of 23 classes he was shown in and was an AQHA world champion in halter in 1962.
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