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AQHA 2-year-old western pleasure World Championship in 2002 and continued winning, earning 13 World Championships, eight reserve World Championships and eight Superiors. She died January 24, 2017.
Zippos Mr Good Bar (Zippo Pine Bar-Tamara Wess, Blondy’s Dude) was a leading sire of successful western pleasure horses. His foals have earned 22 AQHA World Championships, 17 reserve World Championships and 286 Superiors. He died July 22, 2016.
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. Allen earned 11 World Championships in halter, heading, heeling, reining and working cow horse. In 1976, he campaigned three different horses to year-end high-point titles in reining, tie-down roping and team roping. In addition to training, Allen established Billy Allen Feed Co. He is
a past president of the Kansas Quarter Horse Association and was inducted into the KQHA Hall of Fame in 2005.
AQHA Past President Johne Dobbs began competing in the youth division and then started in amateur competition in 2016. 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, was elected to the AQHA Executive Committee in 2010, and served as president in 2013-14.
The late J.M. Frost III was an exhibitor, owner and breeder of Quarter Horses from its beginning and was active in AQHA until his death. A fourth-generation Texan, he
Imperial Eagle
was born at the Frost Ranch in Houston, where he became involved in the oil and
gas industry, which supported his ranching and horse endeavors. Frost bred horses that earned 6,502 points in all divisions. He was influential in setting up the National Cutting Horse Association and was inducted into the NCHA Member Hall of Fame. He also owned influential Thoroughbreds, including Azure Te. He became an AQHA director in 1962 and served until 1985 when he became one of the first directors emeriti.
The late Hans Hansma was an Quarter Horse breeder who founded the Quarter Horse Association of Alberta and promoted American Quarter Horses in Europe. Hansma was a founding director of the Alberta Stakes and Futurities Association, which has become the Canadian Supreme, the largest western performance event in Canada. In 2002, he was awarded the distinguished service award from The Horse Industry Association of Alberta.
For more than 37 years, Jim Jennings was the publisher and historian for The American Quarter Horse Journal. He began with the magazine in 1971 as an associate editor. From 1974 until 1998, Jennings took photos of every AQHA World Champion. He led the publication division through changes including the establishment of two more award-winning magazines, America’s Horse and The Quarter Racing Journal. The author of four books, Jennings retired in 2008 but continued to write, including award-winning scripts for “Red Steagall is Somewhere West of Wall Street” on RFD-TV.
Two Earn SuprEmE TiTlE
BH Lisas Boy and Imperial Eagle are the newest horses to earn the title of AQHA Supreme Race Horse. The award recognizes a racing American Quarter Horse that during its career earns $500,000 or more, wins two or more open Grade 1 stakes races and at least 10 races.
BH Lisas Boy (Mighty Invictus- Apollo Snowbound, Snowbound TB) is a homebred racing for Bill C. Hoburg of Kennewick, Washington. The 6-year-old sorrel gelding reached the half-million earnings mark
when he won the Brad McKinzie Winter Championship-G1 on Feb. 11. From 29 starts, BH Lisas Boy has 17 victories, six seconds
and two thirds. He has banked $519,243 and set two track records. His Grade 1 wins also include the Winter Championship and the Vessels Maturity, both in 2017.
Bred by Fredda Draper, Champion Imperial Eagle (One Famous Eagle-Jenuine Joy, Genuine Strawfly) is owned by Christina Robinson of Southern Pines, North Carolina. The 4-year-old gelding completed the Supreme requirements on March 10, when he secured his 10th career victory in the West Texas Maturity-G3. From 18 starts, Imperial Eagle’s race record includes 10 wins, five seconds and one third. His earnings stand at $1,863,528, which ranks him 12th on the all-time leading earners list. His Grade 1 victories include the 2016 All American Futurity and Southwest Juvenile Championship, which garnered him Champion 2 Year Old and Champion 2-Year- Old Gelding honors.
BH Lisas Boy and Imperial Eagle become the 39th and 40th horses since 2002, when the award was created, and among only
111 horses in total as the award was given retroactively.
For more information on the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum, visit www.aqha.com/museum.
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