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Fillinic
Fillinic
cutting career that continued until 1980. In the breeding barn for owner Kay Floyd of Stephenville, Texas, Freckles Playboy sired offspring that
earned $24.56 million in NCHA competition, $125,696 in National Reining Horse Association competition, $285,596 in National Reined Cow Horse Association competition and $176,970 at the AQHA World Championship Show.
lady BuG’s Moon
lady Bug’s Moon is known as a broodmare sire of top racehorses and barrel racing horses. The sorrel stallion was foaled in 1966, the son of Top Moon and out of Fl lady Bug by Sergeant. On the racetrack for owner and breeder Marvin Barnes of Ada, Oklahoma, lady Bug’s Moon earned $191,536. He sired the earners of more than $4 million, including one world champion, Chicory Moon. He also sired Shawne Bug, a leading sire of barrel racing horses. In the 1982 All American Futurity, Mr Master Bug won and Miss Squaw Hand was second. Both were out of lady Bug’s Moon daughters. At the time of the stallion’s death in 1995, he was the fifth all-time leading broodmare sire of earners.
33 starts. She produced 17 foals that earned $700,673 on the track in the 1960s and 1970s. Her 1972 foal, little Blue Sheep, was the world champion aged mare twice. Of the 17 foals Miss Olene produced, 15 were starters, and the unraced foals went on to produce black-type performers. She was bred by the late Bruce Green of Purcell, Oklahoma, and was last owned by Herbert Dillon and Myron Palermo of Houston.
Poco Tivio
Poco tivio
Poco Tivio was foaled in 1947 on the famed Waggoner Ranch. Sired by American Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Poco Bueno and out of Sheilwin by Pretty Boy, Poco Tivio was a full brother to American Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Poco lena. Poco Tivio began cutting just as the sport was beginning to take off, and in 1952, Poco Tivio headed the first list of AQHA Champions. He was shown in cutting, reining and reined cow horse competition by trainers Milt Bennett, Don Dodge and Charley Araujo before going to the breeding barn and becoming known as a sire of horses that showed as well at halter as they did in cutting, siring 10 AQHA Champions. He was owned by Floyd Boss of Fresno, California.
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Fillinic was associated with the late Greg Ward of Tulare, California, who rode her to many championships in reined cow horse competition before beginning his family’s breeding program around her. The 1957 chestnut mare was by Arizona Junie and out of Alouette by Master Boss (TB). She produced 10 foals that earned $130,834, including Reminic, her 1978 stallion by Doc’s Remedy, who earned more than $90,000 before becoming a sire
of horses that have earned nearly $4 million
in reining, cutting and reined cow horse competition. Fillinic was inducted into the NRCHA Hall of Fame in 2003.
Freckles Playboy
FrecKles PlayBoy
Freckles Playboy was a leading sire of western performances horses. The 1973 sorrel stallion by Jewel’s leo Bars was out of the Rey Jay mare Gay Jay and was bred by Marion Flynt of Midland, Texas. In 1976, Freckles Playboy was the co- reserve champion at the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity, the start of a successful
Miss Olene
Marvin Barnes at the bit and Jerry Whittle on Lady Bug's Moon as a yearling in 1967
Miss olene
Miss Olene, a 1957 bay mare, was the product of American Quarter Horse racing royalty. Her sire, leo, and her dam, Barbara l by Patriotic (TB), are both members of the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. Miss Olene became a winning American Quarter Horse runner, with earnings of $31,022 and a record of 11-3-3 in
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