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Heritage Place Sales Company.
Jerry Windham and Heath Taylor, owner and trainer of Stolis Winner.
Jimmy Maddux, owner of Got Leesa and Fred Stanley for First Prize Rose. Wayne Cox (left), with friends, for Josie’s Bar. Country Grip APHA.
heritage PLace saLes coMPany
A major impact player in the sport of horse racing since its beginning in 1978, the Heritage Place Sales Company of Oklahoma City was founded by 11 prominent horsemen who saw an opportunity for a horse sales venue, centrally located in the United States. The Heritage Place is currently owned by the Robert W. Moore Family of Oklahoma City; the Bruce Gentry Family of Lubbock, Texas; Robert Gentry of Lubbock, Texas; and Dr. Charles Graham, of Elgin, Texas.
Heritage Place is the world’s largest venue for Quarter Horse sales and boasts a unique facility consisting of 4-1/2 acres under one roof which includes a 1,000 seat air-conditioned audito- rium, club and restaurant, 640 stalls, and arena. Throughout its history, over 70,000 horses have moved through the sales ring, bringing more than a half-billion dollars in sales.
stoLis winner
Quarter Horse racing’s all-time leading money earner with a bankroll of $2,235,161, Stolis Winner rose to prominence in 2008 with an astounding 2-year-old season. He won the first Heritage Place Futurity-G1 to carry a purse of more than one million dollars before dominat- ing the futurity season at Ruidoso Downs that summer where he eventually won the prestigious $1.9 million All American Futurity-G1. Stolis Winner became the all-time leading money
earner in the sport when he surpassed Refrigerator in 2010. Owned by Jerry Windham of College Station, Texas and trained by Heath Taylor, Stolis Winner returned to Remington Park in 2011 to win the Bank of America Oklahoma Challenge Championship-G1. Overall he has won 13 of his 29 races with all but two of them in a stakes event or trial race to qualify for a stakes event.
got country griP aPha
The all-time leader for money earned in Paint racing, Got Country Grip began his career in 2005, breaking his maiden status at first asking. He continued to win, beginning his career with 16 consecutive victories. The streak equaled the North American modern day record. He experienced his first defeat attempting to win his 17th straight race when his record-breaking bid came up short with a second-place effort at Remington Park in the Mister Lewie Memorial Stakes.
Got Country Grip would become the first Paint racer to earn more than $300,000, wrap- ping his career with 21 wins, four seconds and two thirds from 30 starts. Got Country Grip was campaigned by Jimmy Maddux of Weatherford, Texas, and trained by Brandon Parum.
First Prize rose
Bred in Oklahoma by Gordon Wilson in 1976, First Prize Rose had a three-year racing career where she was stakes-placed while winning 6 races from
34 attempts. While her career on the track was marginal, it was her second career that gained her recognition for this year’s Hall of Fame class. First Prize Rose developed into a foundation broodmare, producing stakes winners that in turn would then produce even more stakes winners. She had seven foals overall, with all seven starting races with six reaching the winner’s circle. Her offspring included: 1987 AQHA World Champion First Down Dash who would go on to be one of the greatest stallions in history; and prominent broodmare First Prize Dash, who would foal a pair of Heritage Place Futurity-G1 winners and another pair to win the Remington Park Futurity. The progeny line of success connected to First Prize Rose continues well into the second decade of the millennium.
Josie’s Bar
A horse from yesteryear, Josie’s Bar was the 1954 AQHA World Champion, Champion Mare and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. Josie’s Bar won a record 14 consecutive races from August 1953 through September 1954. She was the inaugural winner of the Los Alamitos Super Derby in 1954, then run for a purse of $15,000. The race in southern California is now routinely run for a million dollars. Josie’s Bar was owned and bred in Oklahoma by Oscar Cox of Lawton, Oklahoma, and trained by Willie Kelley. She finished her racing career in 1954 before moving on to broodmare duty where she produced 1965 World Champion Go Josie Go.
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