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OKLAHOMA QUARTER HORSE
HALL OF FAME
Induction Ceremony • January 21, 2022 • Oklahoma City, OK
Stories courtesy Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association Photos by Leslie Simmons, Speedhorse
After a brief hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame returned for their 17th Annual Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony held at Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City.
The Oklahoma Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame was created in 2005 to recognize outstanding individuals, horses, ranches or businesses, whose contributions involving the American Quarter Horse significantly impacted the great state of Oklahoma’s equine industry.
THE 2021 INDUCTEES WERE:
GLENN CANTRELL
Glenn Cantrell has accomplished a lifetime of owning, breeding, raising, showing, and selling some of the best in the business. He competed
in national and international champion meat and livestock judging teams, worked as a cattle buyer in the Oklahoma City Stockyards, became a livestock management specialist, and created
a business to send bred heifers overseas. His
focus was on great horses and he put his plan
into motion in the early 70’s with a force of performance and halter horses that included
many Grand Champions and top competitors, as well as a partnership with Jerry Wells on World Champion Sonny Go Lucky. His family shared his passion and his daughters showed AQHA Youth World Champions, after which the horses would move to the broodmare band. In the 1980’s the Cantrells built a facility on their place to stand stallions and in 1983, they bred 600 mares. Cantrell himself won the 2002 AQHA Amateur Honor Roll, the AQHA Select World Championship, and AQHA Reserve World Championship Weanling Filly with home grown fillies.
CORONA CARTEL
Legendary stallion Corona Cartel was bred
by Robert Etchandy and was foaled on March
31, 1994. His sire, Holland Ease, was a son of First Down Dash, and he was the first foal out of Champion runner and eventual American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Corona Chick.
Corona Cartel was purchased at the 1995 Vessels Schvaneveldt Sale as a yearling by Celina Molina, who sent the horse to trainer Jaime Gomez, who would guide the colt through his 14-race career.
Ridden by Eddie Garcia, Corona Cartel crossed the wire first in his racing debut
on April 19, 1996, but was disqualified for interference. Two starts later, they won the $180,000 Kindergarten Futurity-G2, and then at Ruidoso Downs, saddled by Carlos Lopez, he grabbed a win in the $184,640 All American Futurity Consolation. He then returned to Los Alamitos and won the Tiny’s Gay Handicap before capturing the $1,055,000 Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1.
He returned as a sophomore to contest the Vandy’s Flash Handicap-G3 and PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby-RG2 before retiring from the racetrack with an official record of six wins and earnings of $557,142.
Molina chose Lazy E Ranch as the young stallion’s new home, and he remained there for the rest of his life. There, they developed him into American Quarter Horse racing’s No. 2 all-time leading sire, behind First Down Dash on the list of top sires.
At the time of his death, he had 1,862 foals registered from 21 crops, and progeny earnings of more than $66 million. He has sired 1,069 winners from 1,542 starters, and 184 stakes winners/ In 2001, his get earned $1,591,140.
His single leading earner is also a World Champion and the sport’s all-time leading distaffer, Blues Girl Too, who earned $2,032,328.
Other top runners include All American Futurity-G1 winner Teller Cartel ($1,212,471), Eye For Corona ($1,100,121), Five Bar
Cartel ($1,068,825), Chazaq ($963,664), I Like The Odds ($991,606), PYC Paint Your Wagon ($889,581), KVN Corona ($868,077), Remember Me Rose ($820,895), Flying Fig ($806,920), Docs Best Card ($784,318), Uncle D ($689,165), Carters Cartel ($659,146),
Big Lew ($638,878), Jess Macho Corona ($596,636), Ms First Prize Rose ($550,105), Fantastic Corona Jr ($541,896), BP Cartels Alibi ($537,441), Coronas First Diva
($496,377) and Time For A Cigar ($468,963), among many more.
He is one of the sport’s great sire of sires, with sons such as Agouti, Big Daddy Cartel,
Big Lew, BV Travelin Soldier, Call Me Cole, Capo De Capi, Cartel Success, Cartels Feature, Carters Cartel, Corona B, Corona Silver, Corona Surfer, Coronado Cartel, Coronas Leaving You, Coronas Prospect, Cosino, Dale Badon, Dee Bam, Docs Best Card, Dragon Wings, Encore, Escondido Beach, Eye On Corona, Fantastic Corona Jr, Fast Prize
Cartel, Fiftyshadezofgrey, Five Bar Cartel, Furyofthewind, Heart Of The Cartel, Highest Fire, Ivory James, Kiddy Up, KVN Corona, Lethal Corona, Little Corona, Majestic Cartel, Maxximuss, Mister Fulton, Mr Ease Cartel, Noe Cartel, One Famous Versace, Pappasito, Prime Talent, PYC Paint Your Wagon, Rip Tide, Special Royal Corona, Stel Corona, Streakin Six Cartel, Tee Cos, Teller Cartel, Texas Icon, The Louisiana Cartel and Undaunted.
He is also a leading broodmare sire, with more than $80 million in earnings. In 2019, he sat as the No. 2 leading broodmare sire with earnings in excess of $8.1 million.
Corona Cartel’s influence extends past the racetrack as well. He has sired horses that have won AQHA points in halter and performance. Among his progeny is Cartel Caliente, who earned the very rare honor of being an AQHA Open Supreme Champion, and he is also the sire of National Finals Rodeo barrel horse Rosas Cantina CC.
Corona Cartel was euthanized on December 18, 2019, at the age of 25 due to infirmities of old age. Corona Cartel was laid to rest at Lazy E Ranch.
FISHER RANCH
Located in eastern Oklahoma, the Fisher Ranch dates prior to Oklahoma statehood. Five generations of the Fisher family make up the legacy of this ranch that supports 1,500 cattle and boasts over 60 years history of American Quarter Horse breeding with horses for the ranch, rodeo, show ring, and trail. They developed the Oklahoma Star and Bert foundation stock, with a large number of top PRCA and IPRA competitors riding
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