Expensive Hobby (horse)
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| Expensive Hobby | |
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| Breed: | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline: | Showing |
| Sire: | Hobby Horse |
| Grandsire: | Tinky Poo |
| Dam: | Jan's Helen |
| Maternal grandsire: | Stormy's Sugar |
| Sex: | Gelding |
| Foaled: | 1971 |
| Country: | United States |
| Color: | Buckskin |
| Owner: | Mehl Lawson, Georganna Stewart |
| Honors | |
| Other Awards | |
| 1976 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse, 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse, 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse, AQHA Superior Cutting Horse | |
| Honors | |
| American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
| Infobox last updated on: January 11, 2008. | |
Expensive Hobby was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse.[1]
He was a 1971 buckskin gelding, sired by Hobby Horse, and out of a daughter of Stormy's Sugar named Jan's Helen.[2]
He was shown in reining 120 times, and won the class 110 of those times.[1] He won the American Quarter Horse Association, or AQHA, World Show Champion title in working cowhorse and reining in 1979.[2]He was retired in 1983, but came out of retirement briefly, but was eventually retired again, before dying at age 32 in 2003.[1]
He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame.[3]
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008
- Groves, Lesli Krause "Expensive Hobby" Quarter Horse Journal November 1996 p. 18
- "Hall of Fame 2007" Quarter Horse Journal March 2007 p. 42-55
