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<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> & Gary Wells & <strong>Strait</strong> GunsmokeNSugar<br />
F <strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong> of Wagner, South Dakota is a<br />
diversified farming operation with a lot of acres.<br />
<strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong> is under the management of Jeffrey, Seth<br />
and Lynn <strong>Fischer</strong>. For many years the farm was under the<br />
management of Lynn and his brother Jerome. But with the<br />
retirement of Jerome, Lynn and his son Jeffrey and grandson<br />
Seth have continued the operation of this diversified farming<br />
enterprise.<br />
The part of this farming operation that is the most visible<br />
could very well be the 400 head of horses of quarter and<br />
paint horse breeding that roam the pastures of this South<br />
Dakota farm. These performance bred horses carry the blood<br />
of some of today’s great bloodlines. This includes the blood<br />
of prominent stallions like High Brow Cat , CD Olena, Dual<br />
Pep, Hes A Peptospoonful, Smooth As A Cat and JR Colord<br />
Rambo. The visibility of this herd of horses was brought<br />
about through a black tobiano paint stallion named <strong>Strait</strong><br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> and it was his visibility in the show arena that has<br />
made him a legend in the paint horse industry.<br />
The fact that <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> provided the visibility for<br />
the horse herd on the <strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong> doesn’t mean that they<br />
started with him. Lynn <strong>Fischer</strong> explained it this way; “We’re<br />
just a bunch of ole farmers up here in South Dakota. But<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong><br />
by Larry Thornton<br />
we grew up with horses. Rode<br />
grade horses because that<br />
was all we could afford. But we<br />
learned to love them.”<br />
He continued, “We<br />
developed a pretty nice herd of<br />
quarter horses in the 70’s and<br />
80’s. In the 80’s we did a lot of<br />
business with the<br />
Pitzer Ranch run by<br />
Howard Pitzer and<br />
Dean Brinkman and<br />
now Jim Brinkman.<br />
We ended up with fifty<br />
to sixty broodmares<br />
out of Two Eyed Jack, Watch Joe<br />
Jack, Jack Eyed<br />
and horses like that. We have<br />
always run a lot of horses.<br />
Right now we might have 400<br />
head on the place.”<br />
Lynn is quick to credit the<br />
pastures on this farm as a key to the development of their<br />
horses, “Our big pastures help our horses learn a lot naturally<br />
with the hills and that helps us raise good horses.”<br />
The buffalo are another key to the development of their<br />
horses. They have found that the buffalo provide them with<br />
an animal that lasts longer as a training tool than cattle do.<br />
He explained it this way, “Buffalo won’t go dead on you like a<br />
cow or calf will. They will stay workable longer. It is usually a<br />
minimum of 75 days to 100 days. Then they will be good for<br />
a two year old. They are quicker as well.”<br />
The purchase of <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> sent the <strong>Fischer</strong> Farm<br />
horse program in a new direction in the mid 1990’s. Lynn<br />
tells us how it came about; “We bought him at auction in<br />
Mississippi. Jim Ware had an auction down there and we<br />
bought him at that sale in 1995.<br />
Lynn talked about how <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> got to<br />
Mississippi, “Ron White had him leased from Larry Mathes<br />
and White had sent him to Dick Pieper. Pieper had him for<br />
about 60 days and showed him a couple times. I believe Dick<br />
showed him at one World Show and I think they got a third<br />
in reining and third in cow horse, something like that. We<br />
watched him go and it was late at night.”
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> & Dick Peiper<br />
He continued, “Then he came up for sale at the sale in<br />
Mississippi. We drove down and thought we would spend<br />
from 10 to 20 thousand and the horse ended up bringing<br />
$47,500. We spent more than we should have. But we<br />
brought him home.”<br />
The next step was to continue his show career. “We put<br />
him with Gary Wells, Bobby Lewis, Shawn Darnell, Ron<br />
Emmons and of course JD Yates.<br />
“We didn’t really want to stand him to the public. We had<br />
enough mares of our own to overwhelm him. But as a four<br />
year old he was just about unbeatable. So we didn’t get<br />
many mares bred to him that first year. But they sure did<br />
get him shown. We left him there and pretty soon he had<br />
enough record and enough wins to make him prominent in<br />
the paint horse business.”<br />
Prominent is an interesting word when you consider<br />
that <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> won 2,130 APHA performance points<br />
and that was a record for a stallion. He won his points in 56<br />
shows and averaged 40 points per show, unmatched by<br />
any competitor to this day. He was ROM in six performance<br />
events and was Superior in each of them. The events were<br />
Tie-Down Roping (243 points); Heading (535 points)—still<br />
holds the record; Heeling (507 points); Reining (77 points);<br />
Steer Stopping (536 points) and Working Cow Horse (232<br />
points)—still holds the record. He had one APHA halter<br />
point. He was a four time APHA World Champion and a four<br />
time APHA Reserve World Champion. His championships<br />
came in Heading with two; Reining and Steer Stopping. His<br />
reserve championships came in Tie-Down Roping, Heading,<br />
Heeling and Steer Stopping.<br />
Some of the other titles include the 1997, 1998 and 2001<br />
APHA World Show Oscar Crigler Cattle Award winner. He<br />
is the only horse to win this award three times. He was the<br />
1996 and 1998 APHA World Wide Paint Congress Superhorse.<br />
He holds 16 Honor Roll Championships.<br />
Ris Key Business (P)<br />
Cheyenne Moon Bar<br />
Happiness Is (P)<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> (P)<br />
Gunners Pollyanna<br />
Hollywood Smoke<br />
Golly Polly<br />
Mr Highland<br />
4 Bars Moon Deck<br />
Cherokee Siemon (P)<br />
Miss Pioneer<br />
Mr Gun Smoke<br />
Pistol’s Holly<br />
Golly<br />
Miss Prisa Jo<br />
Reed Cheyenne<br />
Cherub’s Pixie<br />
Bruce’s Moon<br />
Little Sandy Seco<br />
Leo San Siemon<br />
Cherokee Maiden (P)<br />
Raider’s Pal<br />
Pioneer Koy<br />
Rondo Leo<br />
Kansas Cindy<br />
Hollywood Pistol<br />
Poco Angelita<br />
Lynn introduces us to how <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> was bred.<br />
<strong>Strait</strong>s 6th generation consists of 63 Quarter Horses and 1<br />
Paint and Leo is the dominant sire of <strong>Strait</strong>’s genetics. “<strong>Strait</strong><br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> was bred by Dana Mathes from Montezuma,<br />
Iowa. He was foaled in 1992. His dam Gunners Pollyanna was<br />
Leo<br />
Sheeglo<br />
Showdown Joe<br />
Miss Caroline
a good daughter of Hollywood Smoke. I believe she won<br />
Aksarben in reining with a 12 or 13 old girl and that was a<br />
big show way back then. They took this mare down to <strong>Texas</strong><br />
where Terry Pattison owned Ris Key Business at that time to<br />
get the mare bred.”<br />
Ris Key Business was a 1984 black tobiano stallion. He<br />
was shown to a World Championship in working cow horse<br />
and two Reserve National Championships in reining. He was<br />
ROM in reining, working cow horse and western riding. He<br />
was Superior in reining. He was shown to an APHA World<br />
Championship in amateur reining by J. T. Pattison. This<br />
stallion earned 187 APHA points in the open and amateur<br />
divisions. He also won the APHA Open Reining Sweepstakes.<br />
Ris Key Business is the sire of 26 ROM performers with<br />
11 earning the Superior Award in Performance. His foals<br />
have won 11 World and National titles. One of his leading<br />
performers is RR Risky Mastrpeice who has 1767 points in<br />
8 events.<br />
The sire of Ris Key Business was Cheyenne Moon Bar, a<br />
quarter horse stallion that won two AQHA halter points.<br />
He was shown seven times in the AQHA and won all seven<br />
classes. The sire of Cheyenne Moon Bar was Mr Highland.<br />
This stallion was shown in two AQHA halter classes as a<br />
yearling winning one of them.<br />
The sire of Mr Highland was Cheyenne Reed, an AQHA<br />
halter point earner. Cheyenne Reed is the sire of Cheyenne<br />
Knox, the 1979 AQHA World Champion Junior Western<br />
Pleasure Horse. Cheyenne Knox was an AQHA Champion<br />
with 90 performance points with a Superior in Western<br />
Pleasure and 20 AQHA halter points.<br />
The sire of Cheyenne Reed was Snipper Reed by Logan’s<br />
Bobby Reed. Logan’s Bobby Reed was sired by Reed McCue<br />
by Joe Reed P-3. Snipper Reed was an AQHA Champion that<br />
sired several AQHA Champions. They include Andy Coke,<br />
Lee’s Snipper, Red Buck Reed, Snipper’s Blaze and Snippy<br />
Coke.<br />
Snipper Reed was the sire of the phenomenal show mare<br />
Snipper’s Sarah. This mare earned 207 performance points<br />
and 567 halter points in the open division alone. She was<br />
the 1976 AQHA Open and Youth World Champion Aged<br />
Mare; 1976 AQHA High Point Halter Horse and the 1974 and<br />
1975 AQHA Youth Reserve World Champion Aged Mare. She<br />
earned seven Superiors in Open and Youth Halter; Youth<br />
Western Horsemanship; Youth Showmanship and Youth<br />
Hunter Under Saddle.<br />
The dam of Ris Key Business takes us to the source of the<br />
tobiano paint color pattern for <strong>Strait</strong> With <strong>Texas</strong>. Her name<br />
was Happiness Is. She was a 1973 bay tobiano mare. She was<br />
a noted working cow horse. She counts among her wins the<br />
1977 Valley Reining Horse Classic Hackamore Maturity.<br />
Happiness Is was sired by Cherokee Siemon, a tobiano<br />
paint. Happiness Is was out of Miss Pioneer, a quarter mare.<br />
Miss Pioneer was sired by Raider’s Pal by Sky Raider by Star<br />
Duster. Her dam was Pioneer Koy by Hondo K and out of<br />
Kitty Koy.<br />
Cherokee Siemon was bred by Rebecca Tyler-Lockhart.<br />
Rebecca was instrumental in the formation of what is now<br />
the American Paint Horse Association. She is considered<br />
the founder of the American Paint Stock Horse Association,<br />
which was the predecessor to the APHA.<br />
Rebecca and her late husband George Tyler had such<br />
noted horses as Leo San Siemon, Flit Bar and a little ole paint<br />
mare named Cherokee Maiden. Cherokee Maiden was the<br />
first paint horse registered by Rebecca. She is number 23 in<br />
the paint horse registry. Cherokee Maiden was the dam of<br />
Cherokee Siemon.<br />
With the purchase of Cherokee Maiden, Rebecca Tyler<br />
started her on a show career. The highlight of that career<br />
came at the1963 Southwestern Livestock and Fat Stock Show<br />
in Fort Worth. It was at this show that Cherokee Maiden won<br />
the three-year and under mare class. She was then named<br />
the Grand Champion Mare. She won the Junior Western<br />
Pleasure class at this same show. She followed this up by<br />
being named the High Point Senior Halter Mare for three<br />
year olds and up and the Reserve High Point Horse for halter<br />
and performance combined at the American Paint Stock<br />
Horse Association Finals in Lubbock, <strong>Texas</strong> that same year.<br />
Cherokee Maiden was sired by a quarter horse named<br />
Osage Dan. This horse was sired by Little Dandy by King<br />
P-234. The dam of Osage Dan was Evans’ Duel by Little<br />
Dandy. This makes Osage Dan 1 X 2 inbred to Little Dandy.<br />
The dam of Cherokee Maiden was Maggie by Silver T. He<br />
was sired by Yankee Doodle. The dam of Maggie was a bay<br />
tobiano mare whose pedigree is unknown.<br />
Leo San Siemon was the sire of Cherokee Siemon. Leo San<br />
Siemon was sired by Leo San by Leo and his dam was Flying<br />
May. Leo San Siemon was a noted halter horse with Grand<br />
Championships at shows like the Houston Livestock Show.<br />
He was an AQHA Superior Halter Horse with 85 points. Leo<br />
San Siemon was the sire of several successful arena horses<br />
including the AQHA Champions El San Siemon and Siemon<br />
Joe. He was the sire of Blue Siemon, an AQHA Superior Halter<br />
Horse with 311 halter points.<br />
The paint descendants of Leo San Siemon include Leo<br />
San Cita and QT Poco Streke. Leo San Cita earned 347 APHA<br />
performance points with ROM’s in Heading, Heeling, Reining,<br />
Steer Stopping and Working Cow Horse. He is Superior in all<br />
of these events except reining and he missed that superior<br />
by two points. QT Poco Streke is an ROM reining horse in the<br />
APHA and a Reserve Champion of the APHA World Show<br />
Reining Sweepstakes. The common tie between Leo San<br />
Siemon and these two horses is his dun tobiano son Leo San<br />
Man. Leo San Man is the broodmare sire of Pepsi Poco, sire of<br />
QT Poco Streke and he is the broodmare sire of Leo San Cita.<br />
Cherokee Siemon earned 39 halter points with six Grand<br />
Championships and eleven Reserve Grand Championships.<br />
He was the sire of the RW Heaven Bound, 1984 Reserve<br />
National Champion Amateur Cutting Horse; Lotta Chatter,<br />
an APHA Champion and R Lee Siemon, an APHA Superior<br />
Western Pleasure Horse.<br />
The dam of <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> was Gunners Pollyanna.
This bay quarter mare was foaled in 1976. She has no official<br />
AQHA show record. Robin Glenn Pedigrees shows that she<br />
is an arena money winner but they give no designation as<br />
to which area she won the money. Her sire was Hollywood<br />
Smoke, an NRHA Hall of Fame stallion. He is the sire of<br />
several prominent reining horses including the 1984 NRHA<br />
Open Futurity Co-Reserve Champion Havegunwilltravel. His<br />
other son Gunners Brawny Lad was a Co-Reserve Champion<br />
in both the 1979 NRHA Open Futurity and the All American<br />
Quarter Horse Congress Reining Futurity.<br />
Mr Gun Smoke<br />
The sire of Hollywood Smoke was the legendary Mr Gun<br />
Smoke, a Cow Horse Hall of Fame member and leading sire.<br />
Mr Gun Smoke was sired by Rondo Leo, an AQHA Champion<br />
son of Leo’s Question. Leo’s Question was sired by Leo. Leo<br />
was sired by Joe Reed II by Joe Reed P-3. The dam of Leo was<br />
Little Fanny by Joe Reed P-3.<br />
The dam of Hollywood Smoke was Pistol’s Holly by<br />
Hollywood Pistol. Hollywood Pistol is sired by King’s Pistol by<br />
King P-234. The dam of King’s Pistol was Flit by Leo.<br />
The dam of Gunners Pollyanna was Golly Polly. This sorrel<br />
quarter mare was sired by Golly by Leo. Golly Polly was out of<br />
Miss Prisa Jo by Showdown Joe. Showdown Joe was sired by<br />
Showdown and out of Panzarita Daugherty. Our Mares with<br />
More subject this month and you will note that there were<br />
some pretty good roping horses in this family.<br />
Gunners Pollyanna was the dam of six AQHA foals and<br />
four of them were NRHA money winners. They include Mister<br />
Kinze by Mr Mui Twist; Banjo Anna, by Heza Banjo; Top Lady<br />
Gunner by Be Aech Enterprise and Kalalannah by Kaliman.<br />
The leading money winner from this group was Banjo Anna<br />
with $2,293.77 earned in the arena. She was a finalist in the<br />
1990 NRHA Non-Pro Derby. <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> was the only<br />
paint foal out of Gunners Pollyanna.<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> was the sire of 397 APHA registered<br />
foals in which 32 were shown. Some of his ROM performers<br />
were <strong>Strait</strong> Smart Lena, <strong>Strait</strong> Texan, Pure <strong>Texas</strong> Smoke, <strong>Strait</strong><br />
Leo N Lena, <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>Texas</strong>, <strong>Strait</strong> Ole Paint, <strong>Texas</strong> Baron, <strong>Strait</strong><br />
<strong>Texas</strong> McCue, CF <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong>, <strong>Strait</strong> Gunsmoke, <strong>Strait</strong><br />
<strong>From</strong> Ryan and <strong>Strait</strong> N Handsome. His APHA World show<br />
participants would include <strong>Strait</strong> Gay Bar Lena, a Reserve<br />
World Champion in working cow horse and CF <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong><br />
<strong>Texas</strong>, a 2 X Reserve World Champion in Steer Stopping.<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> GunsmokeNsugar and Robbie Boyce<br />
But the colt whose show record most closely follows his<br />
sire is <strong>Strait</strong> Gunsmokensugar. This 1997 bay tobiano son<br />
of <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> earned 876 APHA performance points.<br />
He is ROM in six events including Tie-Down Roping (85<br />
points); Heading (199 points); Heeling (236 points); Reining<br />
(77 points); Steer Stopping (177 points) and Working Cow<br />
Horse (102 points). This makes him Superior in all six of these<br />
events. He is a six time APHA Reserve World Champion. Twice<br />
in Heading, three times in Working Cow Horse and once in<br />
Heeling. He was the 2001 APHA World Champion in Steer<br />
Stopping. He won six APHA Honor Roll titles and the 2005<br />
APHA World All Around Champion.
The reined cow horse record for <strong>Strait</strong> Gunsmokensugar<br />
includes the High Desert Classic Western Spectacular<br />
Limited Open and 2000 Limited Open Championships. He<br />
was the 2000 NRCHA Limited Open Horse of the Year. He<br />
was a finalist in the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity. Robin Glenn<br />
Pedigrees show that he won $25,357.20 in the arena.<br />
The pedigree for <strong>Strait</strong> Gunsmokensugar is an interesting<br />
one. He is out of Smokin Bar Sox, a daughter of Smoke Nine.<br />
Smoke Nine is a son of Mr Gun Smoke. This gives <strong>Strait</strong><br />
Gunsmokensugar a breeding pattern of 4 X 3 to Mr Gun<br />
Smoke.<br />
This is what Lynn had to say about this breeding pattern,<br />
“<strong>Strait</strong> Gunsmokensugar may have been better than <strong>Strait</strong>.<br />
He was out of a daughter of Smoke Nine out of a Sugar Bars<br />
mare. Smoke Nine was by Mr Gun Smoke and we like that<br />
Gunsmoke breeding. We love that Gun Smoke breeding or<br />
for that matter the Leo breeding, either one.”<br />
He then responded, “When you look at <strong>Strait</strong>’s pedigree<br />
you see that old Golly by Leo. When we talked to Dick Pieper<br />
and some of the old timers, they told us about Golly. He<br />
was a good match race horse in Oklahoma” Golly had what<br />
is considered today a 75-speed index. That would probably<br />
put him in the A category in the old letter system of a speed<br />
index above 90 being AAA. He did have an AQHA show<br />
record with four halter points and two Grand Championships<br />
at halter.<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> accomplishments<br />
Golly shows his speed as the sire of Real New, a mare that<br />
ran AAA time. She in turn was the dam of Real Wind, the<br />
1976 All American Futurity winner. Real Wind was the 1976<br />
American Quarter Running Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and<br />
the 1977 American Quarter Running Champion Three-Year-<br />
Old Filly.<br />
Of course Golly is only a portion of the Leo blood. <strong>Strait</strong><br />
<strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> had a breeding pattern of 6 X 6 X 4 to Leo. Leo<br />
was 2 x 2 inbred to Joe Reed P-3. Then we can add in the Joe<br />
Reed blood of Snipper Reed by Logan’s Bobby Reed by Reed<br />
McCue by Joe Reed P-3 and we see an interesting breeding<br />
pattern to Leo and his double grandsire.<br />
History tells us that the Leo horses were “Short Horses” or<br />
horses that had a powerful start and quick speed to win a<br />
race at 220 to 350 yards. This is the kind of power and speed<br />
needed by the calf roper.<br />
The power and speed of Leo reminded me of what Lynn<br />
said about <strong>Strait</strong> and his son, “You know <strong>Strait</strong> may have<br />
been small for some, but there wasn’t a calf made that could<br />
outrun him in calf roping. He passed that on and <strong>Strait</strong><br />
Gunsmokensugar could fly.<br />
Lynn recalled one incident that shows the speed of<br />
Gunsmokensugar and how he could fly, “It is hard to find<br />
a rider like the Oklahoma guys, like Yates or Wells, here in<br />
South Dakota. But I took Gunsmokensugar out to a Stock<br />
Show that he have here in January. We unloaded him and
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> & <strong>Strait</strong> GunsmokeNsugar winning Senior and Junior Super Stakes<br />
Photo Credit to Lynn <strong>Fischer</strong>, <strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong><br />
shoed him and I asked Paul Tierney to ride him. Paul said he<br />
didn’t know if he would ride him but he would try him. Well<br />
they run a 5.6 in the calf roping and won the thing. He was a<br />
horse that just had it.”<br />
He then added, “When men like Gary Wells, J. D. Yates,<br />
Bobby Lewis, Paul Tierney and Ron Emmons ride your horse<br />
you know you have something special and that makes <strong>Strait</strong><br />
and Gunsmokensugar special.”<br />
The story of <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> continued and the next<br />
event occurred in 2003 when the <strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong> sold half<br />
interest in him to <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> LLC syndicate. Then<br />
in 2006 tragedy struck and <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong> died of<br />
complication from internal bleeding. The horse was sent to<br />
Iowa State University but just when it seemed he was going<br />
to pull through and be able to go home he died.<br />
But life has gone on for <strong>Fischer</strong> <strong>Farms</strong> and they have<br />
continued to breed good horses. They have bred to the top<br />
stallion in the performance horse industry to ensure the<br />
ongoing success started by <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong>.<br />
The farm has sold a couple of stallions including <strong>Strait</strong><br />
Gunsmokensugar and another Paint stallion named Cat<br />
Prints, NCHA Futurity Limited Open Finalist. But the way it<br />
looks the future of the horse program seems to be resting<br />
in the hands of another paint stallion named Catzanne and<br />
quarter horses like NCHA Champion, Lil Lewis Long Legs,<br />
Haidas San Badger and NRCRA Champion Peptos Pretty Pep.<br />
Catzanne is a full brother to Cat Prints. They are sired by<br />
the number one cutting stallion in the world High Brow<br />
Cat. They are out of Miss Delta Elan, by Delta Flyer, an NCHA<br />
Super Stakes Champion and paint horse sire. Miss Delta Elan<br />
is out of the famous Miss Elan, by Doc O’Lena. She is a ¾<br />
sister to the leading sire Smart Chic Olena.<br />
This is what Lynn said about Catzanne, “I don’t know if I<br />
have ever had a more athletic horse than I have right now in<br />
Catzanne. This horse is big and will go 15 to 15.1 hands and<br />
weigh 1250. He will lay down in the sand to cut a cow. We<br />
haven’t shown in years so what he has on him is from little<br />
ole cuttings to work on his Certificate of Ability.<br />
But what about <strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong>, well his memory is alive<br />
and well and we will let Lynn sum up his feelings about this<br />
great show stallion, “I don’t know if I have ever had a horse,<br />
that when I unloaded from the trailer, like Gunsmokensugar,<br />
I was as sure as I could be, that I was going to beat the<br />
competition.<br />
But there will never be another<br />
<strong>Strait</strong> <strong>From</strong> <strong>Texas</strong>.”<br />
Larry Thornton is a pedigree analyst and breeding consultant.<br />
If you have any questions concerning this article or other<br />
bloodlines, feel free to call him at 479-885-3144<br />
in the evening.<br />
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the first time you call.<br />
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