Strait From Texas - Fischer Farms

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This bay quarter mare was foaled in 1976. She has no official AQHA show record. Robin Glenn Pedigrees shows that she is an arena money winner but they give no designation as to which area she won the money. Her sire was Hollywood Smoke, an NRHA Hall of Fame stallion. He is the sire of several prominent reining horses including the 1984 NRHA Open Futurity Co-Reserve Champion Havegunwilltravel. His other son Gunners Brawny Lad was a Co-Reserve Champion in both the 1979 NRHA Open Futurity and the All American Quarter Horse Congress Reining Futurity. Mr Gun Smoke The sire of Hollywood Smoke was the legendary Mr Gun Smoke, a Cow Horse Hall of Fame member and leading sire. Mr Gun Smoke was sired by Rondo Leo, an AQHA Champion son of Leo’s Question. Leo’s Question was sired by Leo. Leo was sired by Joe Reed II by Joe Reed P-3. The dam of Leo was Little Fanny by Joe Reed P-3. The dam of Hollywood Smoke was Pistol’s Holly by Hollywood Pistol. Hollywood Pistol is sired by King’s Pistol by King P-234. The dam of King’s Pistol was Flit by Leo. The dam of Gunners Pollyanna was Golly Polly. This sorrel quarter mare was sired by Golly by Leo. Golly Polly was out of Miss Prisa Jo by Showdown Joe. Showdown Joe was sired by Showdown and out of Panzarita Daugherty. Our Mares with More subject this month and you will note that there were some pretty good roping horses in this family. Gunners Pollyanna was the dam of six AQHA foals and four of them were NRHA money winners. They include Mister Kinze by Mr Mui Twist; Banjo Anna, by Heza Banjo; Top Lady Gunner by Be Aech Enterprise and Kalalannah by Kaliman. The leading money winner from this group was Banjo Anna with $2,293.77 earned in the arena. She was a finalist in the 1990 NRHA Non-Pro Derby. Strait From Texas was the only paint foal out of Gunners Pollyanna. Strait From Texas was the sire of 397 APHA registered foals in which 32 were shown. Some of his ROM performers were Strait Smart Lena, Strait Texan, Pure Texas Smoke, Strait Leo N Lena, Strait Texas, Strait Ole Paint, Texas Baron, Strait Texas McCue, CF Strait From Texas, Strait Gunsmoke, Strait From Ryan and Strait N Handsome. His APHA World show participants would include Strait Gay Bar Lena, a Reserve World Champion in working cow horse and CF Strait From Texas, a 2 X Reserve World Champion in Steer Stopping. Strait GunsmokeNsugar and Robbie Boyce But the colt whose show record most closely follows his sire is Strait Gunsmokensugar. This 1997 bay tobiano son of Strait From Texas earned 876 APHA performance points. He is ROM in six events including Tie-Down Roping (85 points); Heading (199 points); Heeling (236 points); Reining (77 points); Steer Stopping (177 points) and Working Cow Horse (102 points). This makes him Superior in all six of these events. He is a six time APHA Reserve World Champion. Twice in Heading, three times in Working Cow Horse and once in Heeling. He was the 2001 APHA World Champion in Steer Stopping. He won six APHA Honor Roll titles and the 2005 APHA World All Around Champion.
The reined cow horse record for Strait Gunsmokensugar includes the High Desert Classic Western Spectacular Limited Open and 2000 Limited Open Championships. He was the 2000 NRCHA Limited Open Horse of the Year. He was a finalist in the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity. Robin Glenn Pedigrees show that he won $25,357.20 in the arena. The pedigree for Strait Gunsmokensugar is an interesting one. He is out of Smokin Bar Sox, a daughter of Smoke Nine. Smoke Nine is a son of Mr Gun Smoke. This gives Strait Gunsmokensugar a breeding pattern of 4 X 3 to Mr Gun Smoke. This is what Lynn had to say about this breeding pattern, “Strait Gunsmokensugar may have been better than Strait. He was out of a daughter of Smoke Nine out of a Sugar Bars mare. Smoke Nine was by Mr Gun Smoke and we like that Gunsmoke breeding. We love that Gun Smoke breeding or for that matter the Leo breeding, either one.” He then responded, “When you look at Strait’s pedigree you see that old Golly by Leo. When we talked to Dick Pieper and some of the old timers, they told us about Golly. He was a good match race horse in Oklahoma” Golly had what is considered today a 75-speed index. That would probably put him in the A category in the old letter system of a speed index above 90 being AAA. He did have an AQHA show record with four halter points and two Grand Championships at halter. Strait From Texas accomplishments Golly shows his speed as the sire of Real New, a mare that ran AAA time. She in turn was the dam of Real Wind, the 1976 All American Futurity winner. Real Wind was the 1976 American Quarter Running Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and the 1977 American Quarter Running Champion Three-Year- Old Filly. Of course Golly is only a portion of the Leo blood. Strait From Texas had a breeding pattern of 6 X 6 X 4 to Leo. Leo was 2 x 2 inbred to Joe Reed P-3. Then we can add in the Joe Reed blood of Snipper Reed by Logan’s Bobby Reed by Reed McCue by Joe Reed P-3 and we see an interesting breeding pattern to Leo and his double grandsire. History tells us that the Leo horses were “Short Horses” or horses that had a powerful start and quick speed to win a race at 220 to 350 yards. This is the kind of power and speed needed by the calf roper. The power and speed of Leo reminded me of what Lynn said about Strait and his son, “You know Strait may have been small for some, but there wasn’t a calf made that could outrun him in calf roping. He passed that on and Strait Gunsmokensugar could fly. Lynn recalled one incident that shows the speed of Gunsmokensugar and how he could fly, “It is hard to find a rider like the Oklahoma guys, like Yates or Wells, here in South Dakota. But I took Gunsmokensugar out to a Stock Show that he have here in January. We unloaded him and
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