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Outside of the American Quarter Horse Association's Hall of Fame & Museum in Amarillo, Texas. The American Quarter Horse Association was born at a meeting on March 15, 1940, in Fort Worth, Texas. The original idea had come from articles published by Robert M. Denhardt during the 1930s about the history and characteristics of the quarter horse.
The All American Futurity is a race for two-year-old American Quarter Horse racehorses run at Ruidoso Downs Race Track in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico on Labor Day. It is the last leg of the AQHA Triple Crown that has only been won once, by Special Effort in 1981. A $4 million bonus was once offered to the horse that could sweep all three Triple ...
The Sam Houston Futurity is a horse race that has run since the track at Sam Houston Race Park, Houston, Texas, US, was opened in 1994. It remains one of the premier stakes races for two-year-old quarter horses in Texas. The race is currently run in May, during the Quarter Horse half of Sam Houston Race Park racing season.
The Grade II West Texas Futurity will be April 6 for 2-year-old quarter horses and will be on April 6. The race could potentially see some quality horses leading up to the summer quarter horse ...
Easy Jet won the 1969 All American Futurity, the highest race for Quarter Horse racehorses, and was named World Champion Quarter Race Horse in the same year. He earned the highest speed rating awarded at the time—AAAT. After winning 27 of his 38 races in two years of racing, he retired from the race track and became a breeding stallion.
Special Effort (April 9, 1979 – March 11, 2006) [1] [2] was an American Quarter Horse stallion who won the 1981 All American Futurity. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) Hall of Fame in 2008. [3] [4]
He finished ninth in the 10-horse field. Chancer McPatrick, the 5-2 second choice, lost for the first time in four career starts and was sixth. ... The 2-year-old filly ran 1 mile in 1:34.28 and ...
A stock horse competition for young performance horses, usually offering various events for horses from three- to six- years old. The National Reining Horse Association holds a large futurity every year, [8] as do the National Cutting Horse Association and the National Reined Cow Horse Association. These futurities often offer purse money well ...