PQH Pretty Boy
2007 Grulla AQHA Stallion
A Video In Memory of Pretty Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAqcAISarZU
PQH Pretty Boy
February 25, 2007 - June 29, 2010
We mourn the loss of our young stallion, PQH Pretty Boy. His death is completely unexpected, a huge shock, and a major loss to the future of Pretty Quarter Horses.
This is not the next update we were hoping to give. He was just 8 weeks away from his first show at the Minnesota Cutting Horse Association's Futurity at the end of August.
Pretty Boy has been going strong since the day he was born, destined to be a great cutting horse, and he gave it a good fight through the end.
We lost Pretty Boy on June 29, 2010 to strangles.
We are all in shock and it all seems so unreal. We do not know where we will go or what we will do from here. For right now we will take the time to mourn the loss of our wonderful stallion, Pretty Boy.
We would like to thank everybody else that has been apart of Pretty Boy's life- especially Dr. Krishawn Kaibel, Dr. Brian Dahms, and the Braswell Family who we bought Pretty Boy from as a coming yearling for allowing such a wonderful horse to be apart of our lives, though we wish it could have been for much much longer. Thank you to the staff at the University of Minnesota for the great care you gave Pretty Boy in the last hours of his life. And thank you to the staff at Red Horse Ranch Arena, Fergus Falls, MN.
General Information
We purchased PQH Pretty Boy from the Braswell's in Starkville, Mississippi when he was 11 months old. Pretty Boy stood 14.2 hands and muscular. He really was the whole package- there was no sacrificing anything with that horse. He had great conformation, a superb dispositon, a nice build, a great performance and working horse pedigree, natural athleticism, a willing to learn attitude, and the added bonus of being a beautiful grulla that was homozygous black.
We never thought we would lose him at such a young age. He will forever be remembered, loved, and mised.
-Tested Negative/Negative for HERDA.
-Tested Negative for EVA, and is EVA vaccinated annually.
-Coat color tested:
Black/Red: EE
Agouti: aa
Cream: NN
-Foundation percentage calculated at 94.14% FQHA
Training
Pretty Boy was in cutting training for almost a year and a half before he passed away. He was ready to show, we were just waiting for the MCHA Futurity, which was only 8 weeks away. We are sad that he did not have a chance to "show himself off" and just share with the world how wonderful, talented, and athletic he was.
Breeding
Pretty Boy did not have a chance to prove himself as a sire. We did collect off of him early 2010, and we have some frozen semen of his. We may, sometime in the future, decide to breed one of our mares. At this point we don't know, but we have a little comfort in knowing there is still a chance that we could produce and own at least 1 Pretty Boy foal.
Sire and Dam's Accomplishments
PQH Pretty Boy is an own son of Holidoc: Equi-Stat All-Time Leading Cutting Sire, an earner of $120,054 (NCHA $93,140), NCHA COA, 1986 West Texas Open Futurity Champion, 1986 Lazy E Open Futurity Reserve Champion, finalist in the 1986 Big Country Futurity, in 1987, 3rd, Gold, and Silver 4-Year-Old Open, finalist in the NCHA Open Super Stakes, NCHA Open Derby, Bonanza 4-Year-Old Open, 4th Louisiana Breeders' Open Futurity, money-earner in the Augusta 4-Year-Old Open Futurity and Big Country Open Maturity, in 1989 money-earner in the Gold and Silver Stakes 5/6-Year-Old Open. Holidoc has sired the earners of over $856,750 (NCHA $783,119; NRHA $66,299; NRCHA $7,332) and over 1,357 AQHA points. 90.625% FQHA
PQH Pretty Boy's dam, Moon Par San, is also a proven performance horse. She has been shown and is an open team sorting money earner. 97.65625% FQHA
| PQH Pretty Boy | Holidoc -$120,054 ($93,139.90 NCHA) -NCHA COA -Equi Stat All Time Leading Cutting Sire |
Doc Quixote -$3,728.96 NCHA -NCHA COA -NCHA Non-Pro Futurity Champion -#7 All-Time Leading Cutting Sire |
Doc Bar -AQHA Hall of Fame |
| Magnolia Gal | |||
| Lee's Holly -27 AQHA Performance Points -$559.37 NCHA -NCHA COA |
Hollywood Wilma -9 Performance Points -$250.66 NCHA |
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| Josephine Roper -$97.50 NCHA |
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| Moon Par San -Open Team Sorting Money Earner |
Half Moon San | Leo San -$470.46 NCHA -1 AQHA Performance Point |
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| King's Gypsy -9 AQHA Halter Points |
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| Roman Par | Beaver's Champ | ||
| Paralee |
Videos
Reminder all photos/videos on this web-site were taken my Gale or Meg
and are protected by the copy right laws.
NEW!!!
November 16, 2009 Video Clips
Pretty Boy Warm Up
Pretty Boy Working Cattle
Pretty Boy Ridden Bridleless for the First Time 1
Pretty Boy Ridden Bridleless for the First Time 2
June 22, 2009 Video Clips
Pretty Boy Flag Work
Pretty Boy 360 Turn
Margaret (our 13 year old daughter) Riding Pretty Boy
April 21, 2009 Video Clips
(We appologize for the lack of quality, we were having problems with our digital camera taking video in the indoor arena, without them it coming up dark of blurry.)
Pretty Boy Loping Circles Around the Cattle
Pretty Boy Tracking Cattle
Pictures
NEW!!!
The pictures below were taken on November 16, 2009
(First two pictures were taken after being ridden, so he is a little sweaty.)
The pictures below are some still shots from the videos taken 11-16-09. Pictures include him being ridden in a bit (first three pictures), ridden bitless (next two pictures), as well as being ridden bridleless (last three pictures).
The pictures below were taken on June 22, 2009
The photos below of Pretty Boy were taken on April 21, 2009 with 2 months of professional training at JP Bell's facility in Duluth, MN. We appologize for the lack of quality in the photos, we were having problems with our camera taking pictures in the indoor arena, without them coming back dark or fuzzy.
