JULY 1996 BACK ISSUE
Part of Horse Previews Magazine website. Posted on 7/1/96; 10:00:00 AM.
Wishing Star Gallop Soon Approaches: July Update
Wishing Star Gallop is soon approaching. Mark your calendar for Saturday, August 17th - 1:00pm at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds/Indoor Arena. We are proud to introduce the great line-up of Paint and Quarter Horse stallions being offered in the 1996 Gallop Auction!GALLOP QUARTER HORSE STALLIONS:
Wishing Star is very excited to offer the horse industry some of the finest stallion services to be purchased in the world!
SCOTCH BAR TIME: Excited, honored and proud, Wishing Star offers (what may be a very rare opportunity to purchase) a service to one of the greats in the Quarter Horse Industry, "Scotch Bar Time." He has been the AQHA's #1 Leading Sire of Youth Performance Winners, Point-Earning Youth Performance Horses, and Incentive Fund money earners. In 1995 (once again) he was among the top two leading sires in the AQHA registry for the Amateur Division, Open Performance Earners, and Youth Performance and Halter Point Winners & Earners. He is the only AQHA stallion to appear on all 12 Leading Sires Lists - both in Halter and Performance. "Scotch Bar Time" is the sire of 145 Superior Performance Award get; 12 AQHA Champions, 3 Amateur AQHA Champions, 13 Youth AQHA Champions, 1 Youth Supreme Champion, 5 World Champions, 7 Reserve World Champions, and sire of Paint and Appaloosa World Champions. Owned by George Stauffer of Barneveld, Wisconsin, his 1997 breeding fee will be $3,000. Transported semen will be available to Paint and Quarter Horses. When you talk about the son of the great sire...THIS IS THE GREAT SIRE!
PEPPY BADGER CHEX: Back once again in our 1996 Gallop line-up is two-time AQHA World Champion - "Peppy Badger Chex." He was a World Champion Junior Reining Horse in 1989, 1992 World Champion Senior Working Cow Horse - Top 5, and gained an additional World Championship title as the 1993 Sr. Working Cow Horse. In addition to his second World Championship, "Peppy Badger Chex" was the Bronze Trophy winner of the 1993 NRHA Reno Spectacular in Reining and NRHA & PRHA Super Slide Bronze trophy winner! His offspring are proving what tremendous reining potential he produces! They have won the PRHA Superslide, top three were all "Peppy" offspring; another placed 11th at the Snaffle Bit Futurity, and a filly of his placed 15th out of 488 entries. Now one of the most sought after breeding stallions in the industry, for the past three breeding seasons, his book has been closed barely before Spring begins. He has been Wishing Star Gallop's highest selling Quarter Horse Stallion Service since his first donated breeding four years ago. Wishing Star is indebted to Jim & Sondra Wright and Pam Whittaker for once again supporting our cause and bringing some light into the lives of others less fortunate. "Peppy Badger Chex" will stand the 1997 breeding season in Yamhill, Oregon for a breeding fee of $2,000.
LEAN WITH ME: A champion of Champions! Shortly after being titled the 1993 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Reserve Champion, "Lean With Me" suffered a near fatal injury of a fractured pelvis that almost ended his career. With God's blessings, a great trainer (Bobby Avila) and the love and prayers of his owners and admirers, "Lean With Me" beat all the odds and came from a cripple to a champion making his mark in the AQHA Industry. In 1994 he returned to the show ring, competing in the Bruce Gilcrest Memorial Futurity winning the O.Q.H.A. Reining Championship. From there it was on to the AQHA World Show, where he earned his first "AQHA World Championship" in "Junior Working Cow Horse." He wasn't through winning. In 1995, he returned - once again - to win the O.Q.H.A. Reining Championship, earned an AQHA Superior in Reining, won the prestigious NRHA Derby, and returned to the AQHA World Show to gain another title as the "1995 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse." Now retired, "Lean With Me" stands in Oregon. "He's accomplished so much, there's really nothing left for him to win," commented Bobby Avila. This two-time World Champion will stand at Bryant Ranch in Yamhill, Oregon for $2,000. Wishing Star is truly grateful to owners, Jon and Norma Sather of Manson, Washington, for giving a breeding to their unbelievable stallion, thus making "Dreams Come True" for Wishing Star children.
LENAS WRIGHT ON: We are privileged to have in the line-up this year, one of the leading AQHA Reining horses in the industry, "Lenas Wright On." This outstanding AQHA Superior Reining stallion has accomplished it all. In 1994, he won the National Reining Horse Association's Open Futurity Championship, bringing home a check for $100,000. He qualified for the AQHA World Show early on in 1995 in "Junior Reining Horse" and was a 1995 finalist at the NRHA 4-year-old Open Reining Reno Spectacular. From there, "Lenas Wright On" went on to Oklahoma City to compete in Junior Reining and was the 1995 AQHA Reserve World Champion Jr. Reining Horse. As for the future, he will compete in "Working Cow Horse" and some "Reining" events for 1996. Another GREAT stallion offered to help the children by owners Jim and Sondra Wright and daughter Pam Whittaker of Oregon. "Lean's Wright On" will stand the 1997 season at Bryant Ranch in Yamhill, Oregon for $2,000.
DONT SKIP THIS CHIP: One of the hottest young sires in the Northwest! This bay stallion is an AQHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse. He is sired by World Champion Jr. Western Pleasure horse, "Zips Chocolate Chip." "Don't Skip This Chip" is the first Superior offspring of "Zips Chocolate Chip." In his three-year-old show season - with limited showing - he earned 66.5 AQHA points, won multiple State and circuit championships, qualified for the AQHA World Show and was undefeated in all 7 Pleasure Futurities he had entered. Selling over his normal stud fee at last year's Gallop, he will stand the 1997 season for $1,500 at Canfield Mountain Farm in Post Falls, Idaho, and is proudly owned by Tailermade Enterprises.
DYNAMIC DELUXE: Only National Leading AQHA Performance Sire on the West Coast - 1990 through 1995! Dynamic Deluxe is a Senior Western Pleasure Congress Champion and an AQHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse. Trainers and owners call Dynamic Deluxe "the King of Pleasure," living up to everything we thought he would be and more. Whatever you give him, he gives it back ten-fold. He is second to none. Not only that but he is really throwing himself to his offspring." He is the sire of a Congress Champion, Superiors, ROM's, World and Youth World Top 5 and Finalists! Dynamic Deluxe stands for $2,000 at Riverside Ranch in Sultan, Washington, with owners Steve & Cindy Stephens.
IMA COOL SEEKER: Sired by "Ima Cool Skip," three time World Champion and sire of 52 World and Reserve World Champions. His dam is "Seekers Bonnie," a producer of R.O.M. offspring in both Halter and Performance. "Ima Cool Seeker" is one of the up and coming, most exciting young stallions in the industry. New to the Northwest, he was a 1994 Top Five World Champion Halter Horse in the AQHA Open Division. That same year, he gained yet another title when he went Top Four in Halter at the prestigious All American Quarter Horse Congress Show. Tested HYPP Negative//Negative, "Ima Cool Seeker" stands for $1,000 in Maupin, Oregon with owners Cindy Peterson and Ken Hein.
A BUCK A PAGE: 1994 ABRA World Champion. He is sired by "Page Impressive" out of a "Model Te N Te" daughter. This young stallion has started his show career off with a bang! In addition to his ABRA World Champion title, he was the 1993 Unanimous Cow Palace Futurity Champion, Northwest Quarter Horse Congress Hi-Point Circuit Champion and has earned 18 AQHA Grands & Reserves. He holds multiple circuit and futurity Championships and is an AQHA World Qualifier. "A Buck A Page" stands for $1,250 at Springstone Ranch in Springdale, Washington with owners Ron Knutson and Bob McLeod. He is HYPP Negative//Negative.
MALTESE FALCON: Sired by World Champion "Sir Impressive," Maltese was purchased in the Spring of 1992 by A & W Partnership, Dr. John & Julie Achord and Larry & Lori Wilkerson. He holds 24.5 Open Halter points placing Grand or Reserve Grand Champion every time he was shown. His oldest foals in the Northwest are three-years-old and have won or placed in several futurities. At the 1995 Northwest Quarter Horse Congress Stallion Futurities, three weanlings were entered and placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. A Paint filly placed 2nd at the 1994 Triple Crown Weanling Futurities. His son, "Dun Teasin," won the 1995 Great Northwest Stallion Service Yearling Futurity and has multiple Grands with very limited showing. Maltese stands for $750 at Wilkerson Ranch in Kennewick, Washington. He is tested HYPP Negative//Negative.
IMPRESSIVES DEUCE: Grand and Reserve Champion at halter. Sire of World Champions (5th and 7th place.) Sire of multiple futurity and halter class winners, ROMs in Open Working, Youth Halter, Youth Working, Amateur Working, Superior Western Pleasure, Cutting & Barrel Racing offspring. His get have won over $30,000 in halter futurities. He is also the sire of APHA winners and an APHA Champion. This jet black stallion is sired by "Impressive," out of an "Otoe" granddaughter. He stands for $750 in Milton-Freewater, Oregon with owners John & Diane Morris. He has been tested HYPP Negative//Negative.
SHADOWS SECURITY: New to the Northwest, "Shadows Security" has been superbly shown. He is a Grand & Reserve Grand Champion Halter Stallion, holds multiple circuit Championships, placed 3rd in the prestigious "Tom Powers" Yearling Longe Line Futurity, was Circuit Champion Yearling Halter Stallion at the Texas Classic and was Top Ten in the NSBA Yearling Longe Line Futurity. He is sired by "Leaguers Shadow," Superior Western Pleasure, 1993 AQHA Reserve Hi-Point Western Pleasure Horse and 4th in Aged Stallions at the All American Quarter Horse Congress. "Shadows Security's" grandsire is "Im A Big Leaguer," sire of Futurity winners, Show ROMs and Halter Point Earners. "Shadows Security's" dam is "Absolutely Hot." She is an own daughter of "Hotrodders Jet Set," World Champion Jr. Western Pleasure, 3rd Leading Sire of Performance Horses, and sire of Superior Performance Horses. "Shadows Security" will stand at R Ranch in Klamath Falls, Oregon for $700 with owners Ken and Carol Russell.
INSTANT ROMANCE: Winner of the Northwest Quarter Horse Congress Halter Futurity, placing first under all three judges. Sired by legendary "Triple's Image," "Instant Romance" is out of a daughter of "McLeo Bars." As expected, the quality of his foals are superb! He stands for $1,000 at Wegner Ranch in Ellensburg, Washington with owner Ray Wegner.
PERKS SUPER HANK: Winner of multiple Year-End High Point Awards. Earner of 13 halter points and four circuit Hi-Point awards, sire of multiple futurity winners, Grand & Reserve Champions in halter, halter point earners, circuit Hi-Point Year-End Champions. He stands for $750 in Monroe, Washington with owners Jerald and Gail Bryant.
GALLOP PAINT
HORSE STALLIONS:
MACHOS SCAT MAN: This great stallion is an APHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse, Silver Supreme All Around Stallion, NWCC Reserve Hi-Point Western Pleasure Horse, holds points in Halter, Pole Bending and Barrels and now is a sire of an APHA Reserve World Champion. "Machos Scat Man" carries a double Tobiano gene, guaranteeing you a colored foal. In his last seven years of donating services to grant wishes to children with life threatening illnesses... "Machos Scat Man" has been the highest selling of the Paint Horse breed three times, highest selling Tobiano stallion service for seven consecutive years and has never sold for under his stallion fee. This unbelievable record has made "Machos Scat Man" the only stallion of any breed in the history of the Gallop to achieve these high standards and set such a consecutive record!! "Machos Scat Man" stands for $700 in Rathdrum, Idaho with owners Harold & Debbie Kruger.
SUPER FAR OUT: 1994 World Champion Working Cow Horse and 1995 Reserve World Champion High Point Horse. In addition to being a World Champion, his titles also include APHA Champion, and Versatility Award winner. He is also seven (unofficial) points from gaining three more Superior Awards, giving him a total of eleven Open Superiors, unequaled by any other Paint Horse. He is a California State All-Around Champion, #2 Lifetime APHA Performance Earning Stallion, holds 11 ROM's, over 900 Open APHA Points, 3 Honor Roll firsts & 14 Honor Roll Awards. He is the sire of World and Reserve World Champions, multiple Top Tens at the World, 2 Top Ten Open Honor Roll horses, APHA Open and Amateur Champions, multiple APHA point earners in Halter and Performance, Futurity winners and ROM offspring. "Super Far Out" has been the high selling Paint stallion service (several times) at Gallop and is always a spectator draw at the auction - don't miss seeing this tremendous Paint Horse Stallion at the event!! He stands for $1,000 in Klamath Falls, Oregon with owners Ken & Carol Russell.
TAG A BEAR: An APHA Champion Superior Halter Horse on the APHA Leading Sire List for 1990 & 1991. Qualifier for the World in Aged Stallions. He is an APHA Champion sire, has won "Get of Sire" two years running at the OPHC Futurity and has sired Superior Halter & Performance Horses. His produce include 25 ROMs, and 10 Superior Halter & Performance Horses. His get have earned over 1,500 APHA points! He stands for $800 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho with owners Walt & Gerry Dinning.
FEATURE: Sired by "Skippa Star Jr." Both grand sires - "Skippa Star" and "Quincy Feature," were World Champions. "Feature" is being shown successfully, earning his ROMs in halter and performance. Owner Carol Russell rode him in just one show, and received her Amateur ROM in Western Pleasure. His first foals hit the ground in 1993 and are everything that Russells hoped for. Feature's first foal, "CR Elegant Feature," won four futurities, including the NWCC and Oregon breeders Futurity. She won more weanling halter classes than any other filly in the Pacific Northwest for 1993. Her first time out in 1994, she took two firsts and stood Grand Champion Halter Mare of the show. He is siring loud colored foals from solid colored mares. He stands for $800 in Klamath Falls, Oregon with owners Ken & Carol Russell.
PANZAS TOP ROBIN: This magnificent stallion is a National point earner in Halter & Performance. He is producing 97% color on Paint mares, and 73% on solid mares. His get have won or placed in all major futurities, with all of them shown in the past four years being National point earners. "Panzas Top Robin" is the sire of Superior Halter Horses, an APHA Reserve World Champion and was rated #9 on the 1995 Leading APHA Sires List. He had six offspring show at the 1995 World show - all placing Top Ten. He produces versatility in his offspring that will Halter or Pleasure ride for the entire family or competitor. He stands for $1,000 in Hermiston, Oregon with owners Wayne & Bonnie Hamlin.
SUPER DRY ICE: This dark grulla overo stallion holds an impressive show record which includes his APHA Championship (achieved as a young three-year-old) and ROMs in Halter, Western Pleasure, Trail, and Reining. He hold 25 Halter points which include Hi-Point Halter Stallion for MPHC, Reserve Champion Halter Stallion at the Big Sky Classic, Nevada State Halter Champion in Open & Amateur, Sierra Paint Horse Club's Champion Yearling Stallion, Northern California Championship Circuit Champion, and winner of the Wine and Roses Futurity. Nearing his Superior, he holds 44 Points in Western Pleasure, was the 1995 Zone One Champion Jr. Reining Horse and placed 11th overall in Junior Trail at the 1995 World Championship Paint Horse Show. "Super Dry Ice" is standing for $750 at GMS Training Center in Spokane, Washington. He is owned by Lone Pine Paints, Chuck and Julie Lazaro, from Lonepine, Montana.
COUNT FLEET: Painted Pines Ranch proudly offers a breeding to their APHA Champion, "Count Fleet." His APHA Championship was earned in one season, accumulating 28 points in Halter, 15 points in Western Pleasure, an ROM in Western Pleasure with additional points earned in Hunter Hack, Hunter Under Saddle, Working Hunter, and Western Riding. He has 11 Grand and Reserve Halter Championships, was the OSPHCC Hi-Point Aged Halter Stallion, MSPHC's Hi-Point two-year-old Halter Stallion, Reserve Hi-Point Aged Halter Stallion for NWCC, Reserve Hi-Point Jumping Champion for OPHC and was the Hi-Point Senior Western Riding Horse at the Zone 1 Show. He stands for $650 in Sagle, Idaho with owners Jay and Danni Peterson.
This concludes our 1996 Stallion Service line-up. Our stallion invitations have closed down for the 1996 line-up. Located on another page in this issue, you will see our Gallop Ad enabling you to update times, dates, and stallions involved for this year. Remember, these services will be good for the following year, l997. This gives you an opportunity to shop ahead for the following breeding season. Check out these stallions and their facilities, know where your mares will be going, what kind of offspring the stallion is producing, take a good look at the stallion, and know what mare care or transported semen costs you will be dealing with.
Sharing with you Wishing Star's mission, this month Gallop Coordinator, Barbara Turner, shares with you some wishes currently being achieved by the Wishing Star Foundation.
"Hi everyone! Being involved in the horse industry and with Wishing Star, many of you approach me with questions about Wishing Star, wishes and our children. Our wish kids are referred to us from lots of places and people. Neighbors, teachers, physicians, family, nurses, and friends all have referred children with life threatening illnesses to Wishing Star. Often the child's family knows the referral, but we get anonymous referrals too. When a child is referred, Wishing Star contacts the family to see if they are interested in a wish. In sharing, only a few of these "wishes,"' keep in mind that those of you who participate at this year's Gallop as a spectator, sponsor, booth exhibitor, stallion owner or committee member will help to make these wishes a reality. Be very proud of yourselves!"
* 16-year-old Vanessa wishes for a friend to be flown in for a visit; she has Leukemia.
* 11-year-old Anthony wishes for a Hot Tub; he has Leigh's.
* 16-year-old Tarah wishes to go on a Shopping Spree; she has Cancer.
* 14-year-old Kacey wishes for a Big Red Boat; she has Cancer.
* 9-year-old Mathias wishes to go to Alaska; he has Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
* 3-year-old Marcus wishes for a computer; he has Menkes.
* 8-year-old Allison wishes to go on a Shopping Spree; she has Cancer.
* 4-year-old Samantha who has Leukemia
* 3-year-old Ruth who has Wilm's Tumor
* 11-year-old Taneissa who has Cystic Fibrosis
* 7-year-old William who has Muscular Dystrophy
* 5-year-old Celeste who has Neuroblastoma
* 6-year-old Matthew who has Cancer
* 5-year-old Michael who has Cancer
* 7-year-old Joy who has Cerebral Palsy and
* 3-year-old Michael who has Leukemia
all wished for a trip to Disney World or Disneyland.
With Sincere Sympathy....
20-year-old Steven died in January. His wish was for a stereo component system in 1993; he had Cancer.
20-year-old Justin died in January. His wish was a Chevy truck in 1993; he had Cancer.
16-year-old Jared died in February. His wish was Disneyland in 1991; he had Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy.
19-year-old Nancy passed away in March, three days after her wish for a Family Reunion was granted; she had Lymphoma.
16-year-old Janet died in March. Her wish was a Playhouse that I did in 1990; she had Cystic Fibrosis.
16-year-old Jeremy died in December. His wish was granted for a shopping spree at the Mall of America; he had Hodgkin's Disease.
17-year-old Loretta died in January. Her wish was granted for a train trip to Disneyland; she had a brain tumor.
2-year-old Samantha died in January. Samantha went to the San Diego Zoo; she had Cancer.
10-year-old Angela died in January. She went to Disney World for her wish; she had Cystic Fibrosis.
I've seen the loss of more "wish children" this past year, than ever in the eight years I've been with Wishing Star. My life was personally touched with the loss of a wish child that I'd known for the past six years. A child, whose family and him were involved with "Gallop" for six years. I remembered being involved with his wish. It was to see his Grandpa in California. He also wanted to go to "Great America" while there. It never crossed my mind (with any doubt) that he wouldn't be back each year to sing on stage with us. Four days before "Thanksgiving" I was called by the family to come to the hospital. By the time I arrived, I realized I wouldn't have the chance to tell him, "good-bye." During that same day, spending time with his family (and two other "wish family" parents) enriched my life and gave me new meaning to the words - strength, perseverance, life, love, and Wishing Star. Yes, Wishing Star. As time went by, I listened to the families as they talked about Wishing Star's Christmas program, their involvement in the Gallop, memories of their wishes....And I realized - beyond the obvious of what I already knew - the "real power" of Wishing Star's mission with these families. I thought I knew, but I wasn't even close. The last thing Mom said to me before I left the hospital was, "Thank everyone at Wishing Star for giving Donald his wish. He had so much fun; we all did. We'll have those lovely memories forever." The family asked if I'd speak at his funeral the day after Thanksgiving. When I got to the podium and turned around, my breath was taken away! It was standing room only, and people were still coming in. In the short period of time Donald was with us, this thirteen year-old boy touched the lives of so many people of all different ages.
Always proud to be a part of the Wishing Star Foundation, at that moment I felt "blessed." Blessed to be a small integral part of the Wishing Star Foundation, its mission and some of the children who allowed me the pleasure of getting to know them and their families along the way.
I've shared this personal experience with you because so many of you out there are a part of Wishing Star's success in accomplishing those "wishes" too. For many of these families, tragedy and adversity become an element of daily life. But with your support and contributions to Wishing Star, you are truly making a difference in the lives of others. I wanted you to know that, and how greatly it is appreciated.
We will all miss Donald at the Gallop this year. But he will be there with us in spirit and live in our hearts forever. Wishing Star will dedicate this year's 1996 Gallop in memory of Donald - whom we lost in November to Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy at the age of thirteen.
HOW CAN YOU HELP IN WISHING STAR'S MISSION?
That is a question we are asked by many people and there are a number of ways. One is financially. It is a constant battle to raise the money to get the Wishes done as quickly as possible. Another is to become a Wishing Star volunteer. Give some of your time. We have a number of people who volunteer through our office in Spokane and we can always use more. We also have chapters made up of volunteers in a number of communities where extra help is always needed. Those chapters serve the following areas:
1. Lewiston, ID / Clarkston, WA 2. Moscow, ID / Pullman, WA
3. Magic Valley / Twin Falls, ID 4. Weiser / Payette, ID
5. Coeur d'Alene, ID 6. Boise / Treasure Valley, ID
7. Tri-Cities, WA 8. Yakima, WA
9. Wenatchee, WA 10. Sandpoint, IDIf you are interested in volunteering in one of these areas or need more information, call us at 509-744-3411. Give the greatest gift: help a child's dream come true.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the Wishing Star Gallop Stallion Service Auction on Saturday, August 17th!
Sincerely, Barbara J.Turner
Gallop Coordinator, Wishing Star Foundation
Next month in "Horse Previews Gallop Edition," we'll be updating you on some very exciting things that will be going on at Gallop. Whether you are into sports, music, dance, exhibits, stallion services, delicious food, collector's items, or great entertainment, we have it all for you! Don't forget to pick up "Horse Previews" next month for "the only" inside look at what will be happening at Gallop.
For further information contact: Barbara Turner at 509-466-8719 or 509-744-3411 Wishing Star Foundation / W. 915 2nd Ave, Suite #3 / Spokane, Washington 99204.
