Texas Dandy

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Texas Dandy
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Racing
SireMy Texas Dandy
DamStreak
Maternal grandsireLone Star by Gold Enamel (TB)
Sex Stallion
Foaled1942
CountryUnited States
Color Sorrel
BreederR. C. Tatum
OwnerB. E. Brooks
Will Northington
Finley Ranches
Record
14 starts: 3-1-1
A speed rating
Earnings
$61.00
Awards
AQHA Race Register of Merit
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Texas Dandy (born 1942) was a Quarter Horse stallion who not only raced well, and sired outstanding broodmares, he was a movie star also.

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Life

Texas Dandy was a 1942 sorrel stallion registered as number 2112 with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA). His sire was My Texas Dandy #4900, and his dam was Streak #612. He was bred by R. C. Tatum of Junction, Texas and owned by W. A. Northington of Egypt, Texas when he was registered with the AQHA. [1] His sire was inbred to *Porte Drapeau, an imported Thoroughbred stallion. His dam was a daughter of one of the many unregistered Lone Stars, this one being the one sired by Gold Enamel, a Thoroughbred. [2]

Racing career

Texas Dandy raced for three years, with fourteen starts to his credit. He won three times, came in second once, and third once. He received a Race Register of Merit in 1947 with an A speed rating. He earned a total of $61.00 in race earnings. [3]

Film career

Texas Dandy was an early ambassador for the Quarter Horse breed when he co-starred in Boy From Indiana a 1950 film. [4] The movie's story involved a farmboy from Indiana who started working for a Quarter Horse trainer in Arizona and ended up as the trainer's main jockey. The real problem in the movie was getting the finish filmed, as it called for the Quarter Horse, played by Texas Dandy, to beat a Thoroughbred race horse by a nose in a match race. It was to be filmed up close, by filming from a truck on the racetrack. However, Texas Dandy ran past the truck at least three times before he was finally tired enough to allow the Thoroughbred to come close to finishing with him. [5]

Breeding record

Besides starring in movies, Texas Dandy also was a noted sire. Many of his offspring earned Race Register of Merits with the AQHA, and he also sired three AQHA Champions – Little Egypt, Echols' Dandy, and Front Row. [6] His daughter Dandy Doll was the dam of Doc Bar. [4]

Death and honors

Texas Dandy was 28 years old when he died in 1970, and he was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1995. [7]

Pedigree

=Sundridge (TB)
=Sunstar (TB)
=Doris (TB)
*Porte Drapeau (TB)
=Ayrshire (TB)
=Bright Cherry (TB)
=Cerisette (TB)
My Texas Dandy
Sleepy Dick
Little Dick
Flora
Sadie M
*Porte Drapeau (TB)
mare by *Porte Drapeau (TB)
mare by Panmure (TB)
Texas Dandy
*Maddison (TB)
Gold Enamel (TB)
Enamel (TB)
Lone Star
unknown
Quarter mare
unknown
Streak
Tom Glover
Cap
Dutchie
mare by Cap
unknown
Duderstadt quarter mare
unknown

Notes

  1. ↑ American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 1–5 p. 147
  2. ↑ All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Texas Danday
  3. ↑ Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest pp. 1189–1190
  4. 1 2 Wohlfarth "Keeping Tradition" p. 73
  5. ↑ Chamberlain "Lights, Camera, Action" Quarter Horse Journal p. 10
  6. ↑ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 707
  7. ↑ American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Texas Dandy". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

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