Blondy's Dude

Horse infobox
horsename =Blondy's Dude


caption = - Blondy's Dude -
breed=Quarter Horse
discipline = Halter
Cutting
Reining
sire = Small Town Dude
grandsire = King P-234
dam = Blondy Queen
damsire = Blondy Plaudit
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1957
country = United States
color = Sorrel
breeder = Homer S. Foutz
otherawards= AQHA Performance Register of Merit, AQHA Champion
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 11 2008

Blondy's Dude was an influential Quarter horse show horse and sire.

Life

Blondy's Dude was a 1957 sorrel stallion sired by Small Town Dude and out of Blondy Queen.Wagoner "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" p. 66-67] His sire was a son of King P-234 and his dam was a descentant of Plaudit. [ [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/blondys+dude Blondy's Dude Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved on June 26, 2007]

He was an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Champion and a Performance Register of Merit earner.Wagoner "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" p. 66-67] Morgan Freeman bought him in 1961, after seeing him at a reining competition as well as at an informal cutting. The horse earned 45 Halter points as well as four cutting and eight reining points with the AQHA. Morgan's son Jerald said that Blondy's Dude was very much a people horse, that he liked to follow people around.Thornton "The Working Lines Volume II" p. 85-91] ]

Among his famous offspring were Mighty Blonde, Small Town Babe, Dude's Ann, Okie Star Dude, Hy Fashion Blond, and Dude's Baby Doll.Pitzer "The Most Influential Quarter horse Sires" p. 15-16] Among his famous grandget was Diamonds Sparkle. [ Close "Legends 4" p. 56] His offspring earned twenty-five AQHA Championships, along with Superior Performance horse awards and many Performance Register of Merits. Three of his foals earned year end High Point Awards with the AQHA, and one was a multiple times World Champion at the Youth World Show. His offspring excelled in many different disciplines, having earned Superior Performance awards in Western Pleasure, Reining, Barrel Racing, Hunter Under Saddle, Trail, Roping, and Pole Bending.

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008] He died in 1981 and was buried in Morgan Freeman's front yard in the town of Skiatook, Oklahoma with a marker stating "God gives his best to those that leave the choice to him. Owned and Loved by Morgan Freeman."Wohlfarth "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14]

Pedigree

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1 = Blondy's Dude
2= Small Town Dude
3 =Blondy Queen
4 = King P-234
5 = Uncle's Pet
6 = Blondy Plaudit
7 = Johnnie Adair
8 = Zantanon
9 = Jabalina
10 = Zantanon
11 = mare by Captain Joe
12 = Plaudit
13 = Lani Act
14 = Yellow Boy P-18
15 = JA Ranch quarter mare
16 = Little Joe
17 = Jeanette
18 = Strait Horse
19 = mare by Traveler
20 = Little Joe
21 =Jeanette
22 =Captain Joe
23 = Benavides mare
24 = King Plaudit (TB)
25 = Colorado Queen
26 = Lani Chief (TB)
27 = Flaxy Act
28 = Yellow Jacket
29 = Bonnie Wilkens
30 = unknown
31 = unknown

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/blondys+dude All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Blondy's Dude] " retrieved June 26, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Close, Pat and Roy Jo Sartin, ed. "Legends 4: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 2002 ISBN 0-911647-49-X
* Pitzer, Andrea Laycock "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
* Thornton, Larry "The Working Lines Volume II" Meridian, Mississippi:Southern Publishing Company 1998 ISBN0-9640220-1-X
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974
* Wohlfarth, Jenny "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14

External links

* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/blondys+dude Blondy's Dude at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4 Blondy's Dude at Quarter Horse Legends]