Joe Cody

Horse infobox
horsename = Joe Cody


caption = - Joe Cody -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Reining
Cutting
sire = Bill Cody
grandsire = Wimpy P-1
dam = Taboo
damsire = King P-234
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1952
country = United States
color = Sorrel
breeder = Tom W. Cochrane
owner = C. T. Fuller, Robert F. Roberts, Vigrinia Epes Harper
otherawards= AQHA Performance Register of Merit, AQHA Champion
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, NRHA Hall of Fame
updated= January 12 2008

Foaled in 1952, Joe Cody was a Quarter horse stallion famous for siring reining horses.Close "Legends 5" p. 50-63]

Life

Joe Cody was registered with number 42,543 in the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA). He was a 1952 sorrel colt, bred by Tom W. Cochran of Buckholts, Texas. He was registered in the ownership of Robert F. Roberts of Tyler, Texas.AQHA "Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 6-10" p. 564] His sire was a product of the King Ranch linebreeding program, as he was a son of Wimpy P-1 out of a daughter of Old Sorrel. [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/joe+cody All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for Joe Cody] retrieved on June 26, 2007] Joe's dam was a daughter of King P-234.

Joe Cody earned an AQHA Champion and a Performance Register of Merit from the AQHA.Wagoner "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" p. 314] When he earned his AQHA Championship, he was the youngest stallion to ever earn the award.Valentry "Comeback Horse" "Western Horseman" May 1965 p. 133, 195-197] He was trained and earned points in reining and cutting. He was also trained to rope.In 1989 he was inducted into the National Reining Horse Association (or NRHA) Hall of Fame, only the second horse so honored. [http://www.nrha.com/halloffame.php NRHA Hall of Fame] retrieved on July 4,2007]

After retiring to stud in 1961, he was invited to Bermuda by the government of Bermuda to show both reining and cutting at the Agricultural Fair put on by the government. His owner at the time, Mrs. Virginia Harper of Long Island, New York, took him and had him perform a reining pattern and also a cutting exhibition. He was the sire of Easter Cody, Sappho Cody, Paprika Cody, Sapphire Cody, High Proof, Topsail Cody, and Red God.Pitzer "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" p. 60-61] His son Topsail Cody sired foals that earned over $1 million in NRHA earnings. [http://www.nrha.com/milliondollar.php NRHA Million Dollar Earners] retrieved on July 4, 2007]

He died on July 1 1989. Fuller buried him at Fuller's Willow Brook Farm in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania with a granite headstone giving his accomplishments.Wohlfarth "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14]

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]

Pedigree

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1 = Joe Cody
2= Bill Cody
3 = Taboo
4 = Wimpy P-1
5 = Pesetita
6 = King P-234
7 = Billie Bo
8 = Solis
9 = Panda
10 = Old Sorrel
11 = Peseta
12 = Zantanon
13 = Jabalina
14 = Billy Bowlegs
15 = Phelps mare
16 = Old Sorrel
17 = Mother of Solis
18 = Old Sorrel
19 = mare by Hickory Bill
20 = Hickory Bill
21 = Dr. Rose mare
22 = Cardinal
23 = King Ranch mare
24 = Little Joe
25 = Jeanette
26 = Strait Horse
27 = mare by Traveler
28 =DJ by Old DJ
29 = unknown
30 = unknown
31 =unknown

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/joe+cody All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for Joe Cody] " retrieved on June 26, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* American Quarter Horse Association "Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 6-7-8-9-10" Amarillo, Texas: American Quarter Horse Association 1962
* Close, Pat ed. "Legends 5: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs: Western Horseman 2002 ISBN 0-911647-58-9
* " [http://www.nrha.com/halloffame.php NRHA Hall of Fame] " retrieved on July 4, 2007
* " [http://www.nrha.com/milliondollar.php NRHA Million Dollar Earners] " retrieved on July 4, 2007
* Pitzer, Andrea Laycock "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974
* Wohlfarth, Jenny "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14
* Valentry, Duane "Comeback Horse" "Western Horseman" May 1965 p. 133, 195-197

Further reading

* Groves, Lesli Krause "Joe Cody" "Quarter Horse Journal" January 1995 p. 18

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2927 Joe Cody at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home42222 Joe Cody at Quarter Horse Legends]