Goetta (horse)

Horse infobox
horsename = Goetta


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breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Racing
sire = Go Man Go
grandsire = Top Deck (TB)
dam = Etta Leo
damsire = Leo
sex = Mare
foaled = 1961
country = United States
color = Sorrel
breeder = Ed Honnen
owner = Hugh Huntley
racerecord = 31-22-2-1
raceearnings = $233,922.00
racewins = All American Futurity
raceawards= 1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, 1963 AQHA High Money Earning Race Horse, 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 12 2008

Goetta was the World Champion Quarter Running Horse for 1964, and for a time led the list of all time money-earning Quarter Horse racehorses.Nye "Great Moments in Quarter Racing History" p. 202-205]

Life

Goetta was a 1961 sorrel foal, sired by Go Man Go and out of a daughter of Leo named Etta Leo.Wagoner "Quarter Racing Digest" p. 437] Her dam was out of a daughter of Band Play, and the third dam descended from Peter McCue [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/goetta Goetta Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved on June 30, 2007]

Goetta raced for three years, with thirty-one starts. She won twenty-two of her starts, placing second twice and was third twice. The American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) named her the 1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, as well as the 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare and the 1963 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old Filly. Her total earnings on the track were $233,920.00 and sixty-eight racing points. Besides the Championship titles, she also was a Race Register of Merit earner with an AAAT speed rating, and an AQHA Superior Race Horse. She won the All American Futurity, among other stakes wins."Hall of Fame 2007" "Quarter Horse Journal" p. 51]

She produced seven foals, six of whom were race winners with two of those being stakes winners. She died in 1978 giving birth to her seventh foal.

She 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 = Goetta
2 = Go Man Go
3 = Etta Leo
4 = Top Deck (TB)
5 = Lightfoot Sis
6 = Leo
7 = Bandette
8 = Equestrian (TB)
9 = River Boat (TB)
10 = Very Wise (TB)
11 = Clear Track
12 = Joe Reed II
13 = Little Fanny
14 = Band Play
15 = J T 6
16 = Equipoise (TB)
17 = Frilette (TB)
18 = Chicaro (TB)
19 = Last Boat (TB)
20 = Wise Counsellor (TB)
21 = Omona (TB)
22 = The Dun Horse
23 = Ella
24 = Joe Reed P-3
25 = Nellene
26 = Joe Reed P-3
27 = Fanny Ashwell
28 = Band TIme (TB)
29 = Fair Play
30 = Sam Watkins
31 = Mamie

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/goetta All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Goetta] " retrieved on June 30, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* "Hall of Fame 2007" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2007 p. 42-55
* Nye, Nelson C. "Great Moments in Quarter Racing History" New York:Arco 1983 ISBN 0-668-05304-6
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1976

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=52570&sex=mare Goetta at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home42 Goetta at Quarter Horse Legends]