Expensive Hobby (horse)

Expensive Hobby (horse)

Horse infobox
horsename = Expensive Hobby


caption = - Expensive Hobby -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Showing
sire = Hobby Horse
grandsire = Tinky Poo
dam = Jan's Helen
damsire = Stormy's Sugar
sex = Gelding
foaled = 1971
country = United States
color = Buckskin
owner = Mehl Lawson, Georganna Stewart
otherawards= 1976 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse, 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse, 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse, AQHA Superior Cutting Horse
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 11 2008

Expensive Hobby was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse."Hall of Fame 2007" "Quarter Horse Journal" p. 55]

He was a 1971 buckskin gelding, sired by Hobby Horse, and out of a daughter of Stormy's Sugar named Jan's Helen.Groves "Expensive Hobby" "Quarter Horse Journal" November 1996 p. 18]

He was shown in reining 120 times, and won the class 110 of those times. He won the American Quarter Horse Association, or AQHA, World Show Champion title in working cowhorse and reining in 1979.He was retired in 1983, but came out of retirement briefly, but was eventually retired again, before dying at age 32 in 2003.

He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008]

Notes

References

* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Groves, Lesli Krause "Expensive Hobby" "Quarter Horse Journal" November 1996 p. 18
* "Hall of Fame 2007" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2007 p. 42-55

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=75908&sex=Gelding Expensive Hobby at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/expensive+hobby3 Expensive Hobby Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home33 Expensive Hobby at Quarter Horse Legends]


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