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| Expensive Hobby | |
|---|---|
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline | Showing |
| Sire | Hobby Horse |
| Grandsire | Tinky Poo |
| Dam | Jan's Helen |
| Maternal grandsire | Stormy's Sugar |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 1971 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Buckskin |
| Owner | Mehl Lawson, Georganna Stewart |
| Other awards | |
| 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 | |
Expensive Hobby (1971–2003) was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse.[1]
Expensive Hobby was a 1971 buckskin gelding, sired by Hobby Horse, and out of a daughter of Stormy's Sugar named Jan's Helen.[2]
Expensive Hobby was shown in reining 120 times, and won the class 110 of those times.[1] He won the American Quarter Horse Association, or AQHA, World Show Champion title in working cowhorse and reining in 1979.[2] He was retired in 1983, but came out of retirement briefly, but was eventually retired again, before dying at age 32 in 2003.[1]
Expensive Hobby was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 2007.[3]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Expensive Hobby". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- Groves, Lesli Krause (November 1996). "Expensive Hobby". Quarter Horse Journal: 18.
- Staff (March 2007). "Hall of Fame 2007". Quarter Horse Journal: 42–55.
External links
[edit]- Expensive Hobby at Quarter Horse Directory
- Expensive Hobby Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree
- Expensive Hobby at Quarter Horse Legends