Poco Pine

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Poco Pine (1954-1974) is a horse Stallion American Quarter Horse and a stallion. He earned 50 Grand Championships in his career and after his death was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame of the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) in 2010. Two of his descendants have also been inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. 37 of his offspring won the AQHA Championship during their own career.

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Life

Poco Pine was a 1954 horse bay, loved by Poco Bueno, and out of Pretty Rosalie, Pretty Boy's daughter. As a foal, he was bought at E. Wagoner Ranch sold by Paul Waggoner 1954 by Paul Curtner. Curtner originally intended to buy Blackburn's daughter and foal by Poco Bueno, but eventually bought two different horses - a horse by Pretty Boy (Pretty Rosalie) and a stallion by Poco Bueno (Poco Pine). While still in sales, Curtner was approached by two Waggoner employees, both of whom told Curtner that in their opinion, he bought the best horse in sales. One of the employees, Pine Johnson, Waggoner coach, also felt that the horse was the best Poco Bueno colt he had ever seen. Because of Johnson's praise for the horse, Curtner decides to enroll the foal as Poco Pine.

Poco Pine was shown about five times as weanling, winning all the dumbbell classes shown. Curtner, however, felt that he was slow to develop and therefore did not show it as a child a year or as two years old. In 1957, Curtner felt Poco Pine was once again ready to perform, and took him to a show in Fort Worth, Texas. Although Poco Pine won his class, Curtner was convinced the horse would not win the Grand Champion or Grand Champion Reserve, and eventually bet B. F. Phillips and Billy Bush that Poco Pine would not win the championship or reserve. Poco Pine won the Championship, which meant Curtner lost money on his horse win.

Curtner's goal with halton career Poco Pine was to win a 50 Grand Championships medal, a goal the horse achieved on October 27, 1960, when he was six years old. Curtner then stopped the horse from the dumbbell. While Poco Pine performs on the dumbbell, he also performs at cutting competitions and stands in stud for a big book of horses. In 1958, for example, he raised 80 horses at a cost of $ 800 stud (about $ 6,800 by 2018) as well as showing both dumbbells and cuts. In August 1960, Poco Pine earned enough performance points to qualify for the AQHA Championship and retire from the show. In total, Poco Pine won 135 AQHA Halter points and 17 AQHA Performance points.

Curtner had two chances to sell Poco Pine during his show career - the first time for $ 40,000 (about $ 339,300 in 2018), the second for $ 100,000 (about $ 848,200 in 2018) - but he twice rejected the offer.

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Breed career

Poco Pine's children earned $ 14,794 in the National Cutting Horse Association competition. He became 37 AQHA Champion, 19 Superior Wester Pleasure Horses, 2 Excelled Horse Trails, 15 Superior Halter Horse, 84 Merit Performance Register and 4-year Upper Horse with AQHA. He became a farmer of 19 plants, with a total of 464 foals. His son Poco Pecho was the son of Pecho Dexter, who was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. Another offspring inducted into the Hall of Fame is Zippo Pine Bar, which comes out of Poco Pine's daughter.

Poco Pine died in his sleep on November 1, 1974. He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2010.