Hustlers Fabulous Too (Eddie)

This week I'm in Kansas City, attending a business meeting. Thankfully Dad is housesitting, and crittersitting for me, but I didn't ask him to blogsit for me. However, I don't want to be neglectful, so I decided to pre-post for a few days, just in case I'm not able to get to it in between my work obligations.

The problem was, I usually post my day-to-day activities. What could I possibly pre-post that would be of any interest?

The other day Kate of A Year with Horses gave me a great idea. I sure hope she doesn't mind me blatently stealing her idea. Also, be sure to visit her blog through this week. She's an excellent writer with deep insight into horse behavior--very interesting reading!

I hope that was enough to make it up to Kate :) The idea is, that I thought I'd post a little about my horses' pedigrees throughout the week. I am an admitted pedigree-junkie. I love looking at bloodlines to see what lines cross best, what lines produce what kind of looks or movers, what sort of personality or potential a horse might have based on its pedigree and basically learning about the accomplishments of those horses that mine are descended from. I suppose it links my love of genealogy with my love of horses.

Since 4 of my 5 horses are descended from my stallion Eddie, I thought I'd post about his pedigree first.

Eddie was registered as Hustlers Fabulous Too with APHA (American Paint Horse Association) and as Hustlersfabuloustoo with AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association).

He was a futurity grand champion the only time he was shown.

I did edit his breeder from this photo. It is because of his neglect of Eddie as to why this wonderful horse is no longer with us. I felt he didn't need to be represented in Eddie's past.

Eddie was sired by Ima Hustler Too, who was an APHA Champion (meaning he met the qualifications under the breed rules for this special honor, which includes earning points in halter and performance events). He earned 20 halter points, 54 performance points and ROM (Register of Merit) awards in Western Pleasure, Barrel Racing, and Pole Bending.

When he was 20 years old and living in Colorado, he was pulling bulls into chutes at the rodeos. He also produced APHA Champions. He was a true all-round sire. They just don't make them like that anymore....

Ima Hustler Too was sired by Red Sonny Dee, who sired many, many champions in AQHA & APHA. He sired 20 APHA Champions, 50 earnes of Superior Awards (in Halter, Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Western Riding and Trail), 95 earners of Register of Merits, 12 World Champions, 14 Reserve World Champions, and earners of a total of $ 65.916,64.

Red Sonny Dee was sired by Sonny Dee Bar, who is in the AQHA Hall of Fame.

Sonny Dee Bar was sired by Win or Lose, who was a halter point earner, an AQHA (American Quarter Horse Association) Champion and sire of World Champions, Reserve World Champions, Superior Halter earners, Superior Performance earners, AQHA Champions, NCHA Money-earners, and Race Money-earners ($26,693).

Win or Lose was sired by AQHA Race Champion Mr Bar None.

Mr Bar None was sired by the legendary Three Bars.

Going back up to Red Sonny Dee, his dam was Toledo Kristy, who was an outstanding producer. She foaled Superior Performance offspring, AQHA Champion offspring, ROM Performance offspring, Halter Point Earners, AQHA offspring Record with 386 total points earned and 46 halter points earned out of six registered foals.

To make a long story short, Toledo Kristy was sired by AQHA Champion Toledo, who was sired by multiple champion producer Petit Homme who was sired by Little Man who was sired by AQHA Hall of Fame Inductee Old Sorrel.

Going back to Eddie's sire Ima Hustler Too, his dam was Cutie J Bar, a three-time APHA Champion producer and an APHA Champion in her own right.

Cutie J Bar's grandsire was Sugar Bars, earner of two AQHA halter points, an AQHA Race Register of Merit earner, an AQHA Hall Of Fame inductee and a leading sire, including:
Sire of Race money earners incl 2 Race Honor Roll; Connie Reba & Vanna Bar
Sire of AQHA Chs and Arena ROMs incl Honor Roll Reining; Jays Sugar Bars
Honor Roll Halter; Sugar Leda
Hi Pt Calf Roping Gelding; Bar Room
Superior W Pleas; Apollo Girl, Hesa Sugar, Sugars Cookie
Superior Eng Pleas; Bit O Sugar
Superior Reining; Jays Sugar Bars, Sugar Bar Dell
Superior Halter; Bar Flit, Bit O Sugar, Counterplay, Mr Cabin Bar, Otoe, Sugar Capri, Sugar Leda
Sire of NCHA Money earners.
Sire of 867 foals
50% FQH, 38% NFQHA

Sugar Bars, of course, was sired by Three Bars (see above).

Eddie's dam is Fabulous Too, an earner of 13 AQHA halter points.

Her sire was Luck Too, who placed 3rd at AQHA World in Halter and whom I've never been able to find a picture of, unfortunately. He was sired by Impressive Too, another AQHA Champion and he, in turn, was sired by Impressive.

Impressive goes back to Three Bars three times.

Luck Too (Eddie's grandsire) was out of a granddaughter of both AQHA Champion Poco Pine, and Zippo Pat Bars, pictured below.

Zippo Pat Bars was an AQHA Hall of Fame inductee and sire of Zippo Pine Bars who is also an AQHA Hall of Fame Inductee. Zippo Pat Bars was sired by Three Bars.

Fabulous Too's dam was sired by Jackie Bee, a recent AQHA Hall of Fame Inductee.

I'll stop there for now, but Eddie does go back to many of the great old horses, like Leo, King, Norfleet, Old Joe, Peter McCue and Oklahoma Star. If you'd like to see the breakdown of his pedigree, check out his entry on All Breed Pedigree.

Eddie had a really great pedigree, but he was also a great horse. He wasn't famous, like so many of his ancestors were, but he was loved more than most horses by the few that knew him.

My friend Vicki said it best when she described Eddie as "a human trapped in a horse's body." He was wise beyond his species. You could always count on him not only to exceed your expectations, but to make you laugh, and even, on a few occassions, to save the day.

His breeding was no accident, but it's because of an accident that he ended up in my life. I will forever be saddened by what he went through, but honored and grateful that I knew him.