The Higbee Family is very sadden to announce the loss of our outstanding friend and stallion “GQ Santana”.
Sometimes the Lord allows us to be a part of one of his many beautiful creations and all of us at Higbee Farms are truly blessed that we were given the chance to be a part of this magnificent stallion's short life.
Because of Santana’s conformation, pedigree, and uniqueness, several mare owners gave him an opportunity to prove his siring ability which is still being realized today. To those mare owners, friends and supporters I want to say “Thank You” from the bottom of my heart for trusting, believing, and helping promote Santana’s ability, which is evident by his get, their success, and ultimately in on the Leading Sires List.
We feel Santana’s legacy will not end here but will continue through his get in the show pen and later in the breeding sheds and foaling barns. As with Santana’s special qualities, we see the same things in his get repeatedly and can not help but think it is something that will be passed on for generations to come. That is just the “GQ Way”!
I want to say thank you to Santana for the sweetest ride, the many friends and extended family you brought us to know and love. We will do our best to keep your legacy going on in your absence. I know you are in Heaven's pasture today getting ready to sire the “White Horses” of the Lord’s Calvary. May your pastures be the greenest and your mares the prettiest. Thank You Again Santana!!!!
Thank you from the Higbee Family for all the support from across the country in our time of sorrow!
We received this amazing email March 30, 2009 and wanted to share it with everyone...
To
Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to let you know, that a member of our
team recently purchased a son of GQ Santana. I thought it interesting after
reading your farewell to your stallion, in particularly, your comment about
siring the white horses in the Lord’s calvary in Heaven. Well, he has sired them
on earth as well. You see, I am the Director of the Glory Riders of California.
We are a white horse ministry team who travel across the United States
performing in rodeos, schools and special events. The California team, performs
a routine where a white horse faces off against a dark horse in a working cow
horse pattern, The routine is called Battle Cry. The narrator reads out of Rev
19 and 20. I thought this might encourage you to know your prayers are already
answered.
In His Service, Pastor Carolyn Steidley
1999 Cropout Overo Stallion
16 Hands, HYPP N/H OLWS Neg.
Excerpts of an article by Frank Holmes in the
2004 July issue of Horse & Rider, featuring GQ Santana as the most extreme
cropout stallion ever to be registered AQHA.
“Blurring The Line”
“ The fact
that these horses can earn points and awards in both associations will make
them more valuable than a single-registered horse”
An
interview with Gregg Reisinger of Eldora, Iowa. A well known and highly respected breeder of
cropout quarterhorses.
“Early on, I came to understand and appreciate the
quality and genetic strength of the cropout horse,” Reisinger says. I also
found that when I crossed two cropouts, I achieved a color success rate of more
than 90 percent”
Reisinger says the intensity of
Paint genetics may be misunderstood by some Quarter Horse breeders. “I can’t
speak directly to the AQHA rule change; that’s their business, not mine. I will
say that I’m doubtful whether the majority of Quarter Horse breeders fully
understand exactly how powerful a genetic factor the cropout overo gene is, or
how quickly it can be intensified and proliferated. And I’m doubtful that they
understand how two minimal-white overo Paint Horses, when bred to each other,
often produce offspring with 70 to 90 percent white.
Reisinger says that with the APHA’s
104, 000 members, and the AQHA’s 345,000 members, the opportunities of a wider
market may become more appealing. “I wonder if the AQHA leadership might
underestimated the appeal of our capitalistic, free-enterprise economy as it
relates to the new rule change. If I were a Quarter Horse breeder, and was
handed an opportunity to breed excess-white Quarter Horses with the potential
of appealing to a 25 percent larger sales market, I would have to consider
doing just that,” he says.
As a Paint Horse breeder, he adds,
the AQHA rule change presents an even more appealing scenario: A Paint Horse
breeding program can now be engineered-using a double registered stallion and a
single-or double-registered Quarter Horse mares- to potentially produce 100
percent registered Quarter Horses. With the right set of double registered
mares and/or single registered Quarter Horse mares with overo markers, that
same program has the potential to produce 90 percent double-registered horses.
“And the Paint Horse breeder has now
been given the opportunity to build a breeding program that’s totally free of
Breeding-Stock horses, and with the potential of appealing to a 300 percent
larger sales market”, Reisinger says. What would you do?”
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Dewey, Ok
(918) 534-1192
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