Expensive Hobby

Expensive Hobby (1971–2003) was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse.[1]

Expensive Hobby
BreedQuarter Horse
DisciplineShowing
SireHobby Horse
GrandsireTinky Poo
DamJan's Helen
Maternal grandsireStormy's Sugar
SexGelding
Foaled1971
CountryUnited States
ColorBuckskin
OwnerMehl 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 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
  1. "Hall of Fame 2007" Quarter Horse Journal p. 55
  2. Groves "Expensive Hobby" Quarter Horse Journal November 1996 p. 18
  3. American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Expensive Hobby". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved August 31, 2017.

References
  • 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.

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