Goetta (horse)

Goetta was the World Champion Quarter Running Horse for 1964, and for a time led the list of all time money-earning Quarter Horse racehorses.[1]

Goetta
BreedQuarter Horse
DisciplineRacing
SireGo Man Go
GrandsireTop Deck (TB)
DamEtta Leo
Maternal grandsireLeo
SexMare
Foaled1961
CountryUnited States
ColorSorrel
BreederEd Honnen
OwnerHugh Huntley
Record
31-22-2-1
Earnings
$233,922.00
Major wins
All American Futurity
Awards
1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, 1963 AQHA High Money Earning Race Horse, 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Life

Goetta was a 1961 sorrel foal, sired by Go Man Go and out of a daughter of Leo named Etta Leo.[2] Her dam was out of a daughter of Band Play, and the third dam descended from Peter McCue[3]

Racing career

Goetta raced for three years, with thirty-one starts. She won twenty-two of her starts, placing second twice and was third twice. The American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) named her the 1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, as well as the 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare and the 1963 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old Filly. Her total earnings on the track were $233,920.00 and sixty-eight racing points. Besides the Championship titles, she also was a Race Register of Merit earner with an AAAT speed rating, and an AQHA Superior Race Horse.[2] She won the All American Futurity, among other stakes wins.[4]

Breeding record and honors

She produced seven foals, six of whom were race winners with two of those being stakes winners. She died in 1978 giving birth to her seventh foal.[4]

She was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2007.[5]

Pedigree

Equipoise (TB)
Equestrian (TB)
Frilette (TB)
Top Deck (TB)
Chicaro (TB)
River Boat (TB)
Last Boat (TB)
Go Man Go
Wise Counsellor (TB)
Very Wise (TB)
Omona (TB)
Lightfoot Sis
The Dun Horse
Clear Track
Ella
Goetta
Joe Reed P-3
Joe Reed II
Nellene
Leo
Joe Reed P-3
Little Fanny
Fanny Ashwell
Etta Leo
Band TIme (TB)
Band Play
Fair Play
Bandette
Sam Watkins
J T 6
Mamie

Notes

  1. Nye Great Moments in Quarter Racing History p. 202-205
  2. Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 437
  3. Goetta Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree retrieved on June 30, 2007
  4. "Hall of Fame 2007" Quarter Horse Journal p. 51
  5. American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Goetta". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 1, 2017.

References

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