Peppy San Badger ~Reference sire for Smart Idea & Bitsy San Badger
Peppy
San Badger
Ironically , Buster Welch, was part
responsible for the colt being born. Several years earlier while in Dallas Fair
cutting, an encounter with Wayne Pooley who was then training horses for
Fulton, encouraged the breeding.
"Buster and I were standing in the
middle of the arena talking, "remembered Pooley. "I'd tied my turn back horse
to the fence, but Buster was holding Mr San Peppy. About that time, a guy I was
supposed to turn back for yelled at me as he rode toward the herd, I'd
forgotten all about it , I started to run for my turn back horse and Buster
said, here , use Mr San Peppy. Well, I thought he was kidding , since he
hadn't even shown him yet, so I started off again, but he insisted and handed
me the bridle reins, so I jumped on him and turned back for the
guy.
Although Welch was leading the cutting
on Mr San Peppy at the time, he had no qualms about the stallion working as a
turn back horse before he showed him again. Infact, Welch himself used him as a
turn back horse frequently. The Loan proved profitable, Pooley who had always
liked Mr San Peppy, was even more enamored after he had ridden the horse, and
upon returning to Buster, discussed breeding Sugar Badger, a good mare that
Fulton owned, to him.
Peppy San Badger was born in 1974,
Pooley rode Peppy San Badger as a 2
year old, "I loped him around a little bit, and then I worked the little dude
and I've never ridden a 2 year old that tried as hard and would hold a cow like
that one.
Tio and Fulton signed the option to
purchase Peppy San Badger for $50,000.00 plus 25 breedings to the horse spread
over several years, on May 20, 1977 the King Ranch purchase peppy San
Badger,
I hope you enjoyed this little story
as this is the beginning of the Peppy San badger Era on the King
Ranch
to find out the rest of the story ,
you'll have to read the book by Gala Nettles
King Ranch & Little
Peppy
The Legend and The
Legacy
San Badger
Ironically , Buster Welch, was part
responsible for the colt being born. Several years earlier while in Dallas Fair
cutting, an encounter with Wayne Pooley who was then training horses for
Fulton, encouraged the breeding.
"Buster and I were standing in the
middle of the arena talking, "remembered Pooley. "I'd tied my turn back horse
to the fence, but Buster was holding Mr San Peppy. About that time, a guy I was
supposed to turn back for yelled at me as he rode toward the herd, I'd
forgotten all about it , I started to run for my turn back horse and Buster
said, here , use Mr San Peppy. Well, I thought he was kidding , since he
hadn't even shown him yet, so I started off again, but he insisted and handed
me the bridle reins, so I jumped on him and turned back for the
guy.
Although Welch was leading the cutting
on Mr San Peppy at the time, he had no qualms about the stallion working as a
turn back horse before he showed him again. Infact, Welch himself used him as a
turn back horse frequently. The Loan proved profitable, Pooley who had always
liked Mr San Peppy, was even more enamored after he had ridden the horse, and
upon returning to Buster, discussed breeding Sugar Badger, a good mare that
Fulton owned, to him.
Peppy San Badger was born in 1974,
Pooley rode Peppy San Badger as a 2
year old, "I loped him around a little bit, and then I worked the little dude
and I've never ridden a 2 year old that tried as hard and would hold a cow like
that one.
Tio and Fulton signed the option to
purchase Peppy San Badger for $50,000.00 plus 25 breedings to the horse spread
over several years, on May 20, 1977 the King Ranch purchase peppy San
Badger,
I hope you enjoyed this little story
as this is the beginning of the Peppy San badger Era on the King
Ranch
to find out the rest of the story ,
you'll have to read the book by Gala Nettles
King Ranch & Little
Peppy
The Legend and The
Legacy