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
~Peppy San Badger~
In 1977 PEPPY SAN BADGER won the NCHA Futurity.
In 1978 PEPPY SAN
BADGER won the NCHA Derby.
In 1980 PEPPY SAN BADGER was inducted in to
NCHA Hall of Fame.
1980 he was named Reserve World Champion winning
the Open
Division of t e1981 NCHA Finals.
Little Peppy was, until recently, the all time leading sire of NCHA
competition cutting horses. His offspring have won in excess of $20,000,000.
From the renown King Ranch where legendary Kineno vaqueros and several
descendants of Captain King who have made generations of top quality horses a
priority on the King Ranch, comes Peppy San Badger.
OLD SORREL, was purchased in 1915 by Bob Kleberg, Jr., King's grandson, a
colt who became the foundation sire that made King Ranch famous as a breeder of
champion quarter horses. The American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) founded
in 1941 grand champion went to King Ranch's WIMPY, a grandson of OLD SORREL. It
is the same outstanding qualities found in WIMPY that were passed on to MR. SAN
PEPPY and PEPPY SAN BADGER (Little Peppy), King Ranch cutting horse
champions.
A two-time National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Open World Champion in
1974 and 1976, MR SAN PEPPY also won the AWHA World Cutting Champtionship in
1976, the first horse to ever win both title simultaneously. In 1978, he became
the first horse to ever win over $100,000 in open cutting competition. The
Pinnacle of his career happened in 1974, when he became the youngest horse to
ever be inducted into the NCHA Hall of Fame.
