08.15.2007

Gunner Approaches $1 Million in Sire Earnings

Gunner, the senior sire at McQuay Stables, is just over $40,000 shy of becoming a million dollar sire!

With his offspring earning $955,676, he could pass that important mark any day.

It’s an amazing statistic for a horse that’s only had 145 foals that have even acquired a competition license!

Gunner was born in 1993. He is by Colonel Four Freckle by Colonel Freckles and out of Katie Gun. Originally registered as a paint (APHA Colonelsmokingun) because excessive white made him ineligible for registration in the American Quarter Horse Association, he was given his AQHA papers (AQHA Colonels Smokin Gun) in 2004.

In his career, Gunner earned over $170,000 in National Reining Horse Association competition. He was the NRHA Futurity Reserve Champion in 1996, then tied for Reserve at the National Reining Breeders Classic in 1998. The charismatic stallion with the signature floppy ears, went on to even greater success when he won the 2001 USET Reining Championship. From the preliminaries through the finals, he was unbeaten and untied, marking a 229, 233, 226.5, and a 222. He came back and won the USET Semi-Finals in 2002, becoming the only horse ever to accomplish that twice! He was a paint world champion and the highest earning paint horse in history and was inducted into the NRHA Hall of Fame in 2003.