Einer
der bedeutendsten Quarter Horse-Vererber lebt nicht mehr: Im hohen
Alter von 27 Jahren musste Smart Chic Olena (Smart Little Lena
x Gay Sugar Chic x Gay Bar King) am vergangenen Sonntag nun eingeschläfert
werden, wie heute sein Besitzer Bill Richardson mitteilt.
Smart Chic Olena ist
einer der wenigen NRHA 5 Million Dollar Sires, von seinen über
seinen $10 Millionen Nachzuchtgewinngelder in Reining, Cutting
und Working Cow Horse entfällt über die Hälfte
auf NRHA-Preisgeld. Der erfolgreichste Nachkommen ist AQHA World
Champion Smart Spook (331.039 USD) .
Bild: QHN
Seine Erfolge:
NRHA $13,529 NCHA $110,450
NRHA Hall of Fame
NRHA 5 Million Dollar Sire
1993 NRHA Open Reserve World Champion
1993 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining
1990 AQHA World Champion Senior Cutting Horse
NCHA Open Reserve World Champion
Weitere erfolgreiche
Nachkommen:
Smart Spook ($336,600:
NRHA Open Futurity Champion; NRHA Open Derby Champion; two-time
FEI World Reining Masters Champion; AQHA Junior Reining World
Champion),
Smartest Chic Olena ($129,061: NRBC Open Champion; Intervet/USET
Reining All Star Champion; USEF Festival Of Champions Reining
Champion),
Commandalena ($112,700: AQHA Senior Reining World Champion; USEF
Fiesta in the Park Reserve Champion; NRHA Derby Open finalist)
und
Chic Please ($108,100: NRHA Open Futurity Champion; two-time NRHA
Derby Open finalist).
PERFORMANCE RECORD: Earner of $167,471 in cutting, reining and
cowhorse events,
and 65 AQHA points: 1990 AQHA World Champion Senior Cutting Horse;
1993
AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse; 1993 NRHA Open Reserve
World Champion; split 3rd, 1989 NCHA Open Super Stakes & 1991
NCHA Open
Challenge; 4th, 1990 NCHA Super Stakes Open Classic; 1990 AQHA
High Point
Cutting Champion; AQHA Superior Cutting.
SIRE SUMMARY: $167,471: NRHA Hall of Fame; World Champion Senior
Reining
& Cutting Horse. NRHA Three Million Dollar Sire; 2004 NRHA
#3 Leading Sire,
NRCHA #5 Leading Sire; and#3 All-Time Leading Sire; #5 AQHA All-Time
Leading Sire of ROM, siring the earners of more than $7,000,000.
SMART CHIC
OLENA has appeared on the top 5 Leading Reining Sires list and
the AQHA Top
Ten Leading Performance Sires list each year his foals have shown.
Sire of 684
AQHA performers, earning 15,355 points, 28 AQHA World/Reserve
World Championships;
341 ROM. Sire of 41 APHA registered foals (33 overo/tobiano, 10
APHA
performers).
KEY PERFORMERS: SMART CHIC OLENA‘s countless champions include,
SMART
SPOOK ($242,128: 2004 NRHA Open Futurity Champion; 2005 NRHA Open
Derby Champion), CHIC PLEASE ($209,185: NRHA Open Futurity Champion;
NRCHA Open Futurity Reserve Champion), CHICS MAGIC POTION ($200,993:
2004 NRCHA Stallion Stakes; 2003 NRCHA Open Snaffle Bit Futurity
Champion;
2003 San Lucas RCH Open Futurity Champion), A CHIC IN TIME
($187,301: 2004 NRCHA World’s Greatest Horseman Champion;
AQHA World
Champion Senior Reining Horse & Reserve World Champion Senior
Cutting
Horse), SONITA LENA CHIC ($163,638: NCHA Non-Pro Classic/Challenge
Champion), PAID BY CHIC ($141,668: World’s Greatest Horseman
Champion;
AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse; 3rd, NRHA & NRCHA
Open
Futurities), SMART ZANOLENA ($116,371: NRCHA Futurity Champion),
SMARTEST CHIC OLENA ($112,597: 2004 NRBC Open Championship; 2003
USET Festival of Champions Champion and 2003 USET All-Star Series
Champion),
PLAY FOR CHIC (102,124: split 4th, NCHA Open Super Stakes), A
LASTING AFFAIR ($98,586: Polo Ranch Non-Pro Derby Co-Champion),
CHOCOLATE CHIC OLENA ($94,796: AQHA World Champion Senior Reining
Horse; 4-time Reserve World Champion; NRHA Non-Pro Derby Champion),
JUST CHICYNN ($87,561: AQHA Reserve High Point Junior Cutting
Champion).
ROWDY YANKEE ($82,246: NRHA Non-Pro Futurity Champion, etc),
SMOKIN CHIC OLENA (APHA) ($72,960: 4-time World Champion in Reining,
Working Cowhorse and Steer Stopping; NRBC Co-Reserve Champion),
BROADMOOR (AQHA World Champion Junior Reining Horse; NRHA Open
Futurity finalist; AQHA Superior Reining, $61,763), SAILING SMART
(AQHA World
Champion Junior Reining Horse; Reserve World Champion Senior Working
Cowhorse), SIENNAS CHIC OLENA (AQHA World Champion Amateur Reining
Horse; 163 AQHA points),
MATERNAL SIRE RECORD: SMART CHIC OLENA, A Leading Reining and
Reined
Cowhorse Maternal Grandsire, siring the dams of DUNNIES PRESCRIPTION
($126,419: NRHA Intermediate Open & Limited Open Futurities’
Champion, 3rd,
Open), ROOSTERS CHICAROO ($60,025: NRCHA Non-Pro Futurity Champion),
SHEZA SHINETTE ($54,415: AQHA World Champion Junior Working Cowhorse).
