Introducing the AQHA UK Did You Know...?

With the American Quarter Horse firmly established in the UK and the AQHA UK itself thriving year on year, we thought it would be nice to introduce a web based "Did You Know...?" fun fact based article every week or so. So,... Number One  ..  Did you know... Prince Phillip wrote the foreward in the British Quarter Horse Association Stud book and Registry Volume 1 (1980). He wrote from Buckingham Palace "I first made the acquaintance of the Quarter Horses at a "Cutting" demonstration on the Douglas Lake Ranch in British columbia.  Following from this the Candian Cutting Horse Association accepted an invitation to demonstrate the sport at the Royal Windsor and other Horse and Agricultural Shows in 1964.  At the end of their tour the members of the Association very kindly gave me a young Quarter Horse mare called Max Charge and she was the first pure bred member of the breed to settle in this country. Back in 1964 no one dreamed that the breeding of Quarter Horses would become popular in this country but here is the proof.  Some 300 already appear in this first edition of the Stud Book and certainly many more to come. It is not possible to improve a breed without a Stud book and I know that everyone interested in the breeding of the horses must be most grateful to the compilers and editors of the Quarter Horse Stud Book for all their hard and patient work. Signed Phillip"

 

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