Horsename: | Country Classic |
Breed: | Quarter Horse |
Discipline: | Showing |
Sire: | Rey Jay |
Grandsire: | Rey Del Rancho |
Dam: | Christy Carol |
Damsire: | Leo Bob |
Sex: | Gelding |
Foaled: | 1969 |
Country: | United States |
Color: | Chestnut |
Breeder: | Marion Flynt |
Owner: | Linda Marie Mills, Stacey Allyn Strain, Randall Clark Strain |
Otherawards: | 1977 AQHA High Point Youth Working Cowhorse |
Honors: | American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |
Updated: | January 11, 2008 |
Country Classic was a Quarter Horse gelding that competed and won in halter, showmanship, cutting, working cowhorse, barrel racing, stake race, hunt seat equitation, pole bending, hunter under saddle, trail, western pleasure, horsemanship, roping – both heading and heeling, and western riding.[1] He won 98 all-around titles, a reserve world championship in stake race, six open and youth AQHA Superiors awards, and placed 15 times in the AQAH Youth World Show Top Ten.[1] He died in April 1986.[1]
Country Classic was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2001.[2]