| Horsename: | Expensive Hobby |
| Breed: | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline: | Showing |
| Sire: | Hobby Horse |
| Grandsire: | Tinky Poo |
| Dam: | Jan's Helen |
| Damsire: | Stormy's Sugar |
| Sex: | Gelding |
| Foaled: | 1971 |
| Country: | United States |
| Color: | Buckskin |
| Owner: | Mehl Lawson, Georganna Stewart |
| Otherawards: | 1976 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse 1979 AQHA World Champion Senior Working Cowhorse AQHA Superior Cutting Horse |
| Honors: | American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |
Expensive Hobby (1971–2003) was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse.[1]
Expensive Hobby was a 1971 buckskin gelding, sired by Hobby Horse, and out of a daughter of Stormy's Sugar named Jan's Helen.[2]
Expensive Hobby was shown in reining 120 times, and won the class 110 of those times.[1] He won the American Quarter Horse Association, or AQHA, World Show Champion title in working cowhorse and reining in 1979.[2] He was retired in 1983, but came out of retirement briefly, but was eventually retired again, before dying at age 32 in 2003.[1]
Expensive Hobby was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 2007.[3]