| Horsename: | Royal Santana |
| Breed: | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline: | Cutting |
| Sire: | Peppy San |
| Grandsire: | Leo San |
| Dam: | Royal Smart |
| Damsire: | Royal King |
| Sex: | Gelding |
| Foaled: | May 1971 |
| Country: | United States |
| Color: | Sorrel |
| Otherawards: | NCHA Platinum & Gold & Silver & Bronze Awards, NCHA Certificate of Ability, AQHA World Champion |
| Honors: | American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |
| Updated: | January 12, 2008 |
Royal Santana (May 1971 – 1995) was a sorrel Quarter Horse gelding sired by Peppy San and out of a mare named Royal Smart. Royal Smart was a daughter of Royal King and out of a descendant of Traveler named Moss Jackie Tobin.[1]
In Royal Santana's show career he was an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) World Champion and Reserve World Champion.[2] With the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) he earned $174,146.29 in cutting contests and a Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Certificate of Ability from the NCHA.[3]
Royal Santana was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame[4] in 2000. After he died in 1995, they buried him next to the arena named in his honor at Merrill’s Windward Stud.[5]
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