Miss Meyers
Miss Meyers | |
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Stakes: 7 wins, 7 seconds, 2 thirds | |
Earnings | |
$28,725 (equivalent to $327,000 in 2023) | |
Awards | |
1953 World Champion Quarter Running Horse 1953 High Money Earning Race Horse Stakes Winner AQHA Racing Register of Merit AQHA Superior Race Horse | |
Honors | |
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
Last updated on: May 24, 2009. |
Miss Meyers (1949 – March 1963) was an American Quarter Horse racehorse and broodmare, the 1953 World Champion Quarter Running Horse. She won $28,725 (equivalent to $327,000 in 2023) as well as 17 races. As a broodmare, she produced, or was the mother of, the first American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Supreme Champion called Kid Meyers. She was the mother of three other foals, and was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2009.
Early life
Miss Meyers was a
Race career
Miss Meyers raced from 1952 until 1955 and won seven
Broodmare and legacy
After Miss Meyers retired from the racetrack, she became the dam of the first
Miss Meyers had three other foals. Oh My Oh, a 1957 bay mare sired by the Thoroughbred stallion Spotted Bull, started 30 times, winning eight races for a total earnings of $12,592[3] (equivalent to $128,400 in 2023)[4] and coming in second in a stakes race. She earned an AAAT speed index.[3] As a broodmare, she was the dam of All American Futurity winner Three Oh's.[7] Miss Meyers' 1958 foal was Mr. Meyers, a sorrel stallion sired by fellow Hall of Famer Go Man Go, who started 41 times, winning 9 times and placing third in four stakes races. His total race earnings were $25,656[3] (equivalent to $258,500 in 2023).[4] He went on to earn an AQHA Champion title along with a Superior Race Horse award, to go with his AAAT speed index.[3] Mr. Meyers became a successful breeding stallion.[5] Miss Meyers' fourth foal was a 1959 chestnut mare named Milpool sired by Vandy. Milpool was never raced or entered in a horse show.[3]
Miss Meyers died in March 1963, shortly after having Kid Meyers.[6] She was inducted into the AQHA's American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2009.[7]
Pedigree
Joe Blair (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Reed P-3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Della Moore | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Reed II | |||||||||||||||||||
Fleeting Time (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Nellene | |||||||||||||||||||
Little Red Nell | |||||||||||||||||||
Leo | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Blair (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Reed P-3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Della Moore | |||||||||||||||||||
Little Fanny | |||||||||||||||||||
Ashwell (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Fanny Ashwell | |||||||||||||||||||
Fannie Richardson | |||||||||||||||||||
Miss Meyers[2][8] | |||||||||||||||||||
Lobos (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Dennis Reed (TB)[b] | |||||||||||||||||||
Bess Chitman (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Oklahoma Star P-6 | |||||||||||||||||||
Gulliver | |||||||||||||||||||
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Belle K | |||||||||||||||||||
Star's Lou | |||||||||||||||||||
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Owen E. Acton bred mare | |||||||||||||||||||
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Notes
- ^ The author Nelson C. Nye, in his work Speed and the Quarter Horse claims that she started 60 times and earned a total of $29,305[5] (equivalent to $333,300 in 2023),[4] but this conflicts with the AQHA's official records.[3][5]
- ^ (TB) is an abbreviation for Thoroughbred, and signifies that the designated horse was not a Quarter Horse but was a Thoroughbred.
Citations
- ^ a b c Chamberlain "Leo" Quarter Horse Journal pp. 79–80
- ^ a b c Mattson Real American Quarter Horse pp. 2–3
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l AQHA Official Produce of Dam Record for Miss Meyers
- ^ a b c d e f 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ a b c Nye Speed and the Quarter Horse pp. 227–228
- ^ a b Groves "Kid Meyers" Quarter Horse Journal p. 36
- ^ a b American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) "Miss Meyers" AQHA Hall of Fame
- ^ Groves "Kid Meyers" Quarter Horse Journal pp. 36, 101, 107
References
- American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) (1996). AQHA Official Produce of Dam Record for Miss Meyers American Quarter Horse Association Records Department. Retrieved February 20, 1996
- American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Miss Meyers". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Archived from the original on January 20, 2022. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
- Chamberlain, Richard (May 1980). "Leo: A Basis for Performance". Quarter Horse Journal: 74–85.
- Groves, Lesli Krause (January 1993). "Kid Meyers". Quarter Horse Journal: 36, 101, 107.
- Mattson, Paul (1991). The Real American Quarter Horse: Versatile Athletes who Proved Supreme. Wamego, KS: Premier Publishing. ISBN 1-879984-77-6.
- ISBN 0-87004-220-3.
External links
- Miss Meyers' pedigree at the All Breed Pedigree Database