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AQHA HISTORY REPORT
AUSTRALIAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Owner Bridal Path Hack Champion , both with Mathea aboard , the Reserve Champion Senior Bridal Path Hack and the Get of Sire Champion when represented by Roc Deck , Trans Spanish Morn and Aba Deck .
MORN DECK HOLDS AQHA AWARDS FOR : -
Over the years Morn Deck has dominated the AQHA Leading Sires List and it is no surprise when his exceptional progeny have excelled in all areas from the AQHA National , State and Royal Show ring , Cutting Futurities , Cutting Derbies and Maturities , Halter Futurities , Pleasure Futurities ; Hack , Dressage , Cowhorse , Trail , Campdrafting , Barrel Racing , AJC winners , just to name a few . They hold around an impressive total of 13,780 AQHA points and hold around 432 AQHA Awards . Morn Deck progeny have earned a total of 19 AQHA Performance Champion Awards .
• OUR MISS MORN Q-4876 and Graham Lamey won the NCHA Futurity in 1984 . Together they also went on to win the 1984 Super Sires Cutting Futurity , the 1984 Moonbi Futurity Final Qualifier , the 1985 NCHA Derby Champion , and Aggregate Champion of the Moonbi Maturity . Our Miss Morn holds many NCHA Awards and AQHA ROM ’ s in Halter , Cutting and Performance and has also won many halter futurities and championships . Our Miss Morn is out of Bogan Beulah R2-1112 and was bred by Mr . Kim Glasson of Tamworth , NSW . She was the winning yearling filly at the 1982 Australian Quarter Horse Nationals at Dubbo Indoor Arena and runner-up to Roc Deck in the $ 5000 Calf Manna yearling halter futurity out of 36 entries .
• ABA DECK Q-4440 , was the first Quarter Horse to gain an AQHA Superior Halter Horse Award as a yearling . This 1981 chestnut mare from Abilene R2-424 ( Dell Mingo ( imp ) Q-118 x Juanita R1-237 ) holds 395.5 AQHA points . Owned by Bill Bowden , Aba Deck , by 1983 , had won two futurities , 14 championships and had won 22 times against an incredible 184 horses in her age group and open events . Over one week in July , 1983 this outstanding filly was Grand Champion mare or filly , all breeds , Toowoomba Show , Supreme Exhibit at the South Queensland Quarter Horse Show and was named the high point halter horse of Queensland .
• ROC DECK Q-5889 took out the halter division of the Snowy River Round-up Futurity and Derby Spectacular at the Tynong Stadium in Victoria in 1982 . He took out first prize from 17 other entries in the class that was judged by Mr . Robert McKay . He was the winner of the $ 5,000 Calf Manna yearling halter futurity at the Dubbo Indoor Arena during the 1982 AQHA Nationals . Roc Deck is an exceptional grey colt by Morn Deck and out of the outstanding imported world halter champion Roxana Bar Q-1158 , who is the dam of the famous Roc O ’ Lena Q-1662 . Roc Deck was shown by Mathea Usher and owned by Usher and Clifton . Roc Deck was sashed as the Champion Quarter Horse Stallion or Colt at the Sydney Royal Easter Show in 1982 , handled by Mathea . In 1984 at the NSW Premier State Show , Roc Deck was the Western Pleasure Graduation Stakes Reserve Champion . In 1984 Roc Deck was sold to Stephanie Hale and John Chapman of Acacia Quarter Horse Stud in New Zealand for $ 52,000.00 .
• TRANS SPANISH MORN Q-4390 named the Champion Two Year Old Colt , Grand Champion Stallion and earned 5th place Western Pleasure Futurity at the 1984 NSW Premier State Show .
• BAR DECK Q-4478 placed third in the Two Year Old Western Pleasure Futurity . In 1983 Bar Deck won the yearling halter futurity at Tynong , just like Roc Deck had achieved the previous year . Bar Deck , a grey stallion , was foaled in 1981 and holds 135.0 AQHA Points and ROMs in halter , performance , and western pleasure and also has an AQHA Superior Horse award in Halter . In 1986 Bar Deck won the NSWCHA NSW -bred Cutting Derby at Scone , NSW . The Diamond and Champagne Versatility Stakes at the Premier State Show , 1987 saw this awesome stallion win the Versatility Stakes at Comet .
• ABA DECK was the Reserve Champion Two Year Old Filly at the 1984 NSW Premier State Show .
• JOKER DECK Q-10625 , an exceptional chestnut gelding , was foaled in 1983 from the War Beaver ( imp ) Q-206 mare , Lady War Pistol Q-2711 . Joker Deck , owned by Mrs Di Fender holds an incredible 1140.0 AQHA points and an enormous amount of AQHA awards including , Quarter Horse Champion , Amateur Versatility , Amateur Owner Champion and Champion Youth Horse . His Superior Horse award list shows how versatile this amazing competitor was in the show arena with the following , Amateur Hunter under Saddle , Amateur Trail , Amateur Western Pleasure , Western Pleasure , Bridal Path Hack , Halter , Trail , Trail Class , and Hunter under Saddle . He holds many AQHA ROMs , Bronze Century awards
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