~ AQHA HALL OF FAME ~
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~ AQHA HALL OF FAME ~
WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK BACK ON THE HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
DEL MINGO
Q-118
The Australian Quarter Horse Association honours DEL MINGO Q-118 with induction into the Hall of Fame.
1999 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE
SIRE: POCO DELL USA-33075 / DAM: DUSTY PAT STAR USA- 95957
Dell Mingo came from a long line of champion performance Quarter Horses. He is by the 1950 born bay sire, Poco Dell, who was an AmQHA champion, holding Superior Performance, Superior Halter, High Point Performance and Register of Merit( ROM) Arena. Dell Mingo is out of a 1958 grey mare, Dusty Pat Star. Both her sire( Pat Star Jr) and dam( Browns Dusty) were successful performance horses. Jimmie Randals of Montoya in New Mexico, USA was one of that country’ s most successful young breeders at the time of breeding Dell Mingo.
By nature, Dell Mingo was very quiet, and while still in the USA was used by the Randal’ s 11 year old son for a youth activity program, winning a number of Grand Champions.
BREEDER: JIMMIE RANDALS MONTOYA, NEW MEXICO, USA FIRST OWNER: EDDIE & SUE WILSON BENDEMEER, NSW OWNER: M K & J A BUTTON KOOTINGAL, NSW PROFILE: 1965-1985( 20 YEARS) – CHESTNUT- 14.3HH- 620 REGISTERED AQHA PROGENY
Dell Mingo arrived in Australia in 1968 with Eddie and Sue Wilson who settled at Bendemeer, NSW and established the New Frontier Stud which became the home of Dell Mingo for the rest of his life.
Dell Mingo became one of the most travelled Quarter Horse stallions in the country as Eddie Wilson devoted himself to showing as many Australians as possible the remarkable attributes of the Quarter Horse. Dell Mingo was hauled all over the eastern States and into South Australia. He soon became recognised as a horse of good temperament, with cattle ability
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