Garry McPhee has dominated rodeo since his arrival from New Zealand in 1965 . He joined the Australian Rough Riders Association ( later to be known as the Australian Professional Rodeo Association ). In 1967 Garry McPhee purchased a horse called CHUCK from former Canadian , Mel Stephens at Teen Ranch near Sydney .
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AQHA HISTORY REPORT - GARRY MCPHEE
AUSTRALIAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
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GARRY MCPHEE
THE AUSTRALIAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION HONOURS GARRY MCPHEE WITH INDUCTION INTO THE HALL OF FAME .
Garry McPhee has dominated rodeo since his arrival from New Zealand in 1965 . He joined the Australian Rough Riders Association ( later to be known as the Australian Professional Rodeo Association ). In 1967 Garry McPhee purchased a horse called CHUCK from former Canadian , Mel Stephens at Teen Ranch near Sydney .
Garry believes that Chuck was an infused Quarter Horse and it was this early association with a good horse that started Garry on his way to win 12 Australian Rodeo titles in five years . In the early 1970 ’ s Garry and Cheryl McPhee ( nee McTaggart ) were both winning titles on “ Molsie ” ( A-82 ), by Quarter Alman ( R1-1204 ) by Mescal ( imp ) ( Q-35 ) and it wasn ’ t until 1974 that Garry started riding a stout Del Mingo bred gelding registered under the name of Trapper ( R1-8718 ). Garry first saw the big foal in Eddie Wilson ’ s paddock and was not impressed . The weanling later passed to Garry in a deal and was taken to Victoria where he finished growing . It didn ’ t take long for Garry to realise the potential of Trapper once he had some arena work with cattle .
It ’ s now history that the gelding has gone on to win over $ 200,000 in both roping and steer wrestling contests in rodeos in five States .
Garry showed extreme versatility , mastering both ends of the arena winning the 1971 Bull Riding Champion , Steer Wrestling and coveted All-Round Australian Champion . Garry and Cheryl teamed up to breed , train and compete on some of Australian Rodeo ’ s foundation Quarter Horses .
Garry McPhee has had his own breed of Quarter Horses since the early 1970 ’ s . He started with the Quarter Elgrando ( R1-167 ) daughters , Elgrando Cupie ( Q-33069 ), Elamo ( Q-22922 ) and B . V . ( A-161 ) and is still breeding from their descendants . He bred them and others to Rojo Dynamo ( Q-542 ) and Bobbies Cutter ( Q-4073 ) ( leading sire of rodeo time event horses ) and later Hank Man Leo ( Q-1490 ) and Diplomatic Jet ( Q-15124 ) – a brilliant calf roping horse . Garry trained Bobby Blair ( Q- 14840 ) who went on to win the calf roping horse title at the Australian Quarter Horse Championships for his next owners .
He showed reining and cutting horses in the 1970 ’ s including Bueno Brandy ( R1-994 ) and Elgrando Cupie ( Q-33069 ) who won the reining futurity at the Hordern Pavilion in the early