1941 Quarter Horse Film narrated by BF Yeates

[Music] if M we are about to look at his the film that I was first introduced to in 1966 I came to work at Texas A&M University animal science department dr. Odie Butler the head of the department after I'd been there about a month he said what do you think of our quarterhorse film and I said to him what then I don't know what you're talking about you know we got one and he said find it let me know what you think see what if I didn't look at it so I didn't know what he was talking about so I began to look NASCAR lives to help memory and I finally found this film on two different floors of the old building and two different staff members offices and it was in the farm of four small reels I got the four small wheels started looking at them one at a time try to figure out what sequence the guy shot them in and then put them all into one big reel so the big real we're gonna see here and you'll notice towards the end of this film the it was the last little reel that I added to it and it was pretty obvious the guy that made the film this was what he had edited out and he edited out but he didn't throw it away I call it the scraps reel and out of that that real we got some real jewels understand that it was made in 1940 which I must say was the same time association was being formed there was no rule book handbook at that time and it was a guys effort to try to just pictorially show us what they were doing what the horses were they were starting with and the horses they were registered now this is what we saw this is what we got when we begin to look at the vehm he titled it the American corridor incidentally it was it was silent with nothing with it other than what you see here and he was trying to do a pictorial summary of the corridors he presented it to a.m. College of Texas in the name of an Burnett hall produced by James Goodwin all who was and Burnett's husband at at that time and he was the first treasurer of the quarter Association so he made this and where his expertise came from I really don't know about film but he made a pretty good pretty good film for our history books here all he's trying to say here that before AQHA ever started their registry and they were just getting started when this film was made that there were other stud books in existence and he showed a copy of the american stud book it had different kinds of horses in it I think maybe the Arabs were in there at that time the Arabs and Barb's and maybe even before the third bridge were being registered but he's trying to show here that what the horse was where he came from so he went back this is a king rain shot anybody's ever been around Texas much as I have I've been to a lot of these places I was only about ten years different from my associated with it and only about ten years old when I got pretty involved with them but this is where a lot of it started this is Bob clay birth of King Ranch and this is worth supposedly the the start of the National cutting our association but we cut on them for 10-15 years before wherever's to farm the cutting our association and that was the way incidentally I want you to see the heading in Healy in 1940 was really heading in Haley and you noticed both riders were tied hard and fast we didn't know how to daily anything in Texas in 1940 and ever fire grounds and South Texas had a harder at a racetrack honey and we were really involved in the speed of these horses we we cut on them with cowboy on them but we wanted to run horse races too this is Jake a Northwest and in here Bob play Bert was one of the King ranch horses and take a North clays a long time veterinarian that worked at the King Ranch and have developed these horses I'm amazed at how they were trying to describe them in 1940 probably pretty close to the way we would today and you look at the automobiles in the background and he's not in question that when the film was made pretty good horses to trying to show I'm amazed at how they called them bulldog horses and it's not a bulldog in this picture not a bulldog in this film I can talk about them later they came ten years later maybe fifteen years after these because good slope and shoulder and refined withers and you know the same things we look at a lot too and today I'm not sure this horse is sloping anyways as we would like for him to be but he serves as a good example what they were looking for trying to describe the horse to people as they started out what they were trying to raise and breed and free true free and collected I don't know whether all of those are the same free and collected are those not contradict treatment we can pick out them into effort was made here a good one I think to show us what they had and there's some nice horses right here in the beginning you see some horses that would be good today be good today we would be being have some pride to own them now here's the old Clegg sorrel sold and bred by betaf I by Billy Clegg George Clegg I'm sorry he raised the horsey named Billy click George click raised old soil sold him to the king range and led him 25 miles down there in 1940 when they took delivery on him he was the erling and they led him that 25 months horseback to deliver him to the right you got to think there wasn't a lot of you know slant load horse trailers in 1940 and what you see so much of them doing this is Macanudo nothing bulldog about him he's 15 3 and out of the old soil and which if you look at him again at old sorrel the picture there was a half-blood happy oh boy here's 15 - this is a horse that really tore up the cutting horse world for years this horses is start of all of the peppy lines of horses and you'd look at him you'd like to have him today he was the prettiest horse I think in this whole field of horses that were foundation sires and he was probably about three years old right here and you can see what a pretty artist he was we've got a lot more footage of him in here being so I want you to look at when Pete number one he given that number one number he was fifteen one he got that Bennett got the number one number by being named Grand Champion stallion at the 1941 I think talk show in Fort Worth so he was the Grand Champion stud but he wasn't the little bulldog horse he was the big horse he was styled overs and I think that's what we like to look at here what did we start with where we are now and some places were not as well as we work in probably 1940 if you look at the soundness that was in a lot of these horses anyway we've bred them and what they had to do to survive and to come forward I'm interesting to notice that in the Year says a type II quarter horse faux Mustang is more involved in the in the early development of this breed than I thought they were but they were see here sue she's the granddaughter of old soil and these are South Texas Cowboys riding them and this is all we knew how to do to show you our heart go little circles on them and change leads we don't know whether they change leads or not but they sure went the other direction and you can see that this South Texas cowboy would not be very good in all catching contest they'd all get between his legs and plenty of room spent his life riding horses here's Katrina again a mare for us to look in Africa kind of cattle at the King Ranch tried to introduce back in the forties but this mare would look good today to us and we would put the thing that to notice about this film the horses haven't changed near as much as the people and the people in what we have identified to do with them have we've changed the training program have we've identified what they want them to do but the horses are not that much different what you see Bob Clayburgh doing there that is cutting the cow out and you understand why the NCAA says driving because he had to take him somewhere and those old-timers took a lot of pride in never touching that saddle or in the more anything he'd have his off hand in his leggings pocket and he just as you watch them ride them but that's where it all started and this her first hot quit maybe that's a complete loss that's probably a five-point penalty he's a good he's a good horse and broodmare cotton-eyed Joe breaking I don't know that much about cotton-eyed Joe breeding I have to see it in a lot of pedigrees but we would be proud of this mare today she's she's typing she's violets she's a good mayor and on the four six ranch and Guthrie I grew up about 40 miles from here and I know a lot about this country and these horses rainy day there I think goes back to midnight Midnight's gonna go back to badger but this this old gelding a lot of everybody used to ride him and come to the ranch it's brood mares here by Tom it was full name was great on the scooter and he left a really set of good mares there that are in maybe the fifth generation of some of those horses now but he was he wasn't I never saw him but look at this photo that walked out there that great faux you'd be proud of him today so there was some nice horses back there in the beginning as we were trying to breed and cross some rays what you wanted to raise and you got to realize that the famous horses then if you wanted to own a horse that had a reputation he was a racehorse because that's all the way you could get a reputation there wasn't any a tha shows you want any NCHA NRHA there wasn't any rain cow horse so the horses that had a reputation with race horses through everybody had to had a racetrack around their fire grounds Baelor f working under saddle this horse the rumor is that mr. George Humphries won the reigning that Fort Worth on him one year when you didn't have a pattern you just showed them to and and he was partly the old-timers called him a good handling horse corrals Myers and you know everything back in the beginning here everything was pasture bred mare was their mayor's were selected and turned out with a stallion probably not over twenty maybe a few more for some stud Tom Burnett range at Iowa Park that was also a part of what later became the triangle ranches triangles and the four sixes was was the result of a son of a man and his son Tom Burnett and his son Burt Burke started the four sixes meant Tom started the triangles and this was common because you can say that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink these old Jennings would they'd learn to drink when they went because they may not go back for a few days but that was common to halt or break them by belt count him to those old Jenny's this horse Lucky Strike there I wrote a cutting horse by him one time a son of him know much about his pedigree but he still shows up in some of the good pedigrees it was rather common catch or she just put a rope around his neck so we had showmanship at rope not a halter Billie this horse right here is a result of steel dust breeding and these Billy horses were famous it was a line of horses and he is the result of a cross on a steel dust murder bill Thomas was by Billy I think and you can see that most people handling them then they were having lots of khaki breeches I'm sorry but blue jeans hadn't caught a hold this is made right before World War two and I'm not sure that Levi's and Wranglers were going real good but they was love the khaki breeches [Music] Arielle Underwood is one of the early day breeders Wichita Falls Iowa Park this horse and another one we're going to show you here I was noticing a pedigree research of a great customer years ago named Jill's lady and she both of these horses are in her pedigree this old redwood this is golden chief he's 24 years old here what kind of horse is he big horse sound footage so forth look at old redwood here I think that some question about how he would bred some question about his pedigree but I want you to look at him with soundness of feeding legs and you could take him as we know him today and sweat a little off his neck clean him up a little and we wouldn't mind all leading him out before anybody del Rio Jo that's taken right behind the animal science building it takes and him and that's that's mobbed in art who owned him and I think this may be the prettiest horse owned on the whole film if it's not him or Pepe but this horse was a great horse one oh the early day quarter horse shows he got lost by being bought by ranch that didn't perpetuate him and they raised a lot of good horses by him but they let the registry of them go to pot Del Rio Joe this is 1940 quarter horse show at Tucson they didn't know how to hold a show yet didn't have a handbook and know what we were going to do little girl good job Junior here he was a great racehorse that great racehorse and this guy that owns him here I forget his name but he lived over at Bandera Texas this is Jim many he was an early day first inspector from the Association some of the winners lining up and see Pepe won it and I don't think they'll real Joe was Larry then he was another one of them real pretty horsey but it was not a lot of sophistication to it we took a lot of pride hanging a ribbon on the halter then we didn't really know how to show him but wanted to bring them out I wanted people to see some of these old horses you hope maybe they were sterile and you don't know because some of them are bet will look better than others you don't know really until you do a lot of pedigree research but I want you to look at this mom a west on by Jack casement steamboat they called her desirable in 1940 and Jack casement was a man that stood in and fought for the bulldog horses well he didn't he call that mare bulldog and they didn't the Bulldogs didn't come into 15 years later he's not a bulldog on this film but Jack casement was a promoter and we thought as compared to what see that was a desirable kind in 1940 now this old Jim MINIX he says the judge tried him out I much they did this just for the film but I know it's a judge of 40 years I'd have got kilt I said let me ride your horse for it figure out who's got the best one but that was the judge and true maneuverability of the horse horse looks pretty good boy the horsemanship of the cowboy seat that has changed so much and you know the cowboy these little boys gonna fly on this side if you just leave them alone but the horses imma change their as much as the people and what we want to do with them looks like we're teasing the mayor here and a holder class wasn't too sophisticated what we were doing good quarter horses on parade look right here there he is come right in that's Pepe right there he's leading and that's the breeder of old Charlotte took a hold of him there and there's this Jack casement with this good mayor they called a desirable kind Pepe was a grand champion we've seen enough in the know he was pretty there yes and seems of the first we had a corridor account meet DW Williams at this time right here was a head of the animal science department at Texas A&M and I come to find out he was a well sought after as a judge in the early days yeah pretty nice horses is some nice horses in this film and you can see some of them you look at him think they had a little problem here there but there was enough gene pool in here to do what you wanted to do with this Meier looked good today and there was a gene pool here where you did the right selection like you wanted you come out of there with the horses we have today [Music] I keep forgetting his name but they was George Clegg that was leading wimpy their while ago George's men have raided old sorrow and sold him to the king range the sire wimpy Pepe excuse me not wimpy Pepe Helen Michaelis here she probably did more to start the Association than Bob den Hart dead Bob only got his start in one year and then she had it for about four or five years and her her home in Eagle Pass Texas this Joe Tom horse right here the Cowboys used to fight to get one of them because they were they were a really good calf roping horse he was the son of John Hancock this one Itamar there is a full sister - Little Joe ginger Tom Burnett bought her and changed her name to conformation and she founded a whole line of Meijer at the triangle range she was a flow sister to Little Joe I checked that out in the records in Amarillo and yes there was an application for a name change and the story's truth a lot of this I know from being around it during the early years of my life but a lot of it I know from what people have stood up in meetings and said told me about them people that have been there always we're gonna run them and you look here in a minute and back in 1940 you see a little Texas fire Mutual take place which is side bets odd Adams Duane Hughes very instrumental raised I think God Adams had all the Billy horses Duane Hughes lived sentence low he he paid for the organizational there you go don't get your billfold out he paid for the organizational meeting dinner that organized them 1940 in Fort Worth this is a match race which was rather coming I've seen them running down the turn row on a cotton field where we didn't go have match races on Sunday afternoon [Music] just before the next race is where the paramutual Texas paramutual takes place I think you can tell the Paint Horse people 23 seconds later the horse could he and one of the requirements for registry to be able to run quarter-mile 23 seconds are and it says performed their duties that a ranch horse had to do as if those were who are both complimentary to each other we've got the high school band out marching forest we had to parade and it wouldn't be complete without a mariachi band and I think they'll come along here in a minute but this was a part of the times in 1940 yeah we're going to skip around here a little pretty quick this is back scraps out of that first part of the family so some more of these coats been let around and film Bob labored hold him on [Music] and we'll just jump around here in the next few shots and you'll see there's there's there's Pepe bought a pretty horse that's the old gentleman Wichita Falls leading him now this i knows back and looked from the trees i want to say it's the king rain shot but i'm surprised at the amount of coloreds in their old soil a saw color was associated with king range horses this one right here i knows in north texas that's the old red dirt around Guthrie Paducah in that country and they loved it they always had a great stud at least one great Tom scooter we've already talked about they had all of the grey badger horses were there and they always had some of them that was probably the first paint that right across there that they didn't wanna show but he was [Music] now here we're gonna see when we get through with this get back to the stud roan Hancock the son of Johanna we're gonna see Joe Hancock here in a little bit and look quickly we don't show much everything there's wrong hand cut that's Little Joe jr. that's back at Tucson and the scraps what is left over and he took out of this film this is Hugh Bennett's horse Hugh Bennett was world champion cowboy in the rodeo association later became president of AQHA and this horse I forgot his name was quite famous I think we're teasing mares here I don't know these maybe standardbred what they are but again that's what we used to do old horse trader used to come to my house trying to sell trade horses my daddy would do this to everything he had he said he can put it put a chicken in a stovepipe mine both ends of it I don't know what this means except maybe this mayor had twins and what I was baying ever sorrow I really don't know but there's some of the horses that were around at the time this film was made [Music] this mayor I know I've read about her she was an early date maturation champion that's her cold iron her coat I'll take he's read a lot about Panzer Etta she was she's a tough campaign Iran the on the brush tracks all L I don't know much about Paul L except I've heard the name all admire she's probably by Paul out but I want you to look at your Carol bill we're showing to you again for this film's over the first quarter horses to ever run out of three bars we're all out of two Carol Bell Myers Shekar onec with C bars his mother and there's three of those horses they were all full brothers they were the first ones to ever run were out to Carl bill Myers this is showmanship and rope the start of showmanship at halter [Music] you look at some of these you see some nice coach now here's Ron Hancock again that's he's the son of Joh Hancock and it was a whole line of these horses that were really good horses and we're gonna see another side of Joe Hancock here in a minute then left of a lot of nice horses in Arizona [Music] we're just jumping around job doll was a thoroughbred horse owned by the King Ranch there was later a quarter horse named Johnny doll it was quite a running horse but this is this is a thoroughbred over that's a little Joe jr. and his full sister Juanita that Tom Burnett balton changed the name to confirmation this gelding I didn't talk about him when we saw him earlier red rooster was the Grand Champion gelding of the first show that ever held which was then stamped for Texas in 1940 that was the Grand Champion gilded this was the grand champion stud right there that was Belle real joke red rooster I checked on him I won't see how he was bred he was a gelding and they never registered he was never registered although the record shows that the Grand Champion gelding was Red Rooster and you see what kind of geld anyone he was a big good looking guilty but he was not registered old-timer said saw no need to register the guilty so a lot of them were not registered these are some three-year-old stairs I think on the king range now here comes run down that's that's such a carol bill again and again that that out of Jakara first three bars are Joe Hancock big horse but very attractive pretty horse that's the best shot I've ever seen heavy all the old black-and-white pictures of them show him is a very ugly horse he's report or when the pictures were made in poor condition that you can see here he was a good horse this is pictures were taken at the triangles at Paducah Texas some of these horses I know very little about they're not identified is a good looking yearling you bet she he'd be good today compared to that one which wouldn't be too good today yeah we're gonna see his Hollywood gold as a yearling I think probably a two-year-old but he was born in 1940 so this might have been shot and 41 when he was the early that's Hollywood go only God I've told a few people are a question that that was Hollywood gold they said why and I said I don't think he can run that fast because he was not known he's the only horse and at the burnout of states never had didn't have a race background here's what did this go horse called red man he was the known son of Joe Hancock left set of horse in Arizona Co red joel of Arizona Warchief I don't know much about him but they're currently very inspecting him here we didn't know we were not real sharp on how to present them it's the old kind of steak race and they got the college student with a Polo playing outfit on and he's pretty well beat or cowboy because I think he fell off down there on the end so that's a story of a lot of the old foundation horses and how people started and brought them forward [Music]

Channel: Texas Horse Help

Views: 43,379

Rating: 4.9530516 out of 5

Keywords: AQHA, Texas Horse Help, American Quarter Horse Association, Quarter Horse, History, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Texas A&M

Id: Cmeq7EkJtDk

Length: 35min 5sec (2105 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 31 2017