Mares with More| Sandy Sueleo Part 1
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By Larry Thornton .....................................................................................................................................................
f you were a kid like me, you grew up dreaming of having a horse. Your dream was fed by TV shows like Fury the wild black stallion and his owner Joey. If you read the series of books about THE GOLDEN STALLION, the story of Golden Boy and his owner Charlie you have another example that fed your dreams. We all may have dreamed of riding a great stallion to success, but one young boy did it. Jon Mixer, the son of Orren Mixer, the famous artist, did just that on the great Okie Leo at the World Series of 4-H and FFA Show in Dallas, Texas. It also shows Orren Mixer’s faith in Okie Leo, a little-known fact that this great stallion was his favorite horse. This is the story of how a boy and a famous stallion give us our Mare with More this time around as the foundation of the young boy’s breeding program. We will let Dick Robey tells us how it all got started by fulfilling a boy’s dream, “Jon Mixer was ten, and Orren wanted to go to what they called the World Series of 4-H and FFA members. It was at Dallas, and Orren wanted Jon to ride Okie Leo.” Yes, this was when the youth could show a stallion. He went on with his story, “I wanted Jon to work with Okie, so we had him ride the horse. Jon rode him about ten times, and the weather got bad. I didn’t think anything about it until early one Saturday morning in December, and here comes Ole Mixer driving in with his trailer and Jon. It was raining and sleeting, and he wanted to go to Dallas. I said, ‘My God, Jon hasn’t ridden Okie in so long.’ Well, Orren wanted to go, so we loaded up
JET QUILLO sor 15.2 1972 QUARTER HORSE #0844387
PISTOL JERRY sor 1977 QUARTER HORSE
KIDS MISS SUPREME sor 1969 QUARTER HORSE
EASY JET sor 1967 QUARTER HORSE #0573195
DUCHESS QUILLO sor 1962 QUARTER HORSE #0587625
KID MEYERS sor 1963 QUARTER HORSE #0408509
SANDY SUELEO 1962 QUARTER HORSE
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and went. We liked to froze to death.” “They had about 85 entries in it. So, I put a big ole coat on Jon to keep him from freezing. He was the 20th reiner, and Ole Mixer couldn’t take it; he goes out and wouldn’t stay in there. When the time came, I pulled that coat off Jon, and he ran the pattern. They had two judges, and when they finished running that pattern, you should have seen the trainers jerking those kids off those horses and go to tuning. It was obvious that someone was going to have to be really good or that reining was over. Jon won the class by 10 points.” Here is how Jon Mixer recalls his ride on Okie Leo, “When the reining came up, we were all bunched up with 80 some horse in the ally way and when they called my number I blew in there full speed, sat him down, backed him up and set there with a loose rein for 4 or 5 seconds then started my slow small figure 8 then went into the large 8 with more speed when I came out and went to do my roll back I opened him up, went in and turn him back, and he came around so hard and fast it pulled my little butt clean out of the saddle. I grab the horn, threw my leg back over him, and opened him up for the second roll back. I was ready this time and grabbed the horn going into it and came out flying into my second stop, did my pivots, and walked to the judge. Jon continued, “I rode back to where Dick was and apologized to him for losing my stirrup. Then they announced my score as 78, and I really felt bad and thought I had really let him down. Dick then told me that 78 was out of a possible 80. When it was
JET DECK b 1960 QUARTER HORSE #0167014 LENAS BAR ch 1954 THOROUGHBRED (USA) CHARLEVOIX ch 1953 THOROUGHBRED (USA) BANDIDO BRUJA b 1957 QUARTER HORSE #0070439 THREE BARS ch 15.3 1940 THOROUGHBRED (USA) MISS MEYERS ch 1949 QUARTER HORSE #0062508 OKIE LEO sor 1956 QUARTER HORSE #0062301 STAPLES BABE sor 1958 QUARTER HORSE #0173554
MOON DECK br 1950 MISS NIGHT BAR ch 1950 THREE BARS ch 15.3 1940 LENA VALENTI b 15.2 1946 PRINCEQUILLO b 1940 ROYAL TYPE b 1947 EL BANDIDO b 1935 LOMA LINDA sor 1948 PERCENTAGE ch 1923 MYRTLE DEE blk 1923 LEO sor 14.2 1940 STARS LOU b 1936 LEO sor 14.2 1940 SORREL SUE sor 1944 BILLY BOB b 1944 TRIM PAT sor 1953
TOP DECK MOONLIGHT NIGHT BARRED BELLE OF MIDNIGHT PERCENTAGE MYRTLE DEE GRAY DREAM PERHOBO PRINCE ROSE COSQUILLA BULL DOG SUN CELTIC ZANTANON JEANNETT JOE BOB GEORGIA LEE MIDWAY GOSSIP AVENUE LUKE MCLUKE CIVIL MAID JOE REED II LITTLE FANNY OKLAHOMA STAR OWEN E ACTON MARE JOE REED II LITTLE FANNY KING TOMMY KING MARE FLYING BOB BILLY JACK CHESTER B PATTY B
br 1945 br 1940 ch 15.2 1946 ch 1943 ch 1923 blk 1923 gr 1939 b 1939 b 1928 b 1933 br 1927 ch 1931 ch 1917 b sor 1940 b 1930 ch 1914 ch 1918 b 1911 b 1915 ch 1936 b 1937 b 14.2 1915 ch 1936 b 1937 b 14.3 1932 b 15.1 1929 b 1938 b 1938 b 1943
