Despite some difficulties in attitude, Docs Hickory Sue with Kathy Galyean on board, earned some money together. Kathy has NCHA earnings of $114,361.07 and is still showing. NCHA Open Futurity. She would go on from there to put together a phenomenal record. She would combine her aged event shows with an open show record. Even in the aged events she was called upon to do double duty. In the 1996 NCHA Non-Pro Super Stakes Classic she was third with Corinne Heiligbrodt and in the 1996 NCHA Open Super Stakes Classic she was third with Kobie Wood. She followed this up with a win in the NCHA Open Finals. Her success in 1996 made her the NCHA Horse of the Year. The interesting part of the Meradas Little Sue show record is that she had already won her first NCHA Open World Champion in 1995 the year before she was NCHA Horse of the Year. She came back in 1997 to win her second NCHA Open World Championship and then in
1999 she won her third NCHA Open World Championship. Her total earnings in the NCHA was $670,098.41. Her AQHA record shows that she earned her amateur ROM with 22 AQHA amateur
Freckles Merada went to the breeding shed to become a well known successful sire... he had 86 money earners in the arena. They earned $3,106,584.
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performance points. She qualified in 1995, 1996 and 1997 for the Amateur World Championships with Corinne Heiligbrodt. The Freckles Merada and Docs Hickory Sue cross proved to be a good one for Galyean. “The reason I bred to Freckles Merada is that horse could stop. Terry Riddle had been showing him. Then Terry and Joe made the partner deal and they put Jody on him. And I thought, boy, that horse could stop. So that is how I ended up with them and I had some nice colts out of that.” Freckles Merada earned $106,900 in the cutting pen. He was the Reserve Champion of the Tropicana Four-Year-Old Futurity and a finalist in eight other aged events, including the NCHA Open Five-Year-Old Classic in 1985. The sire of Freckles Merada was Freckles Playboy an NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion and an AQHA World Champion Senior Cutting Horse. His sire was Jewel’s Leo Bar or Freckles as he was called. Jewel’s Leo Bar was sired by Sugar Bars and out of Leo Pan by Leo. The dam of Freckles Merada was Lenaette the 1975 NCHA Open Futurity Champion. She was sired by Doc O’Lena by Doc Bar. The dam of Lenaette was the blue hen mare Bar Socks Babe by Bar El Do by Sugar Bars. This gives Freckles Merada a 3 X 4 breeding pattern to Sugar Bars. The dam of Bar Socks Babe was Dusty Sock by Gold King Bailey. Freckles Merada went to the breeding shed to become a well known successful sire. The Robin Glenn Pedigree Service shows that he had 86 money earners in the arena. They earned $3,106,584 with an average of $36,123 per money earner. Some of his money winners in addition to Meradas Little Sue include Merada Sunset, winner of $252,081; Meradas Destiny, winner of $160,189; Merada Doc, winner of $126,050; Royal Merada, winner of $125,139, and Amanda Merada, winner of $121,753.
WORKING HORSE MAGAZINE • May/June 2014