Bourbon King

Bourbon King
Breed American Saddlebred
Discipline Five-gaited
Sire Bourbon Chief
Grandsire Harrison Chief
Dam Annie C
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1900
Color Chestnut
Breeder Allie G. Jones
Owner Allie G. Jones
Major wins
Grand Championship in 1903

Bourbon King (foaled 1900) was an American Saddlebred stallion. He was known for being the founding sire of the popular Chief family of Saddlebreds.

Life

Bourbon King was foaled in 1900. He was a chestnut stallion with a star and white coronets on his hind feet. He was sired by Bourbon Chief and out of Annie C.[1] Bourbon King was bred and owned by Allie G. Jones, who had a farm near North Middletown, Kentucky.[2][3] Jones was elected president of the American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, the forerunner to the American Saddlebred Horse Association, in 1936.[3] Bourbon King lived to be 30 years old.[4]

Career

Bourbon King was a five-gaited horse.[5] He won the Grand Championship at the Louisville Horse Show at age three.[6]

Offspring

Bourbon King was the progenitor of the Chief family, one of the most influential bloodlines in Saddlebreds.[5] His son Edna May's King was the first horse to repeat win the Grand Championship at the Kentucky State Fair. One of Bourbon King's descendants, Wing Commander, was the first five-gaited horse to win six consecutive World Grand Championships.[1]

References

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