Shue Fly
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Racing |
| Sire | Cowboy P-12 |
| Grandsire | Yellow Jacket |
| Dam | Lady Luck |
| Maternal grandsire | Booger Red |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1937 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Lloyd Miller |
| Owner | Hepler Brothers |
| Record | |
|
11 starts: 10-1-0 AAA speed rating | |
| Awards | |
| 1941 & 1942 & 1943 World Champion Quarter Running Horse | |
| Honors | |
| American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
Shue Fly (1937–1963) was a Quarter Horse mare who was one of the dominant racehorses on the racetrack during the 1940s.
Life
Shue Fly was registered with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) as number 717. She was a chestnut mare, foaled in 1937 and bred by Lloyd Miller of Chamita, New Mexico. She was owned by the Hepler Brothers of Carlsbad, New Mexico at the time she was registered. Her sire was Cowboy P-12, and she was out of Lady Luck by Booger Red by Rancocas, a Thoroughbred. The second dam was an unnamed Thoroughbred mare.[1] Through her sire, she descended from Yellow Jacket and Peter McCue twice. Her dam was a descendant of Iroquois, the first American bred Thoroughbred to win a major race in England.[2] Some early reports had her dam as a mare named Nancy M who was by Jack McCue (a son of Peter McCue) and out of Fanny by Jack McCue. However, the Hepler brothers, who raced and then used Shue Fly as a broodmare, investigated her background and came to the conclusion that she was out of Lady Luck.[3]
During Shue Fly's racing career she was named the World Champion Quarter Running Horse for 1941–1942, for 1942–1943, and for 1943–1944.[4] The official AQHA records show her starting six times, with two wins and a top speed rating of AAA.[4] However, the 1946 Yearbook of the American Quarter Racing Association (or AQRA) states that she had won ten of eleven starts.[5] Her very first race was when she was three, and had just been broke to ride, when she went up against Question Mark in a half mile race. She finished second, but it was a good finish for a green-broke mare. Next, in December 1941, she was matched against Clabber at the distance of a quarter mile, and won, setting a track record in the process.[3] In the 1942 Championship race, she went to her knees coming out of the starting gate, but managed to get up and finish first by a nose, beating Clabber, Nobodies Friend and Joe Tom.[6]
As a broodmare, Shue Fly produced three foals that earned a Race Register of Merit, including Royal Charge.[4] She died in 1963.[7]
Shue Fly was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame[8] in 2005.[7]
Pedigree
| Lock's Rondo | ||||||||||||||||
| Little Rondo | ||||||||||||||||
| Minnie Franks | ||||||||||||||||
| Yellow Jacket | ||||||||||||||||
| Lock's Rondo | ||||||||||||||||
| Barbee Dun | ||||||||||||||||
| Mary Lee | ||||||||||||||||
| Cowboy P-12 | ||||||||||||||||
| John Wilkens | ||||||||||||||||
| Stalks | ||||||||||||||||
| Cora | ||||||||||||||||
| Roan Lady | ||||||||||||||||
| John Wilkens | ||||||||||||||||
| Bonnie Wilkens | ||||||||||||||||
| Jarene | ||||||||||||||||
| Shue Fly | ||||||||||||||||
| Iroquois (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rancocas (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Ontario (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Booger Red | ||||||||||||||||
| Blue Dick | ||||||||||||||||
| Heely | ||||||||||||||||
| Mittie Stephens | ||||||||||||||||
| Lady Luck | ||||||||||||||||
| unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Thoroughbred mare | ||||||||||||||||
| unknown | ||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 1–5 p. 101
- ↑ Shue Fly Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree
- 1 2 Nye "Meet the Champ" The Quarter Horse pp. 9 & 15
- 1 2 3 Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 1087
- ↑ American Quarter Racing Association Quarter Running Horse 1946 p. 17
- ↑ Nye Great Moments in Quarter Racing History pp. 23–25
- 1 2 American Quarter Horse Foundation – Shue Fly
- ↑ AQHA Hall of Fame
References
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Shue Fly retrieved on June 30, 2007
- American Quarter Horse Foundation – Shue Fly accessed on November 11, 2010
- American Quarter Horse Association (1961). Official Stud Book and Registry Combined Books 1-2-3-4-5. Amarillo, TX: American Quarter Horse Association.
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on November 11, 2010
- American Quarter Racing Association (1946). The Quarter Running Horse 1946: Year Book and Register of Merit of the American Quarter Racing Association.
- Nye, Nelson C. (1983). Great Moments in Quarter Racing History. New York: Arco Publishing. ISBN 0-668-05304-6.
- Nye, Nelson C. (May 1947). "Meet the Champ". The Quarter Horse: 9 & 15.