Marion's Girl's colt

charlie · Member Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 145 Location: PA

I've been enjoying this thread. I think this is something of a testimony to the greatness of Marion's Girl - the legend couldn't die with the mare. Anybody seen Elvis lately?

whnywriter · Active Member Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 429

I've enjoyed the thread too, if for no other reason that to have an excuse to do some more research.

The bottom line here, from my vantage point, is that Marion's Girl never had a foal...Paint or otherwise. I checked the APHA stud books and the Paint Plus feature on the APHA website. All of this stuff is made up.

If I wrote fiction instead on historical non-fiction, I'm not sure I could even make up all the stuff that is posted on the ABDB about Marion's Girl and her "phantom foal"...including having that foal go on to produce one daughter eight years before she herself was foaled and three foals in one year (1953) when she was supposedly a 2-year-old...

"Junk in...Junk out..."

Frank Holmes
Kiowa, CO

Picapepper · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:31 am Post subject:

Yes, this has been one of my favorite threads that I keep coming back to read....

Oh, hey, I did see Elvis yesterday in Seattle. He was at the Jimy Hendrix memorial..... Laughing

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x factor fan · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 11:07 am Post subject:

Can someone check to see if there are two mares with the same name? Maybe one a registered Qh, and the other a grade or registered paint?

Linda_D · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:01 pm Post subject:

warchief · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 5:40 pm Post subject:

The Calamity Jane referred to here was a black tobiano mare foaled in 1949. She was by a son of George Clegg and was one of the better cutting horses of her time. She has # 21 in the APHA. She had only one foal, and it was born dead.

whnywriter · Active Member Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 429

When Rebecca Tyler formed the American Paint Stock Horse Association in 1962, she reserved certain of the first registration numbers for "noteworthy" horses...much like the AQHA did.

Calamity Jane #21 was the first mare to be registered and Wahoo King #31 was the first gelding to be registered. Both were big-time performers in open competition...Calamity Jane in the National Cutting Horse Association and Wahoo King as a calf roping horse in the Rodeo Cowboy's Association (forerunner to the PRCA).

Frank Holmes
Kiowa, CO