If you missed your chance to win champion-bred yearling Gay Bars Christi at last
summer’s World Championship Paint Horse Show, you will have one last opportunity
to call her yours at the inaugural APHA Fall Championship Show in Fort Worth, Texas, this November. The filly was donated by
Floyd and Maryann Moore of the legendary 6-J Paint Horses in Huntsville, Texas, as a fundraiser for the American Paint
Horse Foundation’s college scholarship program. The Moores have donated fillies to the Foundation
for the past five years and are thrilled that this year’s offering has been a
great fundraising success that is continuing.
Gay Bars Christi will be
available this fall due to the kindness of the winning ticket-holder at last
summer’s World Show—Elka Daroga of Bayside, Wis. After claiming the prize, the
Daroga family donated the filly back to the Foundation, with the
expressed wish of helping the organization raise more funds for its worthy
causes.
The filly is by Mr Gay Bar
Freckles—a multiple Top 10 finisher in reining at the World Show and Reserve
Amateur Reining Champion at the European Championships. She is out of Nu Delta
Christy, a daughter of APHA Reserve World Champion roping horse Nu
Delta.
Gay Bars Christi also has Paint
champions Gay Bar O Lena, Delta Olena and Delta in her
pedigree. In fact, her
pedigree traces back to Delta four times. Delta was the first Paint Horse
inducted into the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Hall of Fame and
was
an NCHA Super Stakes winner.
The yearling prospect has been
in training with Amy Andreson of the Barn at Cedar Hill in Cedar Hill, Texas, since May. Her education was made
possible through the generous sponsorship of Phil and Susan Drawdy of C.S. Acres
in Fort Pierce, Fla., and will continue until she is sold to
the highest bidder at the inaugural APHA Fall Championship Show Select Sale on
Nov. 8, 2008.
The sorrel tobiano yearling has
been trained for yearling longe line, in-hand trail and halter classes. She is
currently learning to carry a saddle and ground-driving in preparation for her
2-year-old year.