Goetta (horse)

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Breed: Quarter Horse
Discipline: Racing
Sire: Go Man Go
Grandsire: Top Deck (TB)
Dam: Etta Leo
Maternal grandsire: Leo
Sex: Mare
Foaled: 1961
Country: United States
Color: Sorrel
Breeder: Ed Honnen
Owner: Hugh Huntley
Honors
Racing Record
31-22-2-1
Race Earnings
$233,922.00
Major Racing Wins
All American Futurity
Racing Awards
1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, 1963 AQHA High Money Earning Race Horse, 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Infobox last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Goetta was the World Champion Quarter Running Horse for 1964, and for a time led the list of all time money-earning Quarter Horse racehorses.[1]

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[edit] Life

Goetta was a 1961 sorrel foal, sired by Go Man Go and out of a daughter of Leo named Etta Leo.[2] Her dam was out of a daughter of Band Play, and the third dam descended from Peter McCue[3]

Goetta raced for three years, with thirty-one starts. She won twenty-two of her starts, placing second twice and was third twice. The American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) named her the 1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, as well as the 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare and the 1963 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old Filly. Her total earnings on the track were $233,920.00 and sixty-eight racing points. Besides the Championship titles, she also was a Race Register of Merit earner with an AAAT speed rating, and an AQHA Superior Race Horse.[2] She won the All American Futurity, among other stakes wins.[4]

She produced seven foals, six of whom were race winners with two of those being stakes winners. She died in 1978 giving birth to her seventh foal.[4]

She was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[5]

[edit] Pedigree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Equipoise (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Equestrian (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Frilette (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Top Deck (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chicaro (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 River Boat (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Last Boat (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Go Man Go
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wise Counsellor (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Very Wise (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Omona (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lightfoot Sis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Dun Horse
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Clear Track
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ella
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Goetta
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joe Reed P-3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joe Reed II
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Nellene
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Leo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joe Reed P-3
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little Fanny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fanny Ashwell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Etta Leo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Band TIme (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Band Play
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Fair Play
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bandette
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sam Watkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 J T 6
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mamie
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Nye Great Moments in Quarter Racing History p. 202-205
  2. ^ a b Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 437
  3. ^ Goetta Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree retrieved on June 30, 2007
  4. ^ a b "Hall of Fame 2007" Quarter Horse Journal p. 51
  5. ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008

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