Reference Stallions > JOE HANCOCK (Deceased)
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Joe Hancock
When Volume 1 Number 1 of the Stud Book of the American Quarter Horse Association was published in 1941 there was appended to the registration of Joe Hancock, premier performer himself, and magnificent progenitor of conformation, speed, good disposition, intelligence, and all around Quarter Horse capacity, the notation that:
"It has been said Joe Hancock's dam was half Percheron. His brilliant racing record and his great colts make this seem unlikely and unimportant."
It is probably the only such, or even similar, statement in the Stud Book, and it is one that has puzzled many persons since first coming to their attention. Equally perplexing to many have been their own efforts to conceive of a reason which may have prompted the compilers of that first register to insert it. To those who, from today, look back through the years, it would seem that it was important whether or not this sire's dam was half Percheron. At the same time, in the face of the record, it would also appear "unlikely" to them that such might be true. In fact, it is almost wholly incomprehensible to many, and always will be, that such a horse as Joe Hancock could have been foaled by a half-Percheron mare.
1923, brown, 15.3 hh -
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