American Quarter Horse Association

Texas

A magazine article asked readers to show up in Fort Worth, and the registry that resulted now lists more than two and a half million horses.

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Robert Denhardt spent the nineteen thirties writing articles about the quarter horse. In one of them, published in Western Horseman in 1939, he suggested that anyone interested in starting a breed registry should meet in Fort Worth and talk it over. About seventy-five people turned up. They decided to form a non-profit stock holding association in Texas to keep the records, and thirty-six of them bought stock on the spot. That was March of 1940. Peace did not last. Breeders who raced their horses wanted more Thoroughbred blood allowed in and broke away to form their own group in 1945. Later that same year, others who thought the rules too strict formed a third association. By 1949 all three had concluded they were weakening each other, and the two rivals voted to merge back in. Their records were hauled to Amarillo, where the association still keeps the official stud book off Interstate 40.

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Denhardt also suggested that those interested in forming a breed registry meet in Fort Worth to discuss the idea and hopefully act on the idea. About seventy-five people met in Fort Worth to discuss the proposals

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