Royal Santana

Royal Santana
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Cutting
Sire Peppy San
Grandsire Leo San
Dam Royal Smart
Maternal grandsire Royal King
Sex Gelding
Foaled 1971
Country United States
Color Sorrel
Other awards
NCHA Platinum & Gold & Silver & Bronze Awards, NCHA Certificate of Ability, AQHA World Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Royal Santana was a 1971 sorrel Quarter Horse gelding sired by Peppy San and out of a mare named Royal Smart. Royal Smart was a daughter of Royal King and out of a descendant of Traveler named Moss Jackie Tobin.[1]

In Royal Santana's show career he was an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) World Champion and Reserve World Champion.[2] With the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) he earned $174,146.29 in cutting contests and a Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Certificate of Ability from the NCHA.[3]

Royal Santana was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame[4] in 2000. After he died in 1995, they buried him next to the arena named in his honor at Merrill’s Windward Stud.[5]

Notes

  1. All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Royal Santana accessed on October 6, 2007
  2. Royal Santana at Quarter Horse Directory accessed on October 6, 2007
  3. NCHA Earnings Lookup Archived September 5, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. accessed on October 6, 2007
  4. American Quarter Horse Foundation. "Hall of Fame Inductees". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  5. American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Royal Santana". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

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