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Horse Creek Ranch Quarter Horses
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In 1999, my father, Arthur E. McKechnie, Jr. was recognized by the American Quarter Horse Association for over 50 cumulative years of breeding American Quarter Horses. Dad's longstanding dedication to the breed served as the foundation for our breeding program today.
In 1947, Dad was given a Candy, a Thoroughbred mare, for a high school graduation present and bred her to Black Hawk P.1222 by San Siemon P.1810 owned by King Merritt of Federal Wyoming. Little Sug P.28,930, a brown mare was foaled thus beginning our family's breeding history of American Quarter Horses.
Dad took mares to Black Hawk over the years including a Steel Dust bred mare, "Lady", and a mare purchased from King Merritt in 1947. In 1950 he leased Bourbon Tek who was by Bourbon by Ding Bob. In 1953 he bought an own son of Leo from Bud Warren,
