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PEPPY SAN
1959 Sorrel Stallion
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Sire: Leo San Dam: Peppy Belle
Peppy San was bred by Gordon B Howell of El Paso, Texas. When Mr Howell purchased three-year-old Peppy Belle
for his breeding program he couldn't have known what lay ahead. Bought at auction for $1,600 in 1958,
the un-shown mare was bred to Howell's stud Leo San.
Her first Leo San foal was Peppy San -
and it was soon apparent that Leo San and Peppy Belle were a match made in cutter's heaven.
This same dynamite cross also produced Peppy San's full brother Mr San Peppy
(Two-time NCHA World Champion and an AQHA World Champion) and his full sister Miss Peppy San
(Halter Point Earner and NCHA Certificate of Ability Earner).
In 1963, Peppy San was purchased sight unseen by Chunky Woodward of the Douglas Lake Cattle Company, as a ranch sire, turning him out with a select band of broodmares.
Trained and shown by Matlock Rose, Peppy San competed in the first National Cutting Horse Association Futurity in 1962.
He won the preliminary (defeating 17 others, and placed second in the finals). Also in 1962 Peppy San achieved his
AQHA Open Register Of Merit in Cutting. A year later in 1963 he was named an AQHA Champion.
Peppy San was turned back out with the Douglas Lake Ranch broodmares for a couple of years and
in 1965 again teamed with Matlock Rose, they returned to competion acheiving a AQHA Superior Award in Cutting with
181 Points. In 1967 Peppy San was the National Cutting Horse Association Open World Champion, AQHA Open High Point
Cutting Stallion, as well as AQHA High Point Cutting Horse - 3rd Place.
Along the way Peppy San also earned 26 AQHA Halter Points. Competing in 52 NCHA Approved Shows,
Peppy San and Matlock Rose placed in the money 50 times.
In 1968 ridden by Woodward, Peppy San placed seventh in the NCHA Non-Pro finals.
Still owned by The Douglas Lake Cattle Company, Peppy San was sent back to Texas to stand at stud where at the height
of his breeding career his stud fee was up to $20,000.
Peppy San sired a total of 493 registered foals from 22 foal crops. His sons and daughters - and their sons and daughters - are a proud legacy.
Matlock Rose (as quoted in the Dec. 1989 Pacific Coast Journal) described Peppy San horses as:
"Cow horses. They came into the world wanting to work a cow.
It's just like a good bird dog. He's going to point a bird or something because that is his nature. ....
and that's what these horses wanted to do. They wanted to work cattle."
Peppy San remained in Texas until his death in 1989 at the age of 30.
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May 9, 2006
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