MARES WITH MORETHE UNDERWOOD OUTCROSS MARES

By Larry Thornton

We often hear the saying, “Great Sires Have Great Mothers;” this is an important statement that has proven true down through the years. One great example of this saying was the mare, Della Moore. This great Cajun-bred running mare was the dam of two great sons. They were the AQHA Hall of Fame stallions Joe Reed P-3 and Joe Moore, making her one of our Mares With More as a major contributor to the breed.

The AQHA Hall of Fame breeder and former AQHA President R. L. Underwood stated it a little differently on the side of one of his barns. That statement read, “Good Quarter Horses, Like Good Men, Have Good Mothers.” Bob Denhardt reported in his story, “Lee Underwood, Third President of the AQHA, in the July 1960 issue of THE QUARTER HORSE JOURNAL that Underwood had “the best and most uniform band of Quarter mares in the world at the time the AQHA was formed.” This is quite a statement considering that some of Underwood’s colleagues were the well-known breeders Bob Kleberg of the King Ranch, Bill Warren, the first President of the AQHA, R. A. Brown, Jim Minnick, Jim Hall, and Roy Parker.

The mares Underwood incorporated into his breeding program were known by such names as the Mitchell and Zurick mares, as well as the Miss Tommy Mares and, the Y Ranch Quarter Mare (later registered as Little Mother) and the Joe Bailey mares. These mares formed the base of his broodmare band, with several individual mares also making an impact on the breeding program. This set of mares is our Mares With More, and we will highlight a number of these great mares and their contribution.

The AQHA Stud Book helps us identify the Mitchell/ Zurick mares. Several of these mares were registered as numbers 250 to 255 and numbers 353 and 354. These mares included Long Gone, Pea Vine, Red Bird, Juddy, Pet, Little Red, Curtis, and Red Ant. They were all listed as sired by Zurick. Zurick is sired by Starke (Old Mike) by Chickasha Bob. The dams were listed as Billy Smoot Mares. Bob Denhardt, in his book FOUNDATION SIRES OF THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE, says that Billy Smoot was a sorrel of unknown breeding. He also reports that Raymond Hollingsworth found that Billy Smoot was sired by Bob Wade. While Merle Paul said that he was by Sykes Rondo. Albert Mitchell contended that his breeding was unknown.

Mitchell was the last known owner of Billy Smoot.

According to the Denhardt story on Mr. Underwood, these mares were first observed when they were being driven “across North Texas,” and Underwood bought them. These mares are listed as bred by Albert Mitchell of Albert, New Mexico. The most significant Mitchell/Zurick mare was Miss Redwood. She is listed in the Stud Book as #245. She was foaled in 1932. Her foals include Golden Chief II, Sandy, and Little Sandy, all by Golden Chief.

The Joe Bailey mares included Georgia Lee, Josie Bailey, and Rita Fiddler. Georgia Lee and Rita Fiddler are listed as bred by Carl Swearingen of Dallas, Texas. Georgia Lee was out of Flapper by a Thoroughbred Horse. Josie Bailey was out of Grey Sis. Rita Fiddler was the most famous of the Underwood Joe Bailey mares. She was out of a mare named Pet by Barney Lucas by Traveler. Rita Fiddler produced 12 foals by the Underwood stallion Dexter with 9-point earners. The point earners include Bubble Dexter (3), Red Bubbles (11), Monkey Dexter (4), Cherry Dexter (1), Romeo Dexter (23), Fiddle Dexter (11), Fiddle Rita (10), Cherry Rita (4) and Red Fiddle (2).

One of the mares out of Rita Fiddler was Dimple Dexter, and she takes us to Really In Trouble, the 1996 AQHA High Point Western Pleasure Horse. Really In Trouble is not only a high point champion, but she is also a three-time AllAmerican Quarter Horse Congress winner and a four-time PHBA World Champion in Western Pleasure. Dimple Dexter is the second dam of Milliron Doll Baby, the dam of Really In Trouble. The pedigree of Milliron Doll Baby is found in Pat Dunning’s Milliron Three Quarter Horses breeding program. Dunning was a long-time breeder from New Mexico, and she built the foundation of her program on the Underwood bloodlines, incorporating their offspring into her broodmare band.

The dam of Milliron Doll Baby was Tar Dimple (who was out of Dimple Dexter). The sire of Tar Dimple was Tar Baby, another outcross stallion used by Underwood. The sire of Tar Baby was Little Black Joe by Joe Hancock. Little Black Joe was out of Lady, a Billy Anson mare. The dam of Tar Baby was Underwood’s Little Jane. Her breeding was believed to be Old Joe Bailey, but her sire and dam are listed as unknown.

The sire of Milliron Doll Baby was Milliron Tone, who was out of Sunday Tone, a daughter of Silvertone. The dam of Sunday Tone was Sugar Baby, an important mare in the Underwood and then Dunning breeding programs.

The Underwood mares were bred to such stallions as Golden Chief, Dexter, Silvertone, Buddy Dexter, Tar Baby, Redwood, Del Rio Joe, Dutch McCue and Joe Bob. Underwood believed in linebreeding and inbreeding. Denhardt tells us that Underwood was trying to perpetuate the blood of Copperbottom through Golden Chief. Golden Chief was a direct sire line descendant of Copperbottom. Copperbottom was the founding sire of the second oldest family of modern quarter horses. He was sired by Sir Archy and out of a mare by Buzzard. The sire of Golden Chief was The Yellow Stud, who was sired by Buck. Buck was reported to be a sire line descendant of Copperbottom. He was sired by Rocket by Rock by Copperbottom. Sam Houston brought Copperbottom to Texas to stand.

Golden Chief was held in high esteem by Underwood. He was “a copper-colored (red dun) quarter horse stallion with a red mane and tail and a brown stripe down his back.” This is a direct quote from the registration application that was filled out by Underwood. He added this in a note on the application, “This great old quarter horse stallion’s foals speak for themselves. He needs no other recommendations. He sired 340 foals on the open range and is a well-known breeder of good fast cow horses with plenty of speed and action.”

A note that accompanies a letter dated September 9, 1939, tells us that Golden Chief was more than just a “range stallion.” “He was retired at the age of 14 years from the saddle as one of the great calf roping horses of his day.” This note was written when Golden Chief was 21 years old. The note described him this way, “He is still in sound breeding condition. He is 14-2, weighs 1050 pounds, and could outrun his shadow.”

Underwood methodically put together a Golden Chief family of horses through his breeding program with Golden Chief and his “outcross” mares. To do this, Underwood would inbreed to Golden Chief and Dexter. Dexter was sired by Golden Chief and out of Miss Tommie by Tom (Scooter), the famous Burnett Ranch foundation sire. Miss Tommie is one of those outcross mares. Underwood used the mares as a source of outcross blood for his inbreeding program. These mares were introduced to the scheme of things through the tail female line. The bottom line of the bracket pedigree.

Buddy Dexter indicates the inbreeding that took place to perpetuate the blood of Copperbottom through Golden Chief. Buddy Dexter was a Grand Champion halter horse with wins at such shows as Fort Worth, Texas; Breckenridge, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Stamford, Texas; Graham, Texas; and Iowa Park, Texas. He has the distinction of being one of the few stallions to defeat the great Poco Bueno at halter. Buddy Dexter was sired by Dexter and out of Little March by Dexter. Little March was out of March. March was an outcross mare sired by Mustard Seed (TB) and out of a Lowe Brothers Mare.

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The good show record of Buddy Dexter, an inbred stallion, is reported by Denhardt as showing the power of Golden Chief. Here is what Denhardt had to say about this in the story “Lee Underwood, Third President of the AQHA,” Using outside blood only on the distaff side (female line or bottom line of the pedigree is dangerous except where an extremely sound and prepotent sire is used as weakness is magnified. The fact that the bulk of his breeding stock did not degenerate speaks worlds for Chief as an individual.”

One of those good outcross females was the Y Ranch Quarter Mare, who was later registered as Little Mother. This mare was sired by Tom (Scooter), and she was reported by Underwood in AQHA records to be a full sister to Miss Tommie, the dam of Dexter.

When Underwood bred the Y Ranch Quarter Mare to Golden Chief, he got the mare Star Light. This would make Star Light a full sister in blood to Dexter. Star Light was foaled in 1936. She became the dam of 18 foals with nine official performers with 6-point earners. Her official AQHA point earners were Wichita Bill, Snooper Bill, Hidalgo Silvertone, Pat Silvertone, Sweet Tone, and Starlight Chief. All these foals were sired by Silvertone except Starlight Chief, who was sired by Chief Too. Snooper Bill was an AQHA Champion.

Silvertone was one of several outcross stallions used by Underwood in his inbreeding program and probably the most significant. Of course, we all remember that Silvertone was Underwood’s entry in the famous 1941 Fort Worth Stock Show, where he placed second to Wimpy from the King Ranch. Wimpy became AQHA # 1 in the Stud Book. The sire of Silvertone was Dunny Boy. Dunny Boy was sired by Jud. The dam of Dunny Boy was a daughter of Yellow Wolf by Old Joe Bailey. The dam of Silvertone was the Bay Caldwell Quarter Mare, and her pedigree was unknown.

The most famous Silvertone/Star Light foal was Billie Silvertone. Billie Silvertone was a noted show horse, but much of her record has been lost. She has no official AQHA record, as she was shown before the AQHA awarded points. She was the Grand Champion Quarter Horse Mare at the 1945 Fort Worth Stock Show. Her Palomino Horse Breeders Association registration papers tell us that she was first at the Wichita County Fair in yearling palomino fillies and first at the Wichita Falls Horse Show in the yearling fillies in 1940, and she was a winner at the Stamford Quarter Horse Show in the two-year-old filly class in 1941. She was also an accomplished cutting horse trained by Pine Johnson before he went to ride Poco Bueno. They placed third in the cutting at Fort Worth the same year she was the grand champion mare.

When Underwood crossed Buddy Dexter and Billie Silvertone, he got her three famous sons, Smutty Bill, Buddy Bill, and Cutter Bill. The first colt born to this mating was Smutty Bill, a 1953 dun stallion. Smutty Bill went on to be an AQHA Champion with points in halter, western riding, and reining. At that time, he was the youngest horse to be named an AQHA Champion. He became a good sire with six AQHA Champions, including Bill’s Gold, Bill’s Sunny, Billiemia, Zina Billie, Prissie Billie, and Billietta. Smutty Bill sired

BUDDY DEXTER ONE OF THE FEW TO DEFEAT POCO BUENO AT HALTER PHOTO COURTESY THE AQHA HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM

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CUTTER BILL THE FULL BROTHER TO SMUTTY BILL AND BUDDY BILL ORREN MIXER PHOTO COURTESY THE AQHA HALL OF FAME

SILVERTONE WAS SECOND TO WIMPY AT THE FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW PHOTO COURTESY THE PALOMINO HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION several PHBA Champions as well. They include Bill’s Gold, Sunshine Bill, and Bill’s Sunny.

Buddy Bill was the second foal from this cross. He was a sorrel stallion born in 1954. He earned his performance ROM with eight performance points and two halter points. His performance points came in calf roping (7) and heeling (1). Buddy Bill was owned and shown by Harry Charters, a roping and bulldogging specialist. Charters was the 1959 World Champion in Steer Wrestling and Rookie of the Year in the RCA, now PRCA. Charters reportedly rode Buddy Bill to the National Finals Rodeo in roping while winning such noted ropings as Pendleton in 1960 on the horse. They also set an arena record of 10.5 seconds at a 1961 rodeo in Dayton, Washington. Buddy Bill then developed into a fine hazing horse for Charters. Buddy Bill’s prowess as a roping and hazing horse certainly reinforces the ability of the Copperbottoms as horses with that “short burst of speed” so critical to the rodeo arena.

Cutter Bill was the third son from this cross. This palomino stallion was born in 1955 and became the 1962 NCHA World Champion Cutting Horse. He was the 1963 NCHA Reserve World Champion, and in the AQHA, he was the 1962 Honor Roll Champion Cutting Horse. He was also an AQHA Champion with 15 halter points and 334 cutting points with the Superior Award in that event. Cutter Bill is an AQHA and PHBA Hall of Fame member.

Cutter Bill sired such noted horses as Cutter’s First, an NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion; Cutter’s Indian, an AQHA High Point Western Pleasure Stallion, and High Point ThreeYear-Old Halter Stallion; Bill’s Jazabell was an NCHA World Champion Cutting Mare and Bill’s Highness was an AQHA Reserve High Point Cutting Horse.

The linebreeding pattern to Golden Chief in these three stallions is 3 X 4 X 3. This means two crosses to Golden Chief in the third generation and one in the fourth generation. It must be noted that Billie Silvertone’s sons are line-bred to the mares Miss Tommie and the Y Ranch Quarter Mare with a 3 X 4 X 3 breeding pattern.

The only other Billie Silvertone foal to have an official AQHA show record was Glenda Dexter, a 1950 sorrel mare by Dexter. This mare earned five AQHA halter points. Glenda Dexter was much like her paternal brother, Buddy Dexter. She was inbred. She was sired by Dexter by Golden Chief, and he was out of Miss Tommie by Tom (Scooter). Her dam was Billie Silvertone, who was out of Starlight by Golden Chief, and she was out of Y Ranch Quarter mare by Tom (Scooter). Glenda Dexter was a 3/4 sister to Cutter Bill, Buddy Bill, and Smutty Bill.

Glenda Dexter became the dam of a mare named Glendatone. This mare was sired by the King Ranch-bred stallion Peppy’s Wimpy. Glendatone, in turn, is the dam of Billie Fiddle. Billie Fiddle was bred by Michigan State University. Even though she was bred by the University, she displays a great deal of the Underwood blood. Her sire was Bay Fiddle. This stallion was sired by Bay Dimple. Bay Dimple was sired by Amigo Brown by Golden Chief. His dam was Black Sue by Dexter. The dam of Black Sue was an outcross mare named Sweet Sue by Valentine. The dam of Bay Dimple was Dimple Dexter by Dexter and out of Rita Fiddler.

The dam of Bay Fiddle was Fiddle Dexter by Dexter and out of Rita Fiddler. Fiddle Dexter and Dimple Dexter are full sisters. This makes Billie Fiddle intensely inbred to the Underwood bloodlines. Billie Fiddle was 4 x 5 x 4 x 4 x 5 linebred to Golden Chief. This means that they had five crosses to Golden Chief in the pedigree of Billie Fiddle, two of these crosses in the fifth generation and three in the fourth generation.

This mare is the dam of two very interesting foals. The first one we will talk about is Jack Fiddler. This horse has many titles to his credit. His top title would have to be the AQHA Open All Around High Point Horse. He was the 1995 AQHA High Point Heeling and Heading Horse. He is an AQHA Champion, AQHA Performance Champion, and an AQHA Versatility Award winner. He has Superiors in reining, heading, and heeling with over 594.5 AQHA points.

The other foal out of Billie Fiddle that we will talk about is The Kanzan. This unshown son of Zan Parr Bar is the sire of Zans Parity. Zans Parity was the 2004 AQHA World Champion Senior Heeling Horse. He was the 2003 Reserve AQHA High Point All Around High Point Horse, as well as the High Point stallion. He has earned 348.5 AQHA points. He is Superior in heading and heeling.

The Y Ranch Quarter Mare was the dam of Golden. Golden was the daughter of Golden Chief. This mare was the dam of Lita Silvertone by Silvertone. This makes Lita Silvertone a full sister in blood to Billie Silvertone. She was foaled in 1940. Lita Silvertone was the dam of Lita Dexter by Dexter. This mare, in turn, was the dam of Baysu by Golden Chief II. Golden Chief II was sired by Golden Chief and out of Miss Redwood by Zurick by Starke (Old Mike). Baysu was the dam of the AQHA Champion Su Amiga.

Amigo Brown was the sire of Su Amiga. He was sired by Golden Chief and out of Black Sue by Dexter. Black Sue was out of Sweet Sue. Sweet Sue was sired by Valentine by Lone Star by Billy Sunday. This makes Su Amiga, 2 X 4 X 3 X 4 X 5 to Golden Chief. The other outcross mares in this mare’s pedigree are Miss Redwood and the Y Ranch QM (Little Mother).

Su Amiga is listed as bred by Jack O’Donohoe, but she is made up of the Underwood bloodlines from top to bottom. She was shown by R. C. Barham, who was the trainer for Pat Dunning’s Milliron Lazy Three Ranch. Dunning bought many of the Underwood bred horses. She bought horses like Silvertone, Star Light, Sugar Baby, and many other Underwood horses.

Another Underwood mare in the Milliron Lazy Three broodmare band was Billie Tone. Billie Tone was sired by Golden Chief II by Golden Chief and out of Miss Redwood. Her dam was Little Bill, a full sister to Billie Silvertone. Billie Tone was 2 X 3 inbred to Golden Chief.

Billie Tone was the dam of such noted horses as Milliron Charm, AQHA, and Youth Champion, with 234.5 AQHA points in the open and youth divisions. Milliron King was a full brother to Milliron Charm. He was an AQHA Superior Steer Roping Horse. Both of these horses were sired by Skip A Barb.

Sugar Baby was another outcross mare. She was sired by Red Buck, a son of Buck Thomas by Peter McCue. Sugar Baby was bred by the Tom L. Burnett Cattle Company. The dam of Sugar Baby was Whizzer (Clubfoot), an Oklahoma Q Mare. Sugar Baby, in turn, was the dam of Betty Lou. Betty Lou was the 1946 Grand Champion Mare at the Fort Worth Stock Show. When Betty Lou was bred to Buddy Dexter, they got Buddy Lou. This 1951 bay mare was the Grand Champion Mare at the Denver Stock Show in 1953. She earned 18 AQHA halter points. She was a first-place winner at shows in Kansas City, Olney, Texas, and Weatherford, Texas. She was 3 x 4 x 2 to Golden Chief.

The horses we have profiled in this look into the R. L. Underwood bred horses, which have an interesting pedigree pattern. Yes, they are all line-bred or inbred to Golden Chief, and they carry the blood of Underwood’s outcross mares as key ingredients in the pedigree. In addition, they all trace in the sire line to Golden Chief and in the tail female line to Golden Chief. They are examples of balancing the pedigree to a common ancestor in the sire line and tail female line. The common ancestor influences the pedigree from the top of the top and the bottom of the bottom. This allows the breeder to take advantage of various sex-linked gene combinations that may come down the line through the sire line and the tail female line.

As I studied the Underwood breeding program, I was convinced that if he had been a younger man when the AQHA was formed, he would have been a greater influence on the Quarter Horse. He took advantage of all possibilities. He used a strong senior sire to set type by inbreeding. He used only the top outcross mares and stallions he could secure to help offset the inbreeding depression. His wise use of different mare lines this certainly proves the old saying, “Good Quarter Horses, Like Men, Have Good

About the Author |

Larry Thornton is a Pedigree Analyst and freelance writer for Working Horse Magazine, Speedhorse and Quarter Horse News. Thorton started his writing career in 1984 with his first article being printed in the Speed Horse Magazine. He was also an Agriculture Instructor for 37 years.

2023 Sale Results

The Blue Valentine & Driftwood Heritage Production Sale breeders hosted their annual event on September 9, 2023 at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds in Springfield, Missouri. The BV&D Producers again demonstrated that outstanding horses, proven Blue Valentine & Driftwood genetics, & dedicated breeders combine for a very successful sale. What an amazing weekend of gathering around the 2023 offerings from the heart of breeding programs where every single horse in the sale was 5 panel N/N either by direct testing or parentage. The BV&D Heritage Production Sale, LLC would like to thank the viewers, bidders, and buyers for their support of the sale this year!

Following the preview & the National Anthem, with a Sunrise Farm gelding proudly carrying the Stars & Stripes, nearly 400 DVAuction viewers from 37 states, as well as international viewers from Canada, a large crowd of buyers in the seats, outstanding auctioneer, Ronn Cunningham, pedigree announcer, Spence Kidney, the ringmen took bids on 67 lots selling to multiple states coast to coast.

Tying as the top sellers & each bringing $15,000, were Lot 35, a stunning buckskin roan weanling filly sired by AQHA point earner, Mr Junewood from breeder, Sunrise Farm, Alabama selling to a repeat Indiana buyer and Lot 26, a handsome buckskin roan weanling colt sired by South Dakota’s Lauing Ranch’s top sire, Bonny Blues, with a new home in Oregon.

High selling rider, offered by Lauing Ranch, was a home raised, 37.5% Gooseberry, top-notch stallion. Lot 29, LR PLENTY GOOSEBERRY was sired by Plenty Coup Bonnet & out of Sierras Fox. The talented 2-year-old and 6 Panel N/N dun roan stallion, found a new home with a DVAuction bidder from Arizona $15,000.

Reserve sale honors go to a fantastic weanling blue roan stallion, Lot 39, sired by Bonny Blues going to Colorado for $11,000. Followed closely by another Bonny Blues sired weanling at $10,000 was Lot 47, a gorgeous blue roan filly from Lauing Ranch, finding a new home with a repeat buyer from Kentucky.

Kentucky breeders, B&T Performance Horses, brought a fancy roan riding filly and sired by Wyo Plenty Try and out of a Rafter Blu daughter, bringing $6,500. Moonshine Creek, Arkansas breeders, again brought outstanding Red Roan Raider bred weanlings also finding new homes.

The BV & D breeders appreciate everyone who participated in the 2023 Heritage Production Sale and wish all the buyers’ success with their new purchases. Looking forward to seeing everyone again in the Fall of 2024. to

2023 again brought the thrilling opportunity for youth ages 16 and under: KIDS BID ONLY [pictured on the left at the bottom]. Offered by Lauing Ranch was a very laid back and easy going blue roan colt sired by JM ROWDY BLUE HAYES. Only kids 16 years old and under that were present at the sale could bid. With an outstanding group of “KID BIDDERS,” Lot 40 sold to a terrific young bidder and new owner from Georgia. Where else are you going to find this great opportunity year after year? We appreciate all of the super kids and their family’s interest in our horses and programs along with the friendships that it creates. Proceeds from the KIDS BID sale are used to fund the annual BV&D scholarship for students pursuing a post-secondary education in agriculture and/or education.

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