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sales and Allison’s Auto Sales in South Freetown. Good bloodlines and well


mannered horses at Northbrook brought joy to an eighty eight year old woman who really wanted to ride again after three quarters of century. When asked if Allison could fulfill this wish, no hesitation, “Quick” a quiet Quarter Horse was saddled and made this dream come true. When asked how the pan-


demic has affected Allison’s in- volvement in the horse industry, Smith stated,” The pandemic changed our ranch schedule for boarders. We are unable to host our sorting events for a while; once restrictions lifted no specta- tors were allowed. Moving ahead plans for


Q Horse Heroes


Community Support Recognition Program


August 2021 He- roes


American Quarter


Horse Hall of Fame member Carol Harris, 98, died Au- gust 7, 2021. The lifetime horse-


woman is most famous for her legendary American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame stallion Rugged Lark, whom she raised, owned and pro- moted.


An impeccable Allison Smith


Q Horse Heroes National Recog- nition Honoree Allison Smith owns and op-


erates Northbrook Ranch located near Freetown, P.E.I.. Northbrook


Ranch is home to fifty head of beef cattle and eleven Quarters carrying bloodlines of Colonel Freckles and Hop Along Hickory an own son of Doc’s Hickory out of a daughter of Colonel Freckles . Allison is fond of the working lines their horses carry, as North-


brook Ranch is a working opera- tion and home to sorting compe- titions.


Smith keeps very busy


managing the welfare of the ani- mals on the ranch, operating East Prince Auctioneers primarily fo- cusing on Agricultural associated


2022 sorting events are in the works including a two day Me- morial Scholarship Fund Raiser (Holland College, P.E.I) in mem- ory of


their friend Olivia


MacLeod , to be held at Twin Shores Campground.


CQHA honors Allison


Smith as a 2021 Canadian Quar- ter Horses Association Q Horse Hero.


Carol Harris: American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member passed away August 7 at 98


guru and a self-named “horse nut,” Harris grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. Her first horse was a Stan- dardbred – a pacer that she turned into a trotter. She also exhibited Hackney ponies, Arabians, Saddle- breds and Tennessee Walk- ers. Harris began showing Quarter Horses in the 1950s. Eventually, Harris


horsewoman, marketing moved her horse operation


to Bo-Bett Farm in Florida, turning the previous Thor- oughbred training and breeding facility into what some have called a “Quarter Horse Camelot.” The mare that put


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Harris in the business was Judy Dell, a granddaughter of Hall of Fame member Poco Bueno who produced 19 foals for Harris, many of which had immense influ- ence on the Bo- Bett breeding program. Judy Dell’s first foal, Eternal Dell by Eternal Sun, be- came the first stallion on Bo- Bett Farms in the late 1960s. Eternal Dell sired Majestic Dell, another of Bo-Bett Farm’s great stallions. Majestic Dell


sired nine AQHA Champi- ons.


In her own name,


she bred the earners of more than 11,500 points and 11 world champions and 16 re- serve world champions. She also bred racing American Quarter Horses, including two stakes-placed runners. Harris also mixed


Thoroughbred bloodlines into some of the Quarter Horses. Really Rugged (TB) by Rough’n Tumble out of Ruddy Belle by Er- rard was used to comple- ment Eternal Dell at stud. Really Rugged was the sire of the legendary Rugged Lark. In 1968, Carol’s homebred, Francies Hat, ran in the Kentucky Derby. Harris was one of


the first women to hold her own in the Quarter Horse in- dustry – an industry that ad- mittedly preserved a “good ol’ boy” reputation for many


years. She was one of the first women to be named an AQHA judge and judged for 25 years. In 1981, Harris


was the first woman to judge at the AQHA World Championship Show. Her strong convictions are what have earned her the respect of the industry as a whole. Harris was the first


president of the New Jersey Quarter Horse Association and helped establish the East Coast Cutting Horse Association. She was past president of the Florida


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