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DRIFTWOOD BLOODLINES
Some Of The Pro's That Ride Driftwood Horses..
*Clay O'Brien Cooper - (7 Time World Champion Heeler, career earnings $ 1,254,819+)
*Kristie Peterson - (4 Time World Champion Barrel Racer, career earnings $ 937,062+)
*Todd Suhn - (many times NFR qualifier Steer Wrestler)
*Mike Beers - (many time World Champion Heeler, career earnings $ 1,300,145+)
*Reg Camarillo - (many time NFR qualifier in Team Roping)
*Allen Bach - (many time World Champion Heeler)
*Tom Fergusen - (6 time All-Around World Champion)
---And Many More---
What is a Driftwood Horse.....
He's half a ton of poised and controlled energy, held on an easy rein and a hair trigger.
He's a workin' man who can earn his keep on the range all week and be a hansome dandy at the arena on a Sunday afternoon.
He's proud when he stands, looks lazy when he walks, but when he runs he can whipe the tears from the corner of your eyes and plaster your hat brim against the crown.
He's big in the haunches, supple in the withers, stout in the neck and wide across the chest.....to hold his big heart.
He's thunder and lightning between your knees and a poem in flight across the pasture.
He's cow-smart and brave, though sometimes a clown, and to the man with sky in his eye and mud on his boot,
the Driftwood Horse is a faithful hand....... And a Friend.
"Driftwood"
a bay stallion was foaled in 1932. His sire "Miller Boy" by "Hobart Horse" who was thought to be sired by "John Wilkins" by "Peter McCue". "Miller Boy" was out of "Wilie" a daughter of "Texas Cheif" by "Traveler".
"Driftwoods" dam was "The Comer Mare" by "Barlow" by "Lock's Rondo". The combination of early speed sent the young stallion to the race track where he was successfully matched at distances from 220 yards to 3/8's of a mile. In the late 1930's he ended up in the hands of the Nichols' family at Gilbert, Arizona. While he was with the Nichols' he was matched against, and outran, the legendary "Clabber" a World's Champion Quarter Running Horse.
Buck Nichols entraduced "Driftwood" to the roping arena and rodeoed on the horse. In 1941 Asbury Schell had him and nicknamed him "Speedy" cause of the way he could catch cattle over a long roping score.
As a nine year old "Driftwood" became a fixture at the big rodeos around the country. In 1943 Katy & Channing Peake bought "Driftwood" from Schell for $1,500 and moved him to Rancho Jabali where they registered him with the AQHA and was retired to stud.
"Driftwoods" ability to sire quick speed, performance ability, the mental attitude to retain training, fuctional conformation and physical stamina to stand up under hard use, and carry the traits on down through the generations, is what made "Driftwood" unque among stallions.
Many stallions are out standing performers themselves but are not able to pass that same talent on down through the generations. "Driftwood" did. During the following seventeen years, "Driftwood" sired a whole arena full of top performers in the show ring, the race track, and the rodeo arena.
For over a half a century a bay stallion has pass down his own tremendous performance ability and, in the process given horsemen something that they were proud to ride. An old rodeo adage is, "A man has to be well mounted to win" and with a "Driftwood" he was.
Today, sixty plus years after after he was foaled, his blood is still sought after by cowboys. "Driftwood" died on October, 20 1960. He left many great son's and daughter's of his such as
"Hallie Wood", "Woodwind", "Henny Penny Peake", "Brown Beulah", "Wood Wasp", "Drifty", "Woodfern", "Miss Linwood", "O See O", "Judy Sue", "Annie Wood", "Kitty Wood", "Rosewood", "Drifting Sage", "Easy Keeper", "Chelena", "Maestro", "Speedy II", "Poker Chip", "Speedy Wood", "Speedy Peake", and "Driftwood Ike", as well as a herd of others. |
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Driftwood bred Foals 2002
DRIFTALUCK PIERRE
Dun Imp .
185 AQHA pionts, Register of Merit Awards in
Performance, Halter,
Cutting,
Western Pleasure
AQHA Perfomance Champion,
Halter Superior Horse
Western Pleasure Achievement
Doc's Jack Frost
AQHA Champion,
Rom Areana,
NCHA Furtity Finalist
Sire of Sun Frost
DOC BAR
Hall of Fame, AQHA 1993 Inductee
Stallion Offspring Record
World Champion Offspring,
WP, CUT, WCH, HUS,
Reserve World Champion Offspring,
CUT
Top Ten World Show Offspring
Superior Halter Offspring
AQHA High Point Halter Offspring,
CUT
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
NCHA Money-earners
ROM Halter Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
Performance Point Earners
Halter Point Earners
Hall of Fame Offspring,
NCHA & AQHA
Magnolia Bar
AQHA Champion "63 0
Rom at Performance
Stallion Offspring Record,
World Champion Offspring, WP, CUT, WCH, HUS,
Reserve World Champion Offspring, CUT
Top Ten World Show Offspring
Superior Halter Offspring
AQHA High Point Halter Offspring,
CUT
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
NCHA Money-earners
ROM Halter Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
Performance Point Earners
Halter Point Earners
Hall of Fame Offspring,
NCHA & AQHA
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Arnold Quarter Horses
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Shines Olivia
DUN, Dam of Zipalong Drifta.
Owned by Rocking M Paints.
Email from a friend of Driftwood
Hi..just visiting your site. I met old Driftwood before he died.
My cousins were the Peake and Schott families, and I spent a lot of summers on Rancho Jabali in California as a kid.
We grew up with Speedy Peake who was a young stud then, and were close friends with several of the brood mares there, also out of excellent blood lines....the original Quarter Horse lines.
On that ranch were a large herd of fine brood mares with parentage such as: Dusty Hancock, Red Man, on and on.
My first horse, when I was nine, was a sweet mare named Mary Jane, who was a daughter of Red Man (she had the characteristic "jug head" that he was known for - at least that's what the old cowboys told me)
I remember each and every one of those horses and their characters more than I do the people in my world in the late 1950's and early 1960's...
there was a dun Hancock mare there named "Vanilla", and she was bred to Speedy Peake several seasons. She always had the most perfect buckskin foals; usually named after puddings and pastries! And....they always had the sweetest natures, just like their mother.
You see, Speedy Peake, although a physical masterpiece, was about as mean as they come! He had a horrible personality!! But, was he ever an athlete!
My cousin, Max Schott (Katie Peake's nephew) who first had the horses on his ranch near Klamath Falls, Oregon - well, Max was Speedy's trainer, and rodeoed on him a lot (Salinas, etc.)
That horse worked beautifully for Max; but as far as anyone else was concerned, Speedy would rather kill you as look at you. Funny!
I know Driftwood was supposed to have been a proper gentleman! Well, I am rambling....couldn't resist writing when I saw how you appreciate the Driftwood bloodline, and how far things have come. All the best!
De'de' Meyer
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