Goetta was the World Champion Quarter Running Horse for 1964, and for a time led the list of all time money-earning

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s.Nye ''Great Moments in Quarter Racing History'' p. 202-205

Life

Goetta was a 1961

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foal, sired by

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and out of a daughter of Leo named Etta Leo.Wagoner ''Quarter Racing Digest'' p. 437 Her dam was out of a daughter of Band Play, and the third dam descended from

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Goetta Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree
retrieved on June 30, 2007

Racing career

Goetta raced for three years, with thirty-one starts. She won twenty-two of her starts, placing second twice and was third twice. The

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(or AQHA) named her the 1964 World Champion Quarter Running Horse, as well as the 1965 Champion Quarter Running Aged Mare and the 1963 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old Filly. Her total earnings on the track were $233,920.00 and sixty-eight racing points. Besides the Championship titles, she also was a Race Register of Merit earner with an AAAT

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, and an AQHA Superior Race Horse. She won the

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, among other stakes wins."Hall of Fame 2007" ''Quarter Horse Journal'' p. 51

Breeding record and honors

She produced seven

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s, six of whom were race winners with two of those being stakes winners. She died in 1978 giving birth to her seventh foal. She was inducted into the

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in 2007.

Pedigree

Notes

References

*
All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Goetta
' retrieved on June 30, 2007
AQHA Hall of Fame
accessed on September 1, 2017 * "Hall of Fame 2007" ''Quarter Horse Journal'' March 2007 p. 42-55 * Nye, Nelson C. ''Great Moments in Quarter Racing History'' New York:Arco 1983 * Wagoner, Dan ''Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976'' Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1976

External links

Goetta at Quarter Horse Directory

Goetta at Quarter Horse Legends
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