Country Classic

{{short description|Quarter Horse show horse}}

{{Infobox named horse

| horsename = Country Classic

| image =

| caption = – Country Classic –

| breed = Quarter Horse

| discipline = Showing

| sire = Rey Jay

| grandsire = Rey Del Rancho

| dam = Christy Carol

| damsire = Leo Bob

| sex = Gelding

| foaled =1969

| country = United States

| color = Chestnut

| breeder = Marion Flynt

| owner = Linda Marie Mills, Stacey Allyn Strain, Randall Clark Strain

| otherawards= 1977 AQHA High Point Youth Working Cowhorse

| honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

|updated=January 11, 2008

}}

Country Classic was a Quarter Horse gelding that competed and won in halter, showmanship, cutting, working cowhorse, barrel racing, stake race, hunt seat equitation, pole bending, hunter under saddle, trail, western pleasure, horsemanship, roping – both heading and heeling, and western riding."Forever Famous" Quarter Horse Journal p. 48 He won 98 all-around titles, a reserve world championship in stake race, six open and youth AQHA Superiors awards, and placed 15 times in the AQAH Youth World Show Top Ten. He died in April 1986.

Country Classic was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2001.{{cite web |title= Country Classic |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/country-classic? |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=August 30, 2017 }}

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References

  • {{cite web |title= Country Classic |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/country-classic? |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=August 30, 2017 }}
  • {{cite journal |author=Staff |title=Forever Famous |journal=Quarter Horse Journal |date=March 2001 |pages= 40–49}}