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| horsename = Eternal Sun | image = | caption = Eternal Sun with his owner, Harold Howard | breed=Quarter Horse |discipline = Racing Halter Cutting | sire = Eternal War | grandsire = Silver King | dam = Sierra Glitter | damsire = Diamond Villiant | sex = Stallion | foaled = 1958 | country = United States | color = Sorrel | breeder = John L. Taylor | owner = {{hlist|B.F. Phllips, Jr.|Harold Howard}} | otherawards= AQHA Racing Register of Merit AQHA Champion | racerecord = 12–2–1–1, AAA speed rating | raceearnings = $1,676.00 | racewins = Los Alamitos Championship (twice) | raceawards= | honors = Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame |updated= September 9, 2017 }} Eternal Sun (1958–1984) was an American Quarter Horse foaled in 1958. He was a Quarter Horse race horse and an American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) show horse who competed in cutting and halter classes. He earned numerous AQHA awards throughout his career, including an AQHA Championship. He was also a sire of 908 foals, many of whom are themselves AQHA award earners and race horses. He was inducted into the Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame in 1989, later followed by his daughter, Eternal Linda. He died at the age of 26 in 1984 on Harold Howard's farm. LifeEternal Sun was a 1958 sorrel stallion sired by Eternal War and out of Sierra Glitter by Silver King.[1] He was registered as an American Quarter Horse.[1] He had a white star on his forehead and a white sock on both hind legs.[2] John L. Taylor of Chino, California, bred Eternal Sun.[1]
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee B.F. Phillips-> Eternal Sun was an AQHA Champion and a Racing Register of Merit earner (speed index 95). The horse earned 41 Halter points as well as points in cutting with AQHA. In 1960, he was awarded the AQHA Racing Register of Merit. In 1964, Eternal Sun was an Open AQHA Champion. Eternal Sun was an AQHA Champion 13 times, an AQHA Grand Champion 7 times, and a Reserve Grand Champion 4 times.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=93}}[1] CareerRacing careerAmerican Quarter Horse Hall of Fame inductee B.F. Phillips, Jr., of Frisco, Texas, originally operated a cattle ranch, but decided in the late 1940s to liquidate his cattle business. Instead, he started a horse operation. A cutting show interested him so much that he started breeding and showing cow horses. In the early 1960s, he also started a stallion operation. In particular, he stood three stallions of his own, of which Eternal Sun was one.[5]Phillips ran Eternal Sun in Quarter Horse horse racing for two years. Quarter Horse racing is different from Thoroughbred racing, in that distances are shorter. One sportswriter equated Quarter Horse racing to Olympic sprinting and Thoroughbred racing to Olympic distance running.{{sfn|Drape|2007}} Eternal Sun's racing record is 12 starts in two years. He won two of his 12 races, placed second in one, and third in another. He earned a total of $1,676 in purse money. In 1960, Eternal Sun raced three times at the Los Alamitos Race Course, not placing in any of those races. In 1961, Eternal Sun raced at the Bay Meadows Racetrack (now defunct) and the Los Alamitos Race Course. At Bay Meadows he placed second in one of the maiden races. At Los Alamitos, he placed third in one of the allowance races, and he placed first two times in two other races.[6] Show career and breedingPhillips' interests changed again and he became interested in race horses.[5] In October 1966, Phillips had a production sale where he sold his breeding stallions.[7] It was a three-day affair, a gala like the John Taylor sale where he bought Eternal Sun. On October 18, the second day of the sale, Harold Howard of Remus, Michigan, bought Eternal Sun for $26,000, along with four mares.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=96}}[8] Howard was a bona fide newcomer in the horse business.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=96}} Harold Howard owned a strawberry farm in Remus, Michigan and plowed his land with draft horses. Always on the lookout for "an eye-catching horse that could do it all", in 1966 he came across an ad in Quarter Horse Journal for a production sale at Phillips' ranch in Texas that included a photo of Eternal Sun standing with his broodmare band. Howard drove to Texas and was the top bidder for the stallion. However, he was short of cash, and wrote an IOU on the corner of Phillips' sale catalog.[7] They formalized the deal with a handshake. Eternal Sun was 8 years old at the time.[7] Eternal Sun was a new style of Quarter Horse when he came to Michigan, useful for breeding. "Horses were a lot shorter and stockier," Howard's daughter Mary Kay said. "Eternal Sun had an elegant head and neck and an irresistible charisma. I’ll never forget his eyes: His foals always had his eyes."[7] Before Eternal Sun arrived in Michigan, he had already been highly commended.[7] In 1967, the American Quarter Horse Association invited the Howards to show Eternal Sun at Stallion Row at the inaugural All American Quarter Horse Congress. Howard and his six children bred the stallion and his offspring, and also showed the horses. Howard channeled his experience from driving plow horses into show driving, and he learned to pleasure drive as well as halter drive. Demand for Eternal Sun's progeny was so high that they sometimes were sold almost as soon as they finished training. Howard's son, Dar, started the colts under saddle, and he spent five years working with one of them, Eternal Pete.[7] Eternal Pete was a 1970 sorrel stallion out of Palleoana.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=98}} He became an AQHA Champion and earned a Superior in halter.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=98}} Once Eternal Pete got his AQHA Championship, he and Dar competed in state reining competitions, which they won for two consecutive years.[7] Eternal Sun was a leading sire in six AQHA categories. According to Dar, Howard said that "there weren't many horses that paid their own way. 'Eternal' built his barn and helped buy the farm we have now".[7] ProgenyAQHA registered Eternal Sun in their stud book as number 0151802. Eternal Sun sired 908 Quarter Horse foals in his lifetime.[1] Out of those 908 foals came 343 performers and 59 race starters.[7] Out of the 343 performers, one earned a world championship, two earned high-point awards, 34 earned AQHA Championships, 17 earned Superior halter awards, 20 earned Superior performance awards, 108 earned performance Registers of Merit, and 9,210 points were earned across all divisions. His progeny earned 3,598 halter points, 5,612 performance points, 104 performance Register of Merit (ROM) designations, and 34 AQHA championships. He also sired over 100 futurity winners. Eternal Sun is still reputed to be one of the top broodmare sires.[9][1] Also, in 1968, Eternal Sun was the fourth leading producer of Halter Champions. After a few years of breeding, the farm had grown to over 200 horses. Eternal Sun was highly sought as a sire and passed on his characteristics to most of the colts born on the farm. Successful progeny include Quiet Enjoyment, Story Man, Fistfull, and A Star in Time.[8] Noted AQHA Hall of Fame breeder and owner Carol Harris of BoBett Farm in Riddick, Florida, recalled seeing Matlock Rose show Eternal Sun once. Harris is most well known for her AQHA Hall of Fame horse, Rugged Lark. Eternal Sun's demeanor and physical traits impressed Harris so much, she brought her champion mare, Judy Dell, to him; the result, a colt named Eternal Dell, "made [Harris] a winner". She relates that "His (Howard's) wonderful stallion was a very big part of my success." She later brought another of her top-notch horses to him, Majestic Dell, (by Eternal Dell and out of AQHA Hall of Fame Quarter Horse Quo Vadis by Little Lloyd), whom Harris regarded almost as highly as Rugged Lark.[7] Eternal Dell was a 1965 sorrel stallion who earned 35 halter points and was a top sire for Harris. Majestic Dell was a 1973 black stallion who earned 49 halter points and was a multiple world and reserve world champion sire.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=103}} Eternal Sun's legacy presents more through his sons.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=101-102}} Death and legacyEternal Sun lived on the Howard farm for almost 20 years.[7] Eternal Sun died at the age of 26 in 1984{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=103}} and was buried on the farm next to a statue of him constructed in his honor.[7][8] His headstone, erected by Howard, reads, "Here lies the horse that changed my life".[7] Eternal Sun was inducted into the Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame in 1989.[10] Harold Howard passed away on August 8, 2008.{{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=103}} Pedigree
Source: {{sfn|Holmes|2009|page=93}} References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=http://quarterhorserecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/eternal-sun_all-foals.pdf|title=Get of Sire Detail - Eternal Sun|last=|first=|date=|website=American Quarter Horse Association|publisher=|accessdate=September 9, 2017}} 2. ^{{cite web|last1=Photography|first1=Dalco|title=Cowboy with the horse "Eternal Sun"|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc790811/m1/1/|website=Digital Library|publisher=www.digital.library.unt.edu|accessdate=February 12, 2018}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=About Wilbur May|url=https://www.washoecounty.us/parks/maycenterhome/maybio.php|website=Washoe County, Nevada|publisher=www.washoecounty.us|accessdate=February 14, 2018|language=en}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The King Ranch Legacy - King Ranch|url=https://king-ranch.com/|website=King Ranch|publisher=www.king-ranch.com|accessdate=February 14, 2018}} 5. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.aqha.com/museum/hall-of-fame/people/p/bf-phillips-jr/|title=B.F. Phillips, Jr.|author=|first=|date=|work=AQHA Hall of Fame|publisher=American Quarter Horse Association}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Eternal Sun|url=http://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=4111261®istry=Q&rbt=QH|website=Equibase {{!}} Profiles|publisher=www.equibase.com|accessdate=February 28, 2018|language=en}} 7. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite web|url=https://www.aqha.com/daily/breeding/2016/breeding-archive/eternal-sun/|title=Eternal Sun|author=|first=|date=|website=American Quarter Horse Association|publisher=|accessdate=September 10, 2017}} 8. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://www.freewebs.com/howardfarms/thestoryofthestatue.htm|title=The Story of the Statue|website=Howard Farms|accessdate=September 12, 2017}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.regal-paints.com/eternalsun.html|title=Eternal Sun|last=|first=|date=|website=Regal Paints|publisher=www.regal-paints.com|accessdate=September 13, 2017}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Past Hall of Fame Horses|url=http://miquarterhorse.com/wp-content/themes/total-child/pdf/PastHallofFameHorses.pdf|website=Michigan Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame|publisher=www.miquarterhorse.com|accessdate=February 12, 2018}} Bibliography
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