GQ Santana is a Medicine Hat Paint, which is thought to be by Native Americans, a sacred horse that posses magical powers. When rode into battle by the chiefs, the magical powers would prevent harm from coming to those that rode them. In the identification of different types of paints horses it has been published that the Medicine Hat Paint occurs once in ten thousand in the paint horse breed. Somewhat like the “Sacred White Buffalo” who only occurs once in three million births, GQ Santana a cropout quarter horse, out of two sorrel parents, is a rarity of nature that is estimated in the quarter horse breed to occur greater than once in a million.  They are, in reality, the maximum expression of the sabino gene. What does this mean to you as a breeder? As a general rule the more white a sabino has, the more likely they are to produce color in their offspring, especially when bred to another sabino. Unknown to most people, the majority of quarter horse cropouts are sabino’s. Records show that maximum sabino’s can produce colored foals anywhere from 59% to 95% of the time. Studies show that sabino’s have not been found to carry the lethal white gene. GQ Santana has been tested negative for OWLS by the University of California, Davis. He will not sire a lethal white. Of the first six foals Santana sired, five had characteristics of a sabino.

   GQ Santana a 2000 model stallion stands 16.1 hands tall and weighs over 1400+ pounds. He has been tested NH for HYPP. Unlike a lot of Medicine Hat Paints, GQ Santana has dark eyes. Like his grandsire Mister GQ, who was a Congress Champion rider before he was a World Champion halter horse, GQ Santana is an excellent mover. With the elimination of the AQHA excessive white rule GQ Santana has been registered with the American Quarter Horse Association since 2004. He was originally registered with the American Paint Horse Association where he holds a title of Reserve World Champion, and his third registry is with the Pinto Horse Association. GQ Santana will be futurity eligible with several futurities in 2007, as well as, APHA Breeders Trust and AQHA Incentive Funded. GQ Santana has a world class pedigree to draw upon.  Double bred Mr. Conclusion and triple bred Conclusive, his pedigree sounds like a hall of fame of World Champions with GQ Eclipse, Mister GQ, Page Impressive, Sonnys Securitee, Sonny Go Te, Te N Te, Ima Cool Skip, Susie Impressive, and hall of fame Sonny Dee Bar to name a few. Mr. Conclusion by Conclusive is the all time leading World Champion producing AQHA sire with 66 open and 91 amateur World Champions to his credit, almost three times as many as his nearest competitor.

   With limited foal crops GQ Santana is already proving himself as an up and coming sire. In 2005 he was in and out of the APHA top 20 leading sires list with 2 crops to his credit. As of 11/16/06 he was list number six on the APHA Leading Sires List with the least amount of foals sired. GQ Santana is a sire of a World Champion, multiple APHA top 5’s, multiple APHA top 10’s, APHA Congress and Reserve Congress Champions, PtHA Congress Champion,As well as,  an AQHA Grand Champion! He is the sire of multiple futurity winners from coast to coast. These include the Land Rush 2005 and 2006, Oklahoma Pinto, TOVO, Nebraska Paint and Pinto, South Carolina Palmetto, Southern Colorado 2005 and 2006, Wisconsin, and Arizona. His get also have several circuit championships over the past couple of years.

   GQ Santana is the main herd sire of Higbee Farms, a small family owned farm located in Dewey, Ok. Higbee Farms was established in 1956 by George L. Higbee, a graduate of Oklahoma A&M (Oklahoma State University) with a degree in Animal Husbandry. There he operated a dairy and bred Holstein cows and maintained production records which far exceeded the national average for that era. After his death, his son David and grandson Ryan decided they wanted to utilize the farm, but with a major change we have switched to AQHA and APHA Halter Horses which the whole family could enjoy. Our passion is the overo paint horse and our mission is to produce World Class dual registered Halter Horses. Over the past few years we have gathered a small band of World Class broodmares which include Daughters and granddaughters of the Halter Horse Industries top stallions such as, Page Impressive, Sonny Dee Bar, Temon, Te N Te, Mister GQ, Ima Cool Skip, Skippa Lindy Streak, and Cluition. We usually have top quality prospects for your consideration.

   GQ Santana will stand the 2007 breeding season just a couple of mile down the road at Dewey Smith Quarter Horses. We are very excited to have Santana so close to home where we can go see him anytime. We encourage you to go by and see the Smith’s new World Class show and breeding facilities and come by and see us at Higbee Farms. You can also visit us at www.Higbeefarms.com . Thank you for your consideration of GQ Santana and Higbee Farms. We hope that we will see your Santana foals soon!!!