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Starlight Twister Pedigree Stats

Starlight Twister Pedigree Stats

Starlight Twister is by the AQHA World Show qualifier, Starlight Midnight. Starlight Midnight is an NRHA money-earner and he qualified for the 2007 AQHA World Show in Jr. Heeling. He has earned over 60 AQHA points and has earned his AQHA Register of Merit.

Starlight Twister is a granddaughter through her sire to the great Grays Starlight. He was bred by Harold "Spook" Stream, and then bought by Charlie Ward in hopes of replacing the great Doc Bar. Grays Starlight exceeded expectations. At the time of his untimely death at Polo Ranch in Oklahoma in 2002, his offspring totaled 727. Of those, 498 -an astounding 68.5% - earned money, to the tune of $12,130,667.
Grays Starlight himself won over $48,160 in National Cutting Horse Association earnings. He also was awarded:
  NCHA Bronze Award
NRCHA #9 All-Time Leading Sire
NCHA #11 All-Time Leading Cutting Sire
AQHA Leading Sire
NRCHA Hall of Fame
NRHA Million Dollar Sire

Starlight Midnight is out of Pam Oak, one of the best producing daughters of Docs Oak. Of those money earners Pam Oak produced are:
Bob Acre Oak $114,880
The Pidge $21,580
Uno Desperado $13,525
Pamelas Little Uno $8,392
Marla McCrea $7,279

Starlight Twister is out of the Dun It With A Twist daughter Twist with Me DR. Dun It With A Twist’s career consisted of:
Life Time Earnings of $108,946
Tradition Futurity Champion
NRHA Futurity Open Co-Reserve Champion scoring 223
US Equestrian Team Festival of Champions Nations Cup Silver
Inducted into the NADHR Hall of Fame In 2007
His offspring have earned over $600,000

Dun It With A Twist is a son of Hollywood Dun It. Hollywood Dun It was by the great Hollywood Jac 86, out of Reining mare Blossom Berry, an own daughter of Dun Berry.
During his show career Hollywood Dun It was:
National Reining Horse Association Futurity Reserve Champion
NRHA Derby Champion
Superstakes Champion
Earner of $65,808
NRHA Hall Of Fame
NRHA Six Million Dollar Sire

Offspring of Hollywood Dun It are renowned for their attractive looks and extreme trainability. They have won:
NRHA Futurity
Derby and Superstakes
National Reining Breeders Classic
All American Quarter Horse Congress Futurity
Southwest Reining Horse Association Futurity
Tradition Futurity
and numerous others around the world.
Six of his offspring have earned over $100,000

Hollywood Dun It produced AQHA World Champions, National Half-Arab Champions, and multiple NRHA World and Reserve World Champions. He was selected as the first Breyer Animal Creations Reining Horse in 1998. He earned over $100,000 in performance and sire awards. During his life, he was the Leading All-Time Sire of Reining performers, siring both AQHA and NRHA World Champions. His offspring are known for being big stoppers, deadly leaded and nimble turners that can be found in the show pen with professionals, non-pros and youths alike. Beyond that, this great sire also passed on his affectionate and people-loving nature. Hollywood Dun It was inducted into the NRHA Hall of Fame in 2000. His first two foal crops earned more than $350,000. In 2003, he became the only horse with offspring earnings surpassing the $3 million mark. Then in 2004, he again made history when his offspring made him the first $4 million sire. In 2010, the Dun Its did it again, making him the second sire in NRHA history to exceed $6 million. Through 2011, Hollywood Dun It had sired 1,209 American Quarter Horses. In 2012 Hollywood Dun It was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall Of Fame.

Dun It With A Twist’s dam is the money earning Peppy San Badger daughter Peppymint Twist. Peppymint Twist’s show credentials are:
Life Time Earnings of $221,625
NCHA Open Derby Co-Champion
NCHA Hall Of Fame
NCHA Open Derby Champion
NNCHA Open Classic Champion
Peppymint Twist produced offspring with ROM, Cutting, Reining earners of over $490,000.

Starlight Twister is a great-granddaughter of the great Peppy San Badger, affectionately known as "Little Peppy". Peppy San Badger is from the renowned King Ranch. In 1977, Peppy San Badger won the NCHA Futurity. He followed that with a win in the NCHA Derby in 1978. In 1980, Little Peppy was also inducted into the NCHA Hall Of Fame. He topped off his victories by being named the 1980 Reserve World Champion and winning the Open Division of the 1981 NCHA Finals. Besides his accomplishments in Cutting competition, Little Peppy was, until recently, the All-Time Leading Sire of NCHA competition Cutting horses. His offspring have won in excess of $20,000,000.

Peppy San Badger's sire, Mr San Peppy, has an equally impressive list of accomplishments. Besides being a two-time National Cutting Horse Association Open World Champion in 1974 and 1976, Mr San Peppy also won the AQHA World Cutting Championship in 1976, becoming the first horse ever to win both titles in the same year. Then, in 1978, he became the first horse to ever win over $100,000 in open Cutting competition. The pinnacle of his career occurred in 1974 when he became the youngest horse ever to be inducted into the NCHA Hall Of Fame.

Starlight Twister’s dam, Twist With Me DR, is out of the Lean With Me daughter, Lets Mosie Rosie. Lean With Me’s show record includes:
NRHA $23,098
1993 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Reserve Champion
1994/1995 Bruce Gilchrist Memorial Futurity Open Reining Champion
1994 AQHA World Champion Junior Working Cow Horse
1995 NRHA Derby Champion
1995 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining
Life Time Earnings of $49,705
Sire of earners of over $717,000

Lean With Me is by the World renowned Smart Little Lena.
His own record of Life Time Earnings are:  $743,275
Triple Crown (of Cutting) Winner
AQHA Hall Of Fame
NCHA Hall Of Fame
NCHA Cutting Futurity Champion
NCHA Super Stakes Champion
NCHA Derby Champion
#2 ALL-TIME Leading Sire
Sired earners of over $42.3 million
Equi-Stat Leading Cutting Sire
NCHA-AQHA Leading Cutting Sire
Sire of 17 World Champions
Sire of 11 Reserve World Champions
Sire of 110 Register of Merit winners

Reference Sire  ~  Lean With Me