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About Gunner (Colonels Smoking Gun)

Gunner — a floppy-eared sorrel overo stallion with a bald face and blue eyes — was the most charismatic horse in reining history and its greatest-ever sire

Career Highlights

  • NRHA all-time leading sire — $15M+ and climbing — surpassed
  • It for all-time lead in 2020 (seven years posthumously); first $12M, $13M, $14M, $15M sire; still breeding via frozen semen through ICSI 1996 NRHA Futurity
  • Haverty (People HOF 2005); also 2001 and 2002 USET Reining
  • Championship winner with

Lineage & Record

1993 · Bred by Eric Storey · Owned by McQuay Stables Inc., Tioga, Texas · Passed away July 8, 2013, age 20
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Class of 2003

Gunner (Colonels Smoking Gun)