If one were to chronicle the list of Champion Quarter Horses bred by Allen and Jeanette Moehrig, it would take an encyclopedia to list them all. At the top of the list is World Champion and $1.2 million earner Special Effort, a member of the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
Early in his two-year-old year, Special Effort was sold for a record $1 million, and later—in 1981—nearly 200 lifetime breeding rights were sold for $100,000 each. But Allen and Jeanette are so much more than breeders of Special Effort.
They bred Eyesa Special, winner of the 2000 All American Futurity and $1.4 million. One-half interest in Eyesa Special reportedly sold for $4 million before he entered stud.
Operating with a small budget and a handful of broodmares, the Moehrigs bred and raised many stakes winners including five-time Futurity winner Jody O’Toole, who went on to become one of the greatest broodmare sires of all time.
Early in his two-year-old year, Special Effort was sold for a record $1 million, and later—in 1981—nearly 200 lifetime breeding rights were sold for $100,000 each. But Allen and Jeanette are so much more than breeders of Special Effort.
They bred Eyesa Special, winner of the 2000 All American Futurity and $1.4 million. One-half interest in Eyesa Special reportedly sold for $4 million before he entered stud.
Operating with a small budget and a handful of broodmares, the Moehrigs bred and raised many stakes winners including five-time Futurity winner Jody O’Toole, who went on to become one of the greatest broodmare sires of all time.