Eye Opening Legacy

07/01/2025

🔥The Northwest Horse Source's July 2025 Issue is HERE!🔥

🔹Cover Story: Built to Carry On
🔹Trail Savvy: Built, Not Broken
🔹Trainer's Corner: Are You "Just" a Trail Rider?
🔹Feature Story: Champion Eventer Mai Baum to Retire at Rebecca Farm

And as always, SO MUCH MORE!
https://nwhorsesource.com/july-2025

Official Publication of: TrailMeister, Idaho Horse Expo, Northwest Horse Fair & Expo (NWHF)
A News Source of Certified Horsemanship Association
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Cover Photo Credit: Bee Silva Photography
https://nwhorsesource.com/july-2025

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05/05/2025

We’re excited to introduce the first Legacy baby of the year. Out the outstanding mare “Taris Darcy” by Take Me Some Cash out of Taris Lady Lynx.

03/16/2025

Check out Legacy’s amazing Sire.

Do you know 𝐌𝐫 𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫?

“He may have been born on April Fool’s Day, but don’t let his size fool you,” breeder Joe Kirk Fulton told Hall of Famer Ben Hudson. “He’ll do something.”

Mr Eye Opener was foaled in 1990 on Fulton’s ranch in Ledbetter, Texas, the gray c**t by Dash For Cash was from the program that produced Peppy San Badger, to Dashs Dream, and Special Leader. Mr Eye Opener was one of five stakes horses out of Bedawee. The c**t was purchased as a yearling by 40-year breeders Dale J. and Billie C. Smith, who lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the time.

As a 2-year-old, Mr Eye Opener clocked a track record: 16.45 at 330 yards in the West Texas Futurity at Sunland Park in New Mexico. He later won the Speedhorse Gold and Silver Cup Futurity at Trinity Meadows in Texas. The following year, Mr Eye Opener ran in the final of the Speedhorse Gold and Silver Cup Derby. He left the track with earnings of $202,978 and a record of nine wins, two seconds, and a third from 15 starts.

Mr Eye Opener sired 1,497 starters from 2,024 foals, including 95 stakes winners and the earners of more than $28.2 million.

When AQHA closed the books on 2018, Mr Eye Opener ranked No. 10 on the all-time leading sires of money earners list at $28.1 million. The only son of Dash For Cash that ranked higher was First Down Dash.

Mr Eye Opener died November 18, 2018 and was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2020.

03/02/2025

Legacy's comes from some incredible mare power; from the race track to the arena, they have a proven history of producing top-notch 1D barrel horses and AQHA performance ROM all-around horses.

01/11/2025

Turn out time is always show time. 😎

11/26/2024

Check out Legacy’s article at stallionesearch.com!!

Second-Career Star: Eye Opening Legacy Is Running To A New Career Helping Veterans

11/13/2024

Legacy, a sire with a distinguished AQHA Hall of Fame lineage.

11/12/2024

Getting started on a little project for Legacy, with some guidance from my friend Bob Brenner. Legacy will be looking good.