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LADY BUG'S MOON INDUCTED INTO AQHA HALL OF FAME
Lady Bug's Moon, pictured with owners Marvin and Lela Barnes after winning the 1969 Rainbow Derby at Ruidoso Downs, was among the 2013 AQHA Hall of Fame inductees.
Ruidoso Downs PhotoHOUSTON, TX—MARCH 12, 2013—Legendary stallion Lady Bug's Moon was among ten honorees – five men and five horses – who joined the 144 people and 89 horses already in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.
The inductees were honored at the 2013 American Quarter Horse Association Convention in Houston. The horses were: Lady Bug’s Moon, Fillinic, Freckles Playboy, Miss Olene and Poco Tivio. The men who were honored are: Bill Brewer of Amarillo, Texas; Kenny Hart of Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico; Frank Merrill of Purcell, Oklahoma; the late Guy Ray Rutland of Independence, Kansas; and Greg Whalen of Clements, California.
Lady Bug's Moon is known as a broodmare sire of top racehorses and barrel racing horses. The sorrel stallion was foaled in 1966, the son of Top Moon and out of FL Lady Bug by Sergeant. On the racetrack for owner and breeder Marvin and Lela Barnes of Ada, Oklahoma, Lady Bug's Moon earned $191,536. He sired the earners of more than $4 million, including one world champion, Chicory Moon. He also sired Shawne Bug, a leading sire of barrel racing horses. In the 1982 All American Futurity, Mr Master Bug won and Miss Squaw Hand was second. Both were out of Lady Bug's Moon daughters. At the time of the stallion’s death in 1995, he was the fifth all-time leading broodmare sire of earners. He stood most of his stallion career at the Lady Bug Stallion Station, named in his honor, in Madill, Oklahoma.
Induction into the Hall of Fame is one of the highest honors available within the American Quarter Horse community, and it is reserved to those who have made an exceptional contribution to the American Quarter Horse.