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as of )〔 | racewins = PCQHRA Futurity, Autumn Championship (twice), Wonder Lad Stakes (twice), Clabbertown G stakes (three times);〔Nye ''Great Moments'' pp. 130–133〕〔 Winner Take All Stakes; Barbara B Handicap; Champion Stakes; Ruidoso Derby; State Fair Stallion Stakes; Gold Bar Stakes; New Mexico State Fair〔''AQHA Official Get of Sire Summary Record for Go Man Go''〕 | raceawards= 1955 World Champion Quarter Running Horse; 1956 World Champion Quarter Running Horse; 1957 World Champion Quarter Running Horse;〔 Superior Race Horse; 1957 High Money Earning Race Horse; 1956 High Money Earning Horse〔 | honors = AQHA Hall of Fame〔 |updated= April 29, 2009 }} Go Man Go (1953–1983) was an American Quarter Horse stallion and race horse. He was named World Champion Quarter Running Horse three times in a row, one of only two horses to achieve that distinction. Go Man Go was considered to be of difficult temperament. While waiting in the starting gate for his very first race, he threw his jockey, broke down the gate, and ran alone around the track; he was eventually caught and went on to win the race. During his five years of competition until his retirement from racing in 1960 he had 27 wins, earning more than $86,000 (approximately $ as of ). Neither of Go Man Go's parents raced. His sire (father), the Thoroughbred stallion Top Deck, was bred by the King Ranch. His dam (mother) hailed from Louisiana; Go Man Go is thought to have gained his swiftness on the track from her. For the first years of Go Man Go's racing career, his owner faced difficulty in registering him with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), a matter that remained unresolved until 1958. Go Man Go went on to sire two All American Futurity winners and seven Champion Quarter Running Horses. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, as were two of his offspring. His daughters also produced, or were the mothers of, a number of race winners, including the Hall of Fame members Kaweah Bar and Rocket Wrangler. The director of racing for the AQHA once compared his impact on Quarter Horse racing and breeding to that of Man o' War in Thoroughbred racing, or that of human athletes such as Ben Hogan and Babe Ruth. ==Background and early life== Go Man Go was foaled in Wharton, Texas in 1953, as a result of the second breeding between the Thoroughbred stallion Top Deck and the Appendix Quarter Horse mare Lightfoot Sis.〔 Top Deck was bred by the King Ranch, and was unraced.〔Wiggins ''Great American Speedhorse'' p. 79〕 J. B. Ferguson had purchased Lightfoot Sis when her then-owner, Octave Fontenot of Prairie Ronde, Louisiana, decided to get out of the horse breeding business.〔 Ferguson paid $350 for her (approximately $ as of ) and bred her in 1952 to Top Deck (TB), resulting in Go Man Go's birth the next year.〔 Ferguson also purchased Top Deck, after the stallion injured himself as a yearling.〔Close, et al. ''Legends'' pp. 117–119〕 Lightfoot Sis showed classic short speed in her pedigree,〔Close, et al. ''Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares'' p. 121〕 although she was unraced due to an injury as a filly that left her blind in one eye.〔LeBlanc ''Cajun-Bred Running Horses'' pp. 55–57〕 Her sire was the Thoroughbred stallion Very Wise, and her dam was a Quarter Horse mare named Clear Track.〔 Scott Wells, a racing correspondent, wrote in ''The Speedhorse Magazine'' that Go Man Go "grew up lean and hard-boned, long-bodied and long-hipped, but not the best looking horse in the world. Not the best looking, just the best."〔quoted in Wiggins ''Great American Speedhorse'' p. 79〕 Go Man Go had a reputation for being difficult to handle.〔 His trainer once told Walt Wiggins, Sr. that Go Man Go was "jes plain mean as a bear most of the time".〔Quoted in Chamberlain "April 15" ''Quarter Horse Journal''〕 Throughout his racing career, Go Man Go stayed mean. One of his jockeys, Robert Strauss, recalled later that Go Man Go "was ornery from the day I met him, but he was the greatest horse I ever rode".〔quoted in Close, et al. ''Legends'' p. 122〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Go Man Go」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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