The National Snaffle Bit Association is proud to announce the inductees into its prestigious Hall of Fame for 2015. In the show horse category, NSBA will induct Harley D Zip. The bay gelding earned more points, world championship titles, and AQHA Incentive Fund money than any other horse in the history of Western Riding including Open, Amateur, Amateur Select and Youth titles for his owners, the Papendick family of Highview Ranch Quarter Horses of Rapid City, SD.
Harley has earned 6,000 AQHA points, including 2,300 Open Western Riding points. This 16-time World Champion and 9-time Reserve World Champion has multiple Congress Championships and Congress Amateur Versatility Championships to his credit as well as being a 3-time AQHA year-end All-Around High Point Horse; multiple Year-End High Point Junior and Senior Horse wins; and by class, has earned 11 High Point Championships. In 2012, Harley retired at the AQHA World Championship Show.
In the breeding horse category, AQHA stallion Investment Asset will be enshrined. The 1987 bay stallion by The Big Investment earned $49,875 in futurity earnings as well as a reserve AQHA world championship and an AQHA Superior title. His get earned $260,298 in performance earnings according to Equi-Stat, as well as 29,367.5 AQHA performance points, nine AQHA world championships, three reserve world champions, 20 AQHA champions and 165 Superior award earners.
The Fritz Leeman family, of Massillon, Ohio, will be inducted in the individual category. What started as a few backyard horses for their children has turned into a 200-acre state-of-the-art breeding facility equipped to handle breeding, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, and ship cooled and frozen semen. The farm also offers mare care for foaling out in addition to the Leeman’s own breeding program. The farm has been home to such stallion as Marshall Coker and Snazzy Story to today’s world champion How Bout This Cowboy, as well as Leeman’s award winning children Lisa, Doug and Jeff, to grandchildren Katsy and Kyle. The family is also a long-time supporter of NSBA initiatives.
The inductions will take place at the NSBA Awards Banquet on Wednesday, August 12, at the Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the NSBA World Championship Show and Breeders Championship Futurity. To make a reservation for the awards banquet, please contact the NSBA office at (847) 623-6722.
