StallioneSearch Podcasts

Ruidoso Race Horse Hall of Fame trainer Paul C. Jones, who is considered by many as one of the top trainers in the history of Quarter Horse racing, is the focus of episode 37 of the QH Racing Talk podcast on StallioneSearch.com. 

The all-time leading trainer in earnings with over $90-million in career earnings, and the 14-time AQHA World Champion trainer talks with Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com about his illustrious career that has included six wins in the Champion of Champions(G1), and three wins in the prestigous All American Futurity(G1). According to AQHA records (as of October 23, 2023),  Jones is also the all-time record-setter of stakes wins in his career with 459.  

A native of California, who has been a regular at the famed Los Alamitos Race Course in Los Alamitos, California since childhood,  Jones started through the ranks while working for  his father, long-time trainer Paul T. Jones.  Paul C. Jones took out his trainers license in the early-1990's, and continues to pad the statistics with his ongoing career in multiple categories where he is the all-time leader.

On the cusp of his upcoming induction into the AQHA Hall of Fame in Amarillo, Texas this weekend to become only the sixth-jockey in Quarter Horse racing history to receive this distinction, all-time leading jockey G.R. Carter, Jr. is the focus of episode 36 of the QH Racing Talk podcast as Carter discusses multiple-facets of his illustrious career on StallioneSearch.com. 

The record-holding, 10-time AQHA World Champion jockey talks with Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com about his career that spanned over 35-years,  and saw him achieve heights that no other jockey besides him has reached.  According to AQHA records, Carter ended his career with the all-time record for wins (4,013), starts (25,700), lifetime earnings ($75,900,474), and stakes wins (386).   

Hall of Fame jockey Cliff Lambert, who rose to fame in the Quarter Horse racing world with a victory in the first-All American Futurity(G1) aboard Galobar in 1959, is the focus of episode 35 of QH Racing Talk podcast on StallioneSearch.com.

Lambert,  who turns 87 years-old later in 2023, sits down with QH Racing Talk host Greg Thompson to discuss key events of his racing career that included stints as a jockey, trainer, jockey's agent, assistant starter, and as a the first-ever racing secretary when Evangeline Downs opened for business in the mid-1960's.   Lambert spent the bulk of his career as a successful trainer after retiring from the saddle multiple decades ago.  

Lambert not only goes in-depth about the victory aboard Galobar in 1959, but discusses with first-hand knowledge about such legendary runners as Tonto Bars Hank, Rocket Bar, and Go Man Go. 

Episode 34 of the QH Racing Talk podcast, featuring legendary Hall of Fame broadcaster Chris Lincoln debuts today on StallioneSearch.com's podcast page. Lincoln worked for ESPN, where he hosted thoroughbred and quarter horse races and the weekly Racehorse Digest.  Lincoln's involvement of covering Quarter Horse racing dates back to 1981 at Blue Ribbon Downs in Oklahoma, and counts his first broadcast of the All American Futurity as the triple crown win of Special Effort on Labor Day of that year.   

Lincoln has been honored throughout his career as an inducted member of multiple Hall of Fame's, including: the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, as well as being announced as an upcoming inductee into the prestigious Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.   In 2022,  Lincoln was also honored with receiving the Jim McKay Award for career excellence in broadcasting during the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters’ 62nd annual awards dinner in Lexington, Kentucky.

Throughout his four-decades with the Quarter Racing Journal, Chamberlain was able to witness some of the key historical races in the sport, as well as to interview the legends of our sport at one time or another.   Chamberlain probably has written more articles about Quarter Horse racing than any other journalist in the sport, and is highly-regarded as one being one of a handful of people considered as to be some of the top historians of Quarter Horse racing history in the world. 

Chamberlain has received multiple accolades, and awards for journalism in his 40+ year career.  In 1984,  Chamberlain was awarded the prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Center in Oklahoma. 

As the son of AQHA Hall of Fame member Walter Merrick, Joe Merrick was a 12-year old during the legendary run of his fathers trainee in 1969, and has taken to writing the upcoming book that will give the account of those events in 1969 from the perspective of the pre-teenage adolescent.  Merrick is in the finishing stages of authoring the book, and hasn't set a date for release as of yet.

The AQHA Hall of Fame runner and sire Easy Jet rattled out an epic two-year old campaign in 1969 that saw the son of Jet Deck score 22-victories from a lofty 26-starts as a two year-old.  During that run in 1969,  Easy Jet qualified, and claimed victories in the Blue Ribbon Futurity, Columbus Triple Crown Futurity, Lubbock Downs, Futurity, Laddie Stakes at Centennial Park, Rocky Mountain QHA Futurity, All American Congress Futurity,  Sunland Park Fall Futurity, Kansas Futurity, and the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs.

StallioneSearch continues the 2023 podcast season with the debut of episode 31 of the QH Racing Talk Podcast today, that features a discussion with legendary Quarter Horse jockey Gilbert Ortiz.

 According to AQHA  records, Ortiz joined G.R. Carter, Alvin Brossette, Danny Cardoza, Eddie Garcia, Jacky Martin, and John Creager as the seventh-jockey to surpass 3000 victories.  Ortiz recently has announced that he will step away from race riding at conclusion of the 2023 racing season.

During his 45-year career as a jockey, Ortiz was the regular rider of top runners War Colors, Show Me Your Toole, Diamond Tres Seis, Heza Louisiana Dash, Watergirl B, Zupers Quick Dash, Coors Select, Magic Shiney, and millionaire Vals Fortune, and AQHA Racing Champion Aged Mare, Kool Kue Baby. Kool Kue Baby won 25 stakes victories in her career, and Vals Fortune won 18 of 20 races in his illustrious race career.

In this episode,  Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com interviews the AQHA Hall of Fame and Ruidoso Race Horse Hall of Fame trainer about his illustrious career that began on the non pari-mutuel race tracks of Texas.  A native-Texan himself, Gilbreath goes into an in-depth discussion of some of the top runners he had the pleasure of working with throughout his long-stint as a conditioner.

During his career, Gilbreath was able to capture the running of the All American Futurity(G1) three-times as a trainer, as well as recording wins in the All American Derby(G1) a record four-times, according to AQHA records.  Gilbreath applied his trade as a trainer on some of the top-runners in the history of the sport, including: Yankee Win, On A High, Refrigerator, Cold Cash 123, Ochoa, and Hotstepper, just to name a few.

In this episode,  Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com interviews Dawson about his career in broadcasting that has spanned over 50 years. Dawson has  covered both Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing for a multitude of television networks (ESPN, NBC, FS1, RideTV, Cowboy Channel), as well as traveling the globe while doing so.

During the interview with Dawson, the episode touches upon various topics ranging from both Special Effort's and Tiny's Gay run at the Ruidoso Triple Crown, celebrities of the past at the All American Futurity, Dawson's participation in the making of the movie Casey's Shadow, covering trainer Jack Brooks' run at winning eight All American's, as well as a slew of discussions of the legends of Quarter Horse racing.

On this episode,  Greg Thompson of StallioneSearch.com interviews the 1987 AQHA World Champion jockey James Lackey about his upbringing in Oklahoma to his career highlights during what industry historians feel was the heyday of racing in California during the 1980's and 1990's.

Amongst the accolades given to Lackey following his retirement from the saddle after a severe back injury,  Lackey was inducted into the 2017 Ruidoso Racehorse Hall of Fame in Ruidoso, New Mexico.   Lackey discusses some of the top horses he had the privilege of riding while working with Hall of Fame trainer Blaine Schvaneveldt in California, as well as with Hall of Fame trainer Dwayne "Sleepy" Gilbreath.