Larks Home Run Lineage
Homer is a 2005 son of the legendary AQHA stallion, Rugged Lark, out of Sail Home Again
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Unforgettable Rugged Lark
Rugged Lark was a two-time AQHA World Champion Farnam Superhorse, a three-time AQHA World Champion and an AQHA Hall of Fame inducteE
Rugged Lark was a 1981 bay stallion sired by Really Rugged (TB), out of Alisa Lark (QH). Rugged Lark won the AQHA World Show Superhorse title in 1985 and in 1987. He also was an AQHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse, Superior Hunter Under Saddle Horse, and Superior Trail Horse. In 1987 he was the World Champion Senior Hunter Under Saddle Horse. In 1985 he was the World Champion Pleasure Driving Horse. He earned AQHA points in Hunter Under Saddle, Western Pleasure, Trail, Hunter Hack, Reining, Working Hunter, Western Riding, Pleasure Driving, and Barrel Racing. (source)
After his retirement in 1987, Lark became a breed ambassador and was asked to perform at the Volvo World Cup Competition in Tampa, Florida, the 1989 and 1995 Festival of Champions for the United States Equestrian Team, and was AQHA’s ambassador to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
Rugged Lark received AQHA’s Silver Spur award in recognition of his efforts as an ambassador and entertainer and in 1989 was immortalized as a Breyer horse.
After his death in 2004, his owner, Hall of Fame horsewoman Carol Harris donated all of his memorabilia, trophies, and larger-than-life bronze statue to the Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park in Ocala, Florida, saying that the horse’s legacy should be in public hands.
“I don’t think there is another horse in the country that was as loved. We offered him to everyone. We let everybody touch him. We let kids sit on him. He would stand there for three, four hours at a time. Never once did he not offer to let anyone love on him.”
— Carol Harris, Owner and Hall of Fame Horsewoman (source)
Sail Home Again aka Sally
Homer's dam, Sail Home Again, is a Kentucky-bred Thoroughbred and one of the last fillies out of the Halo bloodline, known for producing excellent mothers. "Sally" is no exception . . .
