#Poncho Kibbee

[hippography]

EZRA HAWKINS 20693 

Sire: Dara Peavine 9157 

Dam: Sally O. 17596 

Owned by MRS. H. S. SUMERLIN, San Diego, Calif. 

This upstanding gelded son of Dare Peavine is as bold and spectacular in his performances as any horse showing on the Pacific Coast today. He was a consistent ribbon winner in every one of the eight shows in which he started during 1948. He won the stake at Silvergate in San Diego and was reserve in the $1000.00 championship stake at Bakersfield, also reserve champion at Imperial and reserve in the gelding stake at Del Mar.

Although he placed way down at Pomona, there is no question in the minds of many horsemen and thousands of spectators that he made the greatest performance of any stallion, more or gelding in the championship stake. It was the consensus of Saddle horse men who witnessed that event that Ezra Hawkins was the "most cheated horse of the season" when he did not place higher in that particular stake. It is admitted that the gelding lacks quality and fineness, but the outstanding performance that he turned in at Pomona was of the caliber that is expected of stake horses and stood out by comparison with several of the other contestants.

Ezra Hawkins is by Dare Peavine, the stallion which sired such equine celebrities Blue Secret, Romantic Lady, Brandywine, Yankee Doodle Dare, Sally May's King, et al.

The dam of Ezra Hawkins is Sally O. by Edna May's King. She was a better than average show mare and has proven to be an exceptional matron, having produced Romantic Lady, Four Roses, Lem Hawkins and Sadie Hawkins.

The gelding was "made" from his very beginning by Poncho Kibbee and was trained and shown by Mr. Kibbee, who is up in this picture. He is owned by Mrs. H. S. Sumerlin of San Diego, California, who also is the owner of *Bonita Valley King, winner of the yearling colt class in California's 1948 Futurity. It was Mrs. Sumerlin who, in 1941, brought out from the East that great little gelding, Artist's Love, and Hazel Twigg (a bay walk-trot mare), both of which now are consistent ribbon winners for other owners.

Betty Jellinek (ed.), 1949, Here's who in Horses of the Pacific Coast, Vol. 5