CAPITALIZE ON GOLD
"Paris"
AQHA # 5058211
2006 Sorrel Mare
Sire: ZIPPOS NEW GOLD
Dam: REAL BIG INVESTMENT
$2,200
Performance Point Earner
STALLION OFFSPRING RECORD FOR INVESTMENT CAPITAL
Superior Performance Offspring
ROM Halter Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
Pleasure Money-earners
NSBA Money-earners
Halter Point Earners
Performance Point Earners
Stallion Specialties: Western Pleasure
Stallion Info: Breeding Fee: $750; Shipped Semen; AQHA Incentive Fund;
Location: Zolman Quarter Horses; Sharon Zolman; Mount Vernon, OH; 43050-4108; 740-397-7588;


The Big Investment Link:  
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The Big Investment
( Reference Sire )
1980 - 1986
Sorrel Stallion, 16 hands
AQHA reg. # 1571761
Sire: The Invester
Dam: The Country Girl by Lad's Zero

Breeding Notes:
Our late, great stallion The Big Investment AQHA (1980-1986) by The Invester was legendary in his short breeding career. With only 129
lifetime foals, he sired 29 Superiors, 64 ROMs, and the earners of 4554 AQHA points. In 1991 The Big Investment was named in the NSBA
Hall of Fame joining the list of honored pleasure horses. His sire The Invester was also honored as the 1994 NSBA Hall of Fame inductee.

Today, the Big Investment's grand get are performing in the same tradition. In 1994, the Paint Horse industry also became acquainted with
The Big Investment tradition when Good Ending, his granddaughter, won four APHA World Championships in Western Pleasure.

"The Big Investment was ahead of his time in looks, movement and conformation. He helped change the look of the modern day pleasure
horse. His offspring were uniformly balanced, & strong over the back, with high withers and deep heart girths. The thing that made The Big
Investment so unique, was his prepotency as a breeding horse to stamp his characteristics onto his sons and daughters and now onto his
grand get. If The Big Investment had lived a normal lifespan, he would have rewritten pleasure horse history. I believe The Big Investment
should be inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame because he is still today having a major impact on the pleasure horse industry 12 years after
his death."

Personal Statement of Nomination to NSBA:
By Steve Heckaman, 1/15/98
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Performance Record:
•        NSBA Hall of Fame 1991
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•        Principle Investment, 1989 QH Congress 2YO Western Pleasure Futurity Champion
•        Investment Asset, 1990 AQHA Reserve World Champion Junior Western Pleasure
•        Investment Creditor, 1989 NSBA Stallion Owners Futurity Champion with earnings of $25,166.
•        Multiple Champion mare: Investment Ms - Dam of Absolute Investment and Absolute Asset.
With only 129 lifetime foals, he sired 29 Superiors, 64 ROMs, and the earners of 4,554 AQHA points.

Today, the Big Investment's grand get are performing in the same tradition. In 1994, the Paint Horse industry also became acquainted with
The Big Investment tradition when Good Ending, his granddaughter, won four APHA World Championships in Western Pleasure.
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Links to Related Articles:
Working Lines : The Big Investment (part 1) : Southern Horseman
Working Lines : The Big Investment (part 2) : Southern Horseman




1984 Chestnut Quarter Horse Stallion • 15.1 Hands
Click Here For Zippos Old Gold Memorial Page

Sire: Zippos Old Gold:



AQHA Top Five leading performance sire in open, amateur, and youth. Top ten ALL TIME LEADING SIRE OF PERFORMANCE HORSES.
Three-time AQHA World Champion sire. Multiple Reserve World Champion sire. Sixteen time ABHA World Champion sire. Five time IBHA
World Championship sire. Five-time APHA World Champion sire. Sire of earners of over 22,000 AQHA points and over $424,600.00 in AQHA
Incentive Fund Money and $375,000.00 in NSBA and World Championship show money. Sire of the 2000 NSBA Horse of The Year. Sire of
the 1999 top futurity money earning horse, all ages, all divisions, and all classes. Number two leading sire of futurity money earners in all
ages and all divisions in 1999 earning in excess of $103,000 in Futurity Money. Sire of winner of the 2000 Quarter Horse Congress Junior
Western Pleasure, Western Pleasure Maturity and Reserve Champion Two Year Old Western Pleasure horses, with three Champions, three
Reserves, and fourteen top ten placing horses. Sire of the 1999 Quarter Horse Congress winner in Two Year Old Non Pro Western
Pleasure. Sire of 1998 Quarter Horse Congress winner in Two Year Old Limited Western Pleasure. Sire of the 1997 Reserve World
Champion in Two Year Old Western Pleasure and Junior Trail. His colts have placed in the top ten at the World and the Congress every year
for the last fourteen years.



American Quarter Horse Association
Leading Sire in Open, Amateur and Youth