0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 29
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              ROD ADAIR
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     HONORING NATIONAL CHAMPION QUARTER HORSE JOCKEY ROBERT "BOBBY"
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0012|     ADAIR ON HIS ADMISSION TO THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE
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0013|     ASSOCIATION HALL OF FAME.
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0014|     
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0015|          WHEREAS, Robert "Bobby" Adair, a 1961 graduate of
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0016|     Hagerman high school, will be installed as a member of the
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0017|     American quarter horse association hall of fame March 8 at the
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0018|     Disneyland hotel in southern California; and
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0019|          WHEREAS, he began his riding career at Ruidoso Downs the
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0020|     same summer he was graduated from high school, later riding
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0021|     winners at La Mesa park in Raton, Sunland park in Dona Ana
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0022|     county and at the state fair competition in Albuquerque; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, throughout the 1960s he rode at various tracks
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0024|     in Texas and competed at the Centennial track in Littleton,
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0025|     Colorado, ultimately riding to victory in quarter horse
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0001|     competitions from New York to Washington; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, in his twenty-year career, Bobby Adair won one
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0003|     thousand seven hundred five races at the Los Alamitos,
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0004|     California track alone; and
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0005|          WHEREAS, one hundred seventeen of these wins were stakes
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0006|     victories with bonus purses; and
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0007|          WHEREAS, for six consecutive seasons he was the track's
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0008|     leading rider and the first rider in track history to win one
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0009|     hundred or more races in a season, winning one hundred three
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0010|     in 1969; and
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0011|          WHEREAS, from 1968 through 1972, for five consecutive
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0012|     years, he was the nation's leading quarter horse rider; and
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0013|          WHEREAS, among the world champion quarter horses he rode
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0014|     to victory were the famous "Palomino Express" Kaweah Bar, Band
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0015|     of Angels, Viking Anne, Don Guerro and Bobby's Angel; and
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0016|          WHEREAS, his nearly two thousand career victories
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0017|     included six champion of champions, four times winning both
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0018|     the Kindergarten futurity and the Los Alamitos championship,
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0019|     and three victories each in El Primero Del Ano derby and the
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0020|     Kaweah Bar handicap, plus winning both the Golden State
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0021|     futurity and derby; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, a broken shoulder ended his riding career, but
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0023|     he continues to work as an outrider at Los Alamitos each
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0024|     morning as well as competing in team roping and breaking
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0025|     several dozen horses each year;
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0001|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0002|     OF NEW MEXICO that sincere congratulations be extended to
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0003|     jockey Robert "Bobby" Adair for his admission to the American
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0004|     quarter horse association hall of fame on March 8, 1998; and   
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0005|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that recognition be given to his
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0006|     more than two thousand career victories, a result of his
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0007|     dedication to excellence in his chosen career as a jockey in
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0008|     the nationally competitive American quarter horse association
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0009|     sanctioned racing circuit; and
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0010|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0011|     sent to Robert "Bobby" Adair for inclusion in his induction
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0012|     ceremony March 8, 1998 at the Disneyland hotel in California.
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