Topsail Whiz

Topsail Whiz was the next step in a proven lineage that greatly enhanced the American Quarter Horse and impacted the sport of reining. By NRHA Million Dollar Sire and Hall of Fame stallion Topsail Cody, Topsail Whiz was out of the Cee Red mare Jeanie Whiz Bar.

Topsail Whiz was bred by Tom and Susan McBeath of Union, Mississippi, who sold the dam and colt in utero to Bob Loomis. Bob had bought Topsail Cody as a 3-year-old and trained and showed him to win the NRHA Futurity in 1980 and the AQHA world championship in junior reining the following year.

Topsail Whiz was foaled in April 1987 on the Loomis ranch at Marietta, Oklahoma.

“Topsail Whiz was just a gorgeous colt from the day he was born,” says Bob, who now lives at Overbook, Oklahoma. “He was a beautiful mover, he loped so pretty, and you couldn’t help but notice him in the pasture when he was growing up.

“I always had Dean Latimer start my favorite colts,” Bob says. “Dean started ‘Whiz,’ and he’d been riding him about 30 days, but I’d never seen him on him. One day, I asked him how that chestnut colt was riding. ‘Oh, he’s doing good,’ Dean said. I asked him why I never saw him riding him. Dean just smiled, because when he was riding a colt he really liked, he kinda liked to keep it hidden. He didn’t want to have to give him up too soon.”

Bob took Whiz the next day and started the colt’s show career soon after. Topsail Whiz finished his show career with $49,865 in NRHA lifetime earnings.

What really separated the stallion from multitudes of horses successful in the arena was his success in the breeding shed. The chestnut stallion sired 1,543 registered Quarter Horses, including Whizard Jac, The Great Whiz, Conquistador Whiz, Easy Otie Whiz, Walla Walla Whiz, Whizkey N Diamonds, Dun It For Whizkey and Smoking Whiz. Topsail Whiz’s progeny brought home eight open AQHA world championships, three amateur world championships and two youth world championships.

The stallion also sired seven NRHA Open Futurity champions, four NRHA Open Derby champions, three NRHA Million Dollar Sires and two NRHA Two Million Dollar Sires. In 2018, the year before he died, Topsail Whiz became the first NRHA $12 Million Sire. The leading NRHA sire each year from 2002 through 2009, the stallion continues to impact the sport as a leading sire of broodmares, having gotten the mothers of performers with more than $6 million in earnings.

“Every family of horses has their own problems: Some might be great stoppers and great turners but maybe aren’t pretty movers. Crossing the mare on Whiz would fix that,” Bob says. “Some families are bad-headed; Whiz would fix that. That’s what made him such a great outcross on everything else: Whiz was great at fixing problems.”

He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2022.

Biography updated as of August 2022.