Hey Hallelujah’s show career has been astonishing:
   1997 U.S. Reserve National Champion Pleasure Driving at three, and at four, 1998 U.S. and Canadian National Top Ten English Pleasure, Junior Horse. Hey! was then named 1999 U.S. and Canadian National Champion Pleasure Driving, 2000 U.S. and Canadian National Top Ten Stallion, 2001 unanimous Scottsdale English Pleasure Champion, and 2001 Canadian National Champion English Pleasure, and…2001 U.S. National Champion English Pleasure, all wins with trainer Brian Murch. Remember who was Reserve? A Temptation. This was the first time in history that both the U.S. National English Pleasure Champion and Reserve National Champion have been owned by the same farm.

                                              

   Hey Hallelujah is the only stallion ever to win U.S. and Canadian National Championships in both pleasure driving and English pleasure…not to mention Top Ten Stallion honors in both countries!

   There is an almost magical inevitability about Hey Hallelujah’s coming to Strawberry Banks. In February 1983, Neil and Barbara attended a Lasma Arabians auction in Scottsdale offering a wispy, three-year-old *Bask daughter named Hallelujah Bask. She especially appealed to them because she was so fine and lovely, and they hoped she might be affordable.

  "That was before we knew what she could do," says Barbara ruefully. "She had so much motion…. I still can hardly believe that things worked out this way!"

   None of this excellence is a fluke, of course. Not only was Hallelujah Bask a daughter of all-time leading sire *Bask, who had 196 national winners and 495 champions to his credit. Hallelujah Bask was one of nearly 300 *Bask offspring to produce or sire national winners. Brian notes that he often hears long-timers, including Neil and Barbara Chur, marvel at how Hey Hallelujah’s dynamism, his eye-popping athleticism, his "look" and lofty carriage are reminiscent of his famous mother’s. Like her, he wears himself lightly, distinctively, his neck held in an elegant arch, his ears and huge, soft eyes always forward.

   Hallelujah Bask’s own dam, U. S. Top Ten Formal Driving Horse, Heritage Montoya, by El Magato, was the dam of seven champions – and four of those, including Hallelujah Bask, were national winners. Hey Hallelujah inherits the legendary usefulness from his sire line, Huckleberry Bey. He then gets another infusion of talent and good-mindedness from his sire’s dam, Taffona, a daughter of  Raffon, U.S. National English Pleasure Champion and U.S. National Champion Stallion.

   The results of Hey! Hallelujah crossed on Tempter and *Elkana daughters is in. Fantastic! Pretty with big intelligent eyes, long hinged upright necks and with so much athletic ability. 

   Lots of  gorgeous English moving foals running around in the pastures. Future plans are to
bred A Temptation daughter's to Hey Hallelujah and vise versa.

                        2002 U.S. National Champion Pleasure Driving Open and AOTD
                              2001 Triple Crown English Pleasure
                              2001 U.S. and Canadian National Champion English Pleasure
                              2001 Scottsdale Champion English Pleasure
                              2000 Scottsdale Unanimous 1st place Stallions of '93
                              2000 U.S. and Canadian Top Ten Stallion
                              1999 Triple Crown Pleasure Driving
                              1999 Scottsdale Champion Pleasure Driving
                              1999 Canadian National Champion Pleasure Driving

                                   

                             1999 U.S. National Champion Pleasure Driving
                             1998 U.S. National Top Ten English Pleasure Jr. Horse
                             1997 U.S. National Reserve Champion Pleasure Driving