OklahomaHorses Magazine Sept 2022

8 OklahomaHorses • September / October 2022 An Equine Legacy Donation of Ranch Will Benefit OSU by Leigh Ann Matthews | Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Logan T he near loss of a favorite horse, Bandy, led George and Elizabeth Logan to donate their Haskell horse ranch to the Oklahoma State University Foundation for agriculture research after their passing. Logan died in 2011, leaving his wife to run the ranch. The couple had taken their champion mare to the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine for treatment when other veter- inarians couldn’t find her problem. “They saved our mare, giving us more time with her,” Mrs. Logan explained. With no chil- dren to inherit their property, the couple decided that leaving it to OSU was the perfect solution. The Logans bought the 320-acre prop- erty in 1970 and began their ranching ad- venture raising cattle and horses. According to Mrs. Logan, her husband was a lifelong horseman who loved the outdoors and animals, especially horses. She spent much of her adult life working as a bookkeeper at Sawyer Manufacturing and admits she was afraid of horses at first, but she helped George with stall cleaning and general care when needed. She rarely had direct contact with the horses until she was forced to care for the cattle and horses and a barn full of stallions after George’s open-heart surgery in 1995. A Successful Career in the Show Ring The Logans were breeders and owners of many world champion and reserve world champion palominos, including Tetra Dater, Clue Ellen, Strawtown Gold Fella, and GL Golden Nuggett. Not long after George recovered from surgery, his wife began a very successful career in the show ring, beginning with a young palomino filly named Scottish Nurse in the 1996 Palomi- no World Show in Tulsa. “George was astonished when I first told him I wanted to show her and that I planned to make her the high-point halter filly in Oklahoma,” his wife recalled. “He reminded me that I was beginning to show at an age when most people think about retiring.” At age 68, her first show brought her to tears when the mare was awarded reserve champion. Mrs. Logan showed colts that her hus- band selected from their growing herd. She made her first American Quarter Horse Association Select World Show appearance in 2008, placing seventh with an aged mare named Razzles Special Gal. Mrs. Logan continued to show and purchased Mrs. Fer- galicious (aka Fergie) at the AQHA World Show Sale in 2010. Her plans for Fergie were sidelined when George became ill and died in June 2011. After his death, he was honored with an AQHA 50-Year Breeders Award. Determination prevailed, and Mrs. Logan continued to show, finishing ninth in the three-year-old mare class of the 2011 Select Show at age 84. She eventually met her goal of taking Fergie to win AQHA superior in amateur halter. Mrs. Logan kept on with the work at Elizabeth Logan of Haskell has a special friend, EC Revenge, her retired undefeated racehorse.