AQHA Past President Walter Fletcher rodeoed through college and even after he graduated. And he was a pretty good tie-down
roper. However, in 1975, he decided to go another direction and traded a couple of rope horses for a daughter of Top Moon
called Sweet Mooner. The mare’s race record was not too outstanding. However, she was the foundation of Walter’s breeding
program.

For the next seven years, Walter bred Sweet Mooner to a different stallion every year, and when the mare’s broodmare career
was finished, she had produced the winners of more than $330,000. And one of the mare’s daughters, Sweet Katrina, was the dam
of Sweet N Special, the 1990 racing champion 3-year-old filly.

Like many AQHA members, Walter is a successful rancher and farmer, as well as a horseman. But his avocation has been
successful, too. Walter and his wife, Pat, have been breeding racehorses for more than 30 years now, and their record is
pretty impressive seven stakes winners and the earners of $1.7 million.

Walter was elected to the AQHA Board of Directors in 1993 and served on the Racing Council for 10 years. He was elected to
the AQHA Executive Committee in 2002 and served as president in 2006.

During Walter’s tenure, he helped add two new classes to AQHA events – performance halter and ranch sorting.