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AQHA HALL OF FAME HORSE. Big Step, a 1956 sorrel stallion, was bred by Blain Lewis of Patagonia, Arizona, and owned by Don and Virginia Wilcox of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Big Step was by Parker’s Trouble and out of the Charlie Hepler mare Little Bit L. Don Wilcox, a member of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, bought Big Step in 1962 after a short career on the racetrack and pointed him to a new career as a sire of all-around horses, including point-earners in halter, reining, cutting, roping, racing, barrel racing, western pleasure and western riding. Big Step sired 18 open champions and 10 youth champions. On the track, Big Step sired nine race starters. In the show ring, foals sired by Big Step earned 14,101.5 points in a time when points were hard to come by. Big Step died in 1982.