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TEAM ROPING
The
JANUARY 2024
The
BREEDER’S
GUIDE
The Future of
Rope Horses
TIMELESS
Stallion Sevens Star Glo
Breeding 101
Top Futurity
Horses of 2023
Riata Buckle
Results
JOURNAL
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Features
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TREVOR BRAZILE AND ONE OF THE
RELENTLESS REMUDA'S TOP EARNERS,
BAMA FURY
SOLO SELECT'S
MELANIE SMITH
Solo Select Horses appears to
be in its peak performance era
and at its helm is 30-year-old
entrepreneurial whip Melanie
Smith, who has designed
an industry disruptor that is
changing the way horses will
be bought, sold and bred from
this day forward.
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BREEDING 101
Do the new incentives and
aged event programs have you
wanting to give the breeding
game a try?
Here’s a primer of what’s
ahead once you’ve booked
your stallion of choice.
by Tanya Randall
by GR Schiavino
ON THE COVER:
SEVENS STAR GLO, THE TWO-TIME ARHFA WORLD CHAMPION
HEEL HORSE; ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS PHOTO
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BREEDER’S
Guide 2024
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Old & New
As the rope horse industry
continues to develop at
lightspeed, the timeless
classics like Shining Spark
still hold strong as the
foundation of the breeding
business. Shining Spark
has sired over half-a-million in progeny earnings,
plus another $993,534 as
a paternal grandsire in the
roping disciplines.
His legacy continues
through Carol Rose Quarter Horses, two years after
his death at 33. Shining
Spark’s 2024 breeding fee,
for ICSI-only contracts, is
$5,000, and his legacy is
detailed on page TKT of
this magazine.
CREAM OF THE
FUTURITY CROP
With all eyes on the highperforming futurity scene,
we take a look at the young
(and younger) high-money
campaigners, top sires and
dams of 2023.
by Julie Mankin
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Special Advertising Section
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BREEDERS GUIDE
TOC .................................66
STALLIONS ....................67
PROGRAMS .................176
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DEAR ROPER
AT THE BARRIER
COMPETITIVE EDGE
Note from Chelsea Shaffer .................... 6
ASSOCIATION NEWS ................... 14
INDUSTRY NEWS .......................... 16
NEW PRODUCTS .......................... 18
5 FLAT / Smooth Runs, Green Horses..36
Colby Lovell
NEXT LEVEL..................................... 40
Fixing Common Mistakes
FREEZE FRAME ............................... 42
Douglas Rich
INNER STRENGTH ......................... 44
Trey Yates
HORSEPOWER / Brady Tryan ......... 46
HIGH CALL
Slam Dunk.......................................... 8
Riata Riches ...................................... 10
ASSOCIATION SCHEDULES
WSTR............................................. 218
USTRC........................................... 225
JX2.................................................. 232
Patriot Event ................................... 238
NTR ............................................... 244
ROPERS
AT HOME WITH............................. 20
Tyler Pearson
JAKE BARNES.................................. 24
CLAY O'BRIEN COOPER .............. 26
MILITARY SALUTE......................... 28
2023 PAFRA World Champions
USTRC RESISTOL JR ................... 32
USTRC CINCH LADIES ............... 34
WHERE TO ROPE
See page 218.
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THE SCORE / Jake Cooper Clay ..... 248
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TEAM ROPING
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MARHSALL AND LEZLIE WIER LOVE ON TWO-TIME ARHFA WORLD CHAMPION
AND TRJ COVER MODEL SEVENS STAR GLO.
Dear Roper,
You’re receiving our fourth annual Team
Roping Journal Breeder’s Guide. To provide this valuable service to you in the
first of the year, we're sending our January
issue earlier than in years past. Then, our
February issue will closely follow, plumb
full of Ariat World Series of Team Roping
Finale and PRCA World Championship
coverage.
We made this move this year for a few
reasons. First, the dates of this year’s NFR
and Finale fell much later in December
than in recent memory. When that happens and we hold magazine to print until
the end of the Finale, our January issue
arrives in your mailboxes terribly late—
especially late for those event producers
hoping to see you at their New Years’ and
early January ropings.
With the explosion of the rope horse
market, too, we’ve heard from breeders
who want their stallion information in
your hands earlier than ever. They are
adamantly in favor of making sure you
have the information and the time you
need to make your breeding choices this
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year, making The Breeder’s Guide your No.
1 source for the rope horse market. This
move has helped make this magazine the
largest we’ve ever produced, a testament to
the health of the horse industry.
Not to worry—our February issue will
also hit your mailboxes in January 2024,
earlier than ever. We’ll wrap it up just days
after the close of the Finale and the National Finals Rodeo and send it to press,
so you won’t notice much change. Plus,
by the time you get this magazine, you’ll
surely have already seen dozens and dozens of stories from our team online from
Las Vegas, watched the Finale airing on
WSTRoping.com, listened to a podcast
or two of the NFR go-round winners
and watched our coverage both on social
media and through our segments on The
Cowboy Channel.
Hopefully this issue is a welcome
surprise to start the New Year right. We’re
honored to share these amazing horses and
programs with you for another breeding
season.
See you down the road,
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CLICK THOMPSON PHOTO
| association news | industry news |
SHAD MAYFIELD AT THE
2023 PATRIOT FORT
WORTH
PATRIOT ROLLS INTO FORT WORTH WITH
BIG CHANGES FOR 2024
The Patriot Event is excited to announce a total reset, retool and relaunch
of all Patriot Brands in 2024, continuing
the tradition of pushing the envelope on
timed-event productions.
With a new team in place, the Patriot
Events will focus on making contestant
and supporter experience enjoyable in
and out of the arena. The Equine Network’s best-in-the-production-business
team will have a complete plan in store
for ease in the entry process, stalls/RV
reservations, traffic flow, parking and
overall event flow. The new patriotevent.
com will be the hub for all entry-process
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information, and The Patriot’s Facebook
and Instagram accounts will answer event
questions as February quickly approaches.
“We’d like to thank Ben and Jodie
Clements for running a great production along with Ginger, Robin, Andrea,
Kevin and the team at The Patriot,” John
English, production manager of Patriot
Events, said. “We sure appreciate the help
while handing off the baton to the new
team during the Las Vegas Patriot event.
Speaking of Vegas, congratulations to all
the winners, especially those ropers who
left Sin City in brand new pickups. Thank
you to the parents and kids who came out
to shine in everything from goat tying and
pole bending to tie-down, breakaway, barrels and team roping. It was a great event
and a perfect springboard into the big
show in Fort Worth in a couple months.”
The Patriot and the American Rodeo
are once again aligned in the barrel racing.
The Better Barrel Race (BBR) produced
race on March 8 will act as a contender
qualifier for the 2025 American Rodeo.
Please take note of the preliminary schedule of events and start planning your trip
to Cowtown during one of the most exciting weeks of the year.
| At the Barrier | industry news
COURTESY RIATA BUCKLE
Riata Buckles’ Top Stallions of 2023
TOP-EARNING RIATA STALLIONCAT MAN DO
2005 gray stallion
High Brow Cat x Some Kinda
Playgirl x Freckles Playboy
Owned by W.T. Waggoner Ranch
2005 red roan stallion
High Brow Cat x Chers Shadow
x Peptoboonsmal
Owned by Rockin P Ranch
2006 red roan stallion
High Brow Cat x Bet Yer Blue Boons
x Freckles Playboy
Owned by 6666 Ranch
2007 bay stallion
Corona Cartel x Dashin Folly
x First Down Dash
Owned by the Kiehne Family
2009 sorrel stallion
High Brow Cat x Quejanamia
x Son O Mia
Owned by Pitzer Ranch
2001 sorrel stallion
Nitas Wood x Tuffs Junie
x Tuff Lena
Owned by Solo Select & Kaleb Terlip
1985 sorrel stallion (deceased)
Smart Little Lena x Gay Sugar Chic
x Gay Bar King
Owned by Trevor & Tiffany Bond
2012 bay roan stallion
Duke Joe Jack x Two Eyed Diva
x Two Eyed Red Buck
Owned by Pitzer Ranch
2008 bay stallion
Smart Chic Olena x Travelin With
Sass x Travelena
Linda Mars & Dawson Performance
Horses
2002 palomino stallion (deceased)
Mr Joes Song x Show Me Gold
Money x Mr Sonny Money
Owned by Pitzer Ranch
RIATA BUCKLE’S 2024 CHANGES
After paying $2.6 million in 2023, the Riata will make changes to add more
money to the pockets of ropers, breeders and stallion owners in 2024.
The Riata Buckle will move to Oct.
2 to Oct. 5, 2024, at the Lazy E Arena,
switching from a guaranteed money format to an added money format.
“Unpredictable team growth and fluctuations in team counts created disparity
between divisions that added money will
solve moving forward,” founder Denny
Gentry said. “Cash incentives will be added to six major team ropings this year for
ropers riding Riata Buckle horses, not to
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mention a potential second Riata event.
Riata Buckle is top five in team roping
payouts in the world and when it crosses
the $3 million checkpoint it will rapidly
begin to rank against some of the largest
horse events in the country.”
The event had a 205% payback in
2023, adding over $1 for every dollar
of entry fees. Riata paid $2.6 million
in 2023, with every reason to expect $3
million for 2024.
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(At Home With)
CORBIN CULLEY AND TYLER PEARSON WINNING THE
#14.5 ROPING AT THE 2022 USTRC CINCH NFTR.
Tyler Pearson is a five-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo steer wrestler
who’s won well over $1 million in his professional cowboy career. The 2017
world champion steer wrestler, who lives in Atoka, Oklahoma with his wife,
Carissa, and kids, Stetson and Steelie, is 38 now. He’s always loved to rope, and
is these days spending more time team roping than ever before.
—By Kendra Santos
good in the bulldogging, too. The bulldogging surpassed the team roping for me
when I was in college. My college coach,
Jason Schoenfeld, was a bulldogger, and
he had us practice last to give us all the
time we wanted. We worked at it, we had
a blast, and that’s when I decided I wanted to rodeo for a living.
Q: How long have you roped?
A: I’ve roped since the eighth grade. My
dad roped a lot, so I grew up roping and
roped way before I bulldogged. I roped
way better when I was young, then fell in
love with bulldogging and took about 10
years off from team roping. I’m getting
back into team roping now in a much
bigger way.
Q: When and why did the bulldog20 | TRJ | January 2024
ging become your main event?
A: Once I got to college (at the University of West Alabama), I started rodeoing
with Herbert Theriot. It was toward the
end of his career, and we amateur rodeoed
around the house, in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. We had a horse of Alfalfa Feddersen’s they called Smoke, that
they’d ridden at the NFR. Herbert won
the calf roping and bulldogging about everywhere we went, but I started winning
Q: Have you always mostly heeled?
A: I have. I heeled when I was really
young, when I first started roping. I won
a state high school title heading for Wes
Brunson. After that, I went back to heeling, and have heeled ever since.
Q: Who’s helped you with your roping along the way?
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Q: Are you getting to go to a lot of
ropings these days?
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A: If we’re not bulldogging at a rodeo,
we’re at a roping. I don’t jump a lot of
steers in the practice pen anymore. A lot
of people come over to rope now, and if
we’re not bulldogging, we’re roping.
Q: Do you have a No. 1 heel horse?
A: I do. I just bought a red roan from Joseph Harrison. He’s just turning 7, we call
him William (which is short for Countin
On William), and I really like him. He’s
extremely nice, and putting all the runs
on Dippin Dots was too much.
UP TOP, THAT’S THE WORLD-FAMOUS DIPPIN DOTS,
WHO’LL BE FEATURED IN THE 2024 RANCHO RIO
SALE. THE PEARSON FAMILY INCLUDES TYLER,
CARISSA, STETSON AND STEELIE.
A: I’ve had a lot of cowboy friends in my
career. Where I’m living now, I’ve had a
lot of help from guys like Nick Rowland,
Jessen James and Rance Doyal. I’ve been
around Marcus (Theriot; Herbert’s son)
since he was a baby, and now he helps me
and Stetson quite a bit.
Q: How’s your fan-favorite Appaloosa
Q: Has being a world-class bulldogger helped your roping?
going to some of the rope-horse futurities?
A: No. I get just as nervous for an $800
jackpot as I did for the short round at
Dodge City. It’s the worst when I’m roping with Stetson. When I rope, it’s at a
whole different level of confidence than
when I’m bulldogging. And generally speaking, team ropers are on a whole
different level of horsemanship than bulldoggers. Steer wrestlers go straight and
as fast as we can go. Team ropers need to
use both feet, and when I’m high call for
a bunch of money at a jackpot, my feet
don’t move very good.
A: Yes and no. I entered my 5-year-old,
Tinman (South Spur Firewater), in the
Riata Buckle Roping at the Lazy E in November. Tate Kirchenschlager rode this
one for me, and did a heck of a job.
Q: How hard are you rodeoing now?
A: I went out there in 2023 for about
a month in the summertime, from Estes Park, Colorado through Dodge City,
to season a bulldogging horse. I’d been
battling some injuries, and finally got
healthy. We call this 14-year-old dark
chestnut horse, who used to be a head
horse, The Racehorse, and he’s special.
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Dippin Dots doing these days?
A: We’re still roping on him. He’ll be
in the Rancho Rio Sale in March. We’re
damn sure not going to give him away, so
we’ll just see how that goes.
Q: Have I heard right that you’ve been
Q: Who are your favorite team ropers
to watch, and why?
He’s the closest thing to Scooter I’ve ever
ridden, and I ended up winning enough
on him that month in the summer and
at a few rodeos in the fall to get into the
buildings this year. My goal is to make the
Finals on this horse. At 38, bulldogging is
starting to hurt, and I get sore. But I want
to try hard to make it on this horse.
Q: Your mini-me Stetson is 9 now,
and really loves to rope, right?
A: Yes. Stetson’s a heeler and is absolutely
obsessed with it. When I tell you this kid
ropes and watches roping videos all the
time, I mean he watches them all night.
A: Marcus, for sure, on the heading side.
Stetson really likes watching Jake Long
heel, and I like watching Paul Eaves.
Q: What are your team roping goals
for 2024?
A: I just want to keep jackpotting with
Stetson. I’m never going to pro rodeo
team rope, but I’m more in love with
team roping than ever before. To go get
greedy at the (Ariat) World Series (of
Team Roping) Finale would be the best
thing. I just want to have a ball roping
with my son. And when we’re not rodeoing, we’ll be roping.
| Ropers
| Jake Barnes
WORK TO MAKE 2024 YOUR YEAR
—By Jake Barnes with Kendra Santos
TRJ FILE PHOTO
“LET YOURSELF DREAM A LITTLE GOING INTO
2024, AND SET YOUR GOALS HIGHER,” JAKE
SUGGESTS WHEN RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR.
A
lot has changed for team ropers since I
made my first National Finals 44 years ago
in 1980. Team roping became a standard event,
which means it’s mandatory at every professional rodeo, and more rodeos than ever add equal
money. More people are making a living with a
rope than ever before in 2024, and that’s progress. But make no
mistake, it’s still a tough way to go financially, whether you’re a
professional team roper or just rope for fun. Why not do whatever it takes to give yourself the best chance at winning?
What hasn’t changed over time is the commitment it takes to
make it team roping. That statement stands at the highest level,
and actually also applies to ropers at the recreational level, who
rope as a hobby. We all know everything’s more enjoyable when
you’re doing your best. So whether your goal is a gold buckle or
to have a good time going to ropings on the weekend, what are
you going to do to make this your best year yet?
There will typically be partner changes, even at the top. Heck,
Speed (Williams) and Rich (Skelton) won eight world championships in a row, then quit roping together. That just seemed
insane, but there’s so much more to partnerships than anyone
ever realizes, and people need to do what works for them.
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This time of year is always a time of self-reflection. You need to
be brutally honest with yourself when it comes to your roping,
your horse and every aspect of being a good teammate, and do
something about your own shortcomings. Whether you’re staying hooked or are going to try on a new teammate, be open and
honest in your communication with your partners.
The guys who just won gold buckles don’t want to change
a thing, and just want to keep the ball rolling. Everybody else
is looking to take it up a notch, and give themselves a shot at
knocking them off the throne in 2024.
This all applies to the dreams that just came true at the (Ariat) World Series (of Team Roping) Finale also. There are people
with jobs and families at home who just won more in Vegas than
the big dogs. If you want to have a chance at that being you this
December, what are you going to do about it?
Whether you feel the need to take it up a notch or turn things
totally around, ropers at all levels are making changes in themselves and their teams to try and kick off the new year on the
right foot.
I’m big on loyalty when it comes to partnerships, and my longterm philosophy on that is based on mistakes I made when I was
younger. Sometimes, you really would be better off making a
change. If you’re the kind who never thinks anything is your own
fault, you’re going to figure out the hard way that the grass is not
always greener on the other side of the fence.
Ringing in a new roping year is almost like reloading your
gun. The new year is a great time to do everything from getting
your finances and horses in order to analyzing the way you practice. Doing things the way you always have is not usually the
path to improvement.
I sometimes hear people say they want to protect their number. Don’t make the mistake of letting that hold you back. I want
to win as much as I possibly can. Go win, and give them a reason
to raise your number.
I always set the goal of winning the world championship as my
mission going into every new rodeo season. A lot of guys always
say it’s to try and make the Finals, but that was never enough for
me. Suit yourself on that, but the higher you set your sights, the
better in my book.
There will be recreational ropers who win life-changing money
again this year. If you want the chance to hit the roping lottery,
you need to be roping in Vegas next December. You’ve got to
play to win, and if you only go to one roping a year, that has to
be the one. Because if it happens to be your day, and you draw
good and rope good—boom. That’s the best game in any roping
town, and really is a no-brainer.
Let yourself dream a little going into 2024, and set your goals
higher. Stay out of old ruts, and get to work.
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| Clay O’Brien Cooper
SAVVY ROPING GAMESMANSHIP COMPLETES YOU
—By Clay O’Brien Cooper with Kendra Santos
hen I started roping—watching the
best ropers’ every move,
and entering at a very
young age—I was always
studying styles of ropers.
Within those styles, you
had naturally aggressive guys who tend
to compete that way. They sometimes run
over themselves, and shoot themselves in
the foot. The upside of that cavalier attitude, though, feeds into being a winner.
At the other end of the mindset spectrum,
you have guys who are a little more conservative minded in their approach to
competing.
On the heading side, the guys who
could reach wanted to utilize that asset.
Others who weren’t reachers had a really good, snappy head loop. They scored
great, ran in close and used their horses
better. Guys like Charles Pogue, Matt Tyler and Clay Tryan really used those great
horses they rode. They were more aggressive with their horses than their ropes.
Speed (Williams) revolutionized the
heading by being able to do it all. Speed
came in when Charles was dominating
with his style, and used his reaching at the
buildings and one-headers. He worked to
develop into the all-around package, to
where he had all the range.
On the heeling side, Rickey Green was
at the wild extreme. He would ride by,
rope steers on the left side of his horse,
and dally on the right side. He was Helter
Skelter. Rickey’s the reason the crossfire
rule came into effect. He sometimes didn’t
even wait for the header to rope the steer.
Some heelers live and die by the sword,
and rope everything on the first hop.
Others figure out how to rope every steer
by two feet. Bobby Harris was so aggressive early on in his career, but learned how
to go catch every steer, and became one of
the most effective catchers.
Bobby was very versatile, but his style
changed from the first time I saw him
rodeoing in Wyoming. When he came to
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BOBBY HARRIS EVOLVED
FROM EXTRA AGGRESSIVE
EARLY ON TO BEING ONE
OF THE MOST CONSISTENT
CATCHERS.
Texas and started roping with Tee (Woolman), they built a very snappy, consistent
run. Bobby Harris did not miss. He took
the Helter Skelter out of heeling, and became a world champion.
This is a conversation worth looking at
for you young guys coming up. I’ve used
Speed and Bobby as examples from days
gone by, but both of them made up their
mind that they wanted to be versatile
and not one-dimensional. The way roping continues to get faster and tougher, I
think that’s how you’ve got to approach it.
There’s a way to throw fast, and there’s a
way to catch every steer. I love both styles,
and being able to do both fits an arsenal
quite nicely.
There are times you have to back in
there and be 3.4. Then there are times
you need to back in there and be 9 flat
in a 3.4-second setup. We saw that at the
last rodeo of the 2023 regular season in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota. All you had to
do was get a time on your first two steers
to make it back. But then in the top eight,
you had to be fast. A 3.4-second run won
first, and you had to be 3-something to
finish in the top four. At that one rodeo
you had to be able to switch it up and do
it all.
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It’s sometimes like that at the NFR
as well. You can get to the last day and
have to be really fast to have a shot at the
championship, or just need to catch. You
better know how to do both. I’ve backed
in there needing to win the 10th round to
win the world, and other times all I had to
do was get a time to win it. I like the second scenario a lot better, but being able to
do both is where it’s at.
This is all part of learning the ropes of
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PAFRA TEAM ROPING WORLD CHAMPIONS
fter three rounds of battle beginning
Thursday, Nov. 2, and culminating
on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Clovis, New
Mexico, the team of BJ Garcia and
Clint McMurtry were crowned the 2023
PAFRA World Champion team ropers.
“Clinton and I were fortunate enough
to win the first and second round, the
short round and the average,” Garcia,
who retired in 2018 after a 20-year career
with the Air Force, said of his runs. “Then
I won third in the first round with my
son, and fourth in the average.”
It was a big event for the team, as Garcia
and McMurtry, who performed aircraft
maintenance on A10s for the Air Force,
also each won Rookie of the Year titles,
though neither are new to team roping.
“Clinton and I roped together when
we were younger,” Garcia said. “His dad
and my dad go back to the ’70s when they
were both up in Oklahoma, and so we
roped together years and years ago when
we were kids.”
“We were really good friends,” McMurtry added. “It was kind of a crazy
deal. Neither one of us had plans to join
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On Sat. Nov. 4, BJ Garcia and Clint McMurty became the 2023 Professional Armed Forces Rodeo
Association World Championship Team Ropers. We caught up with them in the following days at the
American Hero Celebration to hear about their big win. —GR Schiavino
BJ GARCIA HITS THE CORNER WITH HIS STEER IN TOW AND CLINT MCMURTRY READY TO FIRE.
the military; it just kind of worked out to
where we both did. We reconnected, and
here we are.”
Both men make their homes in Texas
now, and PAFRA’s move to host their
World Championships in Clovis, New
Mexico, made traveling to the rodeo a
viable option for both.
“It was amazing,” Garcia said of the
event. “The city of Clovis, as well as Curry
County, did a lot to welcome all of us to
be there. The new [PAFRA] board that’s
there, they’ve done so much to better it
and to welcome us with open arms.”
Garcia and McMurtry also rope in the
Military Rodeo Cowboys Association and
finished the 2022 season in a tie for third
in the MRCA world standings. They also
each had big years in 2021—the first time
they attended Charly Crawford’s event at
the NRS Arena in Decatur, Texas, which
is now known as the American Hero
Celebration.
“I actually won the program with
Jake Long,” Garcia noted of his firstyear experience competing in the event’s
Military/Pro Roping that pairs military
and first responders with Top 15 ropers.
“Then, I was able to place in the average
last year.”
“David Egleston and I won [the Military
Roping] in 2021,” said McMurtry of the
roping that pays $10,000 a man to the
winners, and is strictly for military and
first responders.
Crawford and his team at the Liberty &
Loyalty Foundation go to great lengths to
make that roping as close a representation
of the NFR experience as possible for
those men and women.
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to the back numbers to getting to rope in
an NFR-type setup to making the victory
lap once they’ve won the buckles and saddles,” Crawford said, explaining why his
next big goal is to sell out tickets to the
final round of the roping, which was held
at the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth
on Veterans Day in 2023. “That feeling
right there never goes away when you can
hear that crowd bust loose and tear the
roof off. You never forget that. So that’s
my next goal for these guys.”
McMurtry also has big NFR goals in
mind.
“I’ve always wanted a back number
from the NFR,” he said. “You want to
talk about goals? That’s shooting for the
stars. So, hopefully, one day I can get one
of them felt back numbers. That’s the big
deal.”
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RESISTOL JRS: CALLAHAN TAYLOR AND KALE ROARK
Texan Callahan Taylor comes alive after a quiet month in the heading while Oklahoma’s Kale Roark
maintains his momentum climbing the Top 5 on the heels. —GR Schiavino
TOP 5 RECAP — HEADING
Taylor, who turned 13 in November,
had an effective trip to the Mesilla Valley
Classic after a few quiet months. There,
he went to work heading in the #11.5
USTRC to win the roping, worth 10
points and maybe a reason to extend the
birthday celebrations.
The win gave Taylor just enough
to edge up a place in the standings,
bumping Tyler Mota from the No. 3
position by a single point.
Taylor now follows No. 2 Aiden
Perrett by an even 10 points and No. 1
header Colt Hilley by 12 with just three
months to go before the USTRC Cinch
National Finals in Fort Worth.
TOP 5 RECAP — HEELING
On the heel side of the standings,
Roark, 15, has been earning points since
May, and his consistent try put him in
the No. 5 heeling spot last month with
42 points. There, he was only a single
point behind his closest competitor.
Since then, Roark went to the Panhandle Classic in November. At the event, he
entered the #10.5 USTRC and claimed
a fifth-place finish for 6 points to add
to his total. Then, in the #9.5 USTRC,
Roark snagged an eighth-place finish for
another 3 points.
The 9-point jump moves Roark from
the No. 5 hole in the Resistol Jr. heeling
standings into the No. 2 spot. Though
his work is cut out for him to catch No.
1 Houston Childers with 93 points, he
now boasts a 5-point lead over the tie for
the No. 3 position.
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CLINTON FOSTER PHOTOGRAPHY
Just a short month after a heated
USTRC Resistol Jr. standings report,
only Canutillo, Texas’ Callahan Taylor
and Guymon, Oklahoma’s Kale Roark
were able to make moves in the Top 5 of
the heading and heeling.
KALE ROARK, 15, HAS BEEN WORKING HIS WAY TOWARD THE TOP OF THE RESISTOL JR. STANDINGS SINCE MAY. IN
NOVEMEBR, HE BECAME THE NO. 2 HEELER AFTER WINNING ANOTHER 9 POINTS AT THE PANHANDLE CLASSIC.
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Colt Hilley
Aiden Perrett
Callahan Taylor
Tyler Mota
Gracie Drake
Ashton Hughes
Mary Margaret Smith
Ace Ashford
Lexi Delzer
Ryder Griffith
Hayden Hughes
Reid Valentine
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Luverne, Alabama
Canutillo, Texas
Monroe Township, New Jersey
Gate, Oklahoma
Wildwood, Florida
Westminster, South Carolina
Lott, Texas
Mesilla Park, New Mexico
Danville, Alabama
Oxford, Florida
Brooksville, Florida
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Houston Childers
Kale Roark
Brant Cookston
Jade Philipp
Brit Smith
Dax Reed
Kelby Frizzell
Lucas Koehn
Tanner Banks
Hazen Suit
Case Phillips
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Guymon, Oklahoma
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TOP 5 RECAP — HEADING
After entering into the Top 5 for the
first time last month, Holly Childers,
of Fairmount, Georgia, holds onto her
No. 3 position with a total of 50 points
now—just a single point behind No. 2
Aubrey Trujillo.
To continue her upward climb,
Childers headed to the Northwest Georgia Classic, where she took third place in
the #9.5 Legends, worth 8 points.
In the No. 4 spot, Gracie Drake also
holds her position, but is now closely
trailed by newcomer Brandy Black,
who hails from Adairsville, Georgia.
Black rounds out the Top 5 now with 34
points after also attending the Northwest
Georgia Classic and filling the first and
second holes in the #9.5 Legends to earn
19 points. She won another 9 points
for her second-place finish in the #9.5
USTRC and, then, she seized another 6
points when she finished fifth in the #8.5
USTRC. As a result, Black earned each
one of her 34 Cinch Ladies standings
points at this single event.
TOP 5 RECAP — HEELERS
The heelers came alive in Novemeber
with Albuquerque, New Mexico's Kyra
Hendren wrestling the No. 1 spot from
longtime leader Audrey Snyder.
Hendren hit up the Messilla Valley
Classic's #7 USTRC roping and took
second for a 9-point gain to give her a
total of 26 points and the lead.
In the very same roping, Top 5 newcomer Ashtyn Pratz of La Mesa, New
Mexico, nailed a first-place finish for 10
points, which puts her in a three-way tie
for No. 3 in the Cinch Ladies heeling
standings.
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The Cinch Ladies ropers were getting their holiday cheer on, with Georgia headers Holly Childers and
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Ashtyn Pratz joined the Top 5 party. —GR Schiavino
BRANDY BLACK BECAME A TOP 5 CONTENDER AFTER A NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL RUNS AT THE NORTHWEST
GEORGIA CLASSIC AND WINNING THE #9.5 LEGENDS WITH DENNIS MOORE.
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Caroline Taylor
Aubrey Trujillo
Holly Childers
Gracie Drake
Brandy Black
Mary Margaret Smith
Lexi Delzer
Lucy Lawson
Hannah White
Parker Penny
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San Rafael, New Mexico
Fairmount, Georgia
Gate, Oklahoma
Adairsville, Georgia
Westminster, South Carolina
Mesilla Park, New Mexico
Dalhart, Texas
Dekalb, Texas
Ridgeway, Missouri
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Kyra Hendren
Audrey Snyder
Shayna Wimberly
Voy McNeil
Ashtyn Pratz
Hailee Trujillo
Maddie Smith
Patti Scott
Nicole Jauregui
Makayla Osborne
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LESSONS IN LOSING
Trey Yates, the 2018 NFR average champion and three-time NFR heeler, finished the 2023 season with Chad Masters within
reach of another Finals berth, but fell short. Here’s what he learned.
I first started taking interest in rodeoing
in like, 2006, when I moved in with my
dad and my family in Colorado. Chad
Masters was one of the best at that time—
and he still is—and that was right when
he won his first world title, in 2007.
I always wanted to rope with Chad,
because of who he is as a person and
because of how great of a header he is. So
to rope together and not make it is very
hard to take. For us, to go to Denver and
have full intentions of taking the world
by storm and you don’t, it’s a bitter pill
to swallow. But around Caldwell, I told
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match. In 2023, I rode him at San Angelo,
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but I didn’t take him to California. Then
Chad came up in May to practice, and I
felt Dude go off on one steer. And he was
hurt.
I can be an overwhelming person at
times, and Dude being out affected me,
and I let it affect our year. Nothing seemed
to go right. We never got in a rhythm. I
didn’t rope good. I didn’t have the best
attitude. I tried to, but it ate me alive. I’ve
always had trouble handling my emotions
with roping, but when you have someone
you want to do so good for, and then you
screw up, it hurts even worse. I did my
best not to let it eat on me, and I learned
a lot about that this year, but it did.
I learned you have to find a way to
brush it off. Everybody screws up—
some less than others—but nothing is
impossible, because as terrible a year as we
had, we were still within range. We were
never out of it. So, what if I’d have had a
better attitude here or there or been more
focused? Three steers could have changed
everything, and a guy’s got to be pretty
strong-willed at times to make it.
I roped scared a lot this year. That’s a
hard thing to say, but I roped scared to
fail and you can’t do that out here. There’s
too many guys that rope good. You work
all year at home, and you jackpot and you
practice, for what? Why would you be
scared to fail? You get to do it again. If I
could do it over, I would try to have that
attitude more. You’re programmed to heel
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THE BROWN MARE NAMED GYPSY WHO’S
MADE THE ROPING ROUNDS
Previously Owned by Aguilera, Driggers, Schmidt and Clay Tryan. — By Kendra Santos
CFR PHOTO BY CHANTELLE BOWMAN
BRADY TRYAN’S GRITTY GYPSY HELPED HIM AND
CALGARY SMITH PUT THE HURT ON THE TEAM
ROPING RECORD BOOKS AT THE 2023 CANADIAN
FINALS RODEO.
Brady Tryan and Calgary Smith dominated the 2023 Canadian Finals Rodeo
up in Red Deer, Alberta in November to
also win their first Canadian Professional
Rodeo Association team roping titles in
record fashion. After finishing second in
the first two rounds, they swept the final
four and daylighted the field in the sixsteer average. Tryan was quick to credit
his head horse—the 15-year-old brown
mare they call Gypsy, who could not be
more aptly named.
“The Canadian Finals went as good as
a guy could have dreamed it would go,”
said Tryan, 34, who calls Huntley, Montana, home.
That’s a fact. Tryan and Smith, who’s
from Oregon, set five Canadian records at
the 49th annual CFR, including the new
3.5-second fast-time record, which was
matched by Rhen Richard and Jeremy
Buhler in Round 3; the 24.3 on six CFR
average record; the $62,837 per man CFR
team roping earnings record; and the
$91,493 annual CPRA team roping earnings record. Winning four straight rounds
like they did also was without precedent.
It was Tryan’s second CFR, after heading at the first one in 2018 for Canadian
cowboy Kasper Roy. The Canadian titles
were a first for both Tryan and Smith,
who rode his sorrel heel horse, Colonel.
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About that head horse, though. Gypsy
might not have any registration papers,
but she’s definitely Grade A, and has
helped a lot of headliner headers do some
serious winning.
“Lightning Aguilera, Kaleb Driggers,
Kolton Schmidt and Clay (Tryan; in
2010, Clay, Travis and Brady Tryan became the first and only set of three brothers to rope at the same NFR) all owned
Gypsy before I did,” said Brady, who
headed for Jake Long at the 2010 and ’11
NFRs. “I rode her at 60 of the 65 rodeos
I went to in 2023, and reached at all but
two of them. She just kept letting me do
it. That’s what’s cool about her.
“If you get a good start on Gypsy, she’s
going to give you a good go and a chance
to win. So that was my whole plan at
the CFR. The go-rounds pay really good
there, especially the first three holes. We
had one of the fastest teams (Tee McLeod
and Brady Chappel) ahead of us, and
the fastest team in Canada, the Graham
brothers, right behind us every round. So
I knew I had to be aggressive. There was
no backing off, because those guys’ll beat
you.”
Tryan admits Gypsy isn’t the horse for
Salinas or Cheyenne.
“But that arena in Red Deer is tight,
so I want her headed out as soon as the
head rope goes on there,” Brady said. “I
barely turned off when we were practicing
the month before the CFR, because I just
wanted Gypsy thinking about running to
the steer. To get through six rounds like
that—she was insane.”
Brady bought Gypsy from big brother
Clay last May. He’d only ridden her in the
summer of 2022—when Clay Smith got
hurt and Brady got the call to fill in for
Long at a few rodeos—then at a week of
Northwest rodeos that fall when he roped
with Calgary.
“Gypsy’s just a winner,” said Brady,
who went to 65 rodeos in 2023—mostly
Canadian and Montana Circuit rodeos.
“If you get a good start, plan to use your
rope and don’t draw the worst steer in the
herd, she’s going to let you win. I think
it’s pretty cool that those guys who used
to ride her will pet her on the head when
I ride by.”
Tryan and Smith will see what 2024
looks like after the winter run, and take
it from there.
“I’m kind of a ‘see how it goes guy’ at
this time in my life,” Brady said. “I have
a wife (Callahan) and two little kids
(daughter Oakley turned 3 in December,
and son Tee’s still a baby). And rodeoing
hard means being gone.”
Callahan and her barrel horse Brownie
won the 2018 CFR average and Canadian title the same way Brady did in 2023,
placing second in two rounds, winning
four others and the average, and setting
round and average records, among others.
“We love Red Deer,” Brady said. “We’re
sad the CFR is leaving.”
The 50th annual CFR will be held in
Edmonton, and will be five rounds instead of six. Team roping was added to the
CFR in 2000, and the event’s had equal
money since 2017.
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I
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business opportunities in the horse world. In a sense, Smith’s tale is of a typical, by-the-bootstraps American
Dream realized. Until you realize that she’s only just turned 30 and that, by 30, she hasn’t only realized success.
No, by Melanie Smith’s 30th birthday, she has designed an industry disruptor that is changing the way horses will
be bought, sold and bred from this day forward.
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SMITH AND 2023’S TOP FUTURITY
ROPE HORSE SIRE WOODY BE TUFF.
SELLING HIGH SELLERS
Six years ago, Solo Select Horses found
its start with roots in the online horse sale
market. Ironically, the horse market—which
surely has roots as old as the domestication
of horses some 6,000 years ago—has barely
operated in the online space, even today, and
even more so when the focus is narrowed to
horses in the Western performance industry.
But that’s the space in which Melanie cut
her horse-trading teeth, to the tune of online
horse sales at a time when almost no one else
had ever considered such a thing.
“When I was in nursing school, I was selling
horses online and it was brand new then,”
Melanie said. “Then, we started Facebook
auctions and that was brand new, and it’s just
continued to develop into this technology. It’s
completely changed the industry.”
Before this issue will be delivered to mailboxes in January, Solo Select will have its final
sale of 2023 on Christmas Eve. And just prior to this story going to print, the company
hosted its Thanksgiving sale, in which the top
five high sellers averaged $128,000 and the
top 10 $95,450.
“I think when we looked the other day, we
were going to have sold [about] 600 horses in
our online sales this year,” Melanie estimated
ahead of the holiday events.
NCHA stallion Boons Reflection (Once In
A Blu Boon x Cats Reflection x High Brow
Cat) topped the Thanksgiving Day sale at
$170,000 and, right behind him, NRCHA
mare Ain’t Karma A Hitch (Metallic Rebel
x Shine Smartly x Shining Spark) pulled in
$160,000. Then, equally as interesting as a
stud and a mare going toe-to-toe at the top is
two top-selling rope horse embryos averaging
$43,000.
Before that, Solo Select was already
on a record-breaking roll in 2023. In its
$2.75-million-grossing Labor Day sale, MS
Baby Cakes (Metallic Cat x Special Nu Baby
x Dual Rey) became the highest-selling horse
in the history of online sales when she realized
$540,000.
Maybe a month later, Solo Select consigned
Blackkout (Winners Version x RC Back in
Black) with Relentless Remuda partners Miles
Baker and Trevor Brazile and broke the highseller record at the barrel horse industry’s Pink
Buckle Sale when the stallion’s auction run
was shut down at $875,000.
Then a few weeks after that, Solo Select’s
yearling, Black Magic Woman (Shining Spark
x Carrera Cat x Metallic Cat), set a new record
for the Western Bloodstock NRCHA Sale
when she sold for $180,000.
In a way, Solo Select has turned the horse
world on its head: Mares are making just as
much as the studs; rope horse trainers are
selling barrel horses; NFR-caliber rope horses
are producing high-dollar embryos; and
anyone with a smart phone can have access
to the sale’s bidding app from anywhere in
whole, wide world.
For Melanie, it’s all simply a part of the Solo
Select mission to be the very best.
“It’s just something that’s easy to apply to
every part of what we do because we want to
be the leader in online sales,” she said. “We
want to be the leaders in the breeding business,
and we want to be at the top of the game. So,
it’s easy for me to spread that around to our
company and make that a culture that we all
live by.
“We set ourselves to a higher standard than
everybody else,” Melanie continued. “I don’t
care what everybody else is doing. This is how
we do it, and I think that’s important for the
horse business because the horse business is
behind all other businesses all the time. Like,
we’re 20 years behind everything, you know?
Computer programs, whatever you think
about, the horse business is just always behind.
So we’re just want to try to be a step ahead.”
SOLO SAVANTS
The name Solo Select is a nod to Melanie’s
gumption. The reality is that Solo Select is her
online horse sale business version 2.0. She’d
built one before and walked away from it.
Then she did it again. From scratch, again.
To say Melanie has done it all by herself is
inaccurate, but so far, she’s established herself
as the key ingredient for a business poised to
meet market demands at the cross section
of proven bloodlines and new technologies.
Perhaps most importantly, she’s the person
who can bring the rest of the market to that
cross section.
“Mel is the person that will pick up the
phone and talk to you and explain stuff to
you,” Miles Baker said. “She knows the business. She understands it well and, with her
marketing savvy, she has so much reach.”
In her first horse sale venture, Melanie put
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a story on her website about her arguably
ineloquent welcome into the world of
horses. Her prose created a sense of
relevance for prospective buyers who were
equally unsure of their footing while also
providing them a solid and trustworthy
entry point.
“There is no telling how much that little
story made,” Melanie told horse trainer
and podcast host Clinton Anderson,
under whom Ain’t Karma A Hitch has
been showing.
In this iteration of the business, Melanie
has grown in lockstep with Solo Select,
learning where to put her talents and
where to put the talents of others to use.
She works in close partnership with Solo
Select CEO Ty Smith, who has been with
the company from the start, but has really
stepped into the fold in the past two years.
“We’re such a great duo,” Melanie said
of their professional dynamic. “He has
such a pulse on the market because he
looks at and watches so many sales. …
It’s interesting because, not only has Ty
bought the second highest selling horse
at the Western Bloodstock, he was also a
partner on the highest horse ever sold at
Western Bloodstock, and he’s the highest
volume buyer there. That just goes to
show how in the trenches he is.
“I think that part—him having his
thumb on that—is crucial to the success
of what we’re seeing this year,” Melanie
continued. “Having the high sellers and
having the high-selling embryos of all
time, having the highest selling horse
on the internet of all time—all of those
things are because we know what works
and, when I say we, I mean him a lot of
the time because he’s the horse sale guru.”
Ty, of Ty Smith Performance Horses,
played a big role in forming the
partnership between Solo Select and
Relentless Remuda, for instance.
“I knew Ty way before I knew Trevor,
and I met Melanie just by buying some
horses from her” Baker said. “Ty’s been
around horses his whole life. He showed
horses when he was young and then he
rodeoed in college and he’s always been
savvy on the rope horse side of stuff because he was involved in that at a young
age. Ty roped incredibly good. He headed
really well.
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TY SMITH, CEO
“Ty was kind of under a guy named
Doug Carpenter, and he was like a genius
in the horse deal,” Baker added. “I would
venture to say [Ty’s] as sharp as you could
find when it comes to the horse market,
what’s happening in the horse world and
the breeding game. … He’s not an overnight sensation by any means.”
Baker’s resolute confidence in the team
at Solo Select resulted in Brazile agreeing
to a partnership—something he’d only
ever done with Baker to form Relentless
Remuda and, before that, with Lari Dee
Guy. And, so far, it’s been a winning joinup for all parties.
“Right after they had bought ‘Buckles,’ we all got to talking about this rope
horse deal,” Melanie said. “We did a deal
with them on Dirty Fling (Metallic Cat x
Streak Of Gin x A Streak Of Fling) and
then we bought a set of mares and it’s just
grown from there.”
TOP: MILES BAKER ON BRONZE CHAMPION PRIDE
AND JOYY (“KILO”) AND TREVOR BRAZILE ON WORLD
CHAMPION DARKK SIDE, FLANKED BY TY SMITH AND
MELANIE SMITH AT THE 2023 AQHA WORLD SHOW.
According to Melanie, the Solo Select
and Relentless Remuda cross works better
than a lot of partnerships because each
side has more to offer than dollars alone.
“It just goes back to having great
relationships with people,” Melanie said.
“We are excellent and what we do and
they are excellent at what they do. If
I’m going to partner with someone [for
financial reasons], I’m going to partner
with the bank for 8% interest. But those
guys bring so much to the table, and we
do the same for them. That’s what I tell
them: ‘If you guys can make them win,
I’ll make sure everybody knows about it.
That’s what I need from you guys.’”
The need for Solo Select’s skills are
equally valuable to the Relentless Remuda
side, making the partnership pure gold for
this moment in horse market time.
“Trevor and I had seen where the
breeding game was going with the rope
horse deal before it started,” Baker
explained. “I said, ‘We need to learn,’ and
so we got in with Ty and Mel and, Trev
called it ‘going to college’ when we started
partnering with them because we’re going
to learn and grow from it. Then it just
turned into us talking all day, every day. I
talk to Melanie four and five times a day.”
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The scope of what Solo Select is managing on a day-to-day basis is impressive,
to say the least. Not only do they have the
right people in the right places, but they
have also designed a company and sister
companies to provide a full-service, dangnear cradle-to-grave horse buying and
breeding experience. They can even handle hauling logistics or talk about their
challenges and successes on “The Business
of Horses,” a podcast Melanie launched in
March of this year.
Of considerable note, however, is Solo
Select’s impact on the evolution of the
rope horse.
“We’ve got a 2-year-old right now
that really good, named Rock Vader,
by Valiant Hero,” Melanie offered of a
racehorse they’ve added to their string. “It
kind of merges with the direction I think
some of the rope horse industry is going.
I think we get the right racehorse studs. I
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think there’s a big market for that crossed
on these cutting and cow horse mares
and, in my opinion, in 10 years when we
all sit down, it’s going to be something
like ‘Kilo’ (Stevie Rey Von x Fun N
Fancy Free x Peptoboonsmal) or ‘Stevie’
(Metallic Cat x Miss Ella Rey x Dual Rey)
or ‘Darkk Side’ (Once In A Blu Boon x
DT Sugar Chex Whiz) out of a racehorse
mare—that’s going to be the team roping
stallion.
“That’s my theory, and it’s Miles’ and
Trevor’s theory.”
In “Raised Relentless,” a recent film
that aired on horseweek.tv, Brazile offers
his insights on the rope horse they’re
designing and why.
“We’ve got an end-goal in mind for
these horses from the beginning,” he
says in the video. “The horses that we’re
starting nowadays, as a 2-year-old, are
being programed from Day 1 to be a
rope horse. Any strengths that they are
going to need, we’re putting in them. And
strengths they weren’t going to need, they
aren’t going to have that wasting space in
their mind.”
The end product, according to Baker, is
a rope horse that’s ready from the ground
up.
“We’ve just taken the long way around
for so long, like getting rejects and putting
them into the roping. Now, they’re going
to be rope horses from the beginning.
In the past, we kind of took a secondhand product and turned into what we
wanted it to be. We’re going to see it at
the futurities in the next few years how
much tougher they’re going to be because
I’m roping on 2-year-olds now. Used to
[be], we weren’t roping on them until
they were 4, and they had already failed
at something else. So we’re going to see a
big difference.”
And, in actuality, the wait doesn’t have
to be for them to hit the ground either
anymore. The advancements in breeding
technologies and ICSI, specifically, have
generated a path that Solo Select is paving
for ropers to be a part the breeding game
and the design of the future rope horse
in ways that were never before imagined.
“The team roping industry hasn’t done
a great job of breeding and promoting its
top mares,” Ty said ahead of offering the
Woody Be Tuff x Junior Nogueira’s Apache
R Hali embryo in the Thanksgiving sale.
“Junior is one of the first to have a mare
of this caliber and promote her like the
rest of the performance horse world
has done and, so far, the results have
been exceptional. There just aren’t other
opportunities to buy an embryo out of a
mare like this, who has won at such a high
level for so long.”
CRÈME DE LA CRÈME
Inarguably, the missions driving Relentless Remuda and Solo Select couldn’t
be better aligned. One doesn’t become a
26-time World Champion or a business
partner of said World Champion without
a heap of relentless try. At Solo Select,
plainly and prominently stated on the
home page is its bar for daily operations:
The Very Best.
According to Melanie, though, that
doesn’t make her, her business or entry
into this burgeoning rope horse evolution
inaccessible to anyone. Quite the opposite,
in fact.
“There is a future in the team roping for
breeders. It’s such a new thing, but it can
be such a rewarding process that can involve more of the family, too. What I see a
lot is a dad who likes to rope and, this way,
the kids and the wife get to be a part of
breeding decisions and seeing what studs
are winning, even at the higher end. So,
even if you’re not roping at that level, you
get to enjoy watching those horses at that
level win because you’ve chosen to breed
to them. That’s fun for the whole family.
That’s one part that I think is kind of
cool,” Melanie continued. “Until this
time, it’s never paid off to be a breeder in
the team roping, so now, this is the first
year we’ve had team ropers as breeding clients, and they’re not professional ropers.
They rope on the weekends for fun. For
whatever reason—their age, their ability, their job—they’re never going to be
an NFR team roper. But they can be the
breeder of one, and that’s pretty cool.”
BREEDING 101
A MYERS RANCH MARE AND FOAL ENJOYING
SOUTH DAKOTA IN THE SUMMER.
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Do the new incentives and aged event programs have you wanting to give the breeding game a try?
Here’s a primer of what’s ahead once you’ve booked your stallion of choice. —By Tanya Randall
AT THE MYERS RANCH, MARES DON’T TYPICALLY
BEGIN FOALING UNTIL LATE SPRING.
The natural versus artificial
breeding process
It’s not uncommon for larger ranches to
turn a stallion out with a specific band of
mares for pasture breeding, simply letting
mother nature take its course.
Hand-breeding, careful preparation
of the mare and stallion for monitored
live cover is largely exclusive to the
Thoroughbred racing industry; however,
it’s often the method of choice for “local”
stallions that only cover a handful of
outside mares each year.
The most common method today is
artificial insemination via cooled or frozen
semen. For this process, the stallion’s
semen is collected and shipped to the
mare’s location. It’s important to note that
stallions aren’t collected every day; rather,
they have an every-other-day collection
schedule. This makes monitoring a mare’s
cycle extremely important.
Frozen semen is generally offered on
deceased stallions, those still performing
or those with extremely full books.
While it does make it more accessible
in reaching the mare’s breeding facility,
frozen generally adds to your veterinary
fees because it’s more labor intensive.
“Your window for conception has to be
more precise,” says Matt Randall, DVM,
of Waller, Texas. “That means you’re
palpating the mare more often, sometimes
three, even four, times a day or night if
that’s what the mare’s cycle dictates.”
What does flushing
embryos mean?
Embryo transfer is the process of flushing
an embryo from one mare (the donor) to
another (a recipient). It’s used frequently
to allow performance mares to continue
their careers while taking advantage of
their fertile years. It’s also an option for
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When it comes to raising horses,
technology has given us many options,
from traditional methods to sub-fertile
mares producing foals by long deceased
stallions.
older mares and mares with high demand
for their offspring. It also allows mare
owners to get multiple foals by different
stallions during the same year.
Shortly after the mare is bred, her uterus is flushed before the embryo can cleave
to her womb. The embryo is observed for
viability and then implanted in a recipient
mare.
The key is to have your donor and
recipient’s cycles synchronized to make it
more likely that the flushed embryo will
cleave to the womb of the recipient. That’s
why the larger reproductive facilities that
specialize in embryo transfer have large
herds of recipient mares. It makes the
odds of finding one synchronized with
the donor more likely.
Embryos can also be flushed and vitrified, the process of using rapid cooling to
freeze the embryo without the formation
of crystals. The frozen embryo can then be
transported and stored until needed.
What is ICSI?
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
is a specialized assisted reproductive
process that’s often used on mares with
fertility issues or ones where multiple foals
are desired. Some stallions, particularly
those deceased with limited frozen semen
available, are only offered through the
ICSI process.
The process starts with the aspiration
of oocytes or “eggs” from a mare’s ovaries.
After harvesting, the eggs are incubated
for 24 hours and injected with a sperm cell
when ready. They’re once again incubated
for a period of days, and those injected
oocytes that mature into embryos are
placed into recipient mares or vitrified.
Due to the complexity of the process,
it’s one of the more expensive procedures
available. Mare owners should research
facilities carefully as it is easy to spend
several thousands of dollars without
having a foal to show for it. (The
largest U.S. ICSI lab is based in Purcell,
Oklahoma: genetechvet.com.)
When compared to buying a top-tier
prospect, breeding can seem cheap. In
reality, it’s as expensive as you’re willing to
make it. Flushing embryos or using ICSI
increases your cost over letting a mare
carry her own foal.
The General Process
What pre-breeding prep does
your mare need?
A cost that often adds up quickly is
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MARES NEED 16 HOURS OF SUNLIGHT (NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL COMBINED)
FOR 60 TO 90 DAYS TO KICK-START THEIR HEAT CYCLES.
repeated shipments of semen. With
each shipment costing $400 to $450, it’s
important to start with a mare in good
reproductive health.
The best odds for conception come from
using mares during their peak reproductive
years, from 4 to 12. Typically, at 10 to 12,
a mare’s reproductive efficiency starts to
decrease, especially in maiden mares.
Prior to breeding, a mare should have a
reproductive assessment that may include
uterine cultures and biopsies to check for
potential infections or problems that may
affect their ability to conceive.
“Cultures typically aren’t needed in
younger maiden mares,” said Randall,
referring to mares that have never been
bred or exposed to a stallion. “It is very
rare for a maiden mare that’s never been
exposed to or serviced by a stallion to have
an infection, but it can happen. On older
mares it’s not a bad idea to culture them,
especially if they’ve had problems getting
in foal in the past.”
Older mares, particularly those that are
difficult to settle (get in foal), may need
an endometrial biopsy, where a piece of
the interior wall is taken for laboratory
analysis. This biopsy is used to evaluate a
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mare’s ability to get and stay in foal.
Ideally, the earlier a mare is checked for
issues, the earlier they can be resolved if
able. Treating an infection in the fall will
increase the odds of conception during
the first cycles of the year rather than
missing one or two due to treatment.
What you need to know about
heat cycles
Estrus, a mare’s reproductive cycle, runs
21 days on average. The seven day period
that leads up to ovulation is estrus, more
commonly called “heat.” Mares typically
cycle during the spring through early fall
but will go into an anestrous period where
they don’t cycle at all during the winter
months.
Since heat cycles are triggered by
lengthening days, like in the spring, mares
can be manipulated into starting their cycles earlier in the year by adding artificial
light to trick them into thinking the days
are longer. They need 16 hours (natural
and artificial combined) for 60 to 90 days
to kick-start estrous, but no more as 24
hours of light can cause problems. For example, if you want to breed in February
or March, you need to start adding addi-
tional light no later than Dec. 15.
Artificial light needs to be bright
enough to read a newspaper in the darkest
corner of a stall. Special masks, like the
Equilume, also work to manipulate
estrous through additional light without
having to have the mare confined to a
lighted barn or corral.
Signs of heat are urine squirting,
winking of the vulva and generally more
squealing and crankiness than normal.
Knowing the signs that your mare is
coming into her heat cycle is important
if you’re hauling her to and from a facility
for any reproductive work.
When is breeding season?
Breeding season typically starts late winter
and runs through mid-summer with a
little variation depending on geography. It
often starts sooner in the warmer climate
and a little later in the northern states and
Canada.
“We start collecting and shipping
in March,” said Bill Myers of Myers
Performance Horses in St Onge, South
Dakota. “We used to start in February,
but now we’re in March and go through
the middle of July.
How do you monitor cycles?
Veterinarians and reproductive specialists
monitor a mare’s reproductive readiness
through palpation and ultrasound examination of her ovaries through her rectum.
Where a mare is at in her cycle determines how often she’s palpated. The closer she is to coming into heat, the more
frequently she’s monitored for impending
ovulation.
“Typically, you’ll check mares once or
twice a week until they come in,” Randall said. “Once they’re coming into heat,
they’ll be checked daily or at least every
other day. The mares dictate the timing
of everything. There’s little we can do to
influence that, so for the most part, she’s
calling the shots. We have to work around
her schedule.”
Because timing is of the essence and
totally dependent on the mare’s schedule,
owners have to decide if they want to haul
their mares back and forth to the repro or
veterinary facility, or if it’s easier for them
to leave the mare onsite.
“The easiest way is to drop the mare off
and pick her up when she’s in foal,” Randall
said. “You have to decide what your time’s
worth versus the board fee. With diesel
prices what they are, it’s not much more
expensive to leave them for two weeks
versus hauling them back and forth.”
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How do you order semen?
Whomever is doing your mare’s
reproductive work should have a copy
of the breeding contract, with specific
obligations that must be met to be eligible
for possible rebreeds (trying again next
season) if the mare fails to conceive, or
a live foal guarantee—which means the
foal is born healthy and stands and nurses
without medical intervention.
The contract also has the stallion’s
collection schedule and the process of
ordering semen.
The person handling your mare has the
best idea of when they will need semen
and, unless told otherwise, it’s best to let
them handle the ordering and receiving of
the semen shipment.
“Owners get excited about getting their
mares bred, and sometimes when you say,
‘She’s getting close,’ they hear, ‘it’s time to
order semen’ and do so before the mare
has reached the window,” Randall said.
It’s also important to have a credit card
on file with the stud farm.
“If you’re getting shipped semen, they
will not collect and ship semen if they
don’t have payment up front,” Randall
warned.
Mares that will carry their foals to term
will have their pregnancy confirmed
around day 15 and again at days 30 (the
heartbeat check) and 45.
WITH THE FUTURITY BUSINESS BOOMING,
ROPERS ARE WANTING EARLIER FOALS TO GIVE
THEM MORE MATURE PROSPECTS.
What’s the mare owner’s
responsibility?
For open mares, the breeding process
starts over within a few days from that first
pregnancy check. In the event the mare
fails to conceive, you may be entitled to a
rebreed the following season, depending
on your breeding contract.
“Rebreed is for the following year only
as listed in the contract,” noted Myers.
“Most people now charge a rebreed fee to
collect the horse to offset the cost of the
help you need to do it.”
The bottom line is mare owners need
to be diligent and give themselves the best
chance at getting a foal.
“If you bring a mare in at the end of
the breeding season and she just has one
cycle to try to get bred, that’s not being
diligent,” Myers said. “You need at least
two cycles to give her a legitimate chance
to get bred. If you’ve tried diligently,
you’ve got an automatic rebreed for next
year.”
Myers says it’s best if mare owners do
their homework and stay ahead of the
game.
“They save money because they
usually won’t have to pay for multiple
shipments,” he said. “We want to do it for
them as cheaply as possible, but a lot of
the responsibility is on them.”
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“It starts getting hot, especially for
southern mares, and things don’t work as
good. Being too early up here (in South
Dakota) is just as bad as being too late
down there (southern states) for your
success rate ratio.”
When you start trying to get a mare in
foal is also very important, especially if
you’re looking to raise one for futurities
or that market. The further you go into
summer, the later the foal will be born
as horses have a gestation period of 340
days, on average.
“With the futurities, you can have a
six-month difference in foals, say from a
foal born in February to one born in the
middle of July,” Myers noted. “That’s a lot
of time in a horse’s life, especially when
they’re growing. There’s a reason in the
racehorse world they like those early colts
because they’re more mature by the time
they run them.”
Cream of the Futurity Crop
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TREVOR BRAZILE AND STEP N SMALL TOWN,
PRACTICING AT THE START OF THE FUTURITY
SEASON IN ARIZONA.
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Your high-money campaigners, top sires and dams of 2023
The top cat in ’23 was Kobe, the
brown 6-year-old gelding by Wimpys
Royal King out of Small Town Blondys
by Von Starlight, that came from the
rope horse training program of Canadians Vaughn Warken and Kiel Wilson for
Gerold and Maureen Arnold before he
was added to the Remuda. Last February,
Brazile said the horse “feels like you’re
riding a rodeo horse in the futurity.”
That works great for three-time NFR
header Clint Summers, who bought
Kobe with a partner last winter and waited out his final futurity year while Brazile
seasoned him.
“Kobe was a 6-year-old with a 10-yearold mind,” said Baker. “He was the same
horse every single time. Those are the
kind you want in the barn, that don’t
take a lot of maintenance. They just let
you win.”
As for Bugatti, until he got hurt, he
was virtually unbeatable. The 4-year-old
by Bama Cat out of Pops Zoomin Fury
by Furyofthewind, was bred by Larry
Rice of Flag Ranch and bought by the
Relentless Remuda as a 3-year-old.
“I hope I don’t mess him up along
the way, or I think he’ll be one of the
great ones,” said Brazile. “I find myself
wanting to take him to jackpots, and I
have to remember that he’s 4.”
Brazile has turned down plenty of
money for the huge sorrel with the
exceptional mind and unique lineage of
both High Brow Cat and Furyofthewind.
“Larry’s done a great job with his
breeding program,” said Brazile. “I’ve
enjoyed visiting with him about colts
he has; they’re outside the box. He
pioneered the cow/race cross and was a
forward thinker for his time.”
A 4-year-old on the other end won
nearly as much in ’23—and as a stallion,
no less. When Premier Rope Horses’
Clay Smith and Jason Richey bought Nu
One Time Blues (“Big Time”) in 2022,
the bay roan had just placed 10th at the
Snaffle Bit Futurity under Matt Koch for
Ryan Sellers and Jack Bogart, but had
never been out of a roping box.
“I knew the One Time Pepto horses
were good, and Ryan Sellers knows what
he’s doing,” said Smith, who won PRCA
world heading titles in 2018 and 2019.
Smith heeled on Big Time that spring
before sending him to Joseph Harrison
for 60 days—at which point Harrison
(who calls the stud “Boujee”) told
Smith he’d likely win a lot next year.
Instead, the flashy 4-year-old won the
’23 Platinum Medal and ARHFA World
Championship 4-Year-Old heeling
futurities. Premier has no plans to
stand him to mares until he ages out of
futurities, so Big Time (or Boujee) will
stay with Harrison through 2025.
JOSEPH HARRISON AND NU ONE TIME BLUES, THE 2023 ARHFA
WORLD CHAMPION 4-YEAR-OLD HEEL HORSE.
ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS PHOTO
Year’s best
January 2024 | TRJ | 61
Best ever
Two 6-year-old stallions that also won
big in ’23 are now among the winningest
roping futurity horses of all-time. Jake
Cooper’s Reys of Pep (“Pepper”) and
Marshall and Lezlie Wier’s Sevens Star
Glo (“Hank”) each had big seasons to
push their all-time earnings over six
figures.
Pepper, who won titles at both ends
the past two seasons under the goldbuckle prowess of Colby Lovell, Kaleb
Driggers and Kollin VonAhn, came
to Lovell as a 5-year-old from Jeremy
Michaelis, who’d sent him to Brad Lund
as a 3-year-old. Lund trained Pepper for
the 2020 Snaffle Bit Futurity (where they
drew poor cattle) before starting him
roping.
“He was a good horse, a good student,” said Lund. “Every single day, he
was like, ‘Okay, what do you want me to
do now? What can I do better?’”
The blood, sweat and tears that go into
Snaffle Bit prep are legendary; these are
dirty-broke colts, already comfortable at
a dead run, knowing where the cow is at
all times. Lund, 55, deflects credit for the
horse’s wild success at both ends, saying
“they’ve had great pilots on him, and he
had a good foundation already.”
But Cooper’s no dummy. He hunted
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Lund down last fall to ask if he’d also
start a couple of Pepper’s colts. Cooper,
an NFR veteran who’s heading at rodeos
this season for NFR header Frank Graves’
son Chase, said his 6-year-old niece rides
the kindly stud that’s so good on both
ends you can take him from one box to
the other without even a bridle change.
And what hasn’t been said already
about Hank? Let’s just say every futurity
trainer except Cade Rice is overjoyed the
horse is finally turning 7. The defending
and back-to-back ARHFA World
Champion Heel Horse—and AQHA Sr.
Heading World Champion—remarkably
defeated up to 280 of the best colts in
SEVENS STAR GLO
AND CADE RICE
ARE BACK-TO-BACK
ARHFA HEELING
CHAMPIONS.
ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS PHOTO
ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS PHOTO
REYS OF PEP WAS THE 2023
ARHFA HEAD HORSE OF THE
YEAR UNDER COLBY LOVELL
AND KALEB DRIGGERS.
the world, twice. Rice will start roping
on a three-quarter sister to Hank this
spring.
Incidentally, Hank was also the only
top money-earning horse still owned by
his breeder. Marshall Wier, 65, and his
wife, Lezlie, began raising horses–and
seven kids–decades ago. They love what
Rice has done aboard Hank. But they
can’t say enough about Tee Richardson,
the central-Texas, old-school hand who’s
ranched on all their colts for nearly a
decade now.
“He’s a cowboy who’s trained lots of
great horses and nobody really knows
about him,” Wier said. “When Cade
started hauling Hank, he’d only ridden
him 17 times and won a round of the
Redbud Futurity. You can take Hank to
the pasture and sort, drag calves to the
fire, or doctor a cow in a wheat pasture—
he’s been used. He thinks this horse show
stuff is an easy deal.”
Wier, who bought Hank’s third dam
—a Colonel Freckles granddaughter—
from legendary breeder Lowell Hankins
some 30 years ago, said Hank is the
product of world champions on world
champions on world champions.
“It’s not as easy as it sounds, but it’s
pretty cool,” Wier said.
Rice, who was raised by cutting trainers
and mentored for years by Clay Logan,
commends Hank’s scoring, ability to read
a cow, and immovability once he drops
anchor. The horse just doesn’t mess up.
Legacy parentage
TRJ FILE PHOTO
THE RELENTLESS REMUDA AND
SOLO SELECT SYNDICATED THEIR
STALLION THE DARKK SIDE IN
2023, SELLING OUT SHARES IN
24 HOURS.
Relentless dominance
A staggering four of the top six horses in the all-time earnings category were
campaigned by Relentless Remuda. Brazile’s first big winner, Lari Dee Guy’s American
Greed, was a superstar in 2021—the year Brazile finally quit rodeoing to form his
partnership with Baker. What’s impressive about two of those horses making the short
list is that Big Time Movie Star missed her 5-year-old year with an injury, and Tuckin
Away Buckles missed his 6-year-old year after being sold. But that’s just scratching the
surface of their good ones.
For scale, Relentless Remuda horses earned a jaw-dropping $400,000 in 2023. And
that is only on horses they own outright, not including horses owned in partnereship
with Solo Select or ridden for owners of horses they’ve sold. Has any owner of rope
horses ever been able to say the same? Brazile, 47, became known for outworking his
competition over 25 years and 26 gold buckles in ProRodeo, but he has a couple of
other ideas about why Relentless Remuda is so dominant.
“For one thing, we don’t take other people’s projects,” Brazile explained. “That’s
a big factor; we start with what we want to start with. Our horses aren’t repurposed
from something else when they get here and weren’t already mashed on extra hard.”
The other contributor is that he and Baker switch horses back and forth all the time
and work well together; they’re unafraid to provide input or tell each other whether to
get on or off a certain horse.
“It’s easy to get into a ditch if you’re always roping or riding by yourself,” Brazile
said. “We always have another set of eyes on us, so we don’t have to wait until the
show to realize where there’s a problem.”
It’s no surprise that 19-year-old
Metallic Cat is the all-time leading sire
of roping futurity horses. After all, the
roan stallion owned by Rockin P Ranch
is the all-time leading NRCHA sire, as
well. Metallic Cat’s offspring had only
earned $64 million before team roping
had futurities.
But 14-year-old Hickory Holly Time,
by One Time Pepto and out of a Doc’s
Hickory daughter, isn’t far behind. The
stallion that won the Snaffle Bit Futurity
under Kelby Phillips and a World’s
Greatest Horseman contest is already a
million-dollar reined-cow-horse sire for
DT Horses.
“His babies are really good-minded—
that’s the one thing he puts in them,”
said former NFR heeler Dean Tuftin.
“They’re really easy to train and go on
with.”
Hickory Holly Time offspring only
just started trickling into roping futurities. Because, despite sinking a lot of
money into roping futurities as a big
proponent years ago, Tuftin kept his own
program focused on cowhorses. However, a couple of years ago, he pivoted.
“I’m excited now about the future,” he
said. “This year at our place in Scottsdale, we’re 100% into rope horses; riding
probably 25-30 this winter to get them
ready.”
Last fall, Tuftin personally roped horns
at the Riata Buckle on a big, 4-year-old
gelding by Hickory Holly Time named
DT Hickory Striker, who’s out of Dixon
Flowers Rope Horses’ all-time leading
dam, DT Sugar Chex Whiz (“Sugar”).
“He’s got a lot of her characteristics,”
said Tuftin, who also bred Sugar. “He’s
collected and kind of runs stopping,
which I love.”
The colt was one of a few embryos
Tuftin kept as part of the early sale of
Sugar, now 14, to Dixon Flowers. She
went on to become a 5-year-old AQHA
world champion under J.D. Yates and
an NFR heel horse and 2019 PRCA/
AQHA Heel Horse of the Year under
Billie Jack Saebens. Dixon Flowers has
long celebrated Sugar and her babies,
including ‘23 futurity superstars The
Notorious B.I.G. and The Darrk Side
January 2024 | TRJ | 63
CLICK THOMPSON PHOTO
DT SUGAR CHEX WHIZ CAME OUT OF THE
BREEDING BARN TO HELP SAEBENS IN THE
NORTHWEST IN 2023.
(fresh off an AQHA Junior Heading
World Championship).
But Sugar’s siblings have also had
mind-blowing success for years. Recently,
Tuftin sold a full sister that earned
$70,000 by the time she was 5, and
he said another sibling is now Speed
Williams’ son Gabe’s heel horse. Of the
limited mares Tuftin initially bred to her
sire, Shiners Lena Chex (now standing in
Brazil), they nailed down a whopping 12
world championships.
Here’s a fun backstory: When he
stopped rodeoing, Tuftin purchased the
stud from Carol Rose and bred him
to the only mare he had then, by his
mother-in-law’s barrel racing stallion.
The resulting twin embryos became jetblack fillies. Since his daughters played
tennis, Tuftin called them “Venus” and
“Serena.” He sent them to elite NRCHA
trainer Jake Telford to get broke, after
which he tried to put Serena in cowhorse
events, but she wasn’t great in cutting—a
little too “juicy.” So he started roping
a lead steer on her. The twins were
awesome, but Serena was bigger and
prettier and caught the eye of J.D. Yates.
Dixon Flowers acquired her and “Serena”
became “Sugar.”
In 2015, the mares had both won
Junior World Championships in tiedown roping and heeling. Tuftin still
has the old dam, and Ryan Sellers is
currently standing a full brother to them
named DT Shiner. There’s a reason this
line of horses has been owned by the
FUTURITY RANKINGS
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likes of George Strait and Penny Knight
(whose husband founded Nike).
“When you really put it in perspective,
Sugar’s bottom side is interesting (the
granddaughter of an NFR barrel horse),
but her top side is out of Carol Rose’s
best bottom side,” said Tuftin, who
credits Rose as the greatest Quarter
Horse breeder of all time. “When Carol
had her $4.7 million dispersal sale, she
kept a full sister to Sugar’s sire. Their
success has just been unparalleled.”
Tuftin admits that fate lined things
up perfectly to create Sugar, including
great management by Dixon Flowers
and world-class horsemanship by Yates
and Saebens. But, Tuftin thinks a horse’s
initial foundation is everything.
“It all goes back to when she was 2,”
Tuftin said. “She was a great-looking filly
but a little juicy. The start that Jake put
on her, those two years of riding she had
were big. Without that start, that horse
doesn’t go where she went.”
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Old & New
As the rope horse industry
continues to develop at
lightspeed, the timeless
classics like Shining Spark
still hold strong as the
foundation of the breeding
business. Shining Spark
has sired over $500,000
in progeny earnings, plus
another $993,534 as a
paternal grandsire in the
roping disciplines alone.
His legacy continues
through Carol Rose
Quarter Horses, two
years after his death at
33. Shining Spark’s 2024
breeding fee, for ICSI-only
contracts, is $5,000, and
his legacy is detailed on
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STALLIONS
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HORSE
Shining Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Feel the Sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
KR Fantallicka . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Metallic Malice . . . . . . . . . . . .
SR Industry Titan . . . . . . . . . .
JM Streakin Guy . . . . . . . . . . .
BR Golden Leader . . . . . . . . . .
Hired Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dual Axle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Watch Jack Winit. . . . . . . . . . .
Born Ta Be Famous . . . . . . . . .
A Blazin Dude . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Blazin Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fiestas Dynasty . . . . . . . . . . . .
Heza Fiery Fling. . . . . . . . . . . .
This Fame Is On Fire . . . . . . . .
Promise of the Sun . . . . . . . . . .
Dash Ta Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stylin With Pepto . . . . . . . . . .
A Cat With Swagger . . . . . . . .
Bringing The Luck . . . . . . . . . .
HP Dash Ta Fiesta . . . . . . . . . .
Slick By Design . . . . . . . . . . . .
Winners Version . . . . . . . . . . .
Peptoes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CT Show Me Your Guns . . . . .
HQ Helluva Cat . . . . . . . . . . .
Reys of Pep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CFR Arete Gun . . . . . . . . . . . .
REF Majestico . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Metallic Payday . . . . . . . . . . . .
PC Redwood Manny . . . . . . . .
Pound Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HR Smart Rey . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Catty Hawk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bowmans Metallic Cat . . . . . . .
Four Chex Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . .
WSR Hesa Dunofa Lena . . . . .
Reys Smokin Dually. . . . . . . . .
Bet Hesa Ginnin . . . . . . . . . . .
One Fine Vintage. . . . . . . . . . .
Lenas Frosted Jag . . . . . . . . . . .
Probably a Shiner . . . . . . . . . . .
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Bobby Glo Harlan . . . . . . . . . .
Charlie Truckin Chex. . . . . . . .
Metallic Cattack. . . . . . . . . . . .
Pride And Joyy . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Darkk Side . . . . . . . . . . . .
This Catt Shines . . . . . . . . . . . .
Four Bonnie Ray . . . . . . . . . . .
Stunned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Metallic Patron . . . . . . . . .
The Notorious BIG . . . . . . . . .
Driftin French Cash . . . . . . . . .
Smart Chich Olena . . . . . . . . .
TRR Lucky Brazos . . . . . . . . . .
Jungle Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Big Lew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bucks Hancok Dude . . . . . . . .
Coronado Cartel . . . . . . . . . . .
Dirty Fling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fiestas Gotta Gun . . . . . . . . . .
Hez Our Secret . . . . . . . . . . . .
One Fabulous Time . . . . . . . . .
Oz ONA Hot Streak . . . . . . . .
Show Me The Buckles . . . . . . .
Woody Be Tuff . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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BREEDING PROGRAMS
OWNER/MANAGER
Carol Rose Quarter Horses
70 Ranch
70 Ranch
70 Ranch
70 Ranch
Audrey Daniel, A&M Farm
Baker Ranch
Billy & Ann Burlin
Bledsoe Ranch
Bryant Ranch
C3 Ranch & W3 Farm
Busby Quarter Horses
Busby Quarter Horses
Delancey Enterprises, LLC
Delancey Enterprises, LLC
Delancey Enterprises, LLC
David James, James Ranch
Eight Over Quarter Circle Ranch
Eric Brown
H & H Horses LLC
H & H Horses LLC
Highpoint Performance Horses
Highpoint Performance Horses
Highpoint Performance Horses
Ingram Quarter Horses
Hockenson Quarter Horses
Hockenson Quarter Horses
Jake Cooper
Jared Crain
Jose Briseno
Kaleb Driggers
Lance Robinson Ranch
Lance Robinson Ranch
Elsworth & Kathy Harrison
Bill and Michelle Cowan
Luke Jones
Massingill Performance Horses
Patrick Smith
Rhen Richard, A&C Racing and Roping
Premier Rope Horses
Robertson Ranch
Robyn Fox
Mike Van Egdom,
Rolling V Performance Horses
David Moss, Running M Farms
Russell Tharp, Russell Tharp Horses
Solo Select Horses
Solo Select Horses
Solo Select Horses
Solo Select Horses
St Clair Performance Horses
St Clair Performance Horses
St Clair Performance Horses
Southern Ranches
Tierney Ranch
Trevor & Tiffany Bond
Tripp & Hope Townsend
Amy Bush
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
Lazy E Ranch
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201-205
206
207-209
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BREEDING PROGRAM
OWNER/MANAGER
Ride The Rim Performance Horses . Lori Lester & Merideth Pierce, DVM
Hillbilly Hallows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robin Walker
Fulton Performance Horses . . . . . . . The Fulton Family
88 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Garrett Henry
Bar T Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . Jamey Thompkins
BP Ranch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brady and Savannah Pitchford
Billadeau Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . Billadeau Family
Cross 4 Performance Horses. . . . . . . Doug & Lacey Kremer
Cudd Quarter Horses . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby Joe and Renee Jane Cudd
DT Horses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean and Leslie Tuftin
Dixon Flowers Quarter Horses. . . . . Duke and Lindsey Dixon
and Billie Jack Saebens
Muleshoe Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John and Kevva Anderson
Myers Performance Horses . . . . . . . . Bill Myers
Pitzer Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Brinkman and family
Riata Buckle Program . . . . . . . . . . . Lance Robinson
Flag Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Larry and Bobbie Rice
San Juan Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . San Juan Ranch
Wier Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marshall and Lezlie Wier
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
SHINING SPARK
Carol Rose Quarter Horses
Gainesville, Texas
The legend Shining Spark, sired by
AQHA Superhorse Genuine Doc and
out of AQHA Hall of Fame and 1979
AQHA Superhorse Diamonds Sparkle,
was owned by AQHA Hall of Fame
horsewoman Carol Rose.
Shining Spark was highly successful in
the arena. QData reports his earnings to
be $62,674 with 17 AQHA performance
points in reining and an AQHA Open
Performance Register of Merit (ROM).
In 1993, Shining Spark ridden by Tim
McQuay won the AQHA Junior Reining
World Championship with a 227.5.
In 1994, the duo won NRHA Open
Derby Championship. Shining Spark was
crowned the youngest NRHA $1 Million
Sire in 2002. In 2011, he was inducted
into the NRHA Hall of Fame. He then
crossed the threshold of becoming an
NRHA $4 Million Sire in 2013.
“My true passion has always been in
team roping,” Rose said. “Shining Spark
was an amazing head horse and a fabulous
steer stopping horse. He was so fast out
of the box and stopped so quickly. The
public was never able to witness his roping
abilities. Bobby Lewis was training him
for the World’s Greatest Horseman when
he had an unrelated illness that ended his
riding career.”
In 2000, Shining Spark gained much
attention in the team roping world when
Miss N Shine was crowned the AQHA
Junior Heading Champion. At the 2005
AQHA World Show, four Shining Spark
progeny were crowned AQHA World
Champions in their respective arenas:
Amateur Heading Champion Bald N
Shiney, Junior Heeling Champion Shyna
Spark, Junior Working Cow Horse
SHINING SPARK COURTESY CAM ESSICK
ICSI Only
$5,000 plus $500 administrative fee
940-372-2000
carol@carolrose.com
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Champion Shiners Smart Chex and
Amateur Working Cow Horse Champion
Shine Smartly.
In 2018, grandson Sparks Peppy Doc
(“Smurf ”) was a PRCA Heel Horse of the
Year nominee. In 2019, granddaughter
DT Sugar Chex Whiz won PRCA/AQHA
Horse of the Year. “Sugar” is the dam of
many phenomenal rope horses, include
The Notorious B I G and The Darkk Side.
Shining Spark’s grandson, Chics Magic
Corona, was crowned the 2022 ARHFA
Heading World Champion.
According to QData, Shining Spark has
sired 1,397 foals with earnings exceeding
$10.4 million and 38,042 AQHA points,
with 26 AQHA World Champions and
21 AQHA Reserve World Champions.
Shining Spark has also sired many other
notable champions, including NRHA
Open Futurity Champion Shining N
Sassy; AQHA 2003 Superhorse Shine
By The Bay with AQHA achievements
including
AQHA
Performance
Champion, Superior Tie-Down Roping,
Superior Reining, Superior Heeling,
Superior Heading, Open Performance
ROM; and A Shiner Named Sioux, the
2010 AQHA World Junior Reining
Champion and 2011 AQHA World
Junior Working Cow Horse Champion.
Shining Spark is the Equi-Stat All Time
Leading Maternal Grandsire of Reined
Cow Horses, with broodmares producing
horses with earnings totaling more than
$27 million in different competitive
arenas, reinforcing his broodmare sire
credentialing. The Top 10 Reined Cow
Horse lists include own daughters of
Shining Spark, Shining Tari, Lil Miss
Shiney Chex, Sparking Train, Sheza
Shinette and Shiners Diamond Girl, as
well as granddaughter Soula Jule Forever.
Their earnings alone total more than $3.4
million.
Shining Spark has been a highly proven
sire in the Western performance horse
world. His offspring carry his superior
athletic ability, trainability, cow sense and
speed, making them highly desirable not
only to the Western performance horse
world, but to the team roping industry.
Shining Spark:
Jan. 18, 1989 - Dec. 27, 2021.
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
FEEL THE STING
Standing at and Owned by
70 Ranch Performance Horses
Gainesville, Texas
940-291-2030
70rph.com
STUD FEE: $3,500
SIRE: Dash Ta Fame
Dam: MP Meter My Hay by
PC Frenchmans Hayday
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Royal Crown
Triple Crown 100
Future Fortunes
Select Stallion Stakes
Colorado Classic
Tomorrow’s Legends
Breeder’s Challenge
Legends of the South
70 Ranch Incentive
Feel The Sting, a byproduct of the
No.1 leading barrel racing sire Dash Ta
Fame and dam nine-time NFR qualifier
MP Meter My Hay (Stingray), has won
$138,000 in lifetime earnings and is an
NFR qualifier himself. Brought into the
limelight by Ryann Pedone, “Stinger”
was set to storm the NFR when fate
intervened—a fractured hock precluded
his run in Vegas. Despite his setback, the
stallion made a comeback to end up in
KR FANTALLICKA
Standing at and Owned by
70 Ranch Performance Horses
Gainsville, Texas
940-291-2030
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Fancy Zack by Zack T Wood
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Royal Crown
Select Stallion Stakes
Legends of the South
Future Fortunes
Tomorrow’s Legends
National Reined Cow Horse
Colorado Classic
Triple Crown 100
70 Ranch Incentive
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KR Fantallicka, also known as Cadillac, is a 2013 AQHA/APHA 5-panel N/N
red roan son of the legendary Metallic Cat
out of a daughter of Zack T Wood. Coming from a family of winners, Cadillac has
an impressive resume of his own, Cadil-
the hands of his dam’s jockey,
Sherry Cervi.
Raised
by
Highpoint
Performance Horses, Feel
The Sting was acquired by 70
Ranch Performance Horses
during his comeback season.
Under Sherry’s guidance, he
excelled until an unfortunate
knee injury led to his
retirement. His progeny,
however, speaks volumes of
his ability as a competitor and
sire—HP Feel The Fame, his first foal,
clinched the 2021 Barrel Futurities of
America Juvenile World Championship
and now has lifetime earnings near
$300,000.
Being a quick and agile competitor,
Stinger passes those traits down to his
offspring. Standing 15 hands tall, stout,
and conformationally correct, Stinger
has all the attributes of a standout team
roping sire, with his offspring being able
to be successful in barrel racing or as a
head or heel horse.
lac has 197 AQHA points in the heading,
heeling, tie-down, and cow horse events,
as well as superiors in heading and heeling.
Cadillac is also an NRCHA money earner,
PRCA money earner, barrel racing money
earner, has multiple all-around titles and
was a 2019 Superhorse contender.
As a team roping sire, Cadillac offers
more than his outstanding genetics. His
ability to excel in multiple disciplines
demonstrates his adaptability, intelligence
and athleticism. Being a well-rounded
competitor, Cadillac passes his incredible
versatility to his offspring. With his oldest
foal crop born in 2020, they are already
showing promise in both roping and cow
horse at just two years of age.
“His babies are just as pretty as they are
talented,” Don Ham, stallion manager,
said. “If you need a horse that is just the
right combination between fast and agile,
Cadillac offers just that.”
(Dash Ta Fame-MP Meter My Hay, aka Stingray,
PC Frenchmans Hayday)
2024 Stud Fee: $3,500
Chute and First Ship Included
(940) 291-2030 • 70RPH.com
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
METALLIC MALICE
Standing at and Owned by 70 Ranch
Performance Horses
Gainesville, Texas
940-291-2030
70rph.com
STUD FEE: $3,000
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: High Boon by Mecom Blue
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Future Fortunes
Breeder’s Challenge
Royal Crown
Triple Crown 100
Colorado Classic
Legends of the South
Tomorrow’s Legends
National Reined Cow Horse Association
70 Ranch Incentive
Metallic Malice is the exceptional 2015
son of Metallic Cat. Starting in the cutting
arena, Metallic Malice boasts winnings
there and transitioned into the cow horse
under Brad Lund. A money earner in the
cow horse and an AQHA World Show
qualifier, the stallion flaunts substantial
ability as a rope horse sire.
“Malice” stands 15 hands and wears a
size 1 shoe, breaking the mold of typical
cutters and boasting a stature that appeals
broadly to cow horse and rope horse
breeders alike. While Malice has the build
and athleticism that breeders look for, the
stallion also carries the homozygous roan
gene—meaning he will throw a roan foal
every time.
His oldest progeny, now 4-year-olds,
have already made waves at the Royal
Crown roping events. With the promise
shown by his 3-year-olds, Malice’s
influence is set to extend across various
events. As versatile as they come, his
offspring exhibit high-level potential for
professionals while retaining the gentle
disposition for amateur riders.
“I think once enough people ride his
babies, they will be able to compete at all
levels,” Don Ham, stallion manager, said.
“Malice has such a good mind, is really
quiet, and just a good horse to be around,
and he passes that down to his offspring.”
royalty. Living up to—and exceeding—
the expectations that come from being
genetically gifted, “Titan” has proven
himself time and time again. Trained
and campaigned by Troy Crumrine,
Titan placed in multiple go-rounds in
the barrel racing at the 2020 NFR, and
has repeatedly set ProRodeo arena records
with Brittany Pozzi-Tonozzi.
Titan’s oldest foals, now 3-year-olds,
are showing great promise. From barrel
racing to team roping, his offspring are
equipped with the genetics to excel. Titan
stands 15 hands tall, has impeccable
conformation, and carries all the traits
that make a standout rope horse. Crossing
well on various mares, Titan is the perfect
fit for adding speed without adding too
much height.
Acquired by 70 Ranch Performance
Horses in September 2023, the purchase
was driven by Titan’s exceptional pedigree
and performance.
“I had been watching Titan on the
Cowboy Channel and was curious about
him,” said Don Ham, stallion manager
for 70 Ranch. “He’s a fabulous horse to
watch and, as I was researching him, every
rock I would turn over, Titan would just
keep checking all the boxes for everything
that makes a great stud.”
SR INDUSTRY TITAN
Standing at and Owned by 70 Ranch
Performance Horses
Gainesville, Texas
940-291-2030
70rph.com
STUD FEE: $3,500
SIRE: Firewaterontherocks
DAM: Mulberry Canyon Moon
by Marthas Six Moons
INCENTIVES:
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Breeder’s Challenge
Select Stallion Stakes
Future Fortunes
Legends of the South
Tomorrow’s Legends
A product of Firewaterontherocks and
NFR mare Mulberry Canyon Moon, SR
Industry Titan is a part of barrel racing
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(Metallic Cat-High Boon, Mecom Blue)
2024 Stud Fee: $3,000
Chute and First Ship Included
70 RANCH
PERFORMANCE HORSES
(940) 291-2030 • 70RPH.com
Created by SPEEDHORSE
BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
JM STREAKIN GUY
Standing with Ryan Cook
Los Lunas, New Mexico
505-221-7179
Owned by A&M Farms
Lubbock, Texas
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: A Streak Of Fling
DAM: Frenchmans Holey Sox
by Frenchmans Guy
Owned by Audrey Daniel of A&M
Farms in Lubbock and raised by the
Mattson Family of South Dakota, JM
Streakin Guy’s pedigree has outstanding
leaders in all aspects of the rodeo and
horse show world.
His dam, Frenchmans Holey Sox,
provides impressive mare power and
a record as one of the most successful
offspring by Frenchmans Guy. She has
won both as a tie-down and team roping
horse, winning in the arena whether at
the ProRodeos or in the AQHA show
arenas.
BR GOLDEN LEADER
Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion Station
Owned by Baker Ranch
Stephenville, Texas
brazosvalleystallionstation.com
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: Confederate Leader
DAM: KN Docs Gray Gold x Groanies
Gray Pony
INCENTIVES:
Triple Crown
Ruby Buckle
Select Stallion
Colorado Classic
Breeder’s Challenge
Blue Collar
Future Fortunes
Valley Girls
Gold Buckle
A son of Confederate Leader out of
a ProRodeo money earning mare, BR
Golden Leader is a 2013 gray stallion that
has been successful in the barrel racing
pen with top trainers Kassie Mowry,
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Angie Meadors and Dustin Angelle,
amassing more than $58,000 in earnings.
Still running barrels with owner and
breeder Whitney Davison, BR Golden
Leader is also used in the roping arena by
Whitney’s husband, Cole Davison, as well
as two-time ARHFA World Champion
Tate Kirchenschlager. A true all-around
stallion, BR Golden Leader passes his
versatility and easy-going attitude to his
offspring.
His sire, A Streak Of Fling, needs no
introduction. He has over $7.5 million in
progeny earnings and is ranked the No. 5
Lifetime All-Time Futurity Sires.
With a combination of performance
and speed, JM Streakin Guy has had an
incredibly successful year being ridden
by Ryan Cook. They have led the New
Mexico Rodeo Association in the heeling
all year and were looking forward to a
dynamite finals at the Ariat World Series
Team Roping Finale in Las Vegas at time
of press. They also were 2022 Colorado
State Fair Reserve Champions in the
Team Roping.
At 14.3 hands and 1,150 pounds,
this stallion will be an asset to anyone
looking to elevate their breeding program
in the roping arena or performance pen.
Between rodeos, Audrey Daniel is proudly
standing JM Streakin Guy with Cook in
Los Lunas, New Mexico.
“If BR Golden
Leader wasn’t so
easy and great to be
around, I probably
wouldn’t want to
do the breeding
stuff—it’s just so
hard,”
Whitney
laughed. “But he
makes doing it easy,
and the babies he
produces makes it
worthwhile.”
Fast and elevated,
BR Golden Leader
is an excellent cross
on mares in the roping arena that aren’t
as quick. Being an outcross in barrel
racing, BR Golden Leader is a suitable
match for Dash Ta Fame or Frenchmans
Guy bloodlines. With his oldest foal crop
coming 5, he’s had four earners gather up
over $21,000 in extremely limited hauling
in 2023. His offspring are placed with
standout trainers for both barrel racing
and roping, maximizing the promotion
of your investment in BR Golden Leader.
RIDDEN BY RYAN C OOK
STANDING AT LOS LUNAS, NM
BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
HIRED GUN
STUD FEE: $1,800 (includes chute fee)
SIRE: Playgun
DAM: Peppys Serenade
by Peppy San Badger
INCENTIVES:
NFQHA
Riata Buckle
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
Hired Gun is owned by Billy and Ann
Burlin. The 14.3 hand, 1250-pound
AQHA / FQHA gray stallion is by Playgun
x Peppys Serenade by Peppy San Badger.
Hired Gun’s sire, Playgun, won more
than $186,000 during his career and his
progeny earnings exceed $9 million with
COURTESY BILLY AND ANN BURLIN
Standing at The Ranch Equine
Owned by Billy and Ann Burlin
Whitesboro, Texas
903-564-7883
theranchequine.com/hiredgun
over 9,000 AQHA Points, 20 AQHA
World Championships, and 15 AQHA
Reserve World Championships.
Hired Gun’s accomplishments show
his versatility. With earnings in NCHA
and AQHA performance points in heading and heeling. He is a 2-time Aged
Event Champion and a 6-time Limited
Aged Event Finalist. In 2013, he was a
West Texas Futurity Finalist and a Cot-
DUAL AXLE
Standing at and Owned by
Bledsoe’s Ranch
Springer, Oklahoma
712-577-2182
facebook.com/DualAxleStallion
STUD FEE: $1,200
SIRE: Dual R Smokin
DAM: CDS Modern Millie
by Little Seabiscuit
Dual Axle, a son of Dual R Smokin
and out of CDS Modern Millie, has
an impressive record with wins as the
2019 American Rope Horse Futurities
Association Heeling Champion, 2019
AQHA Heeling World Champion, 2020
Houston Livestock Hi-Point Champion,
2021 Houston Livestock Show Heading
Champion and winner of the 2021
Art of the Cowgirl steer stopping with
Samantha Robbins.
At just under 14.1 hands, his athletic
build makes him an exceptional
competitor, proven on both ends of the
steer as a head horse and heel horse.
Dual Axle’s size, athleticism and stout
build make him a versatile sire that will
allow his offspring to be successful in the
cutting and cow horse arenas, as well as
in the roping pen.
ton Stakes Finalist. Hired
Gun was also a 2013 Pacific
Coast Cutting Horse Association Holy Cow Performance
Horses Futurity Finalist. In
2015, he won 3rd in the Big
Country Cutting Horse Association Maturity 5/6 Open
Classic. Hired Gun won 3rd
on day 2 and 2nd on day 3 of
the 2015 Black Elk $15,000
NH. He was the 2015 Silver State 5/6 Open Classic
Challenge Champion and
the Idaho 5/6 Open Classic
Challenge Champion.
Hired Gun passes on his strength, agility, good bone and big hip, great mind,
and great conformation to his offspring.
His first foal crop arrived in 2018. Foals
are eligible for National Foundation
Quarter Horse Association registration,
NRCHA Stallion Stakes, and the Riata
Buckle.
The rabicano
stallion
passes
down not only his
physical attributes
but also his calm
and
intelligent
mind. Dual Axle’s first foal crop
hit the ground
in 2022 and, as
just
yearlings,
are proving to be
quick on the uptake—and should
be successful at
jackpots, ProRodeos and working
on the ranch.
“They are the smartest group of colts
I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve worked
with quite a few different studs,” said
Sarah Skeeters, Bledsoe Ranch Manager.
“You show them something once, and it
just clicks.”
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
2 Time Aged Event Champion
6 Time Limited Aged Event Finalist
2013 West Texas Futurity Finalist
2013 Cotton Stakes Finalist
2013 PCCHA Holy Cow Performance Horses Futurity Finalist
2015 BCCHA Maturity 5/6 Open Classic - 3rd
2015 Black Elk $15,000 NH - 3rd Day 2
2015 Black Elk $15,000 NH - 2nd Day 3
2015 Silver Slate 5/6 Open Classic Challenge Champion
Idaho 5/6 Open Classic Challenge Champion
** FOALS WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR:
NFQHA Registration
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
Riata Buckle
STANDING AT:
WHITESBORO, TX 76273
903-564-7883
WWW.THERANCHEQUINE.COM/HIREDGUN
Versatility \ Strength \Agility
STUD FEE: $1,800
Includes chute fee
OWNED BY: BILLY AND ANN BURLIN
Dual
2014 Stallion by Dual R Smokin X CDS Modern Millie
LTE: $45,500+
2019 ARHFA Heeling Champion
2019 AQHA Heeling World Champion
261.5 AQHA Performance Points in Heading, Heeling,
Working Cow Horse and Ranch Riding!
Superior Heading, Superior Heeling, and Open Performance ROM
2020 Houston Livestock Hi Point Champion
2021 Houston Livestock Show Champion Heading
Trained and shown by
Bobby Lewis &
Joseph Harrison
BLEDSOE’S RANCH
bledsoesranch@gmail.com
712-577-2182
Stud Fee: $1,200
PLUS THE CHUTE FEE FOR FRESH
COOLED, FROZEN SEMEN AVAILABLE
Contact: Sarah Skeeters
bledsoesranch@gmail.com
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WATCH JACK WINIT
Standing at FCG Equine
Afton, Oklahoma
Owned by Bryant Ranch
s479-866-1185
STUD FEE $1,200 + Shipping
Onsite AI / Cooled semen available.
Multiple mare and proven mare discounts.
SIRE: Jack To The Hilt
DAM: Watch Renee
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Nebraska Ranch Horse Futurity
Pitzer Ranch Horse Invitational
International Ranch Horse Association
Futurity
Bryant Ranch has prioritized elite
rope-horse breeding for more than two
decades. Jimmy and Kim Bryant, with
daughter Jimmie, have shown their
horses in every stock breed association
World Champion in open
heading and Reserve World
Champion in heeling and
calf roping. In 2019, he was
AQHA World Show Top
10 in Open Level 3 Heeling
and was eighth in AQHA’s
Open High Point Year-End
calf roping. Watch Jack
Winit has accumulated
198.5 AQHA points in
heading, heeling, calf roping
and halter with superiors in
both heading and heeling,
and has 16 AQHA World
Show qualifications to his
COURTESY BRYANT RANCH
name.
possible, earning titles and points at
The 2012 buckskin stallion passes
every level. Bryant Ranch currently along his unsurpassable mindset, athletic
stands four stallions, including their Riata ability and willingness to his offspring.
Buckle stallion, Watch Jack Winit (Jack His progeny has QData earnings from the
To The Hilt x Watch Renee). In 2018, Riata Buckle and other accredited team
Watch Jack Winit was the AQHA Open roping events. Watch Jack Winit stands
High Point Tie-Down Stallion and the 15 hands and is 5 Panel, LWO and IMM
American Buckskin Registry Association negative.
BORN TA BE FAMOUS
Standing at Collett Equine
Henryetta, Oklahoma
Owned by C3 Ranch & W3 Farms
918-652-1709
facebook.com/BornTaBeFamous
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Dash Ta Fame
DAM: SX Frenchmans Vanila
by Frenchmans Guy
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle + The Diamond Classic +
Ruby Buckle + Triple Crown + Future
Fortunes + Legends of the South + Select
Stallion Stakes + Colorado Classic +
Tomorrow’s Legends + Top Shelf Breeders
In team roping and barrel racing arenas both, one stallion is making a name
for himself: Born Ta Be Famous. A 2006
palomino stallion, “Famous” is sired by
all-time leading barrel racing sire Dash
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Ta Fame and out of matriarch SX Frenchmans Vanila, the first—and only—triple
crown winner in barrel racing with earnings in excess of $225,000 and progeny
earnings of more than $240,000.
Famous offers proven bloodlines that
are successful when crossed on daughters of Image of Greatness, Judge Cash,
Ivory James, Lanes
Leinster, Smart Little Lena and High
Brow Cat—these
offspring stand out
in both barrel racing
and team roping.
At nearly 15.2
hands,
Famous
combines size and
speed. Famous has
already crossed the
$1 million mark in
progeny earnings,
a testament to his
ability as a sire.
“Famous’
offspring inherit his size, [which is] especially beneficial for smaller cow horses, and
they possess a trainable, good-minded nature, ideal for the demands of both barrel
racing and team roping,” Eric Ward said.
“He produces offspring that are versatile
and capable of going to any event.”
BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
A BLAZIN DUDE
STUD FEE: $3,000
SIRE: Blazin Jetolena
DAM: Dasher Dude by Texas High
Dasher
INCENTIVES:
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Royal Crown
Colorado Classic
The Diamond Classic
Future Fortunes
Select Stallion Stakes
Triple Crown 100
While the Busbys weren’t looking for a
new stud to add to their lineup, it was hard
to pass up A Blazin Dude, a full sibling to
COURTESY BUSBY QUARTER HORSES
Standing at 113 Equine
Millsap, Texas
Owned byBusby Quarter Horses
busbyquarterhorses.com/a-blazin-dude
Blazin With My Dude that Andrea Busby
jockeyed in the barrel racing to a win at
the 2022 Cheyenne Frontier Days and
later became the 2022 Mountain States
Circuit Horse of the Year. A son of Blazin
Jetolena and out of Dasher Dude, an NFR
go-round winner with lifetime earnings
surpassing $570,000 and progeny
earnings of more than $118,000, A Blazin
Dude inherits a legacy of champions.
COURTESY BUSBY QUARTER HORSES
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Breeder’s Challenge
Royal Crown
Select Stallion Stakes
The Diamond Classic
Southwest Desert Classic
Colorado Classic
Blue Collar Breeders
Future Fortunes
Triple Crown 100
BLAZIN HONOR
Standing at 113 Equine
Millsap, Texas
Owned By Busby Quarter Horses
busbyquarterhorses.com/blazin-honor
STUD FEE: $2,500
SIRE: Blazin Jetolena
DAM: Viking Vixions Last by Power Train
Blazin Honor, owned by Busby
Quarter Horses, is a proven competitor
with more than $90,000 in team roping
earnings and a WPRA barrel racing
money earner. The 2008 stallion has 57
AQHA Points—17 in heading, 39 in
heeling and one in performance halter—
as well as an AQHA Performance Register
of Merit.
A product of elite lineage, Blazin Honor
is a son of Blazin Jetolena, a $7.8 million
“The stallion
game is tough;
it’s a long process,
to say the least,”
Andrea said. “I’d
watched A Blazin
Dude, and I just
thought, ‘Man,
what better horse
to add to our
program?’ He’s
had success, and
we’ve had so much
success with his
full sister.”
As a team roping sire, A Blazin Dude
brings enough cow to watch one and
enough speed to catch one. What really
sets A Blazin Dude apart, though, is his
demeanor. Echoing the well-known traits
of Blazin Jetolena horses, he is kind,
willing and easy to work with. This makes
him the type of horse that can effortlessly
switch from event to event.
sire, and a maternal grandson of Power
Train, a $2.5 million track and barrel sire.
Blazin Honor has the pedigree to win and
the performance record to back it up.
Proving to pave his own way in the
breeding industry, Blazin Honor is siring
offspring that are just as versatile as he is.
His offspring are making a mark in the
roping arena, demonstrating his ability to
pass on his characteristic talents.
Crossing well on mares with Stylish
Rey, Highbrow Cat and Peptoboonsmal
bloodlines, Blazin Honor produces
horses that can rope on the head and heel
side. Though siring many outstanding
team roping horses, his progeny are also
competing successfully in breakaway
roping and barrel racing.
Blazing Honor produces versatile horses
that can do it all, showing exceptional
trainability and and adaptability.
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FIESTAS DYNASTY
Standing at Colorado State University
Equine Reproductive Laboratory
Fort Collins, Colorado
970-491-8626
Owned by DeLancey Enterprises, LLC
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: FDD Dynasty
DAM: Firewater Fiesta by Fire Water Flit
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Ruby Buckle
The Diamond Classic
Future Fortunes
VGBRA
PESI/WPRA
C-N Futurities
Colorado Classic
Magic was born when legends like
HEZA FIERY FLING
Standing at Colorado State University
Equine Reproductive Laboratory
Fort Collins, Colorado
970-491-8626
Owned by DeLancey Enterprises, LLC
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: A Streak of Fling
DAM: Sheza Firen Bully by Bully Bullion
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Future Fortunes
VGBRA
CornHusker Futurity
Grid Iron Futurity
Colorado Classic
C-N Futurity
TQHA
ARHFA Top Gun Stallion Incentive
Platinum Medal Program
The Diamond Classic
5 States Breeders
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Barrel Horse of the Year titles.
As a broodmare, her progeny
earnings top $700,000; FDD
Dynasty is a two-time World
Champion Sire with progeny
earnings over $31 million.
Fiestas Dynasty has earned
83 AQHA points across
multiple disciplines and an
AQHA Reserve Champion
heading under J.D. Yates.
With Raegan DeLancey,
COURTESY DELANCEY ENTERPRISES Fiesta is competing in the
world-renowned trainer and NFR quali- barrels and heading at the college rodeos.
fier Kelly Yates and barrel racing’s all-time
Standing 15.3 hands and weighing
leading breeder Jud Little hatch a plan, 1,300 pounds, Fiestas Dynasty is used
breeding FDD Dynasty to Yates’ Firewa- on the ranch in Wyoming when his
ter Fiesta to produce Fiestas Dynasty.
competition and breeding schedules allow
Both excellent producers and perform- downtime. He is color tested, 7 panel n/n,
ers, FDD Dynasty, out of a daughter of AQHA/APHA eligible for breeding, EVA
Tolltac, earned $1.1 million, a pair of neg and vaccinated.
year-end racing titles and a top speed inFiestas Dynasty is passing on his
dex of 102 while three-time NFR quali- outstanding pedigree, top notch gentle
fier Firewater Fiesta has lifetime earnings disposition and versatility to the next
above $800,000 and two AQHA/WPRA generation.
Whether working on the ranch in Wyoming or competing in various arenas,
Heza Fiery Fling is an outstanding stallion with a world class pedigree who has
proven he has what it takes to win.
By the great A Streak of Fling, Mick has
added $32,000 to his sire’s $9 million in
progeny earnings. His dam, Sheza Firen
Bully, carries the bloodlines of Bully Bullion and Fire Water Flit and has produced
an arena record holder, a two-time World
Champion barrel and pole stallion, and a
barrel futurity winner.
Heza Fiery Fling is an open barrel horse
with futurity earnings. He has won in
breakaway and on both ends of the team
roping, picking up his AQHA ROM in
heeling in 2021, the same year he made
the top ten at the AQHA World show in
the heading with Tate Kirchenschlager.
This young stallion offers versatility,
athleticism, brains and beauty, all the ingredients to produce an elite, all around
prospect capable of winning in any arena.
COURTESY DELANCEY ENTERPRISES
At 15.2 hands and around 1,200
pounds, Heza Fiery Fling is color tested,
seven panel n/n, EVA neg and vaccinated,
APHA and AQHA eligible for breeding
and enrolled in many of the biggest incentive programs.
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than $113,000 in progeny
earnings himself and was
purchased by DeLancey
Enterprises in 2023.
Drip’s versatility is shown
in his work around the
ranch in Wyoming, college
rodeo competition, and 1D
barrel racing earnings—
and he’ll soon add roping
to his repertoire. He has
an exceptionally quiet and
willing disposition and his
foals are big boned, quickfooted and conformationally correct with
straight legs.
Drip weighs in around 1,200 pounds
and stands 15.1 hands. He is AQHA/
APHA eligible for breeding, color-tested,
seven-panel n/n, EVA negative and
vaccinated.
This Fame Is On Fire is ready to pass
on his outstanding pedigree and topnotch gentle disposition to the next
generation. Put some FIRE and speed in
your breeding program!
Owned by DeLancey Enterprises, LLC
Standing at Colorado State University
Equine Reproductive Laboratory
Fort Collins, Colorado
970-491-8626
STUD FEE: $1,250
SIRE: Fire Water Flit
DAM: Famous Silk Panties
by Dash Ta Fame
INCENTIVES:
The Diamond Classic
Royal Crown
Future Fortunes
Colorado Classic
Pro Elite Sire Incentive (PESI)
VGBRA
C-N Futurities
Tomorrow’s Legends
TQHA
The perfect cross of brains and speed,
This Fame Is On Fire boasts two
COURTESY DELANCEY ENTERPRISES
THIS FAME IS ON FIRE
legendary parents both in the arena and
the breeding shed.
His sire, Fire Water Flit, has progeny
earnings over $5 million while his dam,
the Dash Ta Fame/Bully Bullion-bred
Famous Silk Panties, won better than
$240,000 in her career, setting a thenrecord for barrel futurity earnings by
a mare, and has continued her legacy
through her offspring.
With a limited number of foals
competing, This Fame Is On Fire, aka
“Drip,” has already garnered more
PROMISE OF THE SUN
Standing at Royal Vista Ranch
Owned by James Ranch
Wayne, Oklahoma
RoyalVistaRanches.com
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: MP Jet To The Sun
DAM: Pie Sky Promises
Owned by David James of James
Ranch, Promise Of The Sun is a 2012
buckskin stallion by MP Jet To The
Sun out of Pie Sky Promises, a proven
dam with progeny earnings in excess of
$479,000. Coming from a long line of
winners and producers, Promise Of The
Sun is continuing to carry that legacy on
with his offspring.
From his first foal crop, Clay Smith
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COURTESY JAMES RANCH
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
rode both Apache Promise and A Magical
Promise to nearly $50,000 in earnings
and to the ARHFA finals with Apache
Promise taking the reserve champion
title in 2022 and winning the 2023 Red
Bud Spectacular. Apache Promise and
Smith teamed up with Sun N Sushi—also
sired by Promise Of The Sun—and Cory
Petska at the Riata Buckle Pro Futurity to
cover both ends at the event.
“If you’re looking to breed the next
generation of top rope horses, Promise
Of The Sun should be at the top of every
breeder’s short list for 2023,” James
said. “Promise Of The Sun is a proven
producer and we’re excited about what is
yet to come.”
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DASH TA TRAFFIC
COURTESY EIGHT OVER QUARTER CIRCLE RANCH
Standing at and Owned by Eight Over
Quarter Circle Ranch
Abilene, Kansas
STUD FEE: $1,200
SIRE: Dash Ta Fame
DAM:
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Dash Ta Traffic has a pedigree for speed
and agility, known for his significant
showing during his 2013 barrel racing
futurity year, placing at the Lance Graves
Futurity, Diamonds and Dirt, Southern
Rebel, and Fort Smith. Notably, he ran
the 14th fastest time at Fort Smith out of
more than 500 runs.
Standing at 15.2 hands, Dash Ta Traffic
exhibits a stout build, marked by a strong
shoulder and big hip, and his offspring
are praised for their proportionate
conformation and good minds. They
demonstrate his ability to cross well with
both foundation and race-bred mares and
show promise in continuing his legacy.
Dash Ta Traffic has adapted well to
heading and breakaway roping and has
plenty of cow sense. His participation in
the Riata Buckle has garnered attention,
with high expectations for his offspring in
STYLIN WITH PEPTO
Standing at West Ranch, LLC
Abilene, Kansas
Owned by Eric Brown
785-489-0442
facebook.com/stylinwithpepto
STUD FEE: $1,000
SIRE: Peptoboonsmal
DAM: Docs Stylenaette
by Docs Stylin Oak
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Stylin With Pepto, a legacy of
$28-million sire Peptoboonsmal and out
of Docs Stylenaette, is making his mark in
the roping pen. His limited yet esteemed
offspring have seamlessly transitioned
into ProRodeo and Open rodeo homes
after competing at the futurities.
This year will be Stylin With Pepto’s
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first large foal crop. This anticipated 2024
offering holds the potential for greatness,
a characteristic that Stylin With Pepto’s
foals have already begun to demonstrate.
Whether for a beginner rider or a
barrel racing and roping.
Breeders have been particularly
impressed with the sensibility and
capability of Dash Ta Traffic’s progeny.
They are smart, people-oriented, have
huge stops and exhibit a natural affinity
for the sport, embodying their sire’s
versatility and athleticism.
professional, these horses
are proving to be a dream to
train and compete on.
“We’re very hopeful,
and we’ve believed in the
potential of the horse for a
long time,” Eric Brown said.
“But the fact that we never
bought him with the idea
of breeding a ton of mares
to him—we bought him
as a private horse—then
with the onset of the Riata
Buckle, we just had the
opportunity to breed more
mares. Then, on top of it,
the few that have been bred
have just been fantastic.”
With fewer than 75
registered foals to date, the opportunity
to breed with Stylin With Pepto remains
an exclusive prospect for those wanting to
produce capable and level-headed horses
that excel in any arena.
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A CAT WITH SWAGGER
Standing at Elwood Equine
Elwood, Utah
Owned by H&H Horses LLC
krystalh@elwoodequine.com
801-598-7048
elwoodequine.com/stallions/a-cat-withswagger
STUD FEE: $950.00
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Lively Dual by Dual Rey
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
A Cat With Swagger is by the legendary
NCHA Hall of Fame stallion, Metallic
Cat and out of Lively Dual by Dual Rey,
and is owned by H&H Horses, Inc.
A Cat With Swagger’s phenomenal
disposition sets him apart, and together
with his solid conformation, natural cow
sense and athleticism, the 15.1-hand,
2018 red roan stallion is excelling in the
rope horse pen. With limited entries, A
Cat With Swagger has $12,900 in lifetime
earnings, including a World Series of
Team Roping qualifier which will take
him to the bright lights of Vegas at the
2024 World Series Finale. He also made
his debut at this year’s 2023 Riata Buckle
in the #14.5.
A Cat with Swagger has what it takes to
produce a quality rope horse with color,
BRINGING THE LUCK
Standing at Elwood Equine
Elwood, Utah
Owned by H&H Horses LLC
krystalh@elwoodequine.com
801-598-7048
elwoodequine.com/stallions/bringin-theluck
STUD FEE: $1,250
SIRE: Lucky Wonder Horse
DAM: Bring It On Guys by Frenchmans
Guy
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
H&H Horses is proud to introduce
Bringing The Luck. The flashy 15.2
hand, 1150-pound, buckskin stallion is
by Lucky Wonder Horse and out of Bring
It On Guys by Frenchmans Guy.
Bringing the Luck is currently in
barrel training with Ryann Pedone.
After his futurity year in barrel racing is
complete, Bringing The Luck will make
his appearance in the rope horse world.
From his attractive appearance to his
impressive athleticism, Bringing The Luck
is the result of years and years of breeding
the industry’s best. In the mare power
conformation and the athletic ability
necessary to get across the line quickly,
rate and handle a steer. His first foal
crop was born in 2023, and they do not
disappoint. His foals all possess his size,
balance, mind and, to top it off, color!
A Cat with Swagger foals are eligible for
the Riata Buckle.
department, Bringing
The Luck’s dam, Bring
It On Guys, is as good
as it gets.
This
year
was
Bringing The Luck’s
first year to stand. He
was bred to several topnotch mares in a variety
of disciplines and
include own daughters
of highly regarded
stallions Dash Ta Fame,
Coronado Cartel, Epic
Leader, Metallic Grey,
Highbrow Cat, and HF
Mobster.
“To say we are excited about his first
foal crop would be an understatement,”
said Krystal Hill of H&H Horses. “We
can’t wait for these foals to hit the ground
in 2024!”
Foals will be eligible for the Riata
Buckle.
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Standing in Elwood, Utah at Elwood Equine
2024 Breed Fee $950
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RIATA BUCKLE STALLION
Standing in Elwood, Utah at Elwood Equine
2024 Breed Fee $1250
435-553-0077
ElwoodEquine.com
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HP DASH TA FIESTA
Standing at and Owned by
Highpoint Performance Horses
Pilot Point, Texas
903-816-1428
highpointperformance.com
STUD FEE: $1,850
SIRE: Dash Ta Fame
DAM: Firewater Fiesta
INCENTIVES:
Pink Buckle + Ruby Buckle + Riata Buckle + Future Fortunes + Tomorrows Legends + Select Stallion Stakes + Colorado
Classic + Cowboy States + VGBRA + Legends Of The South + Top Shelf Breeders
+ The Diamond Classic + Royal Crown
HP Dash Ta Fiesta is barrel racing
royalty, by leading sire Dash Ta Fame out
of Kelly Yates’ famous Firewater Fiesta.
But Firewater Fiesta herself was a head
horse first, and HP Dash Ta Fiesta could
have easily gone to the roping pen with a
picture-perfect, athletic build.
The horse is World’s Greatest Horseman
Champ Ron Ralls’ favorite HIghpoint
stallion, and he’s the junior stallion that
team ropers like World Champion Colby
Lovell and NFR heeler Jonathan Torres
are choosing to cross on their best mares.
SLICK BY DESIGN
Standing at and Owned by
Highpoint Performance Horses
Pilot Point, Texas
903-816-1428
highpointperformance.com
STUD FEE: $3,100
SIRE: Designer Red
DAM: Dreams Of Blue by Dream On
Dancer
INCENTIVES:
Pink Buckle + Ruby Buckle + Riata
Buckle + The Breeders Challenge + Royal
Crown + Blue Collar + Future Fortunes
+ Future Champion (Canada)+ Legends
of the South + Select Stallion Stakes +
Triple Crown 100 + Top Shelf Breeders +
Tomorrows Legends + Southwest Desert
Classic + Cowboy State Incentive +
Colorado Classic, VGBRA + Cornhusker
+ Western Fortunes + TQHA Barrel
Incentive + WPRA PESI + 2019 Futurity
Sire of the Year + The Diamond Classic +
Royal Crown Canada
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TREY YATES HEADING ON SLICK BY DESIGN’S
WORLD CHAMP SON PROBABLY BY DESIGN
Slick By Design needs no introduction
in the barrel racing arena as the topearning stallion of all time, with lifetime
earnings of more than $643,000 and
offspring passing the $6.4 million mark in
earnings.
But in the last three years, “Slick” has
made a major splash in the roping pen,
with multiple offspring winning big
across the sport’s major aged events, with
wins and placings at the ARHFA events,
Royal Crown ropings and Riata Buckle.
“I love the way that horse is
built,” Lovell said. “He caught
my eye immediately. I wasn’t sold
on the run-cow cross, honestly,
for rope horses, but I believe that
stallions like HP Dash Ta Fiesta
are going to change my mind.”
Lovell crossed three of his own
mares on HP Dash Ta Fiesta,
while Torres crossed one on him,
too.
“I want horses eligible for the
incentives and, if you look at HP
Dash Ta Fiesta, he could just as
easily have been a heel horse or a cow
horse,” Torres said.
Probably By Design—a
2017 stallion under the
guidance of J.D. Yates—won
the 2021 AQHA World
Championship in the NonPro Senior Heading with
owner Phil Tearney, while the
horse won the Reserve World
Title in the Junior Heading
with Yates in 2022 and the
year-end highpoint in the
heading, too.
“They’re really gentle, quiet and easy,” Yates said. “For a big horse,
Probably By Design can really use his
butt. You very seldom find horses at that
age that like to do what they do.”
Slick’s offspring—in their very short
time in the rope horse business—
have already amassed over $100,000
in earnings and are eligible for $20
million in incentives across the Western
performance industry.
$6.5 MILLION SIRE
ELIGIBLE FOR
$20 MILLION
IN INCENTIVES
#1 PINK BUCKLE SIRE
with earners of $384,000+
at the 2022 Pink Buckle
2007 Black AQHA Stallion
STUD FEE: $3,100
Sire: Designer Red, Dam: Dreams Of Blue
Tested NEGATIVE for: HYPP, HERDA, GBED, PSSM 1, MH
JD Yates and Probably By Design
2022 AQHA High-Point Heading
Level 3 249.5 Performance Points
$23,427 IN EARNINGS
Slick By Design’s offspring have earned $106,000
in roping in just a few years!
2021 AQHA World Champions Phil Tearney &
Probably By Design- World Champion Head Horse
Standing at: Highpoint Performance Horses
Pilot Point, TX // www.HighPointPerformance.com
Breeding Manager: Christi Christensen
Christi.highpointperformance@gmail.com // 903.816.1428
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$7 MILLION SIRE
WINNERS VERSION si 103
2006 Brown AQHA Stallion
By Holland Ease out of The Jubilee Diamond
STUD FEE: $3,100
*Frozen Semen ONLY
SHES MISCHIEVOUS
Winners Version x Miss Mischievous x
Streakin La Jolla
$23,724 IN EARNINGS
Including 6th at the 2023 ARHFA World
Championship with Kaden Richard!
Standing at: Highpoint Performance Horses
Pilot Point, TX // www.HighPointPerformance.com
Breeding Manager: Christi Christensen
Christi.highpointperformance@gmail.com // 903.816.1428
Sire of BLACKKOUT
Pink Buckle’s record-breaking 2-yearold sold for $875,000 by Solo Select &
Relentless Remuda
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racetrack earnings, but he’s quickly
excelled as a rope horse and barrel horse
sire, and he stands at the official breeding
farm of the Ariat World Series of Team
Roping.
He is a full brother to Jubilant Version,
the brown gelding that Trevor Brazile
rode in his last year of ProRodeo in 2018,
going on to carry Clint Summers to his
first NFR on the head side in 2021.
The 2006 brown stallion also sired
Hankies Version, the sorrel gelding
Rhen Richard won over $50,000 on
in his 5-year-old year at the rope horse
futurities—including winning titles at
Scottsdale’s ARHFA Sun Circuit and
Rock Springs, Wyoming’s Royal Crown.
“They have that explosive speed,”
Richard said. “On the track, it really
shows when they come out of the gate.
But in the team roping, it helps them
come out of the box and run to the cow,
hard. But they’re controllable.”
Kaden Richard won big on Winners
Version daughter Shes Mischevious,
placing sixth at the ARHFA World
Championship and winning the Zesterra
Open at the Royal Crown in Oklahoma
City in May on the mare.
With a speed index of 103, Winners
Version is one of the fastest incentiveeligible stallions available in the rope
horse market.
program is Peptoes, their red roan
stallion by the legendary Peptoboonsmal,
out of a producing daughter of the great
Doc O’Lena. Ingrams’ broodmares are
individually selected based not only on
their bloodlines, but their confirmation,
disposition, color and overall looks.
All foals are mare-raised under the clear
blue Montana sky and abundant green-
grass pastures, and are nurtured and
socialized by ranch managers Tyson and
Wendy Wood. The resulting offspring
have been performers in a variety of areas
including the show arena, team roping,
reining, cutting and barrel racing, and as
solid working ranch horses.
Peptoes is a good-boned, thick son of
the $26 million producer Peptoboonsmal
and out of a producing daughter of Doc
O’Lena. He has NCHA lifetime earnings
of $11,583.68 and was a NCHA Super
Stakes Semi-Finalist, as well as a Multiple
Aged Event Finalist.
Peptoes sires colts that are good boned,
thick and athletic. Peptoes inherited his
very strong red roan genes from his handsome sire, and a great many of his colts
could be considered his spitting image!
Three different times Peptoes colts have
topped the Colorado State University
Legends of Ranching Sale in Fort Collins,
Colorado. His colts are proven to be winners. Ingram Quarter Horses offers Frozen Semen.
WINNERS VERSION
Standing at and Owned by Highpoint Performance Horses
Pilot Point, Texas
903-816-1428
highpointperformance.com
STUD FEE: $3,100
SIRE: Holland Ease
DAM: The Jubilee Diamond by Runaway
Winner
INCENTIVES:
Pink Buckle + Ruby Buckle + Riata Buckle
+ Future Fortunes + Tomorrows Legends
+ Breeders Challenge + Legends Of The
South + Royal Crown + Select Stallion
Stakes + Colorado Classic + Cowboy
States + VGBRA + TQHA Barrel & Race
Incentive + Southwest Desert Classic +
Bitterroot + Top Shelf Breeders
Winners Version first made a name for
himself with $399,057 in his offspring’s
WINNERS VERSION DAUGHTER SHES
MISCHEVIOUS AND KADEN RICHARD
LEXI SMITH MEDIA
PEPTOES
Standing at and Owned by
Ingram Quarter Horses
Gallatin Gateway, Montana
406-223-1959
ingramquarterhorses.com
STUD FEE: $1,000
SIRE: Peptoboonsmal
DAM: SR Jaguar by Doc O’Lena
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Mike and Sheila Ingram’s Spur Cross
Ranch is the home of Ingram Quarter
Horses. Located in beautiful Gallatin
Gateway, just outside of Bozeman,
Montana, they have been breeding,
raising and training quality American
Quarter Horses for more than 30 years.
Ingram Quarter Horses is dedicated to
producing top quality horses with proven
bloodlines. The star of the Ingram breeding
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CT SHOW ME YOUR GUNS
COURTESY HOCKENSON QUARTER HORSES
Standing at Abraham’s Equine Clinic
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Owned by Hockenson Quarter Horses
319-330-6862
hockensonquarterhorses.com
STUD FEE: $3,000
SIRE: Show Me A Song Joes
DAM: Seven S Gunsan Roses by Playgun
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pitzer Ranch Horse Invitational
South Dakota Reined Cow Horse Stallion
Stakes
IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity
In the performance horse world,
athleticism and intelligence are critical to
success, but a little bit of pretty doesn’t
hurt either.
All those attributes are found in
Hockenson Quarter Horses’ CT Show
HQ HELLUVA CAT
Standing at Abraham’s Equine Clinic
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Owned by Hockenson Quarter Horses
319-330-6862
hockensonquarterhorses.com
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Bound To White Chex by Helluva
Chex
INCENTIVES:
South Dakota Reined Cow Horse Stallion
Stakes
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
IQHA Ranch Horse Stallion Breeder’s
Futurity
HQ Helluva Cat is Hockenson Quarter
Horses’s home-bred and raised champion,
a winner in multiple disciplines who is
passing on his stunning good looks and
physical talent to his progeny.
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Me Your Guns, the 2021 AQHA World
Champion Senior Heading Horse and
AHQA Champion.
“Joe” was a standout in the show pen:
a Super Horse contender for multiple
years after qualifying for the AQHA
World Show in tie down roping, heading,
heeling, ranch riding, barrels and
performance halter.
With his oldest, limited first foal crop
just being 5 years old, Joe quickly proved
himself as a sire, turning out 2022 AQHA
World Champion HQ Show Me The Gin
in the L2 Junior Heading (one of two in
his first crop), and 2023 Reserve World
Champion in the L3 Junior Heading,
HQ Top Gun.
Joe’s offspring have earned more than
244 AQHA points and $60,000 and
climbing. Joe is also the all-time highmoney producing Stallion in the IQHA
Ranch Horse Futurity, just one of the
many incentives for which his progeny
are eligible.
In addition to his athleticism, the
uniquely colored stallion carries the
cream gene, gray gene and dun gene.
His offspring are proving to have his
dominance in the show pen and their
beauty can’t be overlooked.
as a producer of multiple
AHQA World Champion
and Reserve World Champions.
“He was absolutely
everything we hoped for,”
Reid Hockenson noted.
HQ
Helluva
Cat
qualified to the open finals
of the 2019 NRCHA
Snaffle
Bit
Futurity
before being started in
the heeling. Before an
COURTESY HOCKENSON QUARTER HORSES
injury shortened his show
Reid and Melanie Hockenson had career, HQ Helluva Cat also added the
a vision of raising a winner when they All Around Ranch Horse Versatility
crossed NCHA Hall of Fame sire Metallic Championship to his resume.
Cat on their own AQHA performance
HQ Helluva Cat carries both the cream
champion and third-place AQHA Senior and roan genes. His first foal crop just hit
Heading mare, Bound To White Chex.
the ground in 2022 and are just being
Both sire and dam were also proven started under saddle and are bound to be
producers: Metallic Cat with progeny outstanding athletes with a ton of look,
earnings topping $63 million and Bound just like their sire.
To White Chex with progeny earnings
of $54,000, 200 AQHA points, as well
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REYS OF PEP
STUD FEE: $3,000
SIRE: Dual Rey
DAM: Peppys Stylish Lena
by Docs Stylish Oak
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
Gold Buckle
Colorado Classic
Medal Program
Reys Of Pep is the winningest stallion
in the history of the rope horse futurity
business, having won under the likes of
world champions Colby Lovell, Kaleb
Driggers and Kollin VonAhn, amassing
$114,599 in earnings in two years of
ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS
Standing at 113 Equine
Millsap, Texas
Owned by Jake Cooper
reysofpep.com
KALEB DRIGGERS AND
REYS OF PEP
competition.
Reys Of Pep, first started and shown
by Brad Lund at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit
Futurity, carried Lovell to the American
Rope Horse Futurity Association’s Reserve
Heeling World Title in 2022, marking the
highest score of the entire show, qualifying
for the short round in the heading, too.
CFR ARETE GUN
Standing at The Ranch
Whitesboro, Texas
Owned by Jared Crain, Buddy Wacaser
and Jack Bogart
615-946-8198
theranchequine.com/cfr-arete-gun
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: Gunnatrashya
DAM: Tribeca Tucker by Lenas Wright On
CFR Arete Gun—a son of $9 million
sire Gonnatrashya and out of a daughter
of Tribeca Tucker—has proven his mettle
as a rope horse. With success at the
AQHA World Show in the tie-down
and heeling with Cody McCartney, Jared
Crain, and Steve Orth, as well as wins at
the Royal Crown and Red Bud Classic
with Dakota Kirkenschlager, the 2016
stallion has surpassed $60,000 in lifetime
earnings so far.
With his first foal crop hitting the
ground in 2024, “Arete” is still competing
and having success with riders of all
levels—a trait that owners Jared Crain,
Buddy Wacaser and Jack Bogart all hope
is passed down to his progeny. Coming
from a reining background, the stallion
has proven to be versatile and steady, yet
user-friendly.
“I got to take him home this summer
The horse won the 2023 RFA Heeling
Derby with Lovell, the 2023 ARHFA
Cowtown Classic Heading Futurity with
Lovell and the TX Best Heading Futurity
with Driggers, too.
“He can do anything—he’s outstanding
on each end—truly one of the best I’ve
ever rode,” Lovell said. “He’s good-minded
enough to take the heat of battle any time
you ask. My little girl can warm him up,
and I don’t give it a second thought.”
For his exceptional 2023 campaign,
Reys Of Pep won the ARHFA Head
Horse of the Year title, awarded at the
World Championship in Fort Worth in
October.
Owned by NFR header Jake Cooper,
Reys Of Pep will stand at 113 Equine for
2024, where he’ll come and go in between
a full jackpot and rodeo schedule.
and, once he got done
breeding, I took him to
jackpots myself as an
amateur all summer and
just had a blast and won
quite a bit of money,
“ Crain said. “Then he
gets back in the hands
of Cody and Dakota and
is competitive as ever at
the World Show. Arete is
such a solid horse—goodminded but also has the
athleticism to do the job
in each discipline. With
Arete, you’ve got it all.”
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CFR ARETE GUN
$60,000+ LTE
2024 Stud Fee: $1,500
including chute fee and shipping
2021 AQHA World Champion Junior Tie Down Level 3
2023 AQHA Sr Tie Down Level 3 Top 5
5th 2022 AQHA World Show Senior Tie Down
Reserve Champion ARHFA Heeling Redbud 2022
Reserve Champion ARHFA Calf Roping Oil Can 2022
Reserve Champion Royal Crown 2022 6 and under heeling
Champion Tie Down AQHA Houston Rodeo 2022
Champion Tie Down Dixie Nationals 2022
5th 2021 AQHA World Show Level 3 Jr Heeling
AQHA Superior Tie Down
GUNNATRASHYA
COLONELS SMOKING GUN
NATRASHA
CFR ARETE GUN
TRIBECA TUCKER
LENAS WRIGHT ON
TUCKERETTE COMMAND
OWNED BY JARED CRAIN, BUDDY WACASER, AND JACK BOGART
CONTRACTS: JARED CRAIN 615-946-8198
Standing at: The Ranch in Whitesboro TX
Training with: Gary Wells Ranch Inc.
Shown by: Cody McCartney in calf roping
Shown by: Dakota Kirkenschlager in heading and heeling
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REF MAJESTICO
Standing at Millionheir Ranch
Dublin, Texas
Owned by Jose Briseno
facebook.com/REFMajestico
STUD FEE: $1,250
SIRE: Colonels Smoking Gun
DAM: Jameen Olena by
Hollywood Dun It
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Medal Program
REF Majestico, also known as “Magic,”
is a 2013 red dun stallion by Colonels
Smoking Gun out of Jameen Olena, a
daughter of Hollywood Dun It. Magic
stands 14.2 hands tall with a stout build
and large bone structure. This stature
allows Magic to excel as a head and heel
horse. Magic has won money on some of
the biggest stages, like the World Series of
Team Roping and the Riata Buckle.
Magic’s first foal crop was born in 2019,
and they are heading roping arena. Proving to be like their sire, Magic’s offspring
METALLIC PAYDAY
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Another Playgirl
by Freckles Playboy
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown
Riata Buckle
Gold Buckle
Diamond Classic
Medal Program
Kaleb Driggers has owned more elitelevel performers than any header ever.
So, it goes to reason that if he decides to
stand a stallion, that stallion aligns with
his exceptionally high standards for a
great horse.
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ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS
Standing at Outlaw Equine
Decatur, Texas
Owned by Kaleb and Nicole Driggers
940-626-8387
outlawequinevet.com
METALLIC PAYDAY AND
DAKOTA KIRCHENSCHLAGER
That stallion—Metallic Payday—
came from fellow World Champion and
ARHFA Reserve Champ Colby Lovell’s
program. Lovell, with his background
in cutting, ranching and cow horse,
put a foundation on Metallic Payday
that’s earned him more than $60,000 in
competition.
“His colts have proven to be really
willing and versatile,” Driggers said. “His
oldest colts are 2-year-olds and in some
carry a lot of trainability and
are excelling on both ends of
the steer.
With a focus on breeding for specific qualities like
speed, a big stop and intelligence, Magic is not only a
winner in the arena but a sire
that promises to enhance the
quality and performance of
future generations in the
roping arena.
“I’m excited with the Riata
buckle promoting the breeding of rope horses,” Jose said.
“We’re breeding for the roping industry now and not for
another discipline waiting
for the dropouts to turn into rope horses.
And I think Magic brings a lot to the table
being a rope horse sire.”
of the best hands in the business. Kollin
Vonahn has one that Chance Harman
broke for me, and he said he is one of the
best colts that he has had. Colby has a few
that he has taken in different directions
and says they are very willing to learn. All
of them have big bones and good feet.”
Competing since his 3-year-old year,
the 2017 stallion has placed in the average
and go-rounds on both ends at the Riata
Buckle, Royal Crown and ARHFA events
under everyone from Lovell to Driggers
to Andy Holcomb, Junior Nogueira
and Dakota Kirchenschlager. In 2023,
he finished his futurity campaign the
ARHFA’s Reserve World Champion on
the heel side with Kirchenschlager.
“I will continue to show him in the
AQHA as a senior horse,” Driggers said.
“But he is ready to move up. I am not
going to rush him, but Junior has been
practicing for the NFR on him. Dakota
is going to start using him some at the
jackpots, and he went to the World Series
of Team Roping Finale in December and
is working him into the rodeos.”
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PC REDWOOD MANNY
Standing at and Owned by Lance Robinson Quarter Horses
Spanish Fork, Utah
801-580-8588
lancerobinsonquarterhorses.com
STUD FEE: $1,750
SIRE: SUN FROST
DAM: MANDRIFT MARI
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Colorado Classic
Future Fortunes
Diamond Classic
Royal Crown
PC Redwood Manny has made his
mark in the roping and barrel racing,
siring NHSRA world champs to PRCA
money earners alike. The disposition he
passes down to his colts is one of willingness and try, enabling them to succeed in
several disciplines.
He puts a solid mind and big bones on
his offspring, making them optimal performance horses. PC Redwood Manny is
by AQHA Hall of Fame sire Sun Frost—
sire of 101 money-earners and 37 AQHA
point-earners—and out of Mandrift
Mari, producer of several champions.
“Cowboy” is gentle and intuitive—a
meet-you-at-the-gate type of horse; a
competitor, a profound sire and gentle
enough that the grandkids can love on
him.
5-year-old Special Int. Non-Pro. He won
reserve champion at the Breeders Incentive 5-year-old Special Limited Non-Pro,
and was a finalist AQHA World Amateur
Cutting, as well as many other accolades.
Pound Sign is a 2016 son of the
legendary Metallic Cat, an NCHA Hallof-Fame stallion and the No.1 All-Time
NRCHA leading sire. Pound Sign is out
of Dual Rey Tag by Dual Rey, the No.3
All-Time NCHA leading sire.
Pound Sign exudes confidence and
composure passed down by generations
of standout competitors. Since being
owned by McColee Land & Livestock,
Pound Sign has hit the roping pen with
NFR qualifier Clint Robinson, showing
incredible sense and flashy moves. His
first foal crop of 2022 is showing exciting
potential. The versatility Pound Sign
brings will make them fierce competitors
across disciplines.
POUND SIGN
Standing at Lance Robinson Quarter
Horses
Spanish Fork, Utah
Owned by McColee Land & Cattle
801-580-8588
poundsignstallion.com
STUD FEE: $1,750
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Dual Rey Tag by Dual Rey
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Diamond Classic
Future Fortunes
NCHA Stallion Foal Program
Pound Sign made his mark on the cutting world with incredible athleticism.
He was crowned the 2021 AQHA World
Champion Junior Cutting Horse, and
also was a finalist at the NCHA Open
Futurity, Arbuckle Mountain 4-year-old
futurity and the NCHA Super Stakes
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Cutting, Penning, Roping or the Barrel Pen
(Metallic Cat x Dual Rey Tag by Dual Rey)
LTE $56,694 4 Panel N/N, GBED N/G
AQHA OPEN JUNIOR CUTTING
Aqha Open Team Penning (3rd Place)
Full Brother to
NCHA OPEN
WORLD CHAMPION
HASHTAGS - LTE
$485,293
2024 FEE: $1,750
Eligibilities: Pink Buckle, Ruby Buckle,
Riata Buckle, Future Fortunes,
Diamond Classic and
NCHA Stallion/Foal Program
Keith@McColee.com
LanceRobinson11@hughes.net
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HR SMART REY
Standing at Black Top Ranch
Bixby, Oklahoma
Owned by Harrison Performance Horses
918-640-9617
harrisonperformancehorses.com
STUD FEE: $1,000
SIRE: Smart Peppy Doc
DAM: OSU Sonny Rey Girl by Harlan
Okmulgee
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Despite his challenging start, orphaned
at six weeks, HR Smart Rey, known as
“Gus,” has excelled with six AQHA World
Show qualifications, a championship in
L2 Amateur Heading, and several top 10
finishes. Beyond his accomplishments,
Gus has proven his worth as a sire, with
his offspring carrying forward his winning
traits.
Producing winners like HR Barney
Ray, HR Oscar Rey, CG McClintock,
and Smart Reys Ellie May, Gus proves
to sire winners that can be successful in
both heading and heeling. Gus’ 3-yearold progeny, Smart Josie Rey and Smart
CATTY HAWK
Standing at Weatherford Equine
Breeding Center
Weatherford, Texas
817-594-9181
Owned by Bill and Michelle Cowan
580-220-1281
cattyhawk.com
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: High Brow Cat
DAM: Scarlet Dance x Peppy San Badger
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle + Breeder’s Invitational +
Augusta Cutting Horse Futurity + Royal
Crown + Abilene Spectacular + NRCHA
+ Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association
+ APHA Chrome Cash + NCHA Kit Kat
Sugar Super Stakes
Bill and Michelle Cowan are known
for raising, training, and showing great
performance horses. The Cowan’s
program includes the great and very
versatile Catty Hawk by the all-time
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leading cutting horse sire, High Brow Cat
x Scarlet Dance x Peppy San Badger.
Catty Hawk is a 2005 AQHA/APHA
Double Registered stallion with LTE
$240,297. Catty Hawk has been racking
up champion titles and earnings since
his 3-year-old year in 2008 and has been
a finalist at almost every aged event he’s
shown at. Highlights of career successes
include the 2008 NCHA’s 3YO Non Pro
Scottish Guy, are already making
waves in the roping pen and have
been at the top of their game all
year—all while handling the
pressure with the distinctive
calm they inherit from their sire.
“We’ve crossed Gus on several different bloodlines, and
every single one of the foals is
good-minded with plenty of size
and bone to do their job,” Kathy
Harrison said. “The offspring
all have that ‘chill factor’ and are always
quiet, calm and ready to take on what’s
next—whether that’s the bright lights in
the arena or a new job.”
Gus exemplifies ‘old school cool’ with
his vintage bloodlines, blending a gritty
toughness with a quiet mind, setting a
standard for both poise and resilience.
finalist and Limited Non Pro Champion,
the 2009 Abilene Spectacular 4YO Open
Reserve Champion, 2010 Music City
Futurity 5/6YR Non Pro Finalist, 2011
NCHA Summer Spectacular 5/6YO Non
Pro finalist and 2019 AQHA World Show
Cutting Amateur finalist. In 2014, Catty
Hawk was awarded the Leading Freshman
AQHA Sire of 2014.
Catty Hawk’s foal crops have each produced champions. His strong foundation
results in exceptional performers and with
progeny earnings over $3.3 million in
cutting, reined cow horse, roping, ranch
work and barrel racing.
“Catty Hawk is an impressive competitor in the show pen,” Michelle Cowan
said. “We are seeing the incredible payouts in team roping. Makenzie Cowan,
our daughter, along with others have had
some great performances in the roping
arena, so we felt the next logical step was
to enroll him in the Riata Buckle and the
Royal Crown, giving the owners of his
offspring additional opportunities to do
well!”
Harrison Performance Horses presents a 2009 15hh Bay AQHA Stallion
Smart Peppy Doc • OSU Sonny Rey Girl (3x AQHA World Senior Qualified Tie Down Roping)
Breeding Fee: $1,000 + Chute fee
(Shipped Semen Available)
Now a RIATA BUCKLE STALLION
Foals eligible for RIATA BUCKLE INCENTIVES
HR SMART REY
World Champion Sire
HR Oscar Rey 2022 AQHA World Champion
Amateur Select Heading
6x AQHA World Show Qualified - Senior Tie Down,
3x Finalist - Senior Tie Down Roping,
2016 Reserve Champion LEVEL 2 Senior Tie Down Roping,
Superior in Tie Down Roping And Dally Team Roping Heading,
2017 Champion Amateur Heading LEVEL 2, 3rd Place Amateur Heading
STANDING AT BLACK TOP RANCH - DR. CARR
13721 E. 169TH ST. S GATE ON US 64, BIXBY, OK 74008
Contact Elsworth Harrison (918) 640-9617 OR
Kathy Harrison (918) 671-4180
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Ride The Rim Performance Horses
541-740-8142
Klamath Falls and Terrebonne, Oregon
Ride The Rim Performance Horses’
lineup of top stallions features some of
the industry’s best bloodlines, all managed by equine reproduction veterinarian
Meredith Pierce, DVM, and Lori Lester.
“This started as my side passion, with
one stallion—One Nation—and then
Lori was like, ‘I want a stallion!’” Pierce
explained. “So we bred a mare and had
Lesters Live Wire. And we went from
there. This started out as kind of fun, and
now it’s an obsession.”
Best Advice ($750, ICSI only)
Standing as ICSI only, Best Advice is
by Corona Cartel out of Sweet Advice by
Bully Bullion.
“He’s had fantastic horses on the track
and in the barrel pen,” Pierce said. “He
crosses well on the Dash Ta Fames, the
Judge Cashes and even Thoroughbred
BENCH WARRANT
mares.” Incentives: Ruby Buckle, VGBRA Reference Sire
Lesters Live Wire ($1,000)
By First Down Dash son Rare News
out of Thoroughbred mare Ochoco Kitten, Lesters Live Wire, at 17 hands, adds
size and speed to any mare. Lesters Live
Wire has produced exceptional colts with
a kind disposition, good mind and athleticism to spare. Incentives: Top Shelf, Select Stallion Stakes, VGBRA, Southwest
BOWMANS METALLIC CAT
Luke Jones Performance Horses
Allerton, Iowa
facebook.com/BowmansMetallicCat
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Bowmans Fancy by Lenas Jewel
Bars
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle + South Dakota Reined
Cow Horse Association + IQHA Ranch
Horse Futurity
Bowmans Metallic Cat (Metallic Cat x
Bowmans Fancy) was trained and shown
by Luke Jones Performance Horses of
Allerton, Iowa. The red roan stallion is
the 2019 Midwest Greatest Horseman
Champion and has 325 AQHA points in
heading, heeling, tie-down, working cow
horse, ranch and trail, performance halter
and LTE of $36,621.
“For the last two years, we’ve been
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BOWMANS METALLIC CAT ON THE HEAD SIDE AT THE
RIATA BUCKLE
standing Bowmans Metallic Cat,” says
Luke. “We legged him back up so our
12-year-old son, Lane, could head on him
in the #10.5 Jr Roping at the 2023 Riata
Buckle. He made it to the short round.
Our 15-year-old son, Cort, heeled on
him at the 2023 AQHA World Show for
Lane, who ended up winning 3rd in the
L2 Senior Heading on his horse.”
Bowmans Metallic Cat is versatile,
known for his athleticism, kind nature,
Desert Classic
Bench Warrant ($1,250)
By Judge Cash out of Frenchmans Guy
daughter RR Frenchmans Smoke, Bench
Warrant is a go-to barrel horse for Lester,
who’s earned arena records and spots in
the American Semis. Incentives: Royal
Crown Roping and Barrels, VGBRA, Top
Shelf Breeders, Cowboy State Stallion Incentive
Something Epic ($2,000, frozen only)
Only 4 years old in 2024, Something
Epic, by Epic Leader, is a full sibling to
NFR qualifier Kassie Mowry’s massive
superstar Epic Guy, both out of Frenchilicious by Frenchmans Guy. He’s in
training with João Leão, and will be campaigned throughout his futurity career
and beyond.
One Nation (Private treaty)
One Nation was Ride The Rim’s first
sire, but has since passed away. His frozen
semen is still available. Incentives: VGBRA
and incredible mind,
which he passes to his
babies, with winners
in both cow horse and
roping arenas.
This year, Bowmans
Metallic Cat offspring
won the most money
at the SDRCHA
Stallions
Stakes
Futurity and Derby.
His notable progenies
include BMC Metallic
Gem,
the
2021
Badlands Bits and
Spurs Futurity 4-year-old Open Heeling
Champion, an NRCHA money earner,
and an AQHA World Show Qualifier
and AQHA World Show Jr Heeling
finalist. BMC Wild Girl, a 2023 Open
Snaffle Bit Futurity Finalist, SDRCHA
Open and Breeders Open Futurity
Champion, and a Southwest Reined Cow
Horse Association Open Futurity Finalist,
and Billions N Billions is the SDRCHA
Non-Pro Breeders Futurity Champion.
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FOUR CHEX BAY
Standing at KB Ranch
Comanche, Texas
Massingill Performance Horses
kbranch.biz/four-chex-bay
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: Figure Four Chex
DAM: Bay Bonnie Raindrop by Eddie
Eighty
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Originating from Haythorn Land &
Cattle Co., this 2009 AQHA stallion,
Four Chex Bay, known as “Doobie,”
stands at 15.1 hands and weighs a solid
1,250 pounds. With his impressive stature, Doobie is not just a sight to behold
but also a sire of winners. A full brother to
Four Bonnie Bay—a winner in numerous
AQHA events, including heading, healing, and calf roping—he brings a legacy
of excellence to the breeding world.
Doobie’s foals, the oldest born in 2016,
are already making a mark in roping
WSR HESA DUNOFA LENA
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Hesa Sonofa Dun
DAM: Paulena By Doc Olena
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Two-time World Champion Heeler
Patrick Smith purchased WSR Hesa
Dunofa Lena in 2019, offering the standout stallion to the public in addition to
the horse’s full schedule on the ProRodeo
road.
“The way this horse is bred is a bonus,”
Smith said of the 2004 stud known as
“Rooster.” “The reason I bought him is
the way he is to heel on. I knew I needed
a great one, and I want people to see that.”
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gives you a good throw
and a great chance, no
matter the situation. His
ability to slide and get on
his hind end really sets
him apart—he’ll leave 11s
at a trot.”
Adams said Rooster’s
offspring are the best he’s
ridden, and Rooster’s
paternal sibling WSR
Hesa Alive carried Kaleb
Driggers to the $100,000
American Rodeo win in
2023 and helped secure
Clint Summers’ NFR
berth at Sioux Falls, South Dakota’s Cinch
Governor’s Cup in September 2023.
“We had a 100% success rate on getting
the mares we bred in foal,” Smith added.
“Ropers are embracing the program, and
we’re really excited about that.”
ROOSTER HAS BEEN PART OF SMITH’S NFR QUALIFYING
CAMPAIGN THE LAST TWO YEARS.
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Standing at Highpoint
Performance Horses
Pilot Point, Texas
Owned by Patrick Smith
325-261-3966
raisingroosters.com
highpointperformancehorses.com
arenas across Texas and
Arizona, inheriting his
desirable traits: big bone,
striking color, luxurious
mane and tail, and significant speed. While Doobie
himself excels as a head
horse, he produces versatile progeny suitable for
both heading and heeling,
with several being capable
switchenders.
“He passes everything
down—from his looks
to his talent,” Danny
Massingill said. “Doobie is
as quiet and calm as they come, and all of
his babies are that way. They are real easy
to start and super easygoing, reflecting his
calm disposition and athletic ability, making them suitable for a range of riders,
from beginners to advanced ropers.”
In 2019, Smith, heeling for Aaron
Tsinigine, won $35,000 for fourth aboard
Rooster at the Bob Feist Invitational,
helping boost the horse’s lifetime earnings
well over $300,000.
Raised and trained by World Champion
Randon Adams, Rooster appeared at
the National Finals Rodeo with Cesar
de la Cruz, and has been ridden by the
likes of Russell Cardoza and Dakota
Kirchenschlager, too.
“He’s so honest,” de la Cruz said. “He
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LTE: $500,000+
Stud Fee: $2,000
WSR Hesa Dunofa Lena has over half-a-million
in earnings, having competed at the Wrangler
National Finals Rodeo under two of the sport’s most
explosive heelers in Cesar de la Cruz AND Dakota
Kirchenschlager. He came in clutch as they tapped
him at the end of the season, too, to get them there.
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REYS SMOKIN DUALLY
Standing at Elwood Equine
Roosevelt, Utah
Owned by A&C Racing and Roping
aandcracingandroping.com
RHEN RICHARD ON REYS SUNSET
CLAIMING THE ARHFA’S 4-YEAR-OLD
HEADING WORLD TITLE.
STUD FEE: $1,750
SIRE: Dual Rey
DAM: Smokin Pepto by Peptoboonsmal
ever asked out of him. He felt nervous,
so I thought he was going to leave on
that last one but, when the gates banged,
he just stood there, so I had to make up
ground.”
But that horse isn’t even the stud’s most
successful offspring to date. Rubys Rollin,
the brown 6-year-old mare Richard won
California Rodeo Salinas on in 2022—
came straight off the futurity trail to win
in one of the toughest setups in rodeo’s
summer run, and she’s already banked
over $50,000 in earnings.
RICHARD AND RUBYS ROLLIN WINNING
CALIFORNIA RODEO SALINAS IN 2022.
PHIL DOYLE
Utah’s Richard family has developed
a special eye for the best horses in the
business to cross on their standout line
of mares, and they becan offering their
stud Reys Smokin Dually to the public
in 2023.
The Richards bought him in Fort
Worth at the National Cutting Horse
Association’s sale as a yearling, standing
out from the pack as the right kind of
young stud to cross on the family’s racebred mares.
“He was bigger than most of them, and
he just looked like a rope horse in that
sale ring,” Richard said. “He was really,
really calm even then, and he had that eye
appeal, too. And when we started him, he
never got hot. You could put anybody on
him, even early on.”
Before rope horse futurities really came
of age in the U.S., Richard took the stud
to Canada and won at the futurities there.
“He did really well,” Richard said. “But
by the time the futurities became a big
deal down here, he had aged out.”
So Reys Smokin Dually went to the
A&C Racing and Roping breeding barn,
crossing on the family’s running-bred
mares, adding more trainability, bone
and rate to the guaranteed run the family
already counted on.
“He’s not a fast-minded horse,” Richard explained. “We can breed him to a
hot-bred mare, and we can push the colts
along as 4-year-olds without worrying
about it. We can really get into them and
ELITE EQUINE PROMOTIONS
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown Roping
Riata Buckle
ask them for 100%. That’s good for me
and the way I like to rope, not having to
slow one down. His colts just have natural
rate.”
Never was that more evident than in
Fort Worth in October, when Richard
claimed the ARHFA’s 4-year-old Heading
World Championship on Reys Smokin
Dually’s own 4-year-old, Reys Sunset.
“He feels like a real deal horse,” Richard
said of the up-and-comer. “He’s a freak
athlete. He really runs. Going after that
short-round steer was by far the most I’ve
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BET HESA GINNIN
Standing at Outlaw Equine
Decatur, Texas
Owned by Premier Rope Horses
ecequinemarketing.com/bethesaginnin
WORLD CHAMPION CLAY
SMITH AND BET HESA
GINNIN
STUD FEE: $2,500
SIRE: Bet Hesa Cat
DAM: Ginnin Stoli by Stoli
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Gold Buckle
The Diamond Classic
Medal Program
From the 6666 Ranch, Bet Hesa
Ginnin is a 2016 red roan stallion
transitioning from a successful cow horse
career under Terry Riddle to a promising
future in heading with Clay Smith.
By Bet Hesa Cat and out of Ginnin
Stoli, he represents a lineage known for
performance and versatility.
His cow horse achievements include
the 2021 Colorado State Fair Open
Derby Herd Work Reserve Champion, 2022
Panhandle Reined Cow
Horse Open Two Rein
Champion, NRCHA 2x
Celebration of Champions Qualifier and AQHA
Ranching
Heritage
World Qualifier.
At 15 hands, Bet Hesa
Ginnin is being bred to
produce top-quality horses, combining his size,
speed and intelligence.
This marks a strategic
shift to use his traits to
create a new generation of head horses.
“He’s smart,” Smith said. “He has a
quick response off the reins across from
the back of the box to the steer. We really
have high hopes for him in the arena and
as a sire.”
HILLBILLY HALLOWS
Yellowhead County, Alberta
780-779-0586
Facebook.com/Hillbilly Hallows
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown
Riata Buckle
Hillbilly Hallows may well be a passion
project for founder Robin Walker, but it
was born from the straight up necessity
for a rodeoing mom to have versatile
horses capable of competing successfully
in multiple events.
Today, in her pursuit of breeding the
ultimate crossover horse, Walker blends
her proven band of broodmares, such as
Fols Dream Of Cash, who’s produced
Canadian Finals Rodeo barrel horses and
an AQHA world champion, with the
outstanding performance and genetics
of sire Big Shine In Cowtown, aka
“Champ.”
Champ is a futurity and ProRodeo
winner who competed at the Canadian
Finals Rodeo as a 5-year old and has
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continued his successful show career with
Jeremy Buhler.
“I added Trey Gallais, multiple CFR
competitor, for full-time training and
getting our colts the best start we can,”
Walker added of the new addition to her
budding program. With 20 new foals
hitting the ground each year, Walker
has progeny by Champ, as well as other
outstanding stallions from hand selected,
proven mares.
Champ balances breeding and showing
and, new for 2024, is now a Royal Crown
stallion for both of Walker’s favorite
disciplines: team roping and barrel racing.
“That’s exciting, especially with my
mares,” Walker said. “I’m sitting here
giggling.”
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ONE FINE VINTAGE
Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion Station
Stephenville, Texas
Owned by Robertson Ranches
254-485-8280
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: One Time Pepto
DAM: Shiners Siena by Shining Spark
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Gold Buckle
ARHFA Top Gun
The Diamond Classic
NRCHA Stakes
PCCHA Stakes
Brazos Valley Super Stallion
One Fine Vintage, the AQHA and
NRCHA World Champion known as
“Vinnie,” is the cornerstone of Robertson
Ranch’s breeding program.
Sired by $22 million producer One
Time Pepto and out of Shiners Siena
by Shining Spark, One Fine Vintage’s
pedigree is stacked with impressive
bloodlines that cross well on a number of
mares.
“I think One Fine Vintages make
a pretty picture,” ARHFA World
Champion Andy Holcomb said. “Even
when they aren’t perfect, they manage to
catch your eye. They also learn fast and
pattern well to the roping, so they fit my
program well.”
Well enough that Holcomb won the
2022 ARHFA 4-Year-Old Heading
World Championship on One Vintage
Merada, by One Fine Vintage. In 2023,
Holcomb and One Vintage Merada also
won the futurity sidepot heading for
Miles Baker at the Riata Buckle, banking
another $51,750 in earnings.
Standing at 15.1 hands, Vinnie’s
versatility and athleticism are unmatched.
He not only holds two World
Championship Working Cow Horse titles
but also has an AQHA Open Superior
ONE VINTAGE MERADA
AND ANDY HOLCOMB
in Working Cow Horse, Heading
and Heeling with lifetime earnings of
$135,187 and offspring earnings in excess
of $337,000. His average money earner
has won $18,755, according to QData,
with five having won AQHA points early
into his breeding career.
While originally a reined cow horse
stallion, the majority of his offspring have
won in the team roping—some $247,378
before the 2023 Riata Buckle earnings are
even added in.
“That horse just gives you confidence,”
said $2-million-rider Corey Cushing after
winning the 2016 AQHA Senior Working
Cow Horse World Championship on
Vinnie. “I’ve watched him for a long, long
time, and I’ve never seen him be outdone.
There’s nothing that horse can’t do great.
He’s a natural athlete.”
His offspring are not only excelling
in cow horse events but have recently
made waves in the roping arena, with
Fine Vintage Cash becoming the No.
1 Highest Money Earning Rope Horse
Futurity Mare in the Fall of 2023 with
$112,361 in earnings.
In addition to riding several of his
offspring, Daniel and Jazlyn Rice of
Clements, California, have fit Robertson
Ranches’ One Fine Vintage yearlings for
sale over the past several years.
“We’ve been so impressed by the
consistency in their size, build and
demeanor,” Jazlyn said. “They are equal
parts smart and sweet and possess the
athletic ability to excel at multiple events
just like Vinnie did. He puts his stamp on
them every time.”
One Fine Vintage’s Top 3 Earners, per
QStallions:
1. Fine Vintage Cash, 2016 mare out
of Miss Catty Cash by Nu Cash; owned
by Monty and Chris Avery and shown by
Andy Holcomb; $112,661
2. One Vintage Merada, 2018 sorrel
stallion out of Miss Merada Lee by Master Merada; owned by Fallon Avery and
shown by Andy Holcomb and Kaleb
Driggers; $60,814
3. First Class Vintage, 2018 chestnut gelding out of Tangys Last Chex
by Tangys Classy; owned by Robertson
Ranches and shown by Daniel Rice.
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Standing At 4S Equine
940-393-6306
Rhome, Texas
Owned By Robyn Fox
325-280-9978
STUD FEE: $1,300
SIRE: Bar Lenas Last
DAM: Letas Blue Best
Bred and raised by AQHA 15-year
breeder Robyn Fox, an accomplished
roper herself, Lenas Frosted Jag
exemplifies all the qualities that breeders
look for in a stallion.
This 5-year-old stallion stands at
a solid 15 hands with great bone,
excellent conformation and outstanding
temperament and trainability.
Jag started his career in the reined cow
horse pen and is an NRCHA money
earner. Midway through his 4-year-old
year, he was then sent to the capable
hands of Clay Burnham for rope horse
training. His “old soul” demeanor has
allowed him to come to the show pen
with minimum training time in the
roping pen in both ends of team roping.
He has excelled in AQHA roping classes,
including bringing home the 2023
AQHA High Point Rope Horse Award at
the historic Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo.
Although his demeanor is laid back,
PROBABLY A SHINER
Rolling V Performance Horses
785-973-8217
tienquarterhorses.net
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Smart Nu Shiner
DAM: Shortys Probability by With All
Probability
Probably A Shiner might just be the
winningest junior stallion on the rope
horse market today, as the 2022 American
Quarter Horse Association World
Champion Junior Head Horse and Junior
Heel Horse.
Raised by Rolling V Performance
Horses in Rock Valley by the program’s
AQHA World Champion Senior Heel
Horse Smart Nu Shiner (now standing in
Brazil), Probably A Shiner has been in the
capable hands of Tyson Benson and J.D.
Yates from the start.
“He’s been so easy to show,” said owner
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J.D. YATES WINNING THE 2022 AQHA WORLD TITLE
IN THE JUNIOR HEELING.
Mike Van Egdom, of Rock Valley, Iowa.
“I owned his mother and his father, and
he’s had a nice temperament from the day
he hit the ground.”
Probably A Shiner topped the tough
6-and-Under Royal Crown Futurity in
Rock Springs as a 5-year-old in August
2022, worth $9,750 to Rolling V and
another $1,935 to Van Egdom who paid
his sire in, and another $1,935 to him as
the breeder, too.
Jag offers plenty of speed
when needed, but still
manages to make his job
look effortless. Jag is not the
product of a program that
promotes color over more
important qualities, but
his color genetics do offer
multiple opportunities for
those that like to add a little
color to the mix. All his foals
will have black points, and
he offers the opportunity of a
crème gene, a dun gene, and a grey gene
for chances of lots of fun color options on
top of his beautiful conformation.
Foals by Lenas Frosted Jag would
be an excellent choice for a variety of
mares from both the cow horse lines
and the mares that have some run to
them. His pedigree is old school, which
allows you to bring nearly any bloodline
to him for any discipline desired.
He capped off the year
earning $11,280 for winning
the AQHA World Show
in the junior heading and
another $15,904 for winning
the junior heeling, all under
Yates.
The 15.1-hand stallion
has also excelled in the calf
roping, rounding off a career
that Van Egdom is wellsatisfied with. The stallion
will occupy the breeding
barn for good in 2024.
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BAR LENAS LAST x LETAS BLUE BEST
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PROBABLY A
PROBABLY A SHINER
LTE: $67,893
Owned by Rolling V Performance Horses
2022 AQHA WORLD CHAMPION Junior Heading and Junior Heeling
ROYAL CROWN 6-&-Under Heeling Champion
By AQHA World Champion: Smart Nu Shiner
Out of: Shortys Probability by With All Probabilty
Owned by: Rolling V Performance Horses
Trained by J.D. Yates
Stud Fee: $2,000
For contracts, call 785-973-8287
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BOBBY GLO HARLAN
Standing at Northside Animal Clinic
West Haven, Utah
801-732-8387
Owned by Dr. David Moss
STUD FEE: $1,500
SIRE: CSR Dual Glo
DAM: Harlans Bobbi Jo by Jodie
Bob Harlan
Since acquiring Bobby Glo Harlan,
Dr. David Moss has been building upon
the bay stallion’s already remarkable
record. The bay stallion, sired by CSR
Dual Glo, carries a lineage of athleticism
and intelligence.
His training with Bobby Lewis and
winnings with Joseph Harrison on the heel
side position Bobby Glo as a standout. His
relatives, like Sevens Star Glo, continue to
uphold the family’s reputation with wins
at major roping events.
Bobby Glo’s first foals are a testament
to his potential as a sire. Even at a young
age, these horses are demonstrating the
same promising attributes as their sire,
signifying a new generation of talent
ready to enter the arena.
While the full impact of his offspring’s
abilities remains to be seen, the
CHARLIE TRUCKIN CHEX
Russell Tharp Horses
Las Cruces, New Mexico
facebook.com/lascrucescharliehorse13
STUD FEE: $1,000
SIRE: NMSU Truckin Chex
DAM: Loeletas Tivio by Loeletas Cody
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown Roping
Charlie Truckin Chex is a 2017 brown
stallion sired by NMSU Truckin Chex,
a six-time AQHA and NRCHA world
champion with lifetime earnings in excess
of $200,000. Owned by Russell Tharp of
Las Cruces, New Mexico, “Charlie” is a
true all-around horse.
Beginning to prove himself in barrel
racing and team roping, Charlie is now
starting to expand into breakaway as well.
He placed in the All-Ages Royal Crown
Breakaway in February 2023, as well
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as the non-pro heading the same week.
Charlie’s first foal crop was born in 2023,
with good shape, bone and size.
“We bred a select group of phenomenal
mares—both running and cow bred—in
2022,” Tharp said. “Everyone who had
a 2023 baby out of Charlie loved their
babies as much we did. They are all fancy,
straight legs, beautiful conformation
and have their dad’s willing and kind
personality.”
anticipation is high. Dr. Moss is dedicated
to fostering their development, and aims
to continue Bobby Glo’s legacy through
his progeny.
“Bobby Glo has proven everything
that he could do,” Dr. Moss said. “I don’t
think there’s any advantage to going back
and trying to win more with him.”
Much like his sire,
Charlie is being crossed
on running-bred mares
in hopes of having success
in the barrel pen and
team roping arena, but
he is also being bred to
cow-bred mares with the
hopes of those offspring
also excelling in team
roping as well as going
into the cow horse and
reining. Coming from
a strong maternal and
paternal line, Charlie is an impressive upand-coming sire with incredible athletic
ability.
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Standing at and Owned by
Solo Select Horses
Whitesboro, Texas
903-436-7021
metalliccattack.com
STUD FEE: $1,800
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Quiolena by CD Olena
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
NRCHA Stakes
Metallic Cattack—with his dynamic
color, big stop and high-impact moves—
started his career in the cutting pen under
Wes Ashlock before entering the rope
horse business in a big way.
The 2015 AQHA/APHA-registered red
roan overo stallion sold at the NCHA sale
as a 2-year-old but stayed in training with
Ashlock and went on to earn $27,717 in
the cutting before current owner Melanie
Smith at Solo Select Horses bought “Tictac” and moved him to the roping. From
there, he won an APHA World Title in
the tie-down roping and placed third
in the Junior Tie-Down Roping at the
AQHA World Show.
“We loved the way he was bred, obvi-
PRIDE AND JOYY
Standing at Solo Select
Owned by Relentless Remuda and Solo
Select
Whitesboro, Texas
soloselecthorses.com
STUD FEE: $5,000
SIRE: Stevie Rey Von
DAM: Fun N Fancy Free by
Peptoboonsmal
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown Roping
The son of $420,903-earner Stevie Rey
Von out of the Peptoboonsmal daughter Fun N Fancy Free finished third at
the 2022 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity
before starting his roping career, having
won more than $87,000 since he began
competing in July 2023. In the first week
of November alone, Pride And Joyy won
$56,383 between the American Quarter
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TREVOR BRAZILE AND “KILO”
Horse Association World Show under
Brazile and the Riata Buckle under Baker.
“Our goals with ‘Kilo’ are expansive,” Solo Select’s Melanie Smith said.
“So we’re offering his breedings as ICSI
only—we don’t want anything to get in
the way of the success this horse deserves
to have in the arena at a time when the
opportunities are so abundant in the rope
horse business. But we take calls every day
from people wanting a chance to breed to
ously,” Smith said. “The CD Olenas have
been pretty versatile to cut, cow and rope
on. We wanted to rope on him because
he had such an eye appeal and he’s such a
stopper. The color and the splash and all
the chrome really helps, too.”
Ashlock thought the horse would have
excelled in the cow horse, too, because
of his speed down the fence, so Smith
bought him into the elite Ruby Buckle
barrel horse incentive fund, making his
foals eligible for millions of dollars in payouts in those events alone.
“The biggest thing we want to let people know is that we’re a team with you
guys on this if you breed to our stud,”
Smith said. “You’re a partner with us from
the time you breed on out. We want to
pay him into the incentives so that you
can get added value when you sell that
colt or when you run for millions at all of
these great events. We’re your partners in
the business and we try to reinvest back
into our breeders by promoting our horse
so all of his babies have a lot of value.”
him, so offering him as ICSI only is
the way we can make it possible.”
Double-registered
AQHA/
APHA, Kilo will be available to
ICSI to Select Genes mares, too,
including Relentless Remuda mares
Golde Rush (by First Down Dash)
and Big Time Movie Star (Queen),
who is one of the highest-earning
rope horse futurity mares of all time.
“There’s no way to explain the
amount of time and lessons-hardlearned that have gone into building
a program like ours that has Kilo as
one of our stallions and Glory and Queen
as our flagship mares,” Brazile said. “By
offering our best stallions and our best
mares through Solo Select and Select
Genes, we’re practically giving you the
cheat code to building great horses that
we wish we’d had when we started out.
Our goal has always been to drive the
horse industry forward, so by offering this
combination of mares and stallions, we’re
well on our way.”
COURTESY SOLO SELECT
METALLIC CATTACK
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THE DARKK SIDE
Standing at Solo Select
Owned by The Darkk Side Syndicate
Whitesboro, Texas
thedarkkside.com
STUD FEE: Available to shareholders
only
SIRE: Once In A Blue Boon
DAM: DT Sugar Chex Whiz by King
Snazzy Sugar
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
“He’s just built different.”
That’s how 26-time World Champion
Trevor Brazile introduced The Darkk
Side to the world, and since then he’s
amassed $75,495 in earnings in just a
few trips to town under the ownership of
shareholders of The Darkk Side Syndicate.
“We’ve never ridden anything like The
horse business.”
The Darkk Side
has been in the
hands of the best in
the business from the
start: from NRCHA
standout Tyson Benson as a 2-year-old,
to Chris Littlefield—
who won the AQHA
Superhorse title on
Real Gun—as a
3-year-old, then into
Brazile’s and Baker’s
THE DARKK SIDE ON THE HEAD SIDE WITH FELLOW STALLION PRIDE AND
Relentless Remuda
JOYY ON THE HEEL SIDE.
to begin his career as
a rope horse.
Darkk Side, and his abilities have us in
“The Darkk Side is a complete outcross,”
uncharted territory,” Brazile said of the Melanie Smith, owner of Solo Select, said.
stallion enrolled in both the Riata Buckle “This pedigree will add ability, speed and
and Royal Crown roping incentives. size to nearly every single horse in the
“When we realized how exceptional he industry. He’s 15.1 hands, 1,220 pounds
really was, we wanted to offer the Western and wears a size 2 shoe—that’s the kind of
industry a chance to be a part of his structure you cannot find anywhere else
process in a brand new way for the rope in the breeding game.”
THIS CATT SHINES
Standing at Solo Select
Owned by Ty Smith and Tom Lohse
Whitesboro, Texas
903-436-7021
soloselecthorses.com
STUD FEE: $1,200
SIRE: WR This Cats Smart
DAM: Shiners Bella Mia by Shining
Spark
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Oklahoma’s Ty Smith bought This Catt
Shines as a yearling, and he immediately
put the colt in some of the best hands in
the business to set the horse’s career up for
success in every direction.
“I sent him off to Austin Johnson to
start,” Smith said. “And then he went to
Ty Benson’s for the Snaffle Bit, and he
showed him at the Futurity. Right after
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that, Tom Lohse and I started a partnership to go into the roping. We both like
him whether he wins or loses. We plan
to keep taking him to the AQHA shows
and the calf roping futurities, and we’ll see
where he goes in the team roping, too.”
At 15 hands, This Catt Shines has the
size to rope both ends, something Smith
liked about him early on.
“From the time we bought him and
put him to work, we knew
he was put together and
wanted to work like the
kind of studs we need in
the industry today: bigger
boned, with the look, the
run and the size,” Smith
said. “Studs anymore are so
small. We can cross him on
mares that aren’t quite big
enough and on mares that
are big enough.”
This Catt Shines has won
the AQHA’s Reserve World
Championship in the Level
2 Junior Tie-Down and
made the Open Finals in the tie-down
there as well. Cody McCartney and
Tavis Walters will share the training and
competition duties on him in 2024.
“This horse is built uphill: He can
run and stop, and he has all the factors,”
Smith said. “He has all the attributes that
a stud needs. He’s got big enough bone
and all the right stuff.”
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FOUR BONNIE BAY
Standing at and Owned by St. Clair
Performance Horses
Kahoka, Missouri
660-727-3260
stclairfarms.com
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Figure Four Chex
DAM: Bay Bonnie Raindrop by Eddie
Eighty
INCENTIVES:
Ranching Heritage
Iowa Ranch Horse Futurity
Nebraska Quarter Horse Classic Futurity
and Roping
Riata Buckle
Four Bonnie Bay joined the St. Clair
Performance Horse breeding program 17
years ago as a stallion prospect.
“I called Craig Haythorn and told him
I needed a stallion prospect,” says Mike
St. Clair. “Without hesitation Craig said,
‘I have one that fits the bill and trust me
he will be an athlete.’ Four Bonnie Bay
has taken us to the winner’s circle repeatedly. Four Bonnie Bay is an outstanding
individual and his offspring get very gentle, but have big motors, lots of try and
ability.”
Four Bonnie Bay stands 15.1 and
STUNNED
Standing at The Ranch Equine
theranchequine.com/stunned
Owned by St. Clair Performance Horses
Kahoka, Missouri
660-727-3260
stclairfarms.com
STUD FEE: $1500
SIRE: High Brow Cat
DAM: Absolutely Stunning x Smart Little
Lena
INCENTIVES:
Ranching Heritage
Iowa Ranch Horse Futurity
Nebraska Quarter Horse Classic Futurity
and Roping
Riata Buckle
Stunned is by Equi-Stat’s and the
NCHA’s all-time leading sire, High Brow
Cat, with LTE of $126,000 and produce
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earnings exceeding $90 million and out
of Absolutely Stunning (by Smart Little
Lena). Absolutely Stunning has LTE of
$107,000 and has produce earnings that
exceed $753,000. Absolutely Stunning is
a full sister to Boon A Little and half sister
to Once In A Blu Boon and Im Countin
Checks.
Stunned has won over $111,000 in
NCHA, earned an NCHA Certificate
weighs 1250 lbs. With tremendous cow sense, speed, stamina,
power and wonderful disposition, he has earned an impressive 555 AQHA points in allaround, barrel racing, heading,
heeling, halter, pole bending,
tie-down, trail and working
cow horse. He has $13,842 in
earnings at the AQHA World
Championship Show. At the
2010 AQHA World Show he
won All-Around horse, placed
third in Junior Heeling, fourth
in Junior Heading, and was a
contender in the Superhorse.
He has three AQHA Performance Superior Awards and LTE exceeding $50,000.
Four Bonnie Bay produces big boned,
strong, running horses that have the size
and substance to hold up. His progeny are smart, which makes training easy
and have a natural cow sense, resulting in
exceptionally competitive horses in the
team roping arena.
of Ability, and he was the
2013 NCHA Futurity
Open Reserve Champion
with TJ Good.
Added to the St. Clair
Performance Horse breeding program in 2020,
Stunned has been bred to
the program’s top mares including own daughters of A
Shiner Named Sioux, Seven
From Heaven, One Time
Pepto, Dual Rey, Playgun,
White Four Ike and Third
Cutting. So far, his limited
foal crop’s earnings have already exceeded
$47,000. Several offspring have been successful in the roping arena, including the
Riata Buckle.
Special breeding consideration is given
to money earning and/or producing
mares.
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THE METALLIC PATRON
St. Clair Performance Horses
Kahoka, Missouri
660-727-3260
stclairfarms.com
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Sweet Shorty Lena by Shorty Lena
INCENTIVES:
Ranching Heritage
Iowa Ranch Horse Futurity
Nebraska Quarter Horse Classic Futurity
and Roping
Riata Buckle
The Metallic Patron is sired by the
NRCHA’s All-Time leading sire, Metallic
Cat, with LTE of $637,711 and out of
Sweet Shorty Lena by Shorty Lena with
LTE of $114,276 and the dam of horses
THE NOTORIOUS B I G
Standing at Weatherford Equine
Owned by Southern Ranches
Waxahachie, Texas
817-205-8072
southernranchestx.com
STUD FEE: $2,800
SIRE: CD Lights
DAM: DT Sugar Chex Whiz
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Gold Buckle Futurity
Top Gun
The Notorious B I G has continued his
streak as a popular Junior Sire, booking
full the two years the 2018 black stallion
has stood to the public.
“He’s just the whole package,” owner
Jessica Boston said. “People assume he’s
a stud because of his looks. Honestly,
while he is beautiful, it’s secondary. He’s
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earning over $1 million.
He follows his sire’s footsteps with
his bold red roan color, combined with
superb conformation, tremendous cow
sense, and incredible athleticism. At 15
hands and 1325 lbs, The Metallic Patron
has proven to be an outstanding allaround athlete.
The Metallic Patron has earned points
in AQHA Versatility Ranch
Horse,
conformation,
cutting, cow work, ranch
roping, ranch riding, ranch
trail, working ranch horse,
reining, heading, heeling,
ranching heritage, and won
the Kansas Top Horse award
two years in a row.
The Metallic Patron has
been bred to several outstanding mares in the St.
Clair Performance Horse
program including own
daughters of Gallow Del
Cielo, Hydrive Cat, Bet Hesa Cat and
Dual Rey. The results are very quick footed, athletic colts that are very trainable
and are excelling in multiple disciplines,
including roping.
in produce earnings to date.
Saebens
seemed
an
obvious fit to take the
reins on The Notorious B
I G and has since piloted
him to nearly $67,000 in
earnings They claimed the
2022 ARHFA 4-Year-Old
Open
Heeling
Reserve
World Championship and
came back in 2023 to finish
THE NOTORIOUS BIG HAS NEARLY $67,000 IN EARNINGS.
third in the Open Heeling
of the same event. They also
freakishly good-minded and people are finished in the top 5 of the AQHA World
seeing that in his babies now, as well. He’s Show in the Junior Heeling.
structurally appealing to a market that’s
“Our plan for 2024 is just to get him
moving toward more bone and size and, to as many shows as possible,” Boston
of course, he boasts a pedigree that you explained. “Juggling breeding and
just can’t go wrong with.”
showing is tricky for a young stud. We
He is sired by CD Lights, a million-dol- feel like he deserves to compete the whole
lar producer in the NCHA and NRCHA. year his last futurity year. His oldest foals
His dam, DT Sugar Chex Whiz, was the will be two, as well. They’ll go to Tyson
2019 AQHA/PRCA Horse of the Year, Benson first and then some to Billie Jack.
campaigned by Billie Jack Saebens, and It will be cool to see Billie Jack jockey now
has since gone on to top the charts as a three generations of such great bloodlines.
rope horse dam with more than $242,000 We’re excited.”
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DRIFTIN FRENCH CASH
STUD FEE: $1,000
Live cover at the ranch, or cooled or frozen
semen
SIRE: PTS Frosted Cash
DAM: Frenchmans Driftin by
Frenchmans Sanwood
INCENTIVES:
5-States Breeders Futurity
Riata Buckle
When Driftin French Cash was born in
the spring of 2015 at Tierney Performance
Horses, they knew he was special. Driftin
French Cash was the last from their sire
Frosted Cash. Frosted Cash, a gray son of
Frosty Feature, stood by the great horseman and mentor from Nebraska, Bob
Jordan. Frosted Cash’s dam, De Blitz was
out multiple barrel futurity money earner,
Big Sis owned by Wyoming horseman,
Ray Wardell.
The maternal side of Driftin French
Cash is just as full of great horses and
horseman who have greatly influenced
SMART CHIC OLENA ®
Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion
Station
Stephenville, Texas
Owned by Smoking Gun Performance
Horses
smartchicolena.com
STUD FEE: $4,825 (ICSI only)
SIRE: Smart Little Lena
DAM: Gay Sugar Chic by Gay Bar King
INCENTIVES:
Royal Crown
Riata Buckle
NRBC
Stallion Stakes
Brazos Valley Stallion
Smart Chic Olena®, known as “Chic,”
is an embodiment of equine greatness, is
a dual AQHA World Champion in both
cutting and reining—the only horse to
ever accomplish this. Chic has also been
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inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame,
NRHA Hall of Fame and the NRCHA
Hall of Fame. The 1985 stallion’s legacy,
the Tierney’s breeding program. Driftin
French Cash is out of Frenchmans
Driftin by Frenchmans Sanwood, a son
Frenchmans Guy who was owned by
longtime friend, Billy Myers.
Paul Tierney has been successful in the
roping arena on Driftin French Cash.
And, with a limited foal crop, Driftin
French Cash’s progeny is proving to be not
only easily trainable, but successful in the
team roping arena as well. French Driftin,
a 2018 gelding by Driftin French Cash
was roped on at the 2022 and 2023 Riata
Buckle. Driftin Quest, a 2019 stallion was
roped on at the 2023 Riata Buckle.
expertly preserved by Trevor and Tiffiny
Bond, exemplifies a commitment to allow
Chic’s legacy to continue to transcend
time.
With more than $14 million in progeny earnings, his lineage boasts winners
in every discipline. His offspring are renowned for their versatility and easy-toride nature, excelling in roping, reining,
cutting, reining cow horse and barrel racing–a testament to the “magic cross” that
Chic represents.
“As a versatile stallion himself, it’s easy
to see why his offspring have been so successful in so many different disciplines,”
Tiffiny said. “Chic has been gone for 11
years, but his legacy is as strong as ever.”
In a recent display of Chic’s lasting influence, Collen All Chics, a son of Chic,
secured a victory at the Riata Buckle #9.5,
earning $112,060. This success, under the
guidance of Cody Marx, is a testament
to Chic’s enduring impact in the roping
world and all of the Western performance
horse industry.
COURTESY PAUL TIERNEY PERFORMANCE HORSES
Paul Tierney Performance Horses
Oral, South Dakota
605-890-0200
paultierneyperformancehorses.com
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TRR LUCKY BRAZOS
Sandhill Cattle Co.
Earth, Texas
806-647-6149
STUD FEE: $1,250
SIRE: Pepcid
DAM: TRR Ms Lucky Gun by Playgun
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Born on the Tongue River Ranch, TRR
Lucky Brazos, “Hip Town,” is a 2016
son of Pepcid. Purchased as a yearling by
Tripp Townsend of Sandhill Cattle Co.,
the young stallion has gone on to win the
limited open at the 2019 National Reined
Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity and has since earned approximately
$63,000 in lifetime earnings at reined
cow horse events. And in November of
2023, Bruno Paoliello rode Hip Town
to fourth place in the #9.5 at the Riata
Buckle, adding another $23,705 to the
horse’s lifetime earnings (with another
son of Pepcid, TRR Pepcids Pick, on the
head side).
Townsend knew exactly what he wanted when he purchased Hip Town.
“The first horse I bought from Tongue
River Ranch was a full brother to TRR
Lucky Brazos. His name was TRR
the growing popularity of the rope horse
industry, the Bushes decided to change
direction and send him into the roping
world.
With the help of their good friend,
Rachel Primm, he ended up in the hands
of Cade Rice, and magic was made.
Jungle Cat has earned over $57,000 in
the roping pen alone, and the Bushes are
looking forward to seeing him compete
with Cade in the cow horse events in
2024.
JUNGLE CAT
Standing at 113 Equine
Millsap, Texas
Owned by Brian and Amy Busy
940-654-8013
113equine.com
STUD FEE: $2,500
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
Top Gun Incentive
The Diamond Classic
It’s quite the story how Jungle Cat
ended up in the hands of Brian and Amy
Bush of Lehi, Utah. Amy’s father, Chuck
Revill, had long been involved in the cutting industry, and this led to Amy’s dream
of owning an own son or daughter of the
prolific stallion, High Brow Cat.
In March of 2021 as Brian and Amy
were watching sleeping grandchildren in
in the middle of Disney World, Amy was
Lucky Play Gun and he
won two AQHA world
championships and my
son won the 2020 Youth
World’s Greatest on him,”
Townsend said. “After
that horse, we just kept
buying full siblings every
year. So now we have four
of them, but Hip Town is
the only one we kept as a
stallion.”
As the first stallion that
Sandhill Cattle Co. has
stood at stud, the program has taken time
to prove the stallion before breeding. Hip
Town’s first foal crop is limited and will
hit the ground in 2023. All foals will be
eligible for the Riata Buckle.
closely monitoring the Solo Select Sale,
focused on one horse only, Jungle Cat.
With a touch of a button on her phone,
they had the winning bid!
The 2017 stallion was a finished cutting
horse, but he had limited showing due to
the pandemic. Because of his size, and
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BIG LEW
Standing at Lazy E Ranch
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC
405-282-3437
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $2,500
SIRE: Corona Cartel
DAM: Executive Looks by Executive
Menace
INCENTIVES:
Black Gold
Future Fortunes
Oklahoma-Bred Program
Pink Buckle
QHRAI
Riata Buckle
Ruby Buckle
Select Stallion Stakes
Speedhorse
The Diamond Classic
TQHA Sires’ Cup
There’s good reason behind the buzz
about Reliance Ranch’s Big Lew.
First, there’s his breeding: Big Lew is by
AQHA Hall of Fame sire Corona Cartel,
the AQHA’s number two all-time leading
sire.
Second, there’s his record as a winner
on the track. Big Lew had eight wins including the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Super
Derby. He earned $638,878 and retired
sound after three years.
“He was an amazing individual, just
the picture of a horse that could do it all,”
BUCKS HANCOCK DUDE
Standing at Lazy E Ranch
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC
405-282-3437
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $2,500
SIRE: Watch Me Dude To
DAM: San Tip Hancock by Leon JP
Hancock
INCENTIVES:
Breeders Challenge
Future Fortunes
Pink Buckle
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown/Roping
Ruby Buckle
Select Stallion Stakes
The Diamond Classic
Triple Crown 100
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Bucks Hancock Dude’s reputation as a
sire and performer is as impressive as the
gorgeous dappled buckskin himself. Joining Reliance Ranches in the fall of 2022
from Namgis Quarter Horses, Dude is
a key piece of the Reliance’s strategy to
grow their performance breeding program by adding a solid cross on their race
bred mares.
The 2008 AQHA All Around Performance Stallion was shown in halter, tie
according to Bobby Mote, head
of Reliance’s Second Career Program.
Then there’s his progeny. On
the racetrack, sons and daughters of Big Lew have earned
nearly $1 million from just
three crops to reach racing age
thus far.
But the buzz behind Big Lew
also includes anticipation for his
progeny to hit the performance
arena, an anticipation based
as much upon his demeanor
and intelligence as his incredible athletic
prowess.
All of Reliance’s trainers rave about the
speed with which Big Lew’s foals learn
and their retention, all signs pointing to
horses that will shine behind the barrier
in roping or running down a barrel racing
alley.
Standing 15 hands, Big Lew can add
brains to perform and speed to augment
the cow breeding of many roping programs.
down roping and heeling, earning
accolades in each discipline, during
a four year career. He was the 2007
AQHA Reserve World Champion
in Junior Tie Down Roping, winning the NRHFA Futurity the same
year.
As a sire, Dude’s progeny continue to accumulate accolades including AQHA World Show appearances across several roping disciplines
and in the barrel racing pen. Perhaps
the most famous thus far is Namgis
D 33, “Chongo,” who helped Emily
Beisel earn another Wrangler NFR berth
in 2023; the duo has won seven go round
at the Finals.
Dude’s foals are known for their athleticism and winning dispositions and have
earnings better than $1.4 million and
climbing.
EXCELLENCE
IS OUR
TRADITION
The Lazy E Ranch traces its roots in the performance horse industry back to World Champion and
AQHA Hall of Fame Sire, Zan Parr Jack. We never rest on our past successes, but strive
That tradition continues…
A Streak Of Fling, Big Lew, Bucks Hancock Dude, Corona Cartel, Coronado Cartel,
Cyber Monday, Dirty Fling, Dulce Sin Tacha, Fiestas Gotta Gun, Hez Our Secret, Jess Fire Me,
Jess Good Candy, Kiss My Hocks, One Fabulous Time, Oz Ona Hot Streak, PYC Paint Your Wagon,
Show Me The Buckles, The Marfa Lights, Uncle D, Valiant Hero, and Woody Be Tuff
We are proud to offer 11 Riata Buckle enrolled stallions for your consideration.
With their combination of genetics and athleticism, this diverse group has found success
across multiple disciplines in the performance horse industry.
405.282.3437 • 9601 Lazy E Drive, Guthrie, OK 73044 • ranchinfo@lazye.com
2013 BROWN STALLION
2024 FEE: $2,500
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Reliance Ranches, LLC.
• In 2023, 20 Winners and 6 Stakes Horses
• Athleticism and Conformation to Excel
in the Arena or on the Track
Total QData Progeny Earnings: $886,549
INCENTIVES: Black Gold, Future Fortunes, Oklahoma-Bred Program, Pink Buckle, QHRAI, Riata Buckle,
Ruby Buckle,Select Stallion Stakes, Speedhorse, TQHA Sires’ Cup, The Diamond Classic
Exceence Is Our Traditiо
2002 BUCKSKIN STALLION
• Sire of Emily Miller Beisel’s 4-time NFR performer
Namigs D33 “Chongo”, & RNCFR & Praire Circuit
Champion Namgis D35 “Pipewrench”
• 2008 AQHA All Around Performance Stallion
• 2007 NRHFA All Around Champion Calf Horse
Earner of 553 AQHA Points & $1.4+ Million Sire
2024 FEE: $2,500
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Reliance Ranches, LLC.
INCENTIVES: Breeders Challenge, Future Fortunes, Pink Buckle, Riata Buckle, Royal Crown Roping,
Ruby Buckle, Select Stallion Stakes, The Diamond Classic
Inquiries to: Monty McNair 405.368.8924
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2011 BROWN STALLION
• Stakes Winner of $416,178, G1 Stakes Sire
• Son of Legendary Sire Corona Cartel
Total QData Progeny Earnings: $6.95M
2024 FEE: $3,000
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Reliance Ranches, LLC.
INCENTIVES: Black Gold, Future Fortunes, Oklahoma-Bred Program, QHRAI, Riata Buckle, Select Stallion Stakes,
Speedhorse, TQHA Sires’ Cup, The Diamond Classic
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
CORONADO CARTEL
Standing at Lazy E Ranch
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC
405-282-3437
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $3,000
SIRE: Corona Cartel
DAM: First Carolina by Mr Jess Perry
INCENTIVES:
Black Gold
Future Fortunes
Oklahoma-Bred Program
QHRAI
Riata Buckle
Select Stallion Stakes
Speedhorse
TQHA Sires’ Cup
The Diamond Classic
With sound minds to go along with
electric speed, the progeny of Coronado
Cartel are a perfect fit for the ambitious
plans of Reliance Ranches. Already a
top breeder of racing Quarter Horses,
Reliance is heavily invested in its Second
Career Program and in bringing the
awesome traits of Corona Cartel into the
performance horse world.
Like his Hall of Fame sire, the stunning
Coronado Cartel stood out in his racing
DIRTY FLING
Standing at Lazy E Ranch
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC
405-282-3437
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $3,500
SIRE: Metallic Cat
DAM: Streak Of Gin by A Streak Of Fling
STALLION INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
Ruby Buckle
The Diamond Classic
Dirty Fling, a standout 2019 son of
Metallic Cat out of A Streak Of Fling
daughter, is paving his way both as a
rope horse and a sire. Owned by Reliance
Ranches, LLC, and in training with Relentless Remuda, this homozygous stallion brings guaranteed roan color and
just the right blend of cow and run to the
team roping pen.
With more than $29,000 in earnings,
Dirty Fling has consistently showcased his
talent. His notable achievements include
becoming the Reserve Champion at the
Texas Best Rope Horse Open Heeling Futurity and clinching the Round 4 Open
Champion title at the RFA Timed High
Stakes Slot Heeling. Dirty Fling also secured the Reserve Champion spot in
the Royal Crown Breeders OKC Judged
Heading 4-Under Futurity Round 3
career, collecting $416,178
in 12 starts on the track before moving to the breeding
shed. His racing progeny are
already in the bank for $6.9
million with 185 race winners.
As his first sons and daughters begin to reach the arena,
it’s evident that Coronado
Cartel is passing on not only
his magnificent athleticism
but also an early maturing,
sound mind that is needed to stand out
in the arena.
“The genetics certainly suggest they will
have success,” Bobby Mote, who runs the
Second Chance Program, said. “We don’t
have that many out there yet.”
Despite limited numbers, Coronado
Cartel’s performance progeny have racked
up $85,516, a large chunk of that attributed to SR Roman Cartel who shined
at the 2023 Pink Buckle Barrel Race.
Open.
Beyond his earnings,
Dirty Fling impresses
with his unique personality and physical skill.
Known in the Relentless
Remunda training barn
for his fluid movements
and exceptional cow
sense, he has a big motor and exceptional foot
speed. This combination
of traits makes him an
exceptional sire prospect
for breeders making the next generation
of rope horses.
“Dirty Fling is a really good mover with
a ton of expression,” Miles Baker said.
“He’s a cowy-type horse and tries hard every time he enters the arena.”
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2019 RED ROAN STALLION
2024 FEE: $3,500
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Reliance Ranches, LLC.
• Earner of $29,051 in the Roping Futurites
• Currently Being Shown by Trevor Brazile
and Miles Baker
FIRST FOALS ARRIVED IN 2023
INCENTIVES: Riata Buckle, Royal Crown, Ruby Buckle, The Diamond Classic
Inquiries to: Monty McNair 405.368.8924
Para Español: Jose Mendoza 405.659.4211
9601 Lazy E Drive, Guthrie, OK 73044
lazyeranch.com | ranchinfo@lazye.com
Exceence Is Our Traditiо
2005 GRAY STALLION
• Sire of PC Thisdudesgottagun, two-time runner up
PRCA/AQHA Steer Roping Horse of the Year
• Sire of Fiestas Cantina, 2023 NHSRA Barrel Racing
World Champion and Futurity Earner
$500,000+ Progeny Earnings
2024 FEE: $3,250
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Fiestas Gotta Gun, LLC
INCENTIVES: Breeders Challenge, Cowboy State Stallion Incentive, Future Fortunes, PESI/WPRA, Riata Buckle,
Royal Crown, Ruby Buckle, Select Stallion Stakes, The Diamond Classic, Tomorrow’s Legends, Triple Crown 100
Inquiries to: Monty McNair 405.368.8924
Para Español: Jose Mendoza 405.659.4211
9601 Lazy E Drive, Guthrie, OK 73044
lazyeranch.com | ranchinfo@lazye.com
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2009 GRAY STALLION
• SI-98 $887,426 Champion
• Graded Stakes Sire
• 25 Blacktype Horses & 118 Winners
Total QData Progeny Earnings: $3.7M
2024 FEE: $2,000
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Johnny Trotter &
Reliance Ranches, LLC.
INCENTIVES: Black Gold, Future Fortunes, Oklahoma-Bred Program, QHRAI, Riata Buckle,
Speedhorse, TQHA Sires’ Cup, The Diamond Classic
Inquiries to: Monty McNair 405.368.8924
Para Español: Jose Mendoza 405.659.4211
9601 Lazy E Drive, Guthrie, OK 73044
lazyeranch.com | ranchinfo@lazye.com
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
FIESTAS GOTTA GUN
Standing at Lazy E Ranch, LLC
Guthrie, Oklahoma
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $3,250
SIRE: Playgun
DAM: Firewater Fiesta by Fire Water Flit
STALLION INCENTIVES:
Breeders Challenge
Cowboy State Stallion Incentive
Future Fortunes
PESI/WPRA
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Ruby Buckle
Select Stallion Stakes
The Diamond Classic
Tomorrow’s Legends
Triple Crown 100
Fiestas Gotta Gun is a 2005 gray stallion known as “Curly,” combining the
best of cow and run. His sire, Playgun,
has more than $10 million in progeny
earnings, while his dam, NFR mare Firewater Fiesta, boasts lifetime earnings of
$800,000 and has produced winners totaling over $782,000.
Curly himself has sired offspring earning in excess of $500,000, with a progeny
producing at all levels from futurities to
ProRodeos to high school rodeos to open
events. Curly’s notable offspring include
Minnie Gun, the 2022 San Angelo barrel
HEZ OUR SECRET
Standing at Lazy E Ranch, LLC
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Johnny Trotter and Reliance
Ranches
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $2,000
SIRE: First Down Dash
DAM: Secret Separation by Separatist
Stallion Incentives:
Black Gold
Future Fortunes
Oklahoma-Bred Program
QHRAI
Riata Buckle
Speedhorse
The Diamond Classic
TQHA Sires’ Cup
Hez Our Secret, a 2009 gray stallion,
continues to make waves as a sire. A top
performer on the track, Hez Our Secret
racked up $887,426 in earnings, solidifying his status as a graded stakes sire.
His offspring, following in his footsteps,
have now earned more than $3.7 million,
showcasing the stallion’s genetic legacy.
Owned by Johnny Trotter and Reliance
Ranches, Hez Our Secret is a standout
for his impressive size and conformation.
He’s one of the tallest stallions in the Lazy
E lineup, with a physique that commands
attention.
Hez Our Secret’s impact goes beyond
racing round two winner and
round one winner of the 2022
Denver Stockshow and Rodeo,
PC This Dude’s Got a Gun, the
two-time PRCA/AQHA reserve
steer roping horse of the year,
and Fiesta Cantina, the 2023
National High School Rodeo
Association barrel racing champion. These achievements highlight the stallion’s versatility as a
roping and barrel-racing sire.
Fiestas Gotta Gun’s unique
pedigree makes him an ideal outcross
for race-bred mares, offering breeders an
opportunity to tap into his exceptional
genetic qualities. Standing 15.2 hands,
Curly is known for his strong build, great
bone and good foot, traits he passes on to
his foals. His offspring are highly trainable and good-minded, excelling in various disciplines.
the racetrack. His progeny are proving themselves
in barrel racing and roping. The trend in the performance horse industry
is leaning toward incorporating race-bred qualities
like speed and size. Hez
Our Secret is at the forefront of this shift, bringing these attributes to the
breeding table. The crossbreeding strategy involving Hez Our Secret and various cow-bred
mares yields promising results, suggesting
a bright future for his offspring in performance arenas.
Hez Our Secret is a prime example of a
stallion that offers the best of both worlds.
His contribution to the next generation
of performance horses is about creating
well-rounded, capable athletes.
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2008 BLUE ROAN STALLION
2024 FEE: $1,750
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Juan Patino
INCENTIVES: Riata Buckle, Royal Crown Roping, The Diamond Classic
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2015 GRAY STALLION
2024 FEE: $1,750
Frozen Semen Only
Property of Rockin Oz Performance Horses
INCENTIVES: Riata Buckle, Royal Crown Roping, Platinum Medal Rope Horse Futurity Medal Program,
The Diamond Classic
Exceence Is Our Traditiо
BREEDER’S GUIDE | Stallions | 2024
ONE FABULOUS TIME
Standing at Lazy E Ranch, LLC
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Juan Patino
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $1,750
SIRE: One Time Pepto
DAM: Cat Mist by High Brow Cat
STALLION INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
The Diamond Classic
One Fabulous Time, a 2008 blue roan
stallion by One Time Pepto and out of
Cat Mist by High Brow Cat, has made
a significant mark in the performance
arena. With lifetime earnings of
$21,548, his achievements include the
2012 East Coast RCHA Classic Open
Derby Champion and 2012 NRCHA
Stakes Novice Horse Open Champion,
showcasing his remarkable athleticism
and versatility.
Owned by Juan Patino, this impressive stallion stands a stout 14.3 hands.
One Fabulous Time offspring, ranging in
height from 14.3 to 15.1 hands, inherit
his exceptional conformation and speed,
particularly in working with cattle.
“One Fabulous Time has a lot of
OZ ONA HOT STREAK
Standing at Lazy E Ranch, LLC
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Rockin OZ Performance
Horses
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $1,750 Frozen Semen Only
SIRE: A Streak Of Fling
DAM: Oz One Hot Momma by One Hot
Jose
STALLION INCENTIVES:
Platinum Medal Rope Horse
Futurity Medal Program
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
The Diamond Classic
The 2015 gray stallion, Oz Ona Hot
Streak, knows what it takes to be a
winner. Oz Ona Hot Streak is a son of
A Streak Of Fling and out Oz One Hot
Momma. With his beautiful gray coat
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and stout stature at 14.3 hands, Oz Ona
Hot Streak turns heads in and out of the
arena.
In 2019, Oz Ona Hot Streak clinched
the AQHA World Champion Junior
Heading title and secured a top 10
position in the AQHA World Junior
Heeling L2 Open—proving his abilities
on both ends of the steer. He has also been
a force to be reckoned with at ProRodeos,
ridden by Ross Ashford. His accolades
bone and a lot of
body to him,” Monty
McNair, Lazy E Ranch
manager, said. “He
has a great hip, big
hind leg, and most
importantly, extremely
good-minded.”
Crossed with a
variety of mares, from
racehorses to cow
horses, One Fabulous
Time’s progeny have
excelled in multiple
disciplines. His son,
Air Force 1, ridden by Joseph Harrison,
has already claimed multiple rounds
at the American Rope Horse Futurity
Association finals. On the barrel racing
front, Downtown Cashbrown, another
one of his offspring, has won multiple 1D
events in 2023.
include wins in 2023
at Ashley, North
Dakota; Redmond,
Oregon;
Clovis,
New Mexico; and
stopping the clock
with a 4.0-second
run to win the 2022
Calgary Stampede,
accumulating more
than $200,000 in
lifetime
earnings.
The stallion was also
featured in the 2023
X-Factor Match Roping.
“He’s so versatile,” Monty McNair,
Lazy E Ranch manager, said. “To be able
to go win the [AQHA] World Show in
the heading, be top 10 in the heeling the
same year, then go out to win $200,000
plus in the PRCA, that speaks volumes of
his versatility.”
2008 PALOMINO STALLION
2024 FEE: $5,000
Cooled Semen Available
Property of Reliance Ranches, LLC.
Total QData Progeny Earnings: $265,087
INCENTIVES: Riata Buckle, Royal Crown Roping, Ruby Buckle, The Diamond Classic
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SHOW ME THE BUCKLES
Standing at Lazy E Ranch
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC
405-282-3437
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $5,000
SIRE: Wimpys Little Step
DAM: Sunset Whiz by Topsail Whiz
INCENTIVES:
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown Roping
Ruby Buckle
The Diamond Classic
As Show Me The Buckles embarks
on his second year at Lazy E Ranch,
courtesy of an acquisition by Reliance
Ranches, his impact on the team roping
world continues to grow exponentially. A
former NRHA Open Futurity Co-Reserve
Champion, “Buckles” has transitioned to
a successful rope horse sire.
His offspring, born as early as 2015,
demonstrate his strong influence in the
arena. Notable among Buckles’ offspring
are Tuckin Away Buckles, shown by Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker to $103,827
in futurity earnings; RR Buckles Clubhouse, also shown by Brazile and Baker to
$47,165 in earnings; and A Big Vintage
Buckle with $43,782 in earnings under
the Relentless Remuda. Buckles’ progeny have collectively earned more than
$265,000 across various events. In 2023
alone, the total earnings of Buckles’ foals
reached an impressive $60,086.
WOODY BE TUFF
Standing at Lazy E Ranch, LLC
Guthrie, Oklahoma
lazyeranch.com
STUD FEE: $6,500
ICSI: $4,500
SIRE: Nitas Wood
DAM: Tuffs Junie by Tuff Lena
INCENTIVES
Breeders Invitational
Gold Buckle Futurities
NCHA Super Stakes
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown/Roping
The Diamond Classic
At 23 years old, the 2001 sorrel stallion
Woody Be Tuff continues to stamp
his legacy in the Western performance
horse industry. An NCHA earner of
over $351,063 and a recipient of the
NCHA Silver Award, Woody Be Tuff’s
competitive career is marked by significant
achievements, including semi-finalist
positions in the 2004 NCHA Open
and Non-Pro Futurities and multiple
championship titles in subsequent years.
“Woody’s” genetic influence extends
beyond his own performance and proves
to be the ultimate outcross. Woody Be
The versatility of
Buckles’ progeny is further exemplified by their
performance across different events. Beyond
team roping, these horses have shown impressive results in reining
and ranch events, proving the adaptability and
well-rounded skill set
inherited from their sire.
“While cutting bloodlines have more hesitation to the cow, this stud’s genetics put
him on the offense, and since we’ve been
riding him, we’ve seen it in action.” Trevor Brazile said. “He’s the kind of aggressive to the cow that ropers truly want—
whether it’s in the breakaway, tie-down,
heading or heeling.”
Tuff’s offspring, who have earnings
surpassing $10.99 million, excel
across a spectrum of disciplines, including team roping, cutting, cow
horse, reining and barrel racing.
His progeny include 2023 standouts like cutter turned rope horse,
Kittyswood, and NRCHA Open
Futurity Champion, Zak 34.
In 2023, Woody continued
to dominate as a leading sire, becoming the No. 1 rope horse sire
of 2023. Woody Be Tuff remains a vital
asset in the breeding world. His calm demeanor and solid mentality make him a
favorite among breeders, and his offspring
inherit these desirable traits.
“He is the outcross that everyone has
been looking for,” Melanie Smith, owner
of Solo Select Horses, LLC, said. “There
is almost nothing you can’t breed him to.”
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BREEDER’S GUIDE | Programs | 2024
FULTON PERFORMANCE HORSES
A STREAK OF FLING
Todd County, South Dakota
fultonranch.com
402-322-0110
INCENTIVES:
A Streak of Fling
Pink Buckle
Ruby Buckle/Roping
Riata Buckle
Breeders Challenge
The Diamond Classic
Royal Crown/Roping
Future Fortunes
Triple Crown 100
Tomorrow’s Legends
Colorado Classic
Homegrown Classic
Select Stallion Stakes
VGBRA
PESI/WPRA
Corn Husker Futurity
MN Breeders Futurity/Maturity
Southwest Desert Classic
BBI Futurity
Go For Broke, Full House Incentive
Grid Iron Futurity
Western Fortunes (Canada)
Top Shelf Breeders
Medal Program/Roping
Gold Buckle Futurities/Roping
Legendary Stakes—Barrels
A Dash Ta Streak
Ruby Buckle
Riata Buckle
Breeders Challenge
The Diamond Classic
Medal Program
Royal Crown
Future Fortunes
Triple Crown 100
Colorado Classic
Homegrown Classic
VGBRA
PESI/WPRA
Corn Husker Futurity
MN Breeders Futurity/Maturity
Go For Broke, Full House Incentive
Grid Iron Futurity
Top Shelf Breeders
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Flingin Jameson
Ruby Buckle
Royal Crown Jr. Stallion
The Diamond Classic
Medal Program
Fulton Performance Horses has become synonymous with the great stallion,
A Streak of Fling, but this outfit offers
plenty more alongside Streaker, the No.1
living sire of barrel horses, a legend with
progeny earnings north of $9.2 million.
Nestled on the Nebraska-South Dakota
line, Fulton Performance Horses was
created by the late Brian Fulton—an NFR
competitor who, like the horses he raised,
excelled in multiple disciplines—and his
wife Lisa. They had a dream of creating
versatile horses with the athleticism and
brains to perform in any arena.
Just a quick peek at some of their
2023 success stories proves that Fulton
Performance Horses—now run by Lisa
and her family: Jake and Laney, Jared and
John Lloyd—has reached its goal.
Among Streaker’s many standouts in
2023 are Jake Clay’s Streakin Sun Dew,
who is headed to the NFR this year
and has unofficial earnings pushing $1
million, and KN Bam Shake Da Room,
WPRA World Champion Jordon Briggs’
backup at the NFR, who has also been
competing in ARHFA events with Briggs’
husband, Justin. There is also Wesley
Thorp’s French Streakin, the 2023 RFA
Heading Derby champ.
“I just love horses like that, that are
that versatile,” Fulton said. “To me,
that’s a signature part of Streaker. We use
‘diversity’ quite proudly.”
Such versatility also leads to extra cash
for those riding progeny, as Streaker is
enrolled in 25 incentives.
“That diversity is finally coming out
with all this roping,” Fulton said. “Now
we have ropers coming to us to breed
their good mares. And those are the kind
you need to breed—the mares you loved
to ride.”
The Fultons have lived their mantra
of diversity through a breeding program
with proven producing broodmares as
well as a lineup of stallions that also
includes A Dash Ta Streak and young
standout Flingin Jameson, who blends
the best of what cow horse, speed horse
and rope horses offer.
Buyers can occasionally find an older
prospect at Fultons, but there’s always a
steady supply of everything from weanlings to 2-year olds. The Fultons continue
to produce outstanding prospects, developed with an eye on physical ability and
heart capable of succeeding in any event.
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CASINO HEIST
COURTESY 88 RANCH
ROLLER AND A SHAKER
88 RANCH PERFORMANCE
HORSES
Douglas, Wyoming
88ranchperformancehorses.com
307-358-5941
At the heart of the 88 Ranch
Performance Horse program in Douglas,
Wyoming, are stallions like Casino
Heist and Roller And A Shaker, whose
progeny illustrate the ranch’s unparalleled
commitment to versatility—a hallmark
trait for horses that can effortlessly
transition between heading, heeling,
breakaway, barrels, cow horse events and
just about any event.
Nurturing a lineage that excels in the
arena, 88 Ranch Performance Horses
proudly presents their standout sire,
Casino Heist. His progeny, like Summer
Colada, ridden by Kaden Richard on
the head side, and Bugzees Heist In 75,
ridden by ProRodeo’s Anna Callaway in
the breakaway, are testament to his ability
to sire top competitors, adept in rodeo
events from team roping to barrels.
“Everybody talks about wanting the
big stout horse, the big foot and bone to
go rope on. Well, there he is right there,”
Garrett Henry remarked on Casino
Heist’s desirable traits that echo through
his offspring.
New to the arena, Roller And A Shaker’s
progeny are stepping up, showcasing the
raw potential and trainable minds that
mark the next generation of 88 Ranch’s
competitive edge. These foals represent
the ranch’s longstanding tradition of
excellence, now coming into their own in
the arena and proving to be adaptable and
competitive equine athletes. Roller And A
Shaker produces those “feely” type horses
that make you feel confident when you
back into the box.
Looking to the future, 88 Ranch
Performance Horses has a son of Epic
Leader out of Brittany Diaz’s NFR mare,
Rootie. The up-and-coming stallion is
anticipated to excel in both barrels and
roping. While not yet a sire, the 3-year-old
stallion is the ranch’s rising star. Brimming
with potential, he represents 88 Ranch
Performance Horse’s forward-thinking
vision of creating the next generation of
rodeo horses by preparing to infuse the
next generation with his genetics.
With each stallion carefully chosen
for their exceptional traits, 88 Ranch
continues to sculpt a future in which their
horses are athletes ready to go into the
arena or the pasture as good, using horses
on the ranch, and anything in between.
“We’re trying to breed some horses
that’ll be competitive in the futurities,
open rodeos, ProRodeos, and just out
on the ranch,” Garrett said. “A lot of our
horses already kind of fit the mold of
our vision, but we’re trying to push that
maybe even a little further.”
INCENTIVES:
Roller And A Shaker
Royal Crown
Cowboy State Stallion Incentive
Glacier Chaser
VGBRA
Colorado Classic
Casino Heist
5 State Breeders Futurity
Colorado Classic
Cowboy State Stallion Incentive
Future Fortunes
Glacier Chaser
Gridiron
Homegrown Classic
Royal Crown
Southwest Desert Classic
The Diamond Classic
Triple Crown 100
VGBRA
World’s Richest Breakaway
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There’s no doubt the horse industry
is not for the faint of heart, but Bar T
Quarter Horses’ owner Jamey Thompkins
wouldn’t trade it, current Texas drought
conditions notwithstanding.
It’s a fearless, endless cycle,” he joked.
“We’re having to deal with Mother Nature
and what cards she deals you, but we’re
not going anywhere.”
Thompkins grew up on a Hereford
ranch in Texas and always had a dream of
breeding quality cattle and horses.
Life nearly derailed that dream. After
nearly two decades on the rodeo trail as
a steer wrestler, then time spent in the oil
and gas industry, Thompkins dipped his
toe back into horses with the intent of
breeding a few mares.
Daughter Faith gets credit for
bringing the idea of breeding horses
back to Thompkins’ life and, armed with
THE BP RANCH
Spanish Fork, Utah
thebpranch@gmail.com
208-847-5505
INCENTIVES:
Catty Rey
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown/Roping
While social media has its downfalls,
for Brady and Savannah Pitchford, it
provided the catalyst to the creation of
The BP Ranch, their passion project for
training top quality prospects.
“I’ve always tried to have good, young
horses around; get them starting roping
and flip them to make a little money,”
Brady Pitchford said, a practice designed
to feed roping habits.
The Pitchfords went looking for more
colts by Catty Rey after having several go
through their hands, the first found by
Savannah on a Facebook ad. That search
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knowledge from working around great
breeders, he started the Bar T in Haslet.
Today, the Bar T is an AQHA Ranching
Heritage Breeder, relying heavily upon
the bloodlines of Sugar Bars and Colonel
Freckles to create horses capable of
helping out with the ranch’s cow-calf and
yearling operations and excelling in the
roping arena, Thompkins’ new passion.
“We use them all, every day,” Thompkins
said of his Bar-T-raised horses.
The Bar T’s broodmare band began
with Doc-O’Lena-bred foundation mares
brought back from California and today
features as many daughters of CJ Sugar as
Thompkins can get his hands on.
“I’ve always loved Sugar Bars; that’s
why we keep them around,” he said.
With a team of trainers to help out, the
Bar T offers about 10 prospects a year,
from yearlings to 2- and 3-year-olds—
sturdy, working horses that can perform
any job offered to them.
“We are planning to branch out more to
the horse sales a little more,” Thompkins
noted of a shift from previous years in
which they offered a production sale.
The Bar T also stands their own
stallions, many Royal Crown-nominated:
Double Shot of Sugar, Bar T Dry Pine,
Bar T Dry Sugar and recently re-acquired
T Paddys TNN—a bay son of the Paddys
Irish Whiskey stallion TRR Paddys
Hickory.
eventually led to the opportunity to buy
the stallion himself and offer him publicly
for the first time.
“We didn’t really see ourselves in the
breeding game, but we didn’t want to
stop riding his colts,” Pitchford admitted,
noting the stallion’s good mind is
appreciated in light of the Pitchford’s two
small children’s interest in the horses.
Catty Rey is the son of Smooth As A
Cat out of a Dual Rey mare with progeny
earnings already topping $150,000 in
cutting, roping, ranch horse versatility
and barrel racing. His son, Heavenly Catt,
won the Royal Crown in Rock Springs
with Jeremy Buhler this summer and
made the Finals at the ARHFA.
“They’re versatile babies, just dynamic
in all aspects.”
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BAR T QUARTER HORSES
Haslet, Texas
bartquarterhorses.com
817-851-2870
COURTESY BAR T RANCH
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BILLADEAU QUARTER HORSES
Ryder, North Dakota
& Wickenburg, Arizona
billadeauquarterhorses.com
701-898-1448
INCENTIVES:
Shiners Suduko
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
Homegrown Classic
5 States
Nexus
Platinum Medal Rope Horse Futurity and
Sale
Ima Hired Gun
Riata Buckle
Royal Crown
5 States
Homegrown Classic
Platinum Medal Rope Horse Futurity and
Sale
Exagereyt
Royal Crown
5 States
Homegrown Classic
Platinum Medal Rope Horse Futurity and
Sale
Smart Shinin Spook
Royal Crown
Homegrown Classic
5 States
Platinum Medal Rope Horse Futurity and
Sale
Billadeau Quarter Horses may have
begun three decades ago with an eye
strictly on racing bloodlines but, today,
the family-owned and -operated business
is striving for the “universal” horse: A
performance horse that could cross from
the team roping, barrel racing or working
cow horse arenas.
“My dad, Wade Billadeau, has always
had a love for speed, which has drawn
him to the race horses, and I love the old
foundation cow horse,” Layne Billadeau
said. “So why not blend both worlds and
IMA DIAMOND IN RUFF BY IMA HIRED GUN
see what happens?”
A sheer love of the horse is actually the
foundation upon which the Billadeau
family has built their program.
“We can come up with what we think
might be a magical cross and do all the
right things from feeding correctly,
placing them in the right hands, paying
them into all the incentives, showing up
to all the events, but at the end of the
day, you have to have a love, respect and
admiration for the horse and the sport
that we put our life efforts into,” Billadeau
added. “My wife, Codi, reminds us every
day: We need to do what’s best for the
horses.”
Billadeau stands four stallions—two of
them junior stallions—all relying heavily
on the genetics of Shining Spark, the
$4 million National Reined Cow Horse
Association sire, for the cow side of their
program.
“We really love the Shining Spark
horses,” Billadeau said. “They are very
trainable. They put substance and a mind
on our foals.”
Shiners Suduko, an own son of
Shining Spark, is their senior sire, along
with Ima Hired Gun, a son of Play Gun.
Their junior stallions are the Metallic Cat
son Exagereyt and Smart Shinin Spook,
whose dam is a daughter of Shining
Spark. Each stallion offers the benefit
of enrollment into various incentives,
with Shiner Suduko’s early crops already
finding success in the Royal Crown and
Riata Buckle.
Along with the outstanding attributes
of their stallions, the Billadeau program
relies upon proven broodmares that
mostly enjoying first careers in racing,
roping or barrels.
The Billadeaus now spend summers
in central North Dakota and pack up
the entire herd to winter in Arizona and
marvel that the effort to mount themselves
on good roping and barrel racing horses
has evolved into something much more
than intended with their stallions now
offered to the public for just the second
year.
“It was what we’d always done, but
more as a hobby for ourselves,” Billadeau
said. “It seemed a little selfish. We wanted
to share these horses with the industries
that we so enjoy.”
Today they are looking forward to
participating in the rapidly growing rope
horse futurity world with horses they are
producing.
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CROSS 4 PERFORMANCE HORSES
THE CROSS 4 PERFORMANCE
HORSES FAMILY
Cody, Wyoming
cross4ranch.com
520-235-6778
INCENTIVES:
Famous
Royal Crown Roping
World’s Richest Breakaway
Though only 17, Audrey Kremer gets
credit for crystalizing the family’s passion
for raising and riding good horses into the
business known as Cross 4 Performance
Horses when she talked her parents,
Doug and Lacey, into the purchase of
yearling stallion, MrBuddyToYou.
Eight years later, all four Kremer kids
continue to contribute to the operation,
adding their own unique talents.
“Buddy” is the cornerstone, competing
at the Riata Buckle, World Series Team
Roping, youth rodeos and every other
event the family decides to try, including
recent forays into dressage and jumping.
But now, Cross 4 is excited to introduce
their new stallion, Famous, and their
website, cross4ranch.com.
A son of Dash Ta Fame out of the Peptoboonsmal mare Shegetscash, Famous’
first crop will hit the ground in 2024.
Famous has completed a year of reining
training and is now home at the ranch
learning about roping and barrels. As he
ages, it is very likely that he will compete
CUDD QUARTER HORSES
Woodward, Oklahoma
facebook.com/CuddQuarterHorsesLLC
580-515-3133
INCENTIVES:
Metallic Gray
Riata Buckle
Nearly four decades ago, newlyweds
Bobby Joe and Renee Jane Cudd launched
Cudd Quarter Horses, determined to
breed sound, tough working horses for the
ranch or the performance arena. Though
Renee lost Bobby Joe in 2005, his legacy
continues every day through the quality
horses raised through their program.
Cudd Quarter Horses’ program is
built upon the outstanding genetics of
AQHA Supreme Champion Goldseeker
Bars, sire of working horses renowned
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COURTESY CUDD QUARTER HORSES
One Time Genuine
Riata Buckle
METALLIC GRAY AT HOME AT CUDD QUARTER HORSES
in multiple disciplines.
“He’s so chill, on the verge of lazy,”
Audrey noted. “It’s easy to show him
things. He’s very smart.”
“He’s got a lot of those things that
we love about Buddy: the versatility,
athleticism, and personality,” Lacey
added. “And that’s awesome.”
for their versatility and good looks. Each
June, these proven bloodlines are offered
through their annual production sale.
Among the 2023 highlights for this
historic program were the sale of Cuddbred yearling Black Magic Woman, a
daughter of Shining Spark out of Cudd
favorite Carrera Cat, for a record amount
of $180,0000 at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit
Futurity Sale. Also purchased through the
Cudd sale and program is Hotrod Song,
the phenomenal gelding Taylor Munsell
has shown to her third National Finals
Breakaway Roping.
Cudd Quarter Horses stands two
young stallions to the public, One Time
Genuine, a son of One Time Pepto, and
the Metallic Cat son Metallic Gray.
“Those Metallic Grays are looking
super good in the roping pen,” Renee
said, noting that both are Riata Buckle
enrolled. “We’re excited about the future
of all the Riata Buckle colts.”
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DT Horses
Scottsdale, Arizona
DTHorses.com
480-471-4348
DT HORSES’ LEGENDARY HICKORY HOLLY TIME
INCENTIVES:
Hickory Holly Time
Riata Buckle
The Horses
DT Horses is headlined by the $2
million sire Hickory Holly Time (2024
stud fee of $3,000), who won multiple
world titles and has earned more than
$260,000 in his career. Tuftin crosses
Hickory Holly Time on his exceptional
mare herd, all ridden and proven in the
arena and on the ranch.
Tuftin raised the stakes for 2023,
with a DT Horses incentive that paid
out $50,000 to top-earning DT Horses
offspring competing at the Riata Buckle.
Douglas Rich, won the the Riata Open
on a Hickory Holly Time son, won
an additional $16,000, while Dave
Williams won $12,000, Dwight Adams
won $8,000, and Marissa Boisjoli won
$4,000—all for winning on Hickory
Holly Time offspring at the Riata.
The People
Currently, seven trainers work at
DT Horses, and Tuftin has made their
continuing growth and education a major
priority at his Scottsdale, Arizona, ranch.
Tuftin’s goal isn’t just to help the top
COURTESY DT HORSES
DT Horses, owned by Dean and Leslie
Tuftin, is about much more than just
breeding futurity-winning horses.
DT Horses’ mission is to instill
excellence at every step of the process:
from crossing the best bloodlines to
create premium prospects, to fostering
the growth of young trainers to build
exceptional horsemen and horsewomen
and people, to educating the average team
roper who comes to DT Horses looking
for a rope horse or looking for advice. In
the end, these three prongs of the DT
program are pushing the industry forward
like few others have done before.
prospects get into the top hands. He
wants his trainers riding every prospect to
the best of that horse’s ability and finding
that horse’s highest potential—whether
it’s at the Ariat World Series of Team Roping or the NFR, in the barrel racing arena
or at the local cow horse competition or
at the World’s Greatest Horseman.
What’s more, Clinton Anderson
himself is starting some colts for Tuftin
and will show some of Tuftin’s horses in
the reining and cow horse.
The Education
Tuftin’s doors are always open to
horsemen and horsewomen looking for
their next mount or just wanting to learn
how the DT Horses’ program works.
“An
impressionist
artist
said,
‘Perfection is not in the eye of the
beholder. Perfection is in the eye of the
creator.’ Anyone can slap paint on a
canvas, but a great artist puts perfection
in every stroke of the brush. For me, I’ve
built [this program] in the same way. A
great artist holds themselves accountable
for every stroke of the brush. People say
they’re a trainer, but a great trainer holds
themselves accountable for every move
that horse takes, every feel. For me, that’s
a big piece of it. My mission statement
is to build champion horses with solid
training techniques while developing the
mind of a horse positively. It’s not just,
‘Let’s go win at the futurities.’ And I want
to pass that all on to the horse industry as
a whole. So, our doors are open to those
who want to learn.”
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DIXON FLOWERS
QUARTER HORSES
Nowata, Oklahoma
dixonflowersropehorses.com
573-205-0443
Dixon Flowers Quarter Horses’
program revolves around crossing their
proven mares with top stallions across the
industry’s team roping, barrel, cutting,
reining, racing and cow horse arenas.
ARHFA World Champion and twotime NFR heeler Billie Jack Saebens
manages the program with the Duke
and Lindsey Dixon, with mares in their
lineup including matriarch and PRCA/
AQHA Horse of the Year DT Sugar
Chex Whiz, Seven S April Fools, Gunna
Be A Legend, DT American Honey and
Special High Brow.
“These mares have been competed on
by Billie Jack and have their own set of
accolades from rodeos, AQHA shows,
futurities and Open ropings,” Duke
said. “Our end goal is to match up our
MULESHOE RANCH
Gail, Texas
facebook.com/muleshoeranch1913
806-759-5019
THE INCOMPARABLE DT SUGAR CHEX WHIZ
breeding program with the right owners
that will place them with the top horse
trainers to continue proving each mare
as a producer. We have laid the initial
groundwork carefully and have already
produced futurity standouts like The
Notorious BIG, DT Hickory Blu Steel,
The Darkk Side, DF Bet Hesa Legend
and DF American Starlight.”
Lena Stylish Doc
Riata Buckle
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(Lena Barbie Doc x
Playin Stylish) was
then purchased in
2019 and used as a
heel horse until an
injury fated him to
the breeding barn,
exclusively. At the
2022 National Finals Rodeo, Cody
Snow won money
heading on Play
Sleeping by Lena
Stylish Doc. Play
Sleeping was the
first ARHFA finalist to make a debut under the lights of the Thomas & Mack.
“Muleshoe Ranch wanted to be a part
of The Riata Buckle because of Denny
Gentry,” John said. “Stallion incentive
programs like Riata Buckle will help the
horse market. Despite the economy, the
horse market is still strong.”
MULESHOE RANCH PUTS ITS COLTS TO USE.
INCENTIVES:
Boy Boon
Riata Buckle
The Muleshoe Ranch is a 33,280acre working cattle ranch with history
dating back to the early 1900s. The sixthgeneration operation and 2014 resipient
of the prestigious Zoetis AQHA Best
Remuda Award is located in Gail, Texas,
and is currently managed by John and
Kevva Anderson.
The Muleshoe, which has been
consecutively registering AQHA horses
for more than 70 years, currently runs
60 head of broodmares and 5 stallions,
including Riata Buckle stallions Boy
Dixon Flowers is your one-stop shop to
buy anything ranging from a weanling to
a 4-year-old prepping for the futurities,
with world class genetics from top to
bottom.
Boon and Lena Stylish Doc.
Riata Buckle stallion Boy Boon (Cee
Play X Sugar Boon) was purchased in
2006, making the perfect addition to
the Muleshoe’s breeding program. At 15
hands, Boy Boon produces babies that
are athletic and quick-footed with great
dispositions and good bone. Boy Boon
has close to 200 AQHA-registered babies.
Riata Buckle stallion Lena Stylish Doc
MYERS RAISED YES IM SASSY AND COLBY LOVELL WINNING THE ROYAL
CROWN ALL-AGES HEADING IN AUGUST 2023.
MYERS PERORMANCE HORSES
MR SASSY FRENCHMAN
St. Onge, South Dakota
FrenchmansGuy.com
myerstrainingstable@gmail.com
605-641-4283
In the 30 years since they first stood
South Dakota native Frenchman’s Guy,
Bill Myers and his family have added
blistering speed to their stallions and
mares, plus retained the potent traits of
their famous palomino.
On top, the line boasts Sun Frost—that
magic combination for roping of Doc’s
Jack Frost and Driftwood Ike. On the
bottom, Frenchmans Guy’s dam is out of
AQHA Hall-of-Famer Caseys Ladylove
that was raised by Frances Loiseau,
hence the iconic “French” in the name.
Incidentally, Kristie Peterson’s four-time
world champion barrel horse, Bozo, was
also by Sun Frost and out of a Casey’s
Ladylove daughter. That kind of notoriety
helped Frenchman’s Guy’s stud fee go
from $300 in the early 1990s to $6,000.
“He could have been just as famous
as a rope horse sire,” said Myers. “Our
theme for 2024 is all-around versatility.
While this has always been the goal for
Myers Performance Horses, it has come
to the forefront with the rise of roping
futurities and increased reporting. Myers
horses have always performed well in all
performance arenas, from steer wrestling
to steer roping to heading/heeling, calf
roping, breakaway roping and of course
barrel racing.
“Promoting genetics (both paternal
and maternal) is essential for a breeder’s
growth in this competitive field,” Myers
added. “By presenting pedigrees in the
event draws, webcast, announcing and
results, it helps the public make their
own analysis and what might work with
their breeding program. We are excited to
be in on the ground floor of this in the
roping industry!”
Ima Special Kindaguy, Mr Sassy
Frenchman and Lucky Wonder Horse
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are the next generation for
Myers Performance Horses.
Through years of riding these
genetics, trial and error and
lots of sweat equity, Myers
Performance Horses feels
confident in what these young
studs have to offer. Their first
progeny are just now hitting
the performance arena.
“I think any rodeo event
needs a great-moving horse
with a great mind,” Myers
said. “And conformation is a
factor some people leave out
when they breed horses, but we try to be
really strong in that in our program. We’re
pretty strict on bone, substance, straight
legs—just overall balance.”
Historically, many rope horses have
come from straight cutting- or reiningbred stallions, but with the coming
explosion of rope horse futurities using
hard-running steers, it pays to include a
little racing blood.
“In these horses of ours, you get that
speed but don’t lose that good common
sense and cow,” Myers said. “They leave
the box flat and can fly. Plus, they’re cowy
and know how to rate, so they’re real easy
to train as rope horses. Mentally, they can
handle the pressure.”
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IMA SPECIAL KINDA GUY
In 2023, Colby Lovell won the Royal
Crown in Rock Springs, Wyoming, on Yes
Im Sassy, a 6-year-old Myers mare trained
by Dakota Kirchenschlager by Mr Sassy
Frenchman out of Full Irish Whiskey.
“She tries hard, and you can see the
emotion when she’s
running to the cow
through her ears,” Lovell
said. “She’s good in the
box. She runs right to
the cow, finishes good,
is strong to the horn,
really doesn’t make any
mistakes. She’s felt solid.”
Frenchmans
Guy
and A Smooth Guy
are paid up in Riata
Buckle and Royal Crown
futurities, and the extra
bonus is that their
progeny historically sell
super-high at auction.
They’re a good financial
investment. The line is one of very
few that have stayed popular for three
decades—and there’s no magic cross,
because Frenchmans Guy produced
winners with a great variety of mares. At
the end of the day, this line makes heavy-
boned, good-minded, fast horses with lots
of natural collection, Myers said.
“The Frenchmans Guy genetics provide
athletic ability along with trainability,
for all levels of riders—professional to
amateur, young and old. The heart and
soul of the horse industry is the owner/
rider. We want to cater to this group as
much as possible. We also love to see the
longevity of these horses’ careers! That is a
true test of time.”
Myers’ 2023 Sale Averages
For nearly eight decades, the Pitzer
Ranch has been raising champion Quarter
Horses in the heart of ranch country. The
Nebraska Sandhills ranch, owned and
operated by Jim Brinkman and his family,
continue the legacy his grandfather,
AQHA Hall of Fame member Howard
Pitzer, began more than 70 years ago with
his Hall of Fame stallion, Two Eyed Jack.
The foundation Howard and “Jack”
laid can be found in the blood of the 400+
head broodmare band and 15 proven
stallions that stand at the ranch. The
breeding decisions in this program have
recently produced Riata Buckle winnings
of over $300,000 and notable AQHA
and rope horse futurity successes, not to
mention recent NFR qualifiers. Some
of the stallions will stand at the ranch’s
breeding facility for collection and others
COURTESY PITZER RANCH
PITZER RANCH
Ericson, Nebraska
pitzerranch.net
308-653-2134
THE HP RANCH HORSE INVITATIONAL IS SET TO PAY OUT WELL OVER $110,000 IN 2024
are turned to pasture with their band of
mares for the season.
Every stallion has been proven in and
out of the arena and is paid into a number
of incentives. From the Ranch’s own HP
Ranch Horse Invitational to the wildly
popular Riata Buckle and the new Top
Gun Stallion Incentive, each stallion’s get
is eligible for loads of money in the roping
and Western horse industries.
New to the Pitzer Ranch stallion
battery for 2024 is the gorgeous and
ultra-talented Metallic Casanova. The
red roan, gritty cowhorse has amassed
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World Show Finalist—185 points
Cat Stud
over $60k in earnings
L2 Resv
World Champion Heeling
NRHA Money Earner
89 Performance points
Stud Fees $1,500
All are 5 Panel N/N
73 Performance points
AQHA Champion - 165 points
AQHA Champion - 107 points
ERICSON, NE
(308) 653-2134
pitzerranch.net / pitzerranch@gmail.com
Earnings over $200,820
Metallic Casanova - $2,000 Stud Fee
Standing @ Cinder Lakes Ranch through May 1, 2024
For contracts email info@cinderlakesranch.com
After May 1, 2024 contact Pitzer Ranch
World Show Qual
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$58k earnings
Cat Stud with over
$840k in get earnings
AQHA Champion
For booking info:
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1.27 million get earnings
World Show Qua
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THE PITZER RANCH BROODMARE BAND SPENDS THEIR
DAYS GRAZING THE SANDHILLS RANCH.
$200,820 under NRCHA showman
Clay Volmer.
Metallic Casanova’s
commanding arena presence, versatility
and undeniable athletic ability make him
a valuable outcross to the ranch- and
rope-horse-based breeding program that
Pitzer Ranch is known for.
The
“line-bred”
Jack
stallions
like Dukes N Divas and Favorable
Intentions carry the blood that the
program was built upon. Both are paid
Riata Buckle sires and their get has had
great success recently. There truly is a
Pitzer Ranch stallion for any type of mare
customers may want to breed. The focus
of the ranch is to produce sound, good
looking, user-friendly horses that can
compete in a variety of areas and win.
You can browse the latest offspring at
the two annual sales held at the ranch.
The Spring Sale is scheduled for April 27,
2024, and includes several broke horses,
high-quality rope horses and yearlings.
The Fall Sale, set for Sept. 6-7, 2024, is
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a production sale with mostly HPI, Riata
Buckle & Top Gun eligible weanlings.
It also includes broke horses, prospects,
stallions and broodmares.
A big draw during the Fall Sale is the
annual HP Ranch Horse Invitational,
scheduled for Sept. 4, 2024. Now in its
14th year, it’s the highest-paying ranch
horse competition in the entire country.
It’s open to 4- to 6-year-old horses from
HPI paid-up sires, with new eligible sires
added each year.
The HPI paid out more than $110,000
last year, testing horses in a five-event
format, in and out of the arena. They
compete in heading, heeling, cowboy
trail, one-man ranch sorting and barrel
racing.
Pitzer Ranch horses cover every facet
of what you need in a performance or
working horse. The vast
Nebraska Sandhills serve
not only as a breathtaking
location for the ranch, but it
also provides Pitzer horses a
strong foundation in ranch
country.
METALLIC CASANOVA 2018 RED ROAN
STALLION OWNED BY PITZER RANCH/DACK
CATTLE LLC.
Sales
Production
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ERICSON, NE
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CARTERS WON TIME OUT AND RHEN RICHARD WINNING THE ROYAL CROWN IN
ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING, IN AUGUST 2023.
FLAG RANCH
Purcell, Oklahoma
flagranchllc.com
910-734-7772
INCENTIVES:
One Time Honor
Royal Crown
Riata Buckle
First Prize Diver
Royal Crown
Riata Buckle
Oklahoma’s Flag Ranch, owned by
Larry and Bobbie Rice, raised some of
the sport’s winningest futurity horses—
including Rhen Richard’s 2022 ARHFA
World Champion Chics Magic Corona,
Tate Kirchenschlager’s 2022 Royal Crown
Champion Meradas First Diver, Trevor
Brazile’s 2023 leading 4-year-old Bama
Fury, and Colby Lovell’s Riata Buckle
#14.5 champ Pepinstep.
The Rices’ Flag Ranch program is based
on a deep understanding of the attributes
needed to produce horses capable of
winning from the racetrack to the arena.
Their horses dominated the roping
futurity scene a year ago, and they
followed with more successes including
a couple of 2023 Royal Crown roping
wins and a $51,000 victory in the Riata
Buckle’s #14.5 for Pepinstep and World
Champion Colby Lovell.
“What really separates their program
is the way they find the right cross of
size, athletic ability, run and cow,” said
Kirchenschlager, who has ridden several
Flag Ranch bred horses. “They are just
built to be head horses. They are the top
tier for producing head horses right now.”
Strategically mixing run and cow, Flag
Ranch offers Riata Buckle and Royal
Crown prospects with proven genetics.
“We’ve known Larry a long time, and
he’s progressively turned out more and
more great horses,” said WPRA World
Champion Heeler Jimmi Jo Montera,
who has purchased more than a dozen
horses from the Rices with her husband.
“Larry is just extremely knowledgeable.
He knows his crosses—what goes well
with what.”
Flag Ranch’s own stallions, One Time
Honor, First Prize Diver and Bobby
Starlight, along with stallions they have
owned in the past—Vabellez and BR Best
Asset—illustrate their variety of proven
cow-bred and race-bred mares.
According to QData, Flag Ranch is one
of 2023’s top five breeders of rope horses
and a top five breeder of all time, having
produced earners of $325,128.
Each year, Flag Ranch sells a select
group of 2-year-olds through the January
Triangle Sale in Oklahoma City, with
this year’s sale running Jan. 25-27. Most
consignments in this year’s sale are Royal
Crown and Riata sBuckle eligible, by
stallions like One Time Honor and First
Prize Diver.
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RICHARD AND SJR DIAMOND BOND WINNING THE ROYAL
CROWN IN BUCKEYE, ARIZONA.
SAN JUAN RANCH
Weatherford, Texas
sanjuanranch.com
940-682-2205
Nestled in the heart of horse country in
Weatherford, Texas, the San Juan Ranch
operates with a commitment to breeding
elite performances horses: athletes who
are excelling not only in
cutting, reining and working cow horse events, but
also in the budding rope
horse futurity world.
San Juan Ranch is a National Reined Cow Horse
Association Million Dollar Breeder—a rare milestone that was achieved in
just 10 years—and its sister company, UltraCruz,
produces a supplement
line that keeps their horses
in optimal health.
The ranch boasts award winning
broodmares and champion stallions,
such as CD Diamond and his son SJR
Diamond Mist, both NRCHA Open
Futurity Champions and Horse of the
Year winners whose progeny are eligible
for the Royal Crown and Medal Roping
incentives.
San Juan’s success stories grew in 2023
with SJR Diamond Bond, who finished
third in the Royal Crown Open Heading
with Rhen Richard after a stellar 2022
campaign, along with SJR Diamond Billy,
SJR Diamond Len and others.
Additionally, they raised mare SJR
Diamond Salsa, who was the high seller
at the Platinum Medal Rope Horse Sale,
proving a desire for top prospects like
those San Juan is turning out.
INCENTIVES:
CD Diamond
Royal Crown (Roping Only)
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
NCHA Super Stakes
NRHA Sire & Dam
Gold Buckle
SJR Diamond Mist
Royal Crown (Roping Only)
NRCHA Stallion Stakes
NCHA Super Stakes
Congratulations
TO THE WINNERS OF OUR FIRST RIATA BUCKLE HICKORY HOLLY TIME INCENTIVE
Douglas Rich, Weatherford, TX & “Time To Get Wreckless” $16,000
Dave Williams, Ord, NE & “Stray With Me” $12,000
Dwight Adams, Linwood, NE & “Sue C Time” $8,000
Marissa Boisjoli, Dublin, TX & “DT Hickory Blu Steel” $4000
DT Horses, LLC
Scottsdale, AZ
www.dthorses.com
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BOOK FOR 2024
TWO NRCHA OPEN FUTURITY CHAMPIONS
ALL SAN JUAN RANCH-BRED HORSES
ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE
MEDAL ROPING PROGRAM
#1 NRCHA 2012 HORSE OF THE YEAR
2018 NRCHA OPEN FUTURITY CHAMPION SIRE
5 PANEL N/N
CD DIAMOND & SJR DIAMOND MIST
FOALS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE
ROYAL CROWN ROPING INCENTIVE
LTE: $153,320
5 PANEL N/N
LTE: $179,883
CD DIAMOND X CAT MIST 1998
BY HIGH BROW CAT
CD OLENA X SHINERS DIAMOND GIRL
BY SHINING SPARK
BRED & OWNED BY
TOP PLACING CD DIAMOND -OR- SJR DIAMOND MIST
FOALS THRU 2028 NRCHA FT. WORTH FUTURITY FINALS RECEIVE
S T A N D I N G AT
$25,000 (OPEN) | $10,000 (NON-PRO)
Limited to one winner each, Open & Non-Pro.
Does not include Intermediate, Limited or Novice Open or Non-Pro.
817-594-9181
SANJUANRANCH.COM
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CSR DUAL GLO SON SEVENS STAR GLO: 2022 &
2023 ARHFA WORLD CHAMPION, 2023 AQHA
HEADING WORLD CHAMPION
WIER RANCH
Lipan, Texas
wierranch.com
254-485-8280
With a proven track record of siring
athletes who capture world titles with
ease, CSR Dual Glo, the bay stallion
with a legacy of championship bloodlines,
stands as a cornerstone of the Wier Ranch
breeding program. CSR Dual Glo proves
to be an investment for mare owners who
aim to produce the next generation of
champions.
When CSR Dual Glo first graced
the Wier Ranch, his potential was
unmistakable. The son of Dual Spark and
Look At Her Glo, also known as “Betty,”
carries the torch passed on by champions.
A stop at Bobby Lewis’ ranch in 2014
reminded Marshall Wier of Dual Glo’s
illustrious dam, leading to the acquisition
that would shape the future of Wier Ranch.
Now, the circle of life continues at the
Wier Ranch as CSR Dual Glo stamps his
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legacy into the future of team roping with
his progeny.
Marshall and Lezlie Wier’s dedication
to quality, proven by CSR Dual Glo’s
impressive list of accolades, extends an
invitation to mare owners to partake in their
exceptional breeding program. CSR Dual
Glo himself boasts titles such as AQHA
Junior Heading World Champion, AQHA
High Point Junior Heading Champion,
and multiple high-point awards, which
speak volumes of his abilities and the
caliber of athletes he produces.
Highlighting the breeding program’s
success, CSR Dual Glo has sired
noteworthy champions who have left their
mark in the arena. Bobby Glo Harlan
emerged as a stellar product of Dual Glo’s
genetics, snatching the 2020 AQHA
Junior Heeling World Championship
and the 2022 AQHA Reserve World
Champion in Senior Heading. WQ
Stonestimetoglo followed suit, bagging
the 2022 AQHA Junior Heeling L2
championship. These champions echo
their sire’s titles, including AQHA Junior
Heading World Champion and a suite of
AQHA High Point awards.
But the standout progeny, Sevens Star
Glo, known fondly as “Hank,” is as a
testament to the legacy CSR Dual Glo
is crafting. As Hank clinches victories
like the American Rope Horse Futurity
Association Open Heeling World
Champion and AQHA World Show
titles, he not only mirrors his sire’s success
but also shows a promising future for
Wier Ranch’s breeding program.
“It’s cool when we raise one, train
one, and have the success we’ve had in
the arena with the team that we’ve got
helping us,” Marshall said. “From T.
Richardson and his sons, Tanner and
Hayden, and Tell Good starting these
horses and taking them to the ranch for
day work before they head to the arena to
the photographers and writers who tell the
stories of what our horses have done,we’ve
got really great people. It’s a big deal to go
and get done what those horses have done
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what we’ve tried to focus on, probably as
much as anything, is having good mares.”
The approach at Wier Ranch is holistic,
aiming not only to produce champions
within the team roping arena, but also
to have horses with the same quality
and demeanor outside the competitive
setting—the types of horses that can
go do any event with anyone on their
back. The horses that emerge from this
program are a testament to the balance
between athleticism and temperament—a
trait combination sought after by all but
achieved by few.
INCENTIVES:
CSR Dual Glo
Riata Buckle
Pitzer HPI
CSR DUAL GLO AND BOBBY LEWIS
with Bobby Lewis and Dual Glo and then
Cade with Sevens Star Glo.”
Under the skillful guidance of Bobby
Lewis, CSR Dual Glo made a name
for himself, and now, with Cade Rice,
Hank is continuing that tradition. These
victories on the back of the horses from
Wier Ranch are not merely individual
accomplishments; they are the fruits
of a collective passion—a convergence
of lineage, training and a supportive
environment that allows these wins to
occur.
This year, Hank has continued to impress, displaying the same championship
quality that his sire is known for. In 2023,
Hank was the AQHA World Champion in Senior Heading and the American
Rope Horse Futurity Association Word
Champion in heeling—a back-to-back
win from 2022. His victories at major
events are a testament to the powerful
combination of CSR Dual Glo’s genetics
and the mare power that Wier Ranch so
profoundly respects. Hank’s wins are not
just a reflection of his talent but a demonstration of the breeding program’s foresight and the fulfillment of a vision that
began years ago—even before CSR Dual
Glo first arrived at the ranch.
The Wier Ranch’s commitment to
excellence extends beyond the impressive
titles and large checks. It’s found in the
breeding decisions that place an equal
emphasis on both sire and dam. It’s this
emphasis on the strength of the dam that
forms the cornerstone of Wier Ranch’s
strategy, blending the traits of exemplary
stallions with exceptional mares to
produce quality horses.
“Everybody goes on about the stallions, but the mare power is what makes
those horses,” Marshall said. “And that’s
Two Eyed Brazos
Riata Buckle
Pitzer HPI
Sevens Star Glo
None at this time
SEVENS STAR GLO AND CADE RICE
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$200/roper, enter 2x, pick or draw, MUST BE 21, must
be at least 4hd/5hl to draw in, draw in fee: xtra $40/
roper
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$100/roper, enter 2x, 2 full rounds + short round
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!;&'()* #4 CAP BOTH ends
$200/roper, enter 3x, pick or draw, 3 steer, MUST BE 21
$150/ROPER, PICK 1 DRAW 2 OR DRAW 3, ENTER 2X FOR 6 RUNS,
SADDLES TO AVERAGE WINNERS - BUCKLES TO 2ND,
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BOOKS WILL NOT CLOSE BEFORE 2:00
UPCOMING ROPING:
mesquite, nv feb 16-17
Las Vegas, NV March 15-17
Must be 21 years old or turn 21 anytime during the calendar year to participate in WS qualifiers (*except in the Open and #14.5). A current WSTR or USTRC
membership, Key Card or Key Card Max is required. WSTR membership, including Key Cards may be purchased online at WSTRoping.com, on-site before you
rope, or renewing by phone, 505-898-1755. WSTR memberships are free to renewing ropers 70 and older.
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$150/ROPER, ENTER 2X, REGULAR BARRIER, 80% PAYBACK
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#5.5 HEELER CAP
$200/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, MUST BE 21, DRAW IN
FEE: XTRA $40/ROPER
#13.5 WSTR
#10.5 PICK OR DRAW
$200/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, NO # CAP MUST BE 21.
MUST BE AT LEAST 5HD/6.5HL TO DRAW IN, DRAW IN FEE: XTRA
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SATURDAY JANUARY 27
#8.5 WSTR
$200/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, NO # CAP MUST BE
21. MUST BE AT LEAST 4.5HD/6HL TO DRAW IN, DRAW IN FEE:
XTRA $40/ROPER
#4.5 CAP BOTH ENDS
$200/ROPER, ENTER 3X, 4 STEER, PICK OR DRAW, MUST BE 21
#12.5 PICK OR DRAW
#4 CAP BOTH ENDS
$200/ROPER, ENTER 3X, 3 STEER, PICK OR DRAW, MUST BE 21
#7 WSTR
$100/ROPER, ENTER 3X, NO AGE LIMIT, NO CAP, 4 STEER
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membership, Key Card or Key Card Max is required. WSTR membership, including Key Cards may be purchased online at WSTRoping.com, on-site before you
rope, or renewing by phone, 505-898-1755. WSTR memberships are free to renewing ropers 70 and older. $40 Draw in Fee Non-refundable.
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Happy New Year to the fastest growing
contingency in the western discipline! Each year,
as I’m sure you do with your own business, we
glance in the rearview mirror and weigh out
the highs and lows from the previous year. The
goal is always to build on our strengths and
leverage the past year of knowledge to push our
expectations to the next level. You USTRC ropers
have allowed us to do exactly that, and we are
excited to see what 2024 has in store.
On the day to day with the USTRC Signature
Series events, not much is going to change.
Fees will remain the same and the USTRC will
continue to work with producers from different
geographical locations to ensure that the local
roping customer is top of mind. We realize that
what may be good for one region of ropers, may
need to be tweaked a little to fit in an entirely
different roping market. This year producers will
have an opportunity to try one higher fee roping
per weekend if they so choose.
After the great success of the Key Card
Advantage ropings during the WSTR Finale in
Vegas last month, many producers and ropers
asked if they could put on a variation of those
ropings at certain USTRC events throughout
the year. The answer is Yes! Now, producers
will have the option of having a Key Card
Advantage roping in the division of their choice.
Initially, the fee structure will be $250/roper for
Key Card or Key Card Max members and $350
for standard USTRC members. The events will
pay back 80%.
For those of you on the fence about a Key
Card membership, here’s the simple truth: In
two Advantage entries you will save enough
to cover the Key Card cost. For those who are
interested in the Key Card Max, you get the
entry savings plus all of your USTRC National
Finals of Team Roping runs delivered with
Run Delivery, the Live Stream, a subscription
to Roping.com and a membership to the best
roadside assistance in the world for ropers -US
Roper. Not to mention the early entry discounts
for the USTRC Finals! Either option pays for itself
almost immediately if you are an avid roper.
Speaking of avid ropers, all of you parents
and young guns under 21 remember you have
to have ten entries within a few months prior to
entering the USTRC NFTR this April. Make sure
and go out and get those entries under your belt
before trying to enter Fort Worth.
Once again, Happy New Year team ropers. We
will see you at the next one.
John Johnson
President, USTRC
JANUARY 6-7: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
JANUARY 12-14: STEPHENVILLE, TX
JANUARY 13-14: CHOWCHILLA, CA
JANUARY 20-21: DODGE CITY, KS
Check out USTRC.com for any calendar updates
For more information visit www.USTRC.com or call the office at 505.899.1870
FEBRUARY 9-11: MEMPHIS, TN
FEBRUARY 9-11: BRYAN, TX
FEBRUARY 10 11: AMARILLO, TX
FEBRUARY 10: PORTERVILLE, CA
FEBRUARY 17-18: BAKER, FL
FEBRUARY 17-18: RIVERSIDE, CA
FEBRUARY 24-25: SARASOTA, FL
DOUBLE DOWN
IN
2024
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JR 15&UNDER (BORN 2009 OR LATER)
JR GLOBAL HANDICAP CARD UPGRADE TO KEY CARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $240
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LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREE
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TAKE ADVANTAGE OF DISCOUNTED ENTRY FEES TO
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*Accumulated earning are specific to the association.
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KEY CARD ADVANTAGE MEMBERSHIP . . . . . . $300
The premier membership accepted at both USTRC & WSTR events.
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All the benefits of the Key Card bundled with Free video streaming of the
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service and Roping.com’s training platform.
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*DISCOUNT TO KEY CARD ADVANTAGE EVENTS
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12 & UNDER (BORN MAY 1, 2012 OR LATER)
JR. LOOPER MEMBERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . FREE
Available to youth 12 and under and may NOT be used
to enter a team roping event. *This membership is valid for
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Saturday January 20
January
20-21
2 0 2 4
Sunday January 21
#10.5 USTRC Legends Over 40
#13.5 USTRC
$160/Roper, Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw Both,
Enter 2x, #6.5 Heeler Cap
$80/Roper, Enter 4x, Pick or Draw
#12.5 USTRC
$80/Roper, Enter 4x, Pick or Draw
#9.5 WSTR #5.5 Heeler Cap
#11.5 USTRC
$150/Roper, Pick or Draw, Enter 2x,
Must Be 21, Draw In Fee: Xtra $40/roper
$80/Roper, Enter 4x, Pick or Draw
#11.5 WSTR #7 Heeler Cap
$150/Roper, Pick or Draw, Enter 2x,
Must Be 21, Must be at least 4HD/5HL
to draw in, Draw In Fee: Xtra $40/roper
#9.5 USTRC
#5.5 Heeler Cap
$160/Roper, Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw Both, Enter 3x
#8.5 USTRC #4.5 Cap Both Ends
$160/Roper, Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw Both, Enter 3x
#10.5 USTRC #6.5 Heeler Cap
$80/Roper, Enter 4x, Pick or Draw
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Key Card, Key Card Max, or WSTR Membership. Memberships can be purchased on-site
Must be 21 years old or turn 21 anytime during the calendar year to participate in WSTR qualifiers (*except in the Open and #14.5). USTRC Signature Series Ropings are qualifiers
to the Cinch NFTR. Draw in option available. Guaranteed 1st-3rd discounts to USTRC NFTR in all US Divisions. 70% Payback unless otherwise noted. No age restrictions except in
the Legends Over 40 & 50. A current USTRC or WSTR membership, Key Card or Key Card Max is required. Memberships can be purchased online (wstroping.com or USTRC.com)
on-site before you rope, or renewing by phone, 505-898-1755. Global handicaps only.
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WELCOME!
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JANUARY 24-28, 2024
JACKSONVILLE, FL
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GENERAL INFO: On-site entry. Cash only. CURRENT COGGINS
AND HEALTH PAPERS REQUIRED TO ENTER THE STATE
OF FL. A current WSTR, USTRC, KEY CARD or KEY CARD MAX
membership is required. Memberships may be purchased on-site
before you rope, online at wstroping.com, or renew by phone,
505.898.1755. Global Handicaps Only. WSTR memberships are
free to renewing ropers 70 and older. WSTR membership, Key
Card, or Key Card Max is required for WSTR Finale accumulated
earning discounts. Books will close 30 minutes prior to the
roping starting in the morning and at the start of the short go for
previous roping. Producer reserves the right to make any and all
necessary changes.
JX2EVENTS.COM • FACEBOOK.COM/JX2ANDNTRLTEAMROPING
JOHN JOHNSON 423.340.0640
JX2 OFFICE 423.575.2295
STALL OFFICE: 276.213.0951
WEDNESDAY,
JAN 24 BOOKS OPEN AT 1:00, ROPE AT 2:00 PM
• WARM-UP ROPING: STRAIGHT DRAWPOT, CAN ENTER ON BOTH ENDS, LIMITED TO 100 TEAMS. DRAW 3 FOR
$200/ROPER, ENTER 1 TIME PER END. 3 HD PROG.
• NTRL OPEN: Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING WARM UP; NOT TO START
ALL ROPINGS, ALL WEEKEND, ARE
PROGRESSIVE AFTER 1!
BEFORE 3PM. TRADITIONAL BARRIER; $260/ROPER, ENTER 3X PICK OR DRAW, 80% PAYBACK, 4 HD PROG.
• 15.5 HANDICAP: Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING OPEN; NOT TO START
BEFORE 4PM, TRADITIONAL BARRIER, 4HD, ENTER 3X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
• 14.5 WSTR BLOOMER: IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING 15.5 HANDICAP; NOT TO START BEFORE 5PM; NO CAPS, NO
AGE LIMIT, $300/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, 80% PAYBACK ON PAID TEAMS, DRAW IN FEE XTRA $40/ROPER
MUST BE AT LEAST 5.5HD/7HL TO DRAW IN
THURSDAY, JAN 25 BOOKS OPEN AT 7 A.M. ROPE AT 8:30 A.M.
• 14.5 HANDICAP: Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners 4-HD, ENTER 3X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
• 13.5 CHEYENNE 7 HEAD with 12.5 Incentive
AVERAGE WINNERS & INCENTIVE WINNERS GET FEES PAID IN SHOOTOUT!
Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners
14.5, 12.5, 10.5
Wstr bloomer ropings
high money winner of the 2 legends
ropings will WIN a Lance Horner
saddle
TIE DOWN & BREAKAWAY
$500/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, INC PAID ON 6 HEAD, 80% PAYBACK
• 13.5 SHOOTOUT: $16,000 & One of a Kind Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners 4-HD, ENTER 4X,
THURSDAY - SATURDAY
• ATASCOSA DODGE 13.5 SLIDE MULEY ROPING: Exclusive Muley Buckles to Avg Winners
FMI: cord spradley 912.614.0391
$260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
HANDICAP UP TO HIGHEST # TEAM & DOWN TO 11.5 & BELOW PICK 1/DRAW 1 OR DRAW 2 FOR
$300/ROPER, ENTER 3X FOR TOTAL OF 6 PARTNERS, 2/3 PAYBACK
FRIDAY, JAN 26 BOOKS OPEN AT 7 A.M. ROPE AT 8:30 A.M.
• 12.5 WSTR BLOOMER: $300/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, 80% PAYBACK ON PAID TEAMS, DRAW IN FEE
XTRA $40/ROPER MUST BE AT LEAST 4.5HD/6.5HL TO DRAW IN
• 11.5 PRELIM: $220/ROPER, ENTER 3X, PICK OR DRAW, 4HD
FRANKLIN THOMAS CENTURY SIDEPOT - $100/ROPER, 70% PAYBACK, BUCKLES TO AVERAGE
WINNERS OF SIDEPOT, BOTH PARTNERS MUST BE 50 OR OLDER, MUST BE ENTERED IN THE PRELIM
• 12.5 SHOOTOUT: $16,000 & One of a Kind Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners
4-HD, ENTER 4X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
• 12.5 HANDICAP LEGENDS: Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners, Women Over 30, Men Over 40
$300/ROPER, ENTER 3X, 80% PAYBACK
• 10.5 HANDICAP LEGENDS: Carroll Original Wear to Avg Winners, Women Over 30, Men Over 40
$300/ROPER, ENTER 3X, 80% PAYBACK
SATURDAY, JAN 27 BOOKS OPEN AT 7 A.M. ROPE AT 8:30 A.M.
High Money Lady of the Day Will Win Tracey Malone Memorial Prize
• 10.5 PRELIM: $200/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW, CAPPED AT 6.5, 3-HD, ENTER 3X
• 10.5 WSTR BLOOMER: $300/ROPER, ENTER 2X, PICK OR DRAW, 80% PAYBACK ON PAID TEAMS, CAPPED AT 6
HEELER, DRAW IN FEE XTRA $40/ROPER
• 9.5 PRELIM: $200/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW, CAPPED AT 5.5, 3-HD, ENTER 3X
• 11.5 SHOOTOUT: $16,000 & One of a Kind Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners 4-HD, ENTER 4X,
$260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
• ATASCOSA DODGE 11.5 SLIDE MULEY ROPING: Exclusive Muley Buckles to Avg Winners
HANDICAP UP TO 13.5 & DOWN TO 9.5, PICK 1/DRAW 1 OR DRAW 2 FOR $300/ROPER, ENTER 3X FOR
TOTAL OF 6 PARTNERS, 2/3 PAYBACK
• 10.5 SHOOTOUT: $14,000, Saddles & Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners CAPPED AT 6.5, 4-HD,
ENTER 4X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
SUNDAY,
JAN 28 BOOKS OPEN AT 7 A.M. ROPE AT 8:30 A.M.
• HOMETOWN HERO ROPING:
(10.5 SLIDE UP TO 12.5, DOWN TO 8.5) PICK OR DRAW, $100/ROPER, ENTER 3X,
4HD, 100% PAYBACK, PRIZES TO 1ST - 3RD
• 8.5 PRELIM: $200/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW, CAPPED AT 4.5, 3-HD, ENTER 3X
• 9.5 SHOOTOUT: $14,000, Saddles & Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners
CAPPED AT 5.5, 4-HD, ENTER 4X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
Cowboy Church
at 7 a.m.
FORMATS TBA
JR LOOPER DUMMY ROPING
SATURDAY, JAN 28 AT 2:00 PM
BUCKLES IN THREE DIVISIONS, ROPES & OTHER PRIZES FROM
CLASSIC EQUINE. IF YOU COMPETE IN THE ROPING YOU ARE
NOT ELIGIBLE TO ROPE IN THE JR LOOPER.
MUST HAVE CURRENT COGGINS & HEALTH
PAPERS TO GET INTO STATE OF FLORIDA
HOST
HOTELS
FAIRFIELD INN & SUITES WEST/CHAFFEE (904) 693-4400
*MENTION JACKSONVILLE EQUESTRIAN CENTER FOR JX2 RATE
COMFORT SUITES: 904.224.5500
HOSPITALITY INN: 904.777.5700
COUNTRY INN & SUITES: 904.772.7771
BEST WESTERN SOUTHSIDE: 904.264.4466
NTRL OFFICE 423-575-2295
2024 GLOBAL, USTRC, WSTR, KEY CARD OR KEY CARD MAX
REQUIRED TO ROPE. NO OTHER REQUIREMENTS.
Memberships can be purchased on-site.
WE WILL USE 3 ARENAS! ALL ROPINGS ARE PROGRESSIVE AFTER ONE. ALL
PRELIMINARY ROPINGS WILL MOVE THE TOP 10% OVER TO THE SHOOTOUT
WITH 1ST HAVING THEIR FEES PAID! BOOKS WILL CLOSE 30 MINUTES
PRIOR TO THE ROPING STARTING IN THE MORNING AND AT THE END OF THE
1ST ROUND OF THE ROPING PRIOR THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ARENA
ADDRESS: 13611 NORMANDY BLVD., JACKSONVILLE, FL 32221
JAXEQUESTRIANCENTER.COM
• 8.5 SHOOTOUT: $14,000, Saddles & Buckles Guaranteed to Avg Winners
CAPPED AT 4.5, 4-HD, ENTER 4X, $260/ROPER, PICK OR DRAW
• 7 ROPING: Saddles to Avg Winners PICK 1/DRAW 1 OR DRAW 2 FOR $500/ROPER, CAPPED AT 4, 3-HD,
ENTER 2X
GENERAL INFO: ON-SITE ENTRY. CASH ONLY. CURRENT COGGINS REQUIRED. WSTR BARREIR WILL BE USED FOR THE ENTIRE EVENT. MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD OR TURN 21 ANYTIME
DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR TO PARTICIPATE IN WS QUALIFIERS. A CURRENT WSTR, USTRC, KEY CARD OR KEY CARD MAX MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. MEMBERSHIPS MAY BE
PURCHASED ON-SITE BEFORE YOU ROPE, ONLINE AT WSTROPING.COM, OR RENEW BY PHONE, 505.898.1755. GLOBAL HANDICAPS ONLY. WSTR MEMBERSHIPS ARE FREE TO RENEWING
ROPERS 70 AND OLDER. WSTR MEMBERSHIP, KEY CARD, OR KEY CARD MAX IS REQUIRED FOR WSTR FINALE ACCUMULATED EARNING DISCOUNTS. NO DRESS CODE EXCEPT WSTR. BOOKS
WILL CLOSE 30 MINUTES PRIOR TO THE ROPING STARTING IN THE MORNING AND AT THE START OF THE SHORT GO FOR PREVIOUS ROPING. PRODUCER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE ANY
AND ALL NECESSARY CHANGES.
STALL & RV RESERVATIONS
We are not taking reservations for barn preference. Stalls will be assigned upon arrival based on eligibility. With 3 arenas, there is no longer an advantage to any barn being closer. Options will be
available for drive up nightly stalls. We will have a few indoor stalls and outdoor stalls for drive up, nightly rates. No reservations for this option. Generators are welcome.
Stalls will be booked at a weekly prepaid rate. $125/stall which includes 2 bags of shavings additional shavings are $12/bag. RVs
will be booked at a weekly prepaid rate. RV hookup sites $240/week. Reservations for hookups will remain open until we are sold
out. TO MAKE RESERVATIONS CALL PAM AT 276.213.0951 DURING BUSINESS HOURS, MONDAY - FRIDAY, 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M. EST)
THURSDAY,
JAN 25
BOOKS OPEN AT 9:00, ROPE AT 10:00 AM
• WARM UP ROPING: 10:00 AM
$100, ENTER 3X, ONE HEAD, TOP 15 TO SHORT GO
• OPEN BREAKWAY: 12:00 PM
$180 -TWO HEAD, TOP 15 TO SHORT GO
• 3D BREAKAWAY: 2:00 PM
$100, Two Head, FULL SECOND SPLITS EACH D
FRIDAY,
JAN 26
BOOKS OPEN AT 9:00, ROPE AT 10:00 AM
• 3D BREAKAWAY: 10:00 AM
$100, ENTER 3X, Two Head, FULL SECOND SPLITS EACH D
• OPEN BREAKWAY WRWC SANCTIONED: 12:00 PM
$150, TWO HEAD
• B BREAKWAY: 2:00 PM
$100, TWO HEAD
• SUPER SHOOTOUT BREAKWAY: 3:00 PM
$250- 3 HEAD, PAY 4 IN AVERAGE SHOOTOUT ROUND - TOP 10 IN AVERAGE AND TOP 5
FASTEST TIMES. WINNER TAKES ALL! $1,000 BONUS
$100 BUY BACK IN ROUND 1.
SATURDAY,
JAN 27
BOOKS OPEN AT 8:00, ROPE AT 9:00 AM
• 19 & UNDER GIRLS BREAKAWAY: 9:00 AM
$80 - TWO HEAD
• OPEN TIE-DOWN: 11:00 AM
$150 - 3 HEAD, B SIDEPOT $40 100% PAYBACK
• SUPER 6 HEADER BREAKAWAY: 12:00 PM
$400 PAYOUT BASED ON 10 PAYOUT BASED ON 20
$400 FAST TIME
$400 FAST TIME
AVERAGE
AVERAGE
1ST: $1,200
1ST: $2,600
2ND: $720
2ND: $1,560
3RD: $240
3RD: $1,040
SUNDAY,
JAN 28
BOOKS OPEN AT 8:00, ROPE AT 9:00 AM
• OPEN TO THE WORLD BREAKAWAY: 9:00 AM
$100 - ONE HEAD. OPEN TO MEN, WOMEN, BOYS, AND GIRLS
• BEGINNER BREAKWAY: 10:00 AM
$80 - TWO HEAD
• OPEN BREAKAWAY 11:00 AM
$150 - TWO HEAD, TOP 10 TO SHORT GO B SIDE POT $40
• OPEN BREAKAWAY 12:00 PM
$150 - TWO HEAD, TOP 10 TO SHORT GO
JX2EVENTS.COM • FACEBOOK.COM/JX2ANDNTRLTEAMROPING
MUST HAVE CURRENT COGGINS & HEALTH
PAPERS TO GET INTO STATE OF FLORIDA
we will be flexible with anyone
entered in ntrl ropings.
all breakaway ropings are ustrc! must
have global handicaps membership to
rope! A CURRENT WSTR, USTRC, KEY CARD OR KEY CARD MAX
MEMBERSHIP IS REQUIRED. MEMBERSHIPS MAY BE PURCHASED
ON-SITE BEFORE YOU ROPE, ONLINE AT WSTROPING.COM, OR
RENEW BY PHONE, 505.898.1755. GLOBAL HANDICAPS ONLY.
We are not taking reservations for barn preference. Stalls will be
assigned upon arrival based on eligibility. With 3 arenas, there is no
longer an advantage to any barn being closer. Options will be available for
drive up nightly stalls. We will have a few indoor stalls and outdoor stalls
for drive up, nightly rates. No reservations for this option. Generators are
welcome. Stalls will be booked at a weekly prepaid rate. $125/stall which
includes 2 bags of shavings additional shavings are $12/bag. RVs will be
booked at a weekly prepaid rate. RV hookup sites $240/week.
Reservations for hookups will remain open until we are sold out. To make
reservations call Pam at 276.213.0951 during business hours, Monday Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST)
JOHN JOHNSON 423.340.0640
JX2 OFFICE 423.575.2295
STALL OFFICE 276. 213.0951
WELCOME ROPERS
TO THE PATRIOT
Will Rogers Memorial Center
Fort Worth , TX
FEBRUARY 28TH - MARCH 10th
ENTRY GUIDE
ENTER BY FEB 13TH
Early Discounted Entries Available to Key Card & Key Card Max Members
Scan for Events Information, Download
Entry Forms or Enter Online
FEBRUARY 28TH - MARCH 10th
WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL CENTER
Team Roping Barrel Racing
Goat Tying Steer Wrestling
Tie-Down Roping Breakaway Roping Pole Bending
Rough Stock Hooey Junior Patriot Veteran’s Roping
Patriot All-Girls Team Roping
Championships
Smarty Young Guns World Championships
Team Roping • Barrel Racing • Calf Roping • Steer Wrestling
Pole Bending • Breakaway • Goat Tying
HOOEY JUNIOR PATRIOT RODEO
Guaranteed $1,000,000 payout
Open Team Roping // $10,000 Added
Open Tie-Down // $50,000 Added
Young Guns Team Roping
Guaranteed to win $25,000
$5.5 MILLION+
Combined Projected Payout
PATRIOT DIRECT CONTACTS
Patriot Office: 417-350-1252
Team Roping Office: 505-898-1755
Tie Down Roping: Chris Neal 479-462-7275 or chris@risingstarscalfroping.com
Barrel Racing: Ross Wright 405-230-7167 or patriot@betterbarrelraces.com
Poles/Goat Tying: Russ Manion 217-652-8193
Trade Show: Walt Eddy 505-879-6181 or walteddy@wstroping.com
Books Open Jan 1
Online Entries at
www.patriotevent.com
For Full Details Visit
PatriotEvent.com
2024 Patriot Event Schedule
John Justin Arena
Team Roping
8AM Start
Will Rogers Coliseum
Barrel Racing/Rough Stock
Short Go’s to Follow Each Event
Tuesday
March 5
All Ropings 2HD - Top 12 to Short
Round
Multi-Purpose Arena
Poles/Goats
Pavillion Arena
Team Roping
Steer Wrestling
Roughstock Feb 28- March 2 | Will Rogers Coliseum
Feb 28 - Mar 2
Monday
March 4
Watt Arena
Tie-Down/Breakaway
Open
14.5 All Age
13.5 21 and Up
12.5 All Age
9am - Move In
12pm - Office Opens
1pm-9pm Open Arena
8am - 15U Breakaway
12.5 21 and Up
12.5 Legends over 40
11.5 All Age
9am -Jr Patriot Open Arena
8am - 12U Breakaway
(30 min sessions)
(30 min sessions)
2pm - Futurity Exhibitions
5pm - Open 4D-Section 1
(limit 200)
Rounds 2 & 4 of Open
Rounds 2 & 3 of
14.5,13.5 & 12.5
(Limit 150)
1pm - 19U Breakaway
(Limit 250)
9am - 12 & U Poles/Last
Chance Qualifier
11am - 15U Tie-Down(Limit 75) 10:30am - 15&U Poles
2pm - 19U Tie-Down(Limit 100) 1pm - 12 & U Goats
3pm - 15 & U Goats
(Limit 100)
Rounds 2 & 3 of 12.5
21 and Up ,12.5 Leg
& 11.5
5pm JR Patriot Steer
Wrestling
Wednesday, March 6 - Mandatory Check-In 9AM-8PM Jr Patriot Contestants
Wednesday
March 6
Thursday
March 7
Friday
March 8
11.5 21 and Up
9am - Young Guns Long Go
w/ Optional “Last Chance”
Jr Patriot Qualifier
8am - 12U Tie-Down
10.5 21 and Up
10.5 Legends over 40
Ladies Open with 9.5
Incentive
Jr Patriot Open
Jr Patriot 10.5
9am - Futurity First Go
Jr Patriot Open Semi Finals
9am - Futurity Second Go
Jr Patriot 10.5 Semi Finals
12pm-Open 4D-Section 3
All Round will run in John Justin
11.5 Legends Over 40
10.5 All Age
(First round & Top 50 to 2nd
Round)
(First round & Top 50 to 2nd
Round)
9.5 All Age
(Can Roll Time to Open)
12pm - Jr Patriot Semi
Finals (Can Roll Time to Open)
7pm - Open 4D
Section 2 (limit 150)
(Reverse Order - Can Roll Time
to Open)
(Limit 450 - Will Break at #350,
big drag for ACT Qualifier)
7pm - 2024-25 American
Contender Qualifier (Time
9am - 19 & U Poles/Last
Chance Qualifier
1pm - 3D Poles
4pm - Open Goats/Last
Chance Tie for Crown
6pm - Best of Best Goats/
Wildcard Match
8AM Jr Patriot Steer
Wrestling Semi Finals
8am - 19U Breakaway SemiFinals
6pm - Open Tie-Down Best of
the Best
9am - 3D Goats
12:30pm - Tie for Crown
Finals
3:30pm - 19 & U Poles/Last
Chance Qualifier
Rounds 2 & 3 of
10.5 21 and Up ,10.5
leg,Ladies, Jr Open &
JR 10.5
8am - 12U Breakaway SemiFinals
12pm - 15U Tie-Down SemiFinals
5pm - 12U Tie-Down SemiFinals
8am - 19 & U Goats/Semifinals 8am - 9.5 21 and Up
All rounds in Pavillion
2pm - 15 & U Goats/
Semifinials
9.5 Legends Over 50
(Limit 50)
10am - 15U Breakaway
Semi- Finals
3pm - 19U Tie-Down SemiFinals
automatically roll into Open)
Rounds 2 & 3 of 11.5
Leg & 10.5
All rounds in Pavillion
Rounds 2 & 3 of 9.5
All Age
Open 4D Section 3
(Continued) (Starting at #351
following ACT Qualifier)
Saturday
March 9
8.5 21 and Up
8.5 Legends over 50
8.5 All Age
7 All Age
9am - Open 4D Finals Round 9am - Open Breakaway $350 9am - 19 & U Poles/Semifinals Rounds 2 & 3 of 8.5 21
(Entries also in Young Guns Short (limit 100)
and Up, 8.5 Leg, 8.5
Go will roll times from Open 4D
All Age, 7
Finals)
Young Guns Short Round
(Immediately Follow Open 4D)
Church Service 9am - Location TBD
Sunday, March 10 - Jr Patriot Finals - Will Rogers Coliseum - Awards Celebration to Follow
Sunday
March 10
9.5 All Age Truck Roping
12 NOON Jr Patriot Finals
Rounds 2 & 3 of Truck
Roping
TEAM ROPING
Monday March 4
Open $750/Roper Enter 2X , 5 Steer Progressive on 1 80% Payback $10,000 ADDED,
PICK ONLY
#14.5 All Age $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry, $600/Roper
Draw or onsite, Enter 2X 80% payback, Progressive. Pick or Draw, Must be at least
5.5HD/7HL to draw in
#13.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry, $1200 On Site, Enter 1X, Progressive, 80%
Payback, Must be 21, Pick Only
#12.5 All Age $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry, $600/Roper
Draw or onsite, Enter 2X 80% payback, Progressive, Pick or Draw, Must be at least
4.5hD/6HL to draw in.
Tuesday March 5
#12.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry ,$1200 On Site Enter 1X, Progressive 80%
Payback, Must be 21, Pick Only
#12.5 Legends Over 40 $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, Enter 2X 80% payback, Progressive, Pick or Draw, Must
be at least 4.5 HD/6Hl to draw in.
#11.5 All Age $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry, $600/Roper
Draw or onsite, Enter 2X, 80% payback, Progressive, Pick or Draw, Must be at least
4HD/5HL to draw in.
Wednesday March 6
#11.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry, $1200 On Site Enter 1X, Progressive 80%
Payback, Must be 21, Pick Only—All Rounds Will be ran in John Justin due to Steer
Wrestling in Pavillion
#11.5 Legends Over 40 $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, Enter 2X, 80% payback, Progressive, Pick or Draw, Must
be at least 4HD/5HL to draw in.
#10.5 All Age $400/Roper Enter 2X, Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, 80% payback, #6.5 Heeler Cap, Progressive, Pick or
Draw
Thursday March 7
#10.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry, $1200 On Site Enter 1X, Progressive 80%
Payback, Must be 21, Pick Only, #6 Heeler Cap
#10.5 Legends Over 40 $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, Enter 2X 80% payback, Progressive, Pick or Draw, #6.5
Heeler Cap
Ladies Open with #9.5 Incentive $500/Roper Enter 2X Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw 2,
4 Steer Progressive on 1, #9.5 Incentive paid on 3 head, #9.5 Capped at #5.5 Heeler
JR PATRIOT OPEN $500/Roper with $200/Roper Patriot Jr Sidepot Enter 3X,
Progressive, Pick or Draw, 80% Payback, Must be 19 or Under Day of Event, Top 10 in
Sidepot Average Qualify for JR Patriot Semi Finals
JR PATRIOT #10.5 $500/Roper with $200/Roper Patriot Jr Sidepot Enter 3X,
Progressive, Pick or Draw 80% Payback, Capped at #6.5 Heeler Must be
19 or Under Day of Event, Top 5 in Sidepot Average Qualify
for JR Patriot Semi Finals
Friday March 8
JR Patriot Open Semi Finals-All Qualifiers throughout the year plus top 10 from
JR Patriot Open Sidepot. 1 Full Round and top 50 Teams To Short Round, Top 15 in
Average advance to JR Patriot Short Go on Sunday March 10 at NOON
JR Patriot #10.5 Semi Finals-All Qualifiers throughout the year plus top 5 from JR
Patriot #10.5 Sidepot. 1 Full Round and top 50 Teams To Short Round, Top 5 in Average
advance to JR Patriot Short Go on Sunday March 10 at NOON
#9.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry, $1200 On Site, Enter 1X, Progressive 80%
Payback, Must be 21, #5.5 Heeler Cap PICK ONLY
#9.5 Legends Over 50 $400/Roper Enter 2X, Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct
Pre Entry, $600/Roper Draw or onsite, 80% payback, Progressive, #5.5 Heeler Cap,
Pick or Draw
#9.5 All Age $400/Roper Enter 2X, Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, 80% payback, #5.5 Heeler Cap, Progressive, Pick or
Draw
Saturday March 9
#8.5 21 and Up $1000/Roper Pre Entry, $1200 On Site, Enter 1X, Progressive 80%
Payback, Must be 21, #4.5 Cap Both Ends, Pick Only
#8.5 Legends Over 50 Enter 2X, $400/Roper Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct
Pre Entry, $600/Roper Draw or onsite, 80% payback, Progressive, #4.5 Cap Both Ends
#8.5 All Age $400/Roper Enter 2X, Early Key Card, $500/Roper Direct Pre Entry,
$600/Roper Draw or onsite, 80% payback, Progressive, #4.5 Cap Both Ends, Pick or
Draw
#7 MILITARY VETERAN SPECIAL $500/Roper Enter 2X Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw 2,
3 Steer Progressive, #4 Cap Both Ends. Military Veterans(Must have valid proof) may
enter for $300/Roper
Sunday
#9.5 All Age Truck Roping Pick 1 Draw 1 or Draw 2 $400/Roper Enter 3X, 4 Steer,
#5.5 Heel Cap , 2/3 Cash & Prize Payback, Limited to 1000 Teams. New Ram 3500
Dually to High Point Roper. Top 50 Teams to Short Round, Points awarded 1st thru
20th. Online entries close when full or 3:00 Pm CST March 9.
All Ropings are Dual Qualifiers for
WSTR and USTRC
CONTACT:
Team Roping Office: 505-899-1870
M O N DAY M A R C H 4 T H
JOHN JUSTIN ARENA
OPEN TO THE
WORLD
TEAM ROPING
AT T H E PAT R I O T
$750/Roper Enter 2X , 5 Steer Progressive on 1
80% Payback PICK ONLY
$10,000
ADDED
Contact the Team Roping Office:
505-899-1870
S U N DAY M A R C H 1 0 T H 8 A M
#9.5 ALL AGE
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| Final Thoughts
“For probably the whole month of September, I deleted all my social media because anytime I got on there, it talked
about the bubble race, and it was better for me not to see that. I tried to remember just to do my job, just make sure I
got out of the barrier and turned all the steers I could and not worry a whole lot about what everyone else was doing,
just more worry about myself.”
— Jake Cooper Clay on The Short Score, available anywhere you stream podcasts.
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