Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2023 i The Team Roping Journal

At the Barrier | news Feb. 3-5 Tulsa, Oklahoma Billy Bob Brown and Kirby Blankenship Clint Summers and Cory Petska Ty Arnold and Corey Hendrick Luke Brown and Hunter Koch Jake Cooper Clay and Kollin VonAhn Britt Smith and Jake Smith Miles Baker and Cutter Thomison Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin Dustin Egusquiza and Joseph Harrison Tyler Wade and Travis Graves Cody Snow and Wesley Thorp Clay Smith and Jake Long Feb. 8-10 Lexington, Kentucky Keven Daniel and Adam Plyler Mason Appleton and Cooper Freeman Ross Mitchell and Cade Cowan Speed Williams and Gabe Williams Jeff Hilton and Zane Bruce Chris Francis and Cade Passig Cooper White and Tucker White Lightning Aguilera and Jonathan Torres Jake Orman and Brye Crites Cory Kidd and Lane Mitchell Paul David Tierney and Tanner…

Roping for a living is kind of an ebb-and-flow process of peaks and valleys. It's nice when you get on a roll, and ride that roll. I've ridden rolls for a year, when it seemed like roping was easy, and I didn't even have to think about the process that much. Everything was just working, and I was winning, winning, winning. But that's not always the case, and sometimes you hit a lull. At the bottom of that valley you have no confidence, because you haven't been roping up to par. When you're down in that low place, nothing comes easy. You're searching for answers on how to get it all turned around, and as one of two partners on the team, that's just your side of the equation. There's…

Brayden Chee hefted his rope, studying the set of horns on the dummy set 27 feet in front of him. The 9-year-old boy adjusted his loop, the familiar “zip, zip” sound of the rope filling the room at the Plaza Casino in Las Vegas. His roping arm encased in a white plastic splint, Chee took his shot. Chee lost his thumb just weeks before in a November roping accident. By the time the RopeSmart World Championship dummy roping began in December, he'd already undergone surgery to reattach his thumb and relearned to rope with his pointer and middle finger. For Chee, earning his World Champion title in that final catch at the RopeSmart competition was validation of his intense dedication to his craft—a dedication that's stretched his entire lifetime and…

BILLADEAU QUARTER HORSES Ryder, North Dakota & Wickenburg, Arizona billadeauquarterhorses.com 701-898-1448 The family-owned and -operated Billadeau Quarter Horses began on the racing side of breeding, but the Billadeaus found themselves looking for the “universal” horse: performance horses bred to do any discipline a rider desires. “Our mentality is that if they'll hunt a cow, they will usually hunt a barrel,” Layne Billadeau said. Along with his wife Codi, Billadeau heads up the program, which includes four stallions and a herd of running-bred broodmares. “We felt that that cross of cow and race produces a horse that is universal.” Billadeau Quarter Horses relies heavily on horses with Shining Spark, the $4 million National Reined Cow Horse Association sire, for the cow side of their program. “We really love the Shining Spark…

88 RANCH PERFORMANCE HORSES Douglas, Wyoming 88ranchperformancehorses.com; 307-358-5941 88 Ranch Performance Horses is a working cattle ranch based in Douglas, Wyoming, that has cowboy roots tracing back to the 1800s. Still continuing the working ranch tradition, the Henry family now breeds and trains top rodeo horses in all events. With their 2010 palomino stallion Casino Heist siring Summer Colada, a 2022 American Rope Horse Futurity Association top-25 head horse owned by Lora and Nick Nichols and ridden by Kaden Richard, and Bugzees Heist in 75, a ProRodeo money earner in the breakaway ridden by Anna Callaway, 88 Ranch Performance Horses has proven that horses stemming from the program can go win in the team roping, breakaway and barrel racing. Garret Henry credits the program's colt starter Troy Brandemuehl—who puts 120…

RIATA RANCH EQUINE Belen, New Mexico riataranchequine.com; 505-808-0448 Riata Ranch Equine is a full-service breeding facility owned by Rhonda and Ty Saulsberry. Specializing in embryo transfers, artificial insemination, semen freezing, general reproduction and recently added intracytoplasmic sperm injection, Riata Ranch is a one-stop location for breeding services. Ty is artificial insemination certified and collects the stallions at the facility, while attending veterinarian, Andres Estrada, DVM, DACT, DECAR, works with the embryo process and oversees reproduction. While Riata Ranch was started only two years ago, the Saulsberrys have been in the reproduction business for more than 14 years. In 2008, Ty purchased Lefty Starlight from Bobby Lewis. The 2001 son of Grays Starlight is a Riata Buckle stallion that is the cornerstone of the rising program. With daughters of Lefty Starlight…

FIESTAS DYNASTY Owned by DeLancey Enterprises Standing at Colorado State University Equine Reproductive Laboratory Fort Collins, Colorado rodeoranchwyo.com; 307-331-2115 STUD FEE: $1,500 SIRE: FDD Dynasty DAM: Firewater Fiesta by Fire Water Flit Bred by barrel racing royalty and now owned by DeLancey Enterprises, Fiestas Dynasty is proven in barrels and roping. The stud comes from barrel racing's all-time leading breeder, Jud Little, and world-renowned trainer and multiple NFR qualifiers, J.D. and Kelly Yates. His sire, FDD Dynasty, raced to earnings over $1.1 million and is a two-time World Champion Sire. His dam, Firewater Fiesta, is a multiple NFR qualifier with lifetime earnings over $800,00 in barrel racing, earning two AQHA/WPRA Barrel Horse of the Year titles. She has produced offspring with over $700,000 in earnings. Fiestas Dynasty is an AQHA…

A STREAK OF FLING Fulton Ranch Standing at Cinder Lakes Stallion Station Valley View, Texas fultonranch.com; 940-637-2536 STUD FEE: $5,500 SIRE: Streakin Six DAM: Moon Fling by Fast Fling A Streak Of Fling is the No. 1 living sire of barrel horses, but 2022 marked a banner year for “Streaker” in the team roping, too. A Streak Of Fling was the No. 4 producing sire out of the 155 stallions at the inaugural Riata Buckle, with Ivy Hurst and Streak Of Investment winning $44,000 for the #10.5 All Ages event. NFR header Bubba Buckaloo rodeoed on a son of A Streak Of Fling, as did Garrett Tonozzi and Cody Snow. Meanwhile, Streakin Sun Dew won his second Head Horse of the BFI title, some eight years after winning his first.…

CFR ARETE GUN Standing at The Ranch Whitesboro, Texas theranchequine.com; 615-946-8198 STUD FEE: $1,500 SIRE: Gunnatrashya DAM: Tribeca Tucker by Lenas Wright On CFR Arete Gun is a son of $9-million sire Gunnatrashya. While beginning his career as a reiner and National Reining Horse Association futurity prospect, he made a career change as a late 3-year-old to the tie-down roping and team roping. Gary Wells took over rope horse training as a 4-year-old and under his guidance, Cody McCartney and Arete won the 2021 AQHA L3 Junior Tie-Down Roping. Also in 2021, Steve Orth and Arete won top 5 in the AQHA Junior Heeling. While continuing to excel at futurities with reserve titles at the American Rope Horse Futurity Association Redbud and Oil Can Classic, Dakota Kirkenschlager rode Arete to…

Special Advertising Section The Lazy E Ranch's roots run deep in the Western horse industry, and its owners, the McKinney Family, continues to make unprecedented investments to push the breeding and performance game forward. A stalwart on the racing side of the Quarter Horse industry, the Reliance Ranches is branching into the rope horse and barrel horse side with the purchase of leading stallions Bucks Hancock Dude and Show Me The Buckles, and junior stallion Dirty Fling from Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker's Relentless Remuda. These stallions round out the existing Riata Stallion line-up of Big Lew, Coronado Cartel, Epic Leader, Hez Our Secret, KVN Corona, This Catt Shines and Woody Be Tuff. “We want to diversify and do both the race side and the performance side,” Monty McNair, Lazy…

KVN CORONA Keith Nellesen lazyeranch.net; 405-282-3437 STUD FEE: $5,000 SIRE: Corona Cartel DAM: Executive Looks by Executive Menace The steel-grey KVN Corona is one of the most performance-incentive-eligible race sires available, combined with the standout speed that made him famous before he ever stepped into the breeding barn. KVN Corona himself won his first nine outs on the racetrack, earning $868,077 with a speed index of 95. And he's produced the No. 1 all-time high-selling yearling at the Heritage Place Sale at a massive $515,000. “We raised him ourselves,” Lance Robinson, owner of the Pink Buckle and Ruby Buckle incentives, said. “He is a good-minded horse, and we've really been impressed with how his foals ride. We are pointing his colts toward the barrel pen and roping pen.” With his…

PROBABLY A SHINER Owned by Rolling V Performance Horses 712-541-7646 STUD FEE: $1,500 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 reigning AQHA 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,” owner Mike Van Egdom, of Rock Valley, Iowa, said. “I owned his mother and his father, and he's had a nice temperament from the day he hit the…

“I wasn't competing on Ice Cube, and I was riding with Matt Tyler one day and he said, ‘Man, why don't you ride that sorrel horse more?’ And I told him, ‘I don't really trust him.’ He said, ‘I think that horse is better than you think he is.’ The first place after that was Houston, and that was when Houston was just three head and a short go. One round we were getting close to the chalk like [for the calf scramble] and I remember thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, he's going to jump the chalk line.’ Matt turned the steer as we were jumping the chalk line and, as soon as Icecube hit the ground, he sucked right back through himself and I threw and caught. That was the…

Ropers | at home with at home with | Jake | Clay O | icons | military salute | USTRC standings Q: You're Guy “The Legend” Allen, so we have to talk a little steer roping first. In 1977, you became the youngest world champion steer roper of all time at 19. Were you a natural? A: I don't know that I was a natural. My brother and I worked a lot of horses with and for Dad, and grew up roping and going to ropings with him. Q: In 1983, you, Daddy James and brother Gip became the first-ever father-son-son trifecta to qualify for the National Finals the same year. What did that mean to your family? A: It was special that we all three made it. Gip was way…

Dolli Lautaret of Kingman, Arizona, passed away on Dec. 20, 2022, after an immense battle with cancer. Lautaret is mother to The Team Roping Journal's much-valued contributor, Jolee Jordan, who speaks of Lautaret as a fierce and admirable competitor. “She was very competitive but very kind,” Jordan said. “She had a big heart and she'd help anybody who asked for it … and, sometimes, when they didn't.” Lautaret was born a Kentuckian on Nov. 24, 1950, to an Air Force family. Twice in her childhood she lived in Germany, where she was trained by masters of dressage, stadium jumping, cross country and three-day eventing. Although young, she proved a competent study and was given the responsibility of training, too. “Training was always a big part of who she was and…

Competitive Edge | 5 flat 5 flat| Brazile| freeze frame| inner strength| Roping.com| horsepower TIMELESS TEACHINGS Dick Yates qualified for 13 Wrangler National Finals Rodeos with his son J.D. in the 1970s and 1980s and, since then, he's won hundreds of thousands of dollars competing at every level of team roping competition. Alongside J.D. and now his grandson Trey, the patriarch of the Yates family has helped make some of the best horses in team roping. We tapped him for his timeless wisdom. 1 Several years ago, when we first started rodeoing and jackpotting, it took bigger horses because you roped bigger steers and normally the scores were longer. The steers have gotten smaller and, in most instances, the scores are longer. The good horses back then were outstanding because they…

TROUBLESHOOTING “When a green horse doesn't score well in a practice session, I'm not going to crucify him.” More info: Catch Tate Kirchenschlager's full series on Roping.com, and use code TATE15 to save 15% on your membership. Step 1: If he just pulls through my hand, I'll walk him up and back him off my hand a little bit and back him back into the corner. Step 2: Then I'll score another one, just to make sure that correction worked. Step 3: If he still moves around on the second steer, I'll hold him in the bridle with my feet into him until he breaks at the pole and submits to the pressure. Step 4: Then I'll let him walk forward, and back up again to reset. Step 5: Then…

Coy Rahlmann had a great showing roping with Douglas Rich at his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge in 2021. Tanner Tomlinson turned around and lit up the Thomas & Mack Center with a new NFR team roping earnings record heading for Patrick Smith at his first Finals in 2022. Coincidence that Coy and close friend Tanner both rode a big-boned, blue-roan horse they call Blue? The rodeo world thinks not, and the stats don't lie. Rahlmann and Rich won $74,227 a man at NFR 2021. “It was a good first Finals,” said 21-year-old Rahlmann, who comes from Ellsinore, Missouri, and is roping with Jonathan Torres in 2023. “I thought it was really good until Tanner and Patrick went to Tanner's first one, and won $200,000 ($199,726…

Readers perhaps remember Greg Ziel from an article published in the May 2022 issue titled “Pay it Forward.” When that story went to press in late March, Ziel—a medically retired police sergeant from Las Vegas, Nevada—was awaiting the arrival of his new rope horse, Midnight, in South Carolina. A MAN OF GOD To briefly recap, 22 years of serving the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department left a traumatic mark on Ziel. Events like an officer-involved shooting and the unspeakable experiences of undercover work led to an attempted suicide by Ziel in 2011. In 2014, he fell victim to uncontrollable fits of rage that finally, and bravely, inspired him to seek the tools and help he needed from his department. Ziel's medical retirement followed, and he continued to serve his community…

STONE OAK RANCH Iredell, Texas stoneoakperformancehorses.com; 254-223-1684 Stone Oak Ranch is a full-service equine reproduction facility that specializes in managing, standing and marketing stallions. Featuring a 24-stall stallion barn, multiple mare barns and runs, an arena, a covered round pen and a state-of-the-art equine reproduction lab, Stone Oak Ranch is a premier stallion station. Home of Jess Send Cupid, Fletch That Cat, Johnie Walker Blue, Jess Plays With Guns, PC So Frostin Royal, Barely Royal and many more, Stone Oak Ranch has stallions that are ideal outcrosses on barrel racing mares and are finding their ranks in the roping arena. “Blake Toliver of Toliver Rope Horses currently has Fletch That Cat and Johnie Walker Blue in training,” Stone Oak Ranch co-owner Adam Conrad said. “Fletch That Cat already has earnings…

CROSS 4 PERFORMANCE HORSES Cody, Wyoming facebook.com/Mrbuddytoyou 520-235-6778 Cross 4 Performance Horses is a family operation for Doug and Lacey Kremer and their four children. Throughout their 25-year marriage, Doug and Lacey Kremer have raised their own horses to use but Cross 4 Performance Horses truly began with the recent addition of a second stallion prospect, Famous, who is currently in reining training. “Our daughter is the spearhead to all of this,” Lacey laughed. Seven years ago, a then 9-year-old Audrey talked her parents into purchasing a dark brown, month-old stud colt they would name MrBuddyToYou. Never thinking about keeping him a stud at the time, the Kremers’ minds were changed thanks to his striking good looks, awesome demeanor and incredible versatility. Used everywhere from the breakaway at youth rodeo…

SELLERS RANCH North Platte, Nebraska sellersranck.com; 308-530-5248 The Sellers Ranch was founded in 1891, but it wasn't until 2012 that the program was put on the team roping map. With help from a standout 2012 brown mare known as Tommy Girl and J.D. Yates, the ranch launched into breeding top roping horses. With the program's cornerstone stallion Sensation Cash—the stallion Teddy Robinson rode to the finals at the 2001 National Reined Cow Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity that later went on to achieve AQHA superiors in heading, heeling and tie-down roping—bringing the Sellers Ranch closer to the spotlight, the operation blossomed into a full-service breeding facility that includes services such as standing outside stallions, shipping semen and embryo transfer. Now standing stallions such as DT Shiner, Mr Baron Jules, Nu…

METALLIC PAYDAY Owned by Kaleb and Nicole Driggers Standing at Outlaw Equine Decatur, Texas outlawequinevet.com; 940-626-8387 STUD FEE: $2,000 SIRE: Metallic Cat DAM: Another Playgirl by Freckles Playboy Kaleb Driggers is professional team roping's preeminent horseman, having owned more elite-level 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. And that stallion—Metallic Payday—came from fellow World Champion and ARHFA Reserve Champ World Champ Colby Lovell's program. Lovell, with his background in cutting, ranching and cow horse, put a foundation on Metallic Payday that's hard to beat— one that's already earned him more than $40,000 in competition. “Everyone that sees Payday talks about his kind demeanor and his exceptional build,”…

BUCKS HANCOCK DUDE Owned by Reliance Ranches, LLC Standing at Lazy E Ranch Guthrie, Oklahoma lazyeranch.net; 405-282-3437 STUD FEE: $2,500 (limited breedings available) SIRE: Watch Me Dude To DAM: San Tip Hancock by Leon Jp Hancock With ample foundation breeding behind him, the gorgeous dappled buckskin, Bucks Hancock Dude, was purchased by Reliance Ranches and moved to the Lazy E from Namgis Quarter Horses in the fall of 2022, part of Reliance's move to bolster the performance side of their incredible breeding program. “We've changed up the breeding program some,” Bobby Mote said. Mote trains Reliance's horses for their Second Career program. “After we flush a mare to a race stallion, we might then breed her to a performance stud and that's where Bucks Hancock Dude fits in for us.”…

THIS CATT SHINES Ty Smith and Tom Lohse lazyeranch.net; 405-282-3437 STUD FEE: $1,750 SIRE: WR This Cats Smart DAM: Shiners Bell Mia by Shining Spark 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 that, Tom 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…

CT SHOW ME YOUR GUNS Hockenson Quarter Horses Standing at Abraham's Equine Clinic Cedar Rapids, Iowa hockensonquarterhorses.com; 319-330-6862 STUD FEE: $2,000 SIRE: Show Me A Song Jones DAM: Seven S Gunsan Roses by Playgun CT Show Me Your Guns, “Joe,” is the 2021 AQHA World Champion Senior Heading Horse and has a long performance record that includes many wins. The 2013 uniquely colored buckskin stallion carries the cream gene, grey gene and dun gene. Producing foals that are not only easy to look at, Joe's foals are also already proving to be winners in the arena like their sire. With a very limited first foal crop in 2018, one of the first two foals born has already won an AQHA World Championship. “HQ Show Me The Gin won the AQHA…

ONE FINE VINTAGE Robertson Ranches Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion Station Stephenville, Texas onefinevintage.com & brazosvalleystallionstation.com; 254-485-8280 STUD FEE: $2,000 (does not include farm fee) SIRE: One Time Pepto DAM: Shiners Siena by Shining Spark Owned by Brad and Mary Robertson of Robertson Ranches in Plymouth, California, One Fine Vintage, the AQHA and National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) World Champion Working Cow Horse known as “Vinnie,” is the cornerstone of the ranch's breeding program. Sired by One Time Pepto, (a $20-million producing sire whose lifetime earnings are more than $330,000) out of Shiners Siena by Shining Spark, One Fine Vintage's pedigree is stacked with impressive blood-lines. Standing 15.1 hands and ridden by the likes of Corey Cushing, Phillip Ralls, Ron Emmons and Jay Wadhams, Vinnie's versatility and athleticism are unmatched,…

At the Barrier industry news | new products Ariat WSTR, USTRC and NTR working toward tracking rope-horse earnings with Riata Buckle's help. Equine Network, the industry leader in equine events and media, announced that it has reached an alliance agreement with Riata Buckle, LLC, a stallion incentive program that seeks to unify stallion owners, mare owners, breeders and, for the first time ever, team ropers of every ability level. “We have a long-term vision for combining the rope-horse industry with the team roping industry in a way that touches every corner of our business,” Equine Network CEO Tom Winsor said. “We began some time ago priming our publications with stories focusing on the horses and their pedigrees, not to mention the owners who built the programs. We expanded by providing…

The name Phil Kitts should ring a bell. As the photographer behind Avid Visual Imagery, he's a linchpin in this brand's efforts to run captivating photography with our stories. He's also a U.S. Army veteran and survivor of an Iraq War car bomb. And above all, he's a cowboy. Today, Kitts is a father of four running the legs off the photography business in Kansas with his wife, Heidi. His start was on the other end of the lens, though. “My whole life's been rural,” Kitts explained, “Born in California. Lived on a pretty good sized cattle operation up until high school, just south of Bakersfield, up on The Grapevine. Then we moved to Springville, and we had a small plot, but we worked cattle on a bigger operation with…

Most of the rope horse futurities throughout the year are judged, and I want to take this space this month to talk about how those components translate into success in any arena, whether it's at Cheyenne or a US roping. The judged elements of a rope horse futurity should set up a horse for success for the long haul, from the start to the finish of a run. IN THE BOX It doesn't matter where you're at or what you're doing—your horse needs to walk in, take step for step back and not allow nerves to get ahold of him. A lot of horses score good, but they might make you nervous backing in the corner for the first time because you can tell they have a lot going on…

| Competitive Edge | inner strength This year, I plan to go to a few winter rodeos I qualified for—Fort Worth, San Antonio and RodeoHouston—and I'd have to win a ton at those rodeos to decide I'm full-fledged rodeoing again. Truth is, I've got a really, really nice batch of young horses to futurity, and I've got three 3-year-olds that I'm excited to bring along. I'd like to futurity more in 2023, and there's never been a better time to do that. There are enough guys bringing good horses to the public now. You can bring your nice young horses and get them out and around and rope on them. You can make money riding them and winning, and when you get done, you can sell them and make more…

BAR T QUARTER HORSES Haslet, Texas bartquarterhorses.com; 817-851-2870 Jamey Thompkins’ road to owning and running Bar T Quarter Horses, and becoming an AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeder, was not a straight and foregone path. His work in the oil and gas industry led him from his home in Texas to California for a number of years. “I fell and hit my head on a rock and decided to buy a horse,” Thompkins joked. “Forty-seven of them later, here we are.” Thompkins spent 17 years on the rodeo trail as a steer wrestler and spent time around great breeders before going to work in the oil and gas industry. He lived in California for several years, where he bought the Doc O'Lena-bred foundation mares for Bar T. Although always interested in raising…

PHILIPP RANCH Bedias, Texas philippranch.com; 936-870-6548 The Philipp Ranch is a multi-generational operation with a history of raising high-quality rope horses. Several decades ago, Johnnie and Kathy Philipp founded Philipp Ranch to breed, raise and train horses. Today, Philipp Ranch includes the next generation—sons John and Shane— and has started offering their long-proven bloodlines to the public. “Mom ran barrels and Dad roped and they starting raising our own horses years ago,” John Philipp said. “We never stood our studs to the public until 2021; we had mares and we raised and trained the colts ourselves.” Programs such as the Riata Buckle, to which all of their stallions belong, incentivized the change. “Now that they're paying back to the stallion owners, there is more incentive to offer our studs [to…

TEICHERT HORSES Beaver, Utah 801-824-8851 Teichert Horses was started with a solid foundation of broodmares and a childhood dream. Rodney Teichert has a passion for horses, producing quality rope horses that succeed in the arena, perform on a ranch and are easy for anyone to get along with. Quoting his father-in-law, Gib Yardley, “A good horse eats as much as a bad horse, so you might as well have a good one.” Knowing good horses come from good mares, Teichert built the program's elite broodmare herd by focusing on sound minds, eye appeal and athleticism. Good friends and connections allowed Teichert to continue to advance the breeding program. “A good friend, Richard Hutchings in Fallon, Nevada, had an outstanding band of broodmares he'd put together after years of purchasing Pitzer…

STYLIN WITH PEPTO Standing at West Ranch, LLC Abilene, Kansas facebook.com/stylinwithpepto; 303-912-7463 STUD FEE: $1,000 SIRE: Peptoboonsmal DAM: Docs Stylenaetta by Docs Stylin Oak Stylin With Pepto, by $28-million sire Peptoboonsmal and out of Docs Stylenaetta, had primarily been bred to mares within the Brown family's Quarter Horse program to ensure the highest quality foals were being produced. With the 2009 stallion's first foal crop hitting the arena and proving to be successful, the Brown family has started to open books to the public. With a limited first foal crop, it was in Stylin With Pepto's second foal crop that he produced Peppys Stylin Lena. Under the skilled hands of J.D. Yates, Peppys Stylin Lena won the open heeling at the 2022 Black Hills Stock Show. “Stylin With Pepto is…

BRACE FOR BERNAL, HP DASH TA FIESTA, MP SUGERAY AND SLYE BY DESIGN Highpoint Performance Horses Pilot Point, Texas highpointperformance.com; 903-816-1428 In addition to leading stallions Slick By Design and Winners Version, Ariat World Series of Team Roping's official breeding barn Highpoint Performance Horses stands four standout junior Riata Buckle Stallions with impressive resumes of their own. Brace For Bernal—the black, 15.3-hand son of Furyofthewind out of Zoom Bracer by Shazoom—has a speed index of 105 and was AQHA Racing's 2013 Champion 3-year-old. An outstanding outcross on cow-bred mares, Brace For Bernal will add size and speed to head and heel horse prospects. He's also a Pink and Ruby Buckle sire, with six other incentive eligibilities and counting, adding to his offsprings’ value. Stud fee: $2,000 HP Dash Ta Fiesta…

EPIC LEADER Lazy E Ranch Guthrie, Oklahoma epicleader.net; 405-282-3437 STUD FEE: $6,500 SIRE: Confederate Leader DAM: Firewater Fiesta by Firewater Flit A standout barrel racing stallion earning $170,000 in limited competition under futurity legend and NFR qualifier Kassie Mowry, Epic Leader moved into the breeding game—siring earners of $2.5 million in the barrel racing pen. He hit the first million-dollar mark on just 25 colts. “Kassie knew this cross could become magical,” said owner Kristi Schiller. “Confederate Leader won on the track, and Firewater Fiesta was great at every level. From Kassie's vision, we got Epic Leader.” The speed and athleticism are a given with Epic Leader's pedigree, but the mental edge he puts on his colts will make him an outstanding outcross on cow-horse bloodlines in the roping industry.…

CSR DUAL GLO Wier Ranch Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion Station Stephenville, Texas wierranch.com; 254-485-8280 STUD FEE: $1,500 SIRE: Dual Spark DAM: Look At Her Glo by CD O Cody Marshall and Lezlie Wier of Wier Ranch had been looking for several years for a bay stallion with all the right stuff to add to their breeding program. A stop at Bobby Lewis’ place in 2014 reminded Marshall of Look At Her Glo, also known as “Betty.” Later that fall, Marshall called Cecil Rhoades, Betty's owner, about buying an embryo from the great mare and ended up making a deal on two of her sons: CSR Gentleman Jake and CSR Dual Glo, plus an embryo. CSR Dual Glo was first shown in the National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA), winning…

LARGE BILLS PLEASE Owned by Paulette Woods Standing at Walsh Quarter Horses Montrose, Colorado 303-710-6207 STUD FEE: $500 SIRE: Little Star Rio DAM: Hickory Luvs Jazz by Dual Jazz Large Bills Please, a 2004 AQHA stallion, has built a legacy with his own set of the three Ps. The bald-faced bay's pedigree, performance and personality have afforded him the opportunity to make his mark both in and out of the arena. The all-around dynamo has claimed victory in many different events, including performance halter, reining, ranch horse versatility, ranch riding and dally team roping-heeling throughout the course of his short AQHA show career and he passes on that ability to perform to his offspring. Several AQHA point-earners, World Show qualifiers and an AQHA World Champion are in his downline. A…

CHARLIE TRUCKIN CHEX Russell Tharp Horses Las Cruces, New Mexico facebook.com/lascrucescharliehocse 13 575-636-5728 STUD FEE: $1,000 SIRE: NMSU Truckin Chex DAM: Loeletas Tivio by Loeletas Cody Charlie Truckin Chex is a 2017 brown stallion sired by NMSU Truckin Chex, a six-time AQHA and National Reined Cow Horse Association 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. With limited hauling in 2022, Charlie was a money earner in barrel racing and team roping, Charlie's first foal crop is to be born in 2023 and it is expected that the offspring will be able to compete in…

BR GOLDEN LEADER Baker Ranch Standing at Brazos Valley Stallion Station Stephenville, Texas brazosvalleystallionstation.com; 254-485-8280 STUD FEE: $1,500 SIRE: Confederate Leader DAM: KN Docs Gray Gold by Groanies Gray Pony A son of Confederate Leader out of a ProRodeo money-earning mare, BR Golden Leader is a 2013 grey stallion that has been successful in the barrel racing pen with top trainers Kassie Mowry, Angie Meadors and Dustin Angelle. 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, and by ARHFA World Champion Tate Kirchenschlager. A true all-around stallion, BR Golden Leader passes his versatility and easy-going attitude to his offspring. “If BR Golden Leader wasn't so easy and great to be around, I probably wouldn't…