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CONTENTS WorkingHorseMagazine.com | Winter 2018

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14 The Working Lines THE LEGACY OF JOE HANCOCK

30 Aaron Watson DOING IT HIS WAY

38 Mares with More NUGGETT HUG

54 Jerry Derby THE ART OF ‘HATTERY’

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The Working Lines | The Legacy of Joe Hancock

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By Larry Thornton ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ have covered many famous and important stallions in “The Working Lines.” The contribution made by these stallions varies over time.

The significance of some stallions seems to come and go in a cyclical fashion. While some stallions hold their position as major contributors to the modern quarter horse.

These stallions hold their influence because of such practices as inbreeding and linebreeding.

Joe Hancock is one of those stallions that has stood the test of time to become an integral part of the breed. A review of his life and the foals he produced will show how he was used to produce a wide variety of race and performance horses. It will also show how his legacy is being passed down by inbreeding and linebreeding.

Joe Hancock was bred by John Jackson Hancock of Perryton, Texas. The widely accepted authority on the early years of Joe Hancock has been Tom Hancock of Nocona, Texas. Tom a grandson of John Jackson Hancock and son of Joe David Hancock. Tom has told the Joe Hancock story in such publications as Diane Simmons’ book, LEGENDS Volume 1, published by WESTERN HORSEMAN and with Scott Wells in his SPEEDHORSE story, “The Hancock Heritage.” We will rely on these stories and several others to profile the early life of Joe Hancock as well as a visit I had with Tom Hancock.

Joe David Hancock, lived in Nocona, Texas and traveled to his father’s place in Perryton during the summer for a visit.

While at Perryton, Joe Hancock traded with his father for an unnamed yearling stallion that was still nursing his mother. The colt had been hurt, but Joe D. Hancock still made the trade.

When he was ready Joe D. Hancock took his unnamed colt to the racehorse trainer Bird Ogle in Oklahoma. Ogle would name the unnamed colt “Joe Hancock” when he entered the horse in his first race. When they asked Ogle the name of the horse all he knew was he was owned by Joe Hancock and thus the name became permanent.

Joe Hancock became a top racehorse reportedly beating the likes of Little Red Nell, the second dam of Champion Quarter Running Stallion Joe Reed II. Joe Hancock was so successful that it became next to impossible to find a match for him. He was so successful he was advertised in the FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM as “open to the world at any distance from the starting line to 3/8ths of a mile.”

Tom Hancock reported that they would race Joe Hancock for purse money at a half mile. As he put it, “He won the half mile races by getting a good start and they couldn’t catch him.” Hancock believed the only time Joe Hancock got beat was at a half mile against a horse named Chester B. Ogle took Joe Hancock to the famous Arlington Downs at Arlington, Texas to get a match with the big boys. He tried to match Joe Hancock by telling those at the track that he was just a pony horse. Tom Hancock told that Ogle “didn’t think there was a living horse that could beat him.” The horseman at Arlington Downs must have felt the same way because a match never materialized.

Bird Ogle or his son George would eventually approach Joe

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D. Hancock about buying his prized race stallion. Of course the answer was no, but through persistence, Hancock did finally price the stallion at $1,000. Ogle bought the horse. He then took Joe Hancock to the Tom Burnett where he reportedly sold the horse for $2,000. Tom Burnett was the son of Burk Burnett the founder of what we call today the Burnett Estates and their 6666’s Ranch. Joe Hancock would live out the rest of his life on Tom Burnett’s Triangle Ranch that became a part of the Burnett Estate after his death. He would produce ranch horses, racehorses and arena performers. He would die in 1943 from complications of a severely cut foot.

Joe Hancock was registered as foaled in 1923. Some say he was foaled in 1926 but the year 1923 seems to be the date has stood the test of time. Tom Hancock, Cora Hancock wife of Joe D. Hancock and Billy Joe Hancock son of Joe D. Hancock submitted a signed statement about the pedigree history of Joe Hancock. The pedigree of Joe Hancock was considered controversial and criticized by many and to some it didn’t matter.

The sire of Joe Hancock was John Wilkens. John Wilkens was destined to be a racehorse. But he had a thin walled hoof that couldn’t stand the stress of racing. Will and Ed Moore would buy John Wilkens from George Watkins a relative of Samuel Watkins of the Little Grove Stock Farm where he was bred.

They would bring him to Texas. The Moore’s would eventually sell him to famous JA Ranch of the Palo Duro Canyon of North Texas. The JA Ranch would use him for several years where he was known as “The Moore Horse.” He was purchased by John Jackson Hancock from the JA Ranch in 1922.

Peter McCue the sire of John Wilkens was sired by Dan Tucker. Nora M was the dam of Peter McCue. Dan Tucker was sired

by Barney Owens, a son of Old Cold Deck by Old Billy. The dam of Dan Tucker was Butt Cut by Jack Traveler. Nora M a Thoroughbred mare was sired by Voltigeur by Vandal. The dam of Nora M was Kitty Clyde by Star Davis The dam of John Wilkens was Katie Wawekus, a thoroughbred mare. The sire of Katie Wawekus was Wawekus by Alarm. The dam of Wawekus was Maggie B. B. by Australian. Katie Wawekus was out of Lucy Hit by Voltigeur. This makes John Wilkens 3 x 3 linebred to Voltigeur. The dam of Lucy Hit was Miss Hitt by Prolific.

The AQHA Stud Book tells us that the dam of Joe Hancock was unknown. But through the information provided by many historians and the Hancock family, we have some interesting information on the mare that was the dam of Joe Hancock. Pedigree Researcher Andrea Mattson lists the dam of Joe Hancock as the J. J. Hancock mare. (J. J. Hancock being John Jackson Hancock.)

The sire of the J. J. Hancock mare was a Percheron Stallion.

“Joe Hancock” in Bob Gray’s book, GREAT SIRES OF THE PAST states that Joe D. Hancock described this Percheron stallion to Franklin Reynolds as “a solid black... a horse of splendid conformation but not one of these extremely large Percherons that are sometimes seen. He was a horse of nice size for his purpose and I do recall he was a registered horse of pure blood.”

The Percheron Stallion was owned by Ralph Wilson.

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This picture shows the quality that they saw in Joe Hancock.

Picture Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum

LEFT | Two Eyed Jack [1961] sired foals that earned 37,035 AQHA points with 21 World Champions that won 23 World Championships.

Photo Courtesy Darol Dickinson BOTTOM LEFT | Buck Hancock [1941] spread the blood of Joe Hancock as an important stallion for John Bowling.

BOTTOM RIGHT | Romeo Blue [1992] represents the blood of Blue Valentine [1956] in the C-J Ranch breeding program. This branch of the Blue Valentine line is being passed down through stallions like Clayton Tar Baby, Claytons Blue Avenger and Claytons Bootlegger that all trace to Blue Valentine and Joe Hancock through the sire line.

Photo Courtesy C-J Ranch

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The statement signed by the Hancocks describes the Ralph Wilson horse “as a small-boned Percheron, weighing about 1,100 pounds, and not feather-legged. Mr. Wilson used him for a saddle horse and also used him in saddle-horse races.”

The fact that a Percheron stallion appears in the pedigree of a quarter horse may seem a little strange to us. But a 1986 conversation I had with the great breeder Bud Warren (Leo’s owner) revealed that the practice of crossing the riding quarter horse with the work horse was a widespread practice. Warren explained it was common to breed work horse stallions to what he called “cotton mares and saddle horses to make intermediate lightweight teams. Horses you could plow with or pull a wagon with.”

The dam of the J. J. Hancock mare was known to the Hancock family as the Mundell mare. Her pedigree was unknown, but she was reportedly a race mare. The statement gives us more information about the Mundell Mare. “Granddad got her from a man named Mundell and she was a traveling race mare of Copperbottom and Steel Dust breeding, according to Mr. Mundell.”

The statement tells that the Mundell Mare was the dam of Little Jeff. This horse was raced by the Hancock family in Texas and Oklahoma. Tom Hancock reported, “My father said that he doubted that Joe Hancock was as fast as Little Jeff. We think this is a good indication that an equal part of Joe Hancock’s speed comes from his bottom line.”

Tom Hancock conveyed through Dianne Simmons that he overheard his father and Bird Ogle talking about where some of the Joe Hancock speed and soundness came from. This is what he had to say, “I heard them talking and they agreed that quite possibly Old Joe did, in fact. receive a number of positive benefits from that Percheron stallion. They listed those benefits as his strength of stature, his bone, his appetite, (he was known to eat all his bedding on more than one occasion), his outstanding calmness and disposition, and his speed.” This is an interesting insight into Joe Hancock because of the fact that his sire was noted for his poor feet.

We do have to qualify this by pointing out that Joe Hancock’s grandsire, Peter McCue, was a noted sire of speed and his stature was not slight. He is profiled by Denhardt as a stallion standing 16 hands and weighing 1400 pounds. So the genetics was in place for Joe Hancock’s role as a sire of good working horses that excelled in the roping pen. By the way, Tom Hancock described Joe Hancock as a horse standing 15.2 to 15.3 hands not 16 hands as some have reported.

My conversation with Bud Warren took us to Joe Hancock through one of his famous daughters. Bud Warren owned Julie W, a daughter of Joe Hancock. The dam of the Julie W was known simply as a Burnett mare. Some early pedigrees will show Julie W to be known as a Triangle Mare. When she was registered, she was named Julie W. Warren owned the great Leo and when he bred Julie W to this great stallion he got the outstanding mare Flit. Flit would prove to be a good quarter running horse and an outstanding broodmare. She was second in the first Oklahoma Quarter Horse Futurity, although disqualified from that race.

Flit would become a great broodmare for Warren. She was the dam of King’s Pistol by King P-234, the AQHA Champion Sugar Leo by Sugar Bars and of course the great barrel sire Flit Bar. For more on this great bloodline go to the Fall 2018 issue of

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THE WORKING HORSE MAGAZINE. Here is another Julie W daughter that had an impact on the Joe Hancock/Leo nick. The first foal out of Julie W was Lena Horn by Dock a ¾ brother to King P-234. Lena Horn would prove to be a good cross on Leo just like her dam. She produced Leolena, a stakes placed runner; Leovada, an AQHA Champion and ROM runner; Leanna Leo, another AA rated stakes placed runner and Leo Horn, an AAA rated runner.

Lena Leo was a D rated runner by Leo and out of Lena Horn.

This mare went on to be a great producer with foals like Dan’s Sugar Bars, Sugar Bull and Sugar Maker. All three of these horses are AQHA Champions sired by Sugar Bars. Dan’s Sugar Bar sired the AQHA Supreme Champion Sugar Sabre.

Juleo was another daughter of Julie W sired by Leo. She was the dam of Justice Bar an AAA/AQHA Champion and Otoe a AAA/AQHA Champion. Otoe was a Superior Halter Horse that earned Grand Champion Stallion honors at some of the biggest show including the Fort Worth Stock Show and the Houston Livestock Show. He earned 76 halter points and 20 Grand Championships. He is the sire of racing and show offspring including Hard To Beat an AQHA High Point Halter Stallion; Chivas Regal the 1974 AQHA High Point Jumping Horse and Yankee’s Otoe the 1975 AQHA World Champion Senior Barrel Horse. Otoe’s Wonder an AQHA Champion by Otoe was the sire of Wonder Seeker an AQHA Supreme Champion.

Otoe came into a conversation I had with veteran roper and horseman George Chappell. Chappell confided that the Otoe line of horses had produced some of the “best stopping” horse he had ever been associated with. A couple of examples of the roping ability of the Otoe’s would include Otoe Queen the 1969 AQHA High Point Junior Tie-Down Roping Horse and Toebars the 1972 AQHA High Point Roping Horse.

Joan was another good daughter of Joe Hancock. Joan was the dam of such noted horses as Hot Heels. Hot Heels was sired

by Midnight Jr. Midnight Jr was a great grandson of Peter McCue. Salty was the dam of Midnight Jr. Salty was sired by Billy The Tough by A. D. Reed by Peter McCue. This makes Hot Heels 4 X 5 X 4 linebred to Peter McCue. Hot Heels produced several very good runners including Bob’s Folly and Mona Leta. Bob’s Folly was a AAA rated runner that just happened to come along when the legendary Go Man Go was World Champion. Bob’s Folly was sired by Three Bars. Mona Leta was the 1952 AQHA Racing Co-Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She was sired by Leo. Steel Bars was out of Joan and sired by Three Bars. He would become the 1957 AQHA Honor Roll Halter Horse. He sired such noted horses as the AQHA Champion Ben Bar and the 1959 AQHA High Point Halter Stallion Aledo Bars. Aledo Bar was the sire of Aledo Bar’s Lady, Aledolita Bar and Lady Gaines all AQHA High Point Halter Horses. His daughter Aledo Rita Bar earned 3,157.5 points with five youth and two open Superior Awards. She won Youth High Point Awards in halter, reining and showmanship.

The sons of Joe Hancock figure as prominently in the scheme of things as do his daughters. Joe Hancock Jr by Joe Hancock was the sire of Pelican the 1947 AQHA Champion Racing Stallion. Pelican is the sire of Aliso Gill 3 the second dam pf Rugged Lark the 1985 and the 1987 AQHA World Show Superhorse.

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Joe Hancock Jr was the sire of Bubbles II. She was the dam of Leon Bars. Leon Bars was a good sire with several AQHA Champions to his credit. They include Acomita, Alf, Amerita, Chockie, Little Deedy and Little Reyleen. Leon Bars was the broodmare sire of Jerry Wells’ great stallion Te N’ Te. Te N’ Te proved to be a great halter stallion and sire of halter horses and performance horses.

Little Joe The Wrangler by Joe Hancock was the sire of Sparky Joann. Sparky Joann was the dam of the noted sire Coy’s Bonanza. Coy’s Bonanza was a AAA rated AQHA Champion.

He was the 1963 AQHA High Point Halter Stallion. He proved to be a very good sire of halter horses especially good halter stallions. His sons include the great halter stallions Ricky Bonanza, What A Bonanza, Frosty’s Brother, Trouble Bonanza and Beau Bonanza.

We have recently profiled the influence of Coy’s Bonanza through his son Major Bonanza. Major Bonanza was a versatile performer that has sired versatile performers. His foals include the stallion Major Investment. Major Investment was the 1981 AQHA World Champion Junior Cutting Horse and the 1981 AQHA Reserve World Champion Junior Reining Horse.

Another good daughter of Little Joe The Wrangler was Panzarita Daugherty. This great mare was the dam of Mayflower Daugherty. Mayflower Daugherty was the dam of Bar Flower an AQHA Champion and Superior Halter Horse. Bar Flower was a good sire with foals like Louis Flower, the 1974 AQHA High Point Junior Pleasure Horse and Paula Flower, an AQHA Superior Halter Mare.

Pandarita Hill was out of Mayflower Daugherty. She was the 1959 AQHA High Point Halter Mare. Her full sister was Panzarita Hill, who earned 30 halter points on her own. Poco Panzarita was an AQHA Champion out of Mayflower Daugherty.

This mare was the dam of Poco Mae Day, a Superior Halter Mare with 161 points. Bar Black was an AQHA Champion out of Mayflower Daugherty. This stallion was sired by Steel Bars.

This makes Bar Black 3 X 4 linebred to Joe Hancock.

An added note: Panzarita Daugherty was our of Panzarita who was out of Five Dollars. For more on this line you can read Mares With More in this issue profiling Nuggett Hug. Buck Hancock was another good son of Joe Hancock. He was out of Triangle Lady 40, a daughter of Red Buck P-393. Red Buck was sired by Buck Thomas by Peter McCue. This makes Buck Hancock 3 X 4 linebred to Peter McCue. Here are a couple of Buck Hancock contributions. One For The Record was the 1988 World Show Superhorse. This great mare was six time World Champion in such events as Senior Hunter Hack (3 times), Senior Working Hunter, Pleasure Driving and AJQHA Working Hunter. She also earned 17 AQHA High Point Performance titles.

One For The Record was sired by Swift Solo a thoroughbred.

She was out of Record Breaker, a double bred granddaughter of Buck Hancock with a 2 X 2 breeding pattern. She is actually 3 X 3 X 4 linebred to Joe Hancock. The sire of Record Breaker was Breaker Hancock by Buck Hancock by Joe Hancock. The dam of Record Breaker was Roxana 4 Hancock by Buck Hancock

by Joe Hancock. The dam of Roxana 4 Hancock was Hanna Jo, who was out of Anne Jo by Joe Hancock.

Iron Rebel [1969] winning one of his championships with Dale McDavitt up.

Photo Courtesy Stan and Mary Kay Steyskal.

Casey’s Ladylove [1961] founded the Frenchman line of quarter horse that have been a great source for barrel horses.

Photo Courtesy the Loiseau Family

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Another interesting contribution of Buck Hancock comes through Easter Gentleman. The dam of Easter Gentleman is Bobbin Badger by Grey Badger II. The dam of Bobbin Badger is Buckann by Buck Hancock. Easter Gentleman has sired foals that have earned in excess of $204,000 in reining. His leading money earner is Two T Whiskey Royal the National Reining Horse Association Futurity winner in 1990.

The dam of Two T Whiskey Royal was White Whiskey by Bank Berry by John Berry. John Berry was out of Lady Joe Tom

by Joe Tom. Joe Tom was a son of Joe Hancock. This makes Two T Whiskey Royal 6 X 6 linebred to Joe Hancock.

John Berry was the sire of Dun Berry. Dun Berry is the broodmare sire of Hollywood Dun It an NRHA Futurity Reserve Champion and NRHA Derby and NRHA Superstakes Champion. He is an NRHA $6 million dollar sire of reining horses. His foals include Hollywood Vintage the 1999 NRHA Open Futurity Champion.

Joe Tom was used extensively by the Burnett Ranch. His descendants include the great cutting mare Miss Holly Tip, a $128,000 winner of the 1988 NCHA 4-Year-Old Breeders Open Championship. She is the dam of Sixes CD winner of $105,815 with several aged event wins including the NCHA Open Der-

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Funny B Leo Bluehaze brings the Joe Hancock/ Leo Nick to today’s quarter horses.

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by Championship. Her daughter Ginnin Attraction is the dam of Playin Attraction the 2005 NRCHA Open Snaffle Bit Futurity Intermediate Champion and the Open Snaffle Bit Open Futurity Reserve Champion. The dam of Miss Holly Tip was Miss Holly Peg by Hollywood Gold. The dam of Miss Holly Peg was Peg O’Neill by Joe Tom. Joe Tom Mc was sired by Joe Hancock and out of Triangle Lady 40 by Red Buck. Joe Tom Mc is the sire of a stallion named McRusty and a mare named Chigger Barnes. When McRusty and Chigger Barnes were mated they produced Lady Diane. Lady Diane is the dam of Casey’s Ladylove an AQHA Hall of Fame mare that was the foundation of the Frenchman Quarter Horses.

She is the granddam of Frenchmans Flash Hawk (Bozo) the four time WPRA World Champion Barrel Racing Horse; Frenchmans Guy the Equi-Stat #2 All Time Leading Sire of Barrel Racing money winners. She is also the granddam of PC Frenchmans Hayday (Dinero) the sire of MP Meter My Hay (Stringray) two time WPRA World Champion Barrel Racing Horse.

Red Man was a good son of Joe Hancock. This roan stallion was unique in his looks because his ears had been frozen off.

RED MAN b ro 1935 BLUE VALENTINE QUARTER HORSE bl ro 1956 #0001685 BEAUTYS DREAM QUARTER HORSE #0097116 blk 1938 HAYES QUARTER HORSE #0001391 RIP RIP sor 1961 DOLL 01 QUARTER HORSE sor 1970 #0157299 ZAID A REED QUARTER HORSE #0717186 sor 1964 QUARTER HORSE #0407529 BLUE VALENTINE bl ro 1956 LEO HANCOCK HAYES QUARTER HORSE bl ro 15.2 1980 #0097116 DOLL 01 QUARTER HORSE #1683157 sor 1970 Y GIRL QUARTER HORSE #0717186 ROWDY BLUE MAN br ro 15.2 1977 ROWDY MANS GIRL QUARTER HORSE bl ro 1999 #1313018 RED MANS GIRL QUARTER HORSE br 1995 QUARTER HORSE AQHA# 3384700

Red Man was the sire of Apache Agent and Worryman. Apache Agent was a stakes winner in the 1957 Bardella Handicap and the 1957 Kindergarten Futurity. Worry Man was the sire of Roan Man and Bankette. Roan Man was the sire of the running champions Dari Star and Dari Man. Dari Star was the AQHA Racing Champion Gelding in 1964 and Dari Man was the AQHA Racing Champion Gelding in 1963. It must be noted that Dari Star and Dari Man were out of Miss Dari Dri, a daughter of Leo. Giving the industry another good cross for the Joe Hancock/Leo nick.

Bankette was the dam of Rebel Cause by Top Deck. Rebel Cause was the AQHA Racing Champion Aged Stallion in 1962 and the Co-Champion Three-Year-Old Stallion in 1961. Rebel Cause was the sire of Iron Rebel and Top Rebel. Top Rebel was the sire the pleasure producing mare Miss Rebel Rita. This mare was a top pleasure mare with 49 western pleasure points. She is the dam of Investment Asset, a Reserve World Champion Junior Western Pleasure Horse; Assets, an All American Quarter Horse Congress Three-Year-Old Non-Pro Western Pleasure Champion and Good Asset, the Nebraska State Fair NSBA Hunter Under Saddle Futurity Champion with 41.5 western pleasure points.

JOE HANCOCK JOHN WILKINS b BROWN HANCOCK MARE br 15.3 1923 br 1913 BURNETT ROAN MARE ro VALENTINE LONE STAR br 1925 ESCOBA blk 1927 br 1924 HOLCAKS BEAUTY LON MARTIN blk 1913 COLEEN MOORE blk 1933 ch 1920 LEO JOE REED II ch 1936 LITTLE FANNY sor 14.2 1940 b 1937 SUGAREE BARS SUGAR BARS sor 1951 RANDLES LADY sor 1957 ch 1938 REEDART ROBIN REED sor 1949 ARTEMIS sor 1959 sor 1949 MOLLY HAYES ZANDY sor 1934 MARE BY TEXAS BLUE BONNET rd dun 1952 RED MAN JOE HANCOCK br 1923 BURNETT ROAN MARE b ro 1935 ro BEAUTYS DREAM VALENTINE blk 1927 HOLCAKS BEAUTY blk 1938 blk 1933 RIP RIP LEO sor 1940 SUGAREE BARS sor 1961 sor 1957 ZAID A REED REEDART sor 1959 MOLLY HAYES sor 1964 rd dun 1952 BLUE VALENTINE RED MAN b ro 1935 BEAUTYS DREAM bl ro 1956 blk 1938 HYDEL GIRL 44 MANDYS DART buck 1957 HYDEL GIRL pal 1969 dun 1962 ROWDY BLUE MAN BLUE VALENTINE bl ro 1956 HYDEL GIRL 44 br ro 15.2 1977 pal 1969 MIA HANCOCK HANCOCKS BLUE BOY bl ro 1986 AZUL BLUE HANCOCK bl ro 1992 bl ro 198719 Working Horse Magazine 2018 December

Stan and Mary Kay Steyskal have been on the AQHA All Time Leading Breeders list and the AQHA All Time Leading Breeders list of ROM for many years. Iron Rebel was an important sire helping them get on these breeder lists. Iron Rebel was an AQHA Champion and a Superior western pleasure horse. He sired horses that earned over 7,900 AQHA points with 95 ROM and 37 Superior Awards. The foals of Iron Rebel include Crimson Iron a five time APHA World and Reserve World Champion as well as an All American Quarter Horse Congress Reserve Champion and the 1995 AQHA Rookie of the Year. This gelding carried 14 different youth competitors in his show career. Crimson Iron was sired by Iron Rebel and out of Tiger Connie a double bred Tiger Leo by Leo mare giving us another Joe Hancock/Leo nick.

Roan Hancock was a full brother to Red Man that stood alongside his sire Joe Hancock at the Burnett Ranches for several years. Roan Hancock became a noted sire of roping horses.

Three of the best were Popcorn with Shoat Webster; Peanuts with Everett Shaw and Jim Snively on Rock. All three of these horses are roping horse legends.

But a sizable chunk of Roan Hancock’s contribution to the showing quarter horse comes through his daughter Lady Hancock. Tom Hancock used Lady Hancock as an example of the halter qualities produced by the Joe Hancock line. This great mare was the Grand Champion mare as a yearling at the 1941 Fort Worth Stock Show. This is the year that Wimpy won Grand Champion Stallion to earn AQHA #1 in the Stud Book.

Lady Hancock went on to be the dam of Triangle Tookie.

Triangle Tookie was a great producing mare as the dam of five AQHA Champions, two Superior Halter Horses, one Superior Reining Horse and one AQHA High Point Reining Horse. This great mare was the dam of Two Eyed Jack the great show horse earning his AQHA Championship and a Superior in halter. Two Eyed Jack set a sire record that will probably stand forever as the sire of 119 AQHA Champions.

Roan Hancock was brought to California by the Rancho Jabali to be bred to daughters of the famous Driftwood. Driftwood being a great rope horse and sire of great rope horses. Roan Hancock died shortly after his arrival in California. Red Man was brought to California after the death of Roan Hancock. He sired horses like Cibecue Roan the 1965 AQHA High Point Steer Roping Stallion and Redwood Man an ROM performer with 21 performance points. They were both out of Driftwood mares.

BLUE VALENTINE CONNECTION One of the hardest ways for a stallion to pass his heritage on is through his sire line. Joe Hancock is no exception as many of the sons covered in this profile have shown that they had an impact through their daughters or granddaughters. This is typical as a stallion’s sire line will come down through a limited number of their sons passing the line on.

The Joe Hancock sire line through Red Man has continued through his son Blue Valentine foaled in 1956. Blue Valentine was a proven roping horse that has become a progenitor of ranch and rodeo roping horses. Here are a couple of examples of how Blue Valentine has influenced the Joe Hancock sire line.

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Romeo Blue is a son of Plenty Try by Gooseberry by Blue Valentine. Romeo Blue was a senior sire of C-J Ranch in Randlett, Oklahoma whose breeding program is founded on linebreeding to Joe Hancock. Romeo Blue has a breeding pattern of 5 X 6 X 8 X 4 X 5 to Joe Hancock. He is out of a daughter of Blue Valentine giving him a breeding pattern of 3 X 2 to Blue Valentine. The Romeo Blue branch of the sire line is being carried on by Claytons Leo Blue and Claytons Tar Baby both sons Romeo Blue.

An added note: War Train is another sire line descendant of Joe Hancock used on the C-J Ranch. He is a grandson of War Chief

by Joe Hancock. The dam of War Train is Ikes Bomber whose is sired Wayward Ike by Driftwood Ike whose is out of Hancock Belle who is out of Miss Hancock by Joe Hancock. The dam of Ikes Bomber is Miss War Drifty by War Drift by War Chief. This gives War Train a breeding pattern of 3 X 6 X 5 to Joe Hancock.

Leo Hancock Hays was the last breeding son of Blue Valentine. He was injured so he was never able to prove his value in the arena. He was owned for many years by Vince Hayes and then he went to the home of Randy and Susan Brookings where he died in 2007.

Funny B Leo Bluehaze is a son of Leo Hancock Hayes born in 2007. He stands with Moonshine Creek Quarter Horses Pottsville. Arkansas. What makes this horse so interesting is his dam is Funny B Rowdy Girl by Leo Hancock Hayes. This is a 1 X 2 inbreeding to Leo Hancock Hayes. When we backout and look at the pedigree of this horse we see that he has a breeding pattern of 2 X 3 X 4 X 6 X 5 X 7 X 8 X 9 X 8 X 9 X 9 X 8 to Blue Valentine. His breeding pattern to Joe Hancock is 4 X 7 X 5 X 8 X 6 X 8 X 8 X 7 X 9 X 9 X 10 X 10 X 10.

Another interesting part of this pedigree is the dam of Leo Hancock Hayes was Doll 01. She was sired by Rip Rip by Leo and out of Zaid A Reed by Reedart by Robin Reed. Robin Reed was sired by Leo and out of Sue Reed by Joe Reed P-3. Leo was a double grandson of Joe Reed P-3 and this give this mare a 4 X 4 x 6 X 6 X 4 breeding pattern to Joe Reed P-3. This makes Leo Hancock Hayes a product of the Joe Hancock/Leo nick and Funny B Leo Bluehaze is inbred to that cross.

As we review Joe Hancock’s sire record, we must stop a minute and put this great stallion’s contribution into perspective.

Tom Hancock liked to quote from Bob Denhardt’s book THE QUARTER HORSE, published in 1941. For those of you that are not familiar with this book, this is a book that profiles many of the great foundation stallions like Old Billy and Peter McCue. This famous book has a picture of Joe Hancock with the following caption, “He is siring the best running colts on the short track today.” This is a fitting tribute to this great stallion during the formative years of the AQHA. But I think that we can now change this statement to reflect Joe Hancock’s role in the modern quarter horse. Joe Hancock is a major influence in the quarter horse and the end of his influence in nowhere in sight.

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About the Author | Larry Thornton is a Pedigree Analyst and freelance writer for Working Horse magazine, Speedhorse and Quarter Horse News.

Thorton started his writing career in 1984 with his first article being printed in the Speed Horse Magazine. He was also an Agriculture Instructor for 37 years.

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Aaron Watson| doing it his way

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Album song list | “Lonely Lonestar Christmas” “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” “She Stared At Him All Night” “Christmas Time is Here” “Baby It’s Cold Outside” “The Christmas Waltz” “Jingle Bells” “Silent Night” “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”

aron Watson, who some say could be this generation’s Chris Ledoux, has produced 14 albums in his 19year music career. He writes his songs with God as his guide and calls Buffalo Gap, Texas his home. He shares his life with his wife Kimberly, of 16 years, and three kids, Jake (12), Jack (10) and Jolee Kate (8). “I don’t think I could ever wear that crown,” said Watson about being compared to rodeo’s own Ledoux, “but I am honored that some think of me that way.”

Watson’s music is inspired by the greats of country music; George Strait, Chris Ledoux, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings... and it shows. You could say they are “story songs,” with a lesson in life here and there, but always from the soul.

He started by selling records out of his backpack during his college years and his fans grew from there. He wasn’t an overnight success. “We did it the hard way,” he says with pride.

“We did it the old school way.”

Watson attributes his lyrics about life to his family, fans and faith. “They are the ones that make my music what it is. When I’m writing songs, that’s what’s on my mind. What else is there?”

There is no doubt that his style of music is successful.

Watson continues to dominate as a true independent in the country music arena.

Watson’s 2017 album Vaquero launched into the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart with his biggest career sales debut to date, and at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart. Vaquero is the follow up to his history-making album The Underdog, which

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debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, making him the first-ever independent, male country artist to debut in the coveted top spot.

The album features “Outta Style,” his record-breaking Top 10 hit on country music’s national radio airplay charts and top 40 hit “Run Wild Horses.” He has also released two new projects this year, Live at the World’s Biggest Rodeo Show, and his first ever Christmas collection, An Aaron Watson Family Christmas, both out now.

“Fans kept asking for a Christmas Album, so we decided to deliver,” said Watson. “My entire family sings at church, and what better way to celebrate Christmas than with the family recording the anticipated holiday album. My wife has a sweet, soft, 193040’s jazz vibe to her voice, and was perfect for the record.”

The Watson’s chose to take their family vacation at home to produce the album and did so in his wife’s closet. Yes, you read that right, the closet.

“We spent each day swimming, playing games and grilling while listening to Christmas music,” said Watson.

“We would then take a break from the fun and record a song. These are memories that will never be forgotten. It is important to have my kids be a part of my business, so they know what a work ethic is.”

Watson’s dad owned a commercial cleaning service and Watson learned his work ethic from his dad, side by side with his father. “I grew up cleaning a lot of toilets,” said Watson. “My kids clean them as well so they know what it takes, and they grow up like I did.”

Country Music fans have a treat in store for them come next June. Watson will release his next album titled, “Red Bandana.” The album will feature 20 songs that tips it’s hat to the 20 years Watson has produced his music, his way. The lead track, “Riding with

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Red,” is about the one and only, Red Steagall, who started out as a bull rider then found huge success as a recording artist, songwriter and actor, after he was diagnosed with polio.

Watson looked back to his roots and decided to put the “old cowboy style” into every song on the Red Bandana project. The inspiration came from time spent with Steagall in the saddle, on the ranch, mile after mile.

“The title song has everything I wanted in it,” said Watson. “As I listened to the unreal stories Red told me and his words of wisdom, the thoughts gathered turned

into the song.” All the tracks are “real and honest, with a tuff style that tells stories of struggle and triumphs.”

Watson produces his songs under his own label, BIG Label and is looking to the future of it becoming a standard in the industry for those that want to follow in his footsteps. “We are growing our team to provide artists the best we have,” said Watson about the vision for the label. “We won’t be taking on artists until we can offer a platform to make them more successful than I have ever been.” Stay tuned as the industry awaits the launch of what lies before us, which is sure to keep true country music at its roots.

On the family side of his life, which is the most important, “The kids are doing great,” says Watson. The youngest, Jolee Kate, seems to have a pretty firm handle on her older brothers, and one might say, has her dad wrapped around her finger. “She is going to be a veterinarian, an actor, a dancer and a singer when she grows up,” laughs Watson. “And I have been told that when she makes it big next year, she is taking over my bus and I can go back to traveling in the van.”

The boys, Jake and Jack, are following in their dad’s footsteps on the field of dreams. “They both have the passion for the game,” says Watson, “I have pretty much brain washed them.” The time we spend throwing the ball with their dad are memories Watson shares with his own father. “They are getting bigger and better,” states Watson. “It is to the point that they are throwing harder and faster.

I am just trying to keep up.”

The family also consists of several pets and livestock making it a very busy ranch life indeed. Along with the horses, dogs, cats and other fourlegged family members, the kids wanted a pet pig. Watson said he didn’t care as long as when the time came, it was butchered. “I was not very popu-

lar over than one,” Watson says with a grin. So, the newest member of the menagerie is Chewy, the hamster.

Aaron is not new to rodeo or the NFR. He has performed at the after parties and award ceremonies for the past nine years and has become true friends with several of the contestants.

He also has many friends who rodeo from growing up in Texas, even though he was an accomplished college baseball player.

“I always liked being with the rodeo guys,” said Watson, “they are my true friends because we believe in the same life style.” Aaron even got on a bull once…notice I said once.

“A couple of my college rodeo friends, during an evening of having a good time, questioned my manhood.

So, what is a man to do? Prove my manhood of course.”

“I was questioning my intelligence about the time I slid down in the chute on the back of that bull and got my leg smashed against the gate,” he laughed.

“I could barely spread my legs far enough apart to sit on that bull and I am telling you – that’s just not right.”

He called for the bull, against his better judgment. “I had to go through with it,” he said, “I had been challenged.” So, what happened? “I like to say that I decided to bail off that bull as soon as I found a good place to land and that is the story I am sticking to.” As he hit the ground, Aaron knew two things 1. “God and I decided that I would NEVER do that again,” and 2. I have total respect for bull riders.”

As this issue of WHM reaches the fans and contestants at the 2018 National Finals Rodeo in Vegas, you can find Watson on the stage of South Point every night from December 6th through the 11th following the NFR Buckle Award Ceremony. It is a show you don’t want to miss and an experience you won’t soon forget.

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Mares With More | Nuggett Hug

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By Larry Thornton ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... eter McCue an American Quarter Horse foundation sire was a widely traveled stallion that stood in Illinois, Oklahoma and Colorado. Some reports show that he was in Texas at one time. This traveling around the country siring foals was a key in his success as a foundation sire. He bred the best mares at each stop and he sired great foals everywhere he went spreading his genes as a foundation sire.

Today when we see a horse is well traveled that can mean a number of things including he may not be getting the best foals.

This is true for mares as well. When a mare is well traveled she might not be producing what the owner wanted. So they move her on down the line to a new breeding program.

But what about the mare that is well traveled and wherever she goes she puts a good foal on the ground. A mare named Nuggett Hug is one of those mares and for that reason she is our feature mare for the Mares with More in this issue.

Nuggett Hug was a 1944 daughter of Bear Hug and out of Goldienug. She was bred by Sid Vail. Vail was a man that had done a variety of jobs over the years that included some ranch

work, some rodeo and some government service. But by the mid 1940’s he had settled down as a rancher in Douglas, Arizona.

Vail had a deep interest in horses and he would make a decision in his ranching career that would make him, and a stallion named Three Bars legends in the quarter horse industry. When Vail saw Three Bars for the first time, he thought he was the stallion he had always wanted. He was his perfect horse. He bought Three Bars for $10,000 and at the height of his breeding career this great stallion had a breeding fee of $10,000. Three Bars was the stallion that many believe solidified the quarter horse as the versatile breed by contributing to development of what became the “middle of the road” quarter horse that could run, show and halter.

Bear Hug was another stallion that Vail stood. This horse was double-bred to a mare named Five Dollars. Five Dollars was the foundation mare for the famed outlaw hunter J. Frank Norfleet. Norfleet earned this title when some men scammed him in a land deal. He hunted them down and brought them to justice. A task he relished, and he started earning a living by hunting other conmen. Norfleet became a well-known breeder developing the Five Dollar family of horses.

NORFLE ch 1924 QUARTE U007715 BEAR HUG sor 1933 QUARTER HORSE #0002868

HOUSEP sor QUARTE U007237 NUGGETT HUG sor 1944 QUARTER HORSE #0008456

SMOKY buck 193 QUARTE #0001147

Peter McCue [1895] and Five Dollar brought together two branches of the Barney Owens [1871] bloodline forming the genetic base of Nugget Hug. Photo Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum.

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The sire of Bear Hug was Norfleet by *Brettneham a thoroughbred. Norfleet was out of Five Dollars by Jim Trammell by Barney Owens. Jim Trammell was owned by Norfleet. The dam of Five Dollars was Old Five Dollars by Barney Owens.

The dam of Bear Hug was Houseparty, who was a daughter of Five Dollars. This makes Bear Hug double bred Five Dollars with a 2 X 2 breeding pattern. The sire of Houseparty was Peter McCue by Dan Tucker by Barney Owens. This gives Bear Hug a breeding pattern of 4 X 4 X 4 X 4 X 4 to Barney Owens.

Bear Hug became a noted broodmare sire. He counts among his daughters Mandy II and she was the dam of Rhoda Lee who produced Rhoda Bar. Rhoda Bar was the dam of Rhoda Watch who produced Chronometer the dam of the 1973 All American Futurity winner Timeto Thinkrich. Chronometer was the dam of Lady Meter Reader the dam of the 1992 All American Futurity winner Dash Thru Traffic.

Patsy Hug a full sister to Mandy II was the dam of several ROM runners. Her foals include K Hornet winner of the 1951 PCQHA Futurity and Anniversary an ROM runner that was the dam of several ROM including the stakes placed mare GoldBRETTENHAM ch 1907 THOROUGHBRED NORFLEET ch 1924 (GB) QUARTER HORSE FIVE DOLLARS 1 U0077153 blk QUARTER HORSE U0071061 PETER MCCUE b 16.0 1895 QUARTER HORSE HOUSEPARTY sor U0077937 QUARTER HORSE FIVE DOLLARS 1 U0072371 blk QUARTER HORSE U0071061 DUNDEE br 1926 THOROUGHBRED SMOKY T buck 1935 (USA) QUARTER HORSE ROBERDS MCCUE MARE #0001147 pal QUARTER HORSE U0298434 CHAMPAGNE buck 1932 MARE BY CHAMPAGNE QUARTER HORSE #0004232 QUARTER HORSE MARE BY BROWN DICK U0074633 QUARTER HORSE U0074601

seeker who was second in the 1961 Magic Empire Futurity.

Anniversary was also the dam of Double Whammy. Bert Wood the breeder of Double Whammy would sell the colt to the actor Audie Murphy. Murphy would later sell the colt to Les Hilton.

Hilton was a Hollywood trainer of movie and TV horses. He was the trainer for Mr Ed (Bamboo Harvester) from the series “Mr. Ed The Talking Horse.” Double Whammy would become Pumpkin the double for Mr. Ed. He also had a major roll in the “Green Acres” episode Horse? What Horse? Pumpkin would make personal appearances as Mr. Ed. The Vail broodmare band included Goldienug, a 1940 Coke Roberds bred mare. Coke Roberds was the Colorado breeder that started with a band of Steel Dust mares. When his breeding stallion Primero died he replaced him with Old Fred. He later stood Peter McCue, and this resulted in the Old Fred/Peter McCue cross that has given the industry such noted horses as Sheik P-11. Colorado was the last stop on the travels of Peter McCue. Goldienug was bred along the Old Fred/Peter McCue lines.

She was sired by Smokey T who was a Coke Roberds bred stallion. He was a son of a thoroughbred named Dundee. Dundee WINKFIELD ELISSA THE ILL-USED MADCAP BARNEY OWENS

ch 1885 ch 1891 b 1870 b 1879 br 1871

BARNEY OWENS NEW MONEY BARNEY OWENS BUTT CUT VOLTIGEUR KITTY CLYDE BARNEY OWENS

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br 1871

THE SOLICITOR ch 1898 MISS USED b 1886 JIM TRAMMEL ch OLD FIVE DOLLARS br DAN TUCKER br 1887 NORA M b 1880 JIM TRAMMEL ch OLD FIVE DOLLARS br DALSTON b 1911 DAINTY DANCER b 1921 PETER MCCUE b 16.0 1895 MARE BY OLD FRED DUNDEE br 1926 BIG DUN 1 buck BROWN DICK br 1887

b 1911 DALSTON b 1921 DAINTY DANCER b PETER MCCUE II MARE BY OLD FRED ch OLD COLD DECK 1877 LOUISE

br 1871 sor 1876 b 1872 b 1860 br 1871

b 1903 1901 b 1908 b 1906 br 1887 b 1880 pal 1894

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Mares With More continued ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... was sired by Dalston. Dundee was out of Dainty Dancer by Labold. Dundee was an Army Remount stallion. The dam of Smokey T was a daughter of Peter McCue who was out of a daughter of Old Fred.

The dam of Goldienug was a mare by Champagne. Champagne was another Coke Roberds bred horse. He was sired by Dundee and out of Big Dun by Peter McCue II by Peter McCue and out of a mare by Old Fred. This makes Goldienug double-bred Dundee with a breeding pattern of 2 X 3. The second dam of Goldienug was a mare by Old Fred.

The Peter McCue blood in this mare gives Nuggett Hug a breeding pattern of 5 X 5 X 5 X 5 X 5 X 6 X 7 to Barney Owens, the grandsire of Peter McCue and Five Dollars. Barney Owens was foaled in about 1870. He was bred by John Hedgepeff of Joplin, Missouri. He was later raced by James Owens of Berlin, Illinois and then purchased by Samuel Watkins of Petersburg, Illinois. Watkins was the breeder of Peter McCue and his sire Dan Tucker. Barney Owens was later bought by Thomas Trammell from Sweetwater, Texas. Trammel would also buy Dan Tucker and take him to Texas.

Barney Owens was sired by Martin’s Cold Deck by Old Billy the foundation sire of the South Texas Quarter Horses that figure in the pedigrees of horses like KingP-234. Old Billy was the foundation of the sire line that produced Peter McCue. Old Billy was sired by Shiloh and out of Ram Cat by Steel Dust.

Goldienug was a top producer in her own right. She produced Gold Bar when bred to Three Bars for the first time. Gold Bar was a stakes winner of ten stakes races including the Central Bar and Grill Futurity, the Arizona Derby and the Bright Eyes Stakes. Gold Bar was the dam of the stakes winning stallion Real Gone. He was first across the wire in the Ruidoso Futurity and the Phoenix QH Futurity.

Now that the stage is set, we will begin with the produce history of Nuggett Hug and how she made her contribution to the modern quarter horse. Nuggett Hug was bred to Three Bars to produce her first foal, Bar Nug. Bar Nug went to the racetrack to get today what would be classed as a 65-speed index with one win and one second in six starts.

The produce record shows that Bar Nug was used as a broodmare by several people. Her stakes placed colt Allegro was bred

by Dorothy B. Tucker of Tucson, Arizona. Allegro was stakes placed with a second in the 1960 Nursery Handicap at La Mesa Park. He was an AAA/ROM racehorse. He had 57 starts with 10 wins earning $10,429.

Bar Nug became a broodmare for the Finley Ranches of Arizona. The Finley Brothers ran the Finley Ranch and brother Tom Finley was the 1967 AQHA President. The Finley Ranches were widely known as successful breeders but today they are probably best known as the breeders of the great Doc Bar. The Finley Ranches bred Bar Nug to their AAA/AQHA Champion Casbar to get Miss Bar Nug. Miss Bar Nug was an AA/ROM racehorse. When bred to the Finley Ranches’ AQHA Hall of Fame stallion Texas Dandy they got an unshown and unraced mare named June Tune. June Tune was the dam of the stakes placed runners Midway Lass third in the 1972 AQRA Lassie Stakes and Midway Dude third in the 1973 Navajo County Futurity.

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According to the Nelson Nye biography of Nug Bar in his book SPEED AND THE QUARTER HORSE, Vail sold Nugget Hug to Homer Pettigrew of Chandler, Arizona. Homer Pettigrew was a six time PRCA World Champion Steer Wrestler in the 1940’s and 50’s. He was the 1949 PRCA Reserve World Champion in Tie-Down Roping and he is a member of the PRCA Hall of Fame.

Pettigrew reportedly bought Nugget Hug with her 1950 Three Bars foal at her side and bred back to Three Bars. The AQHA reports that Sid Vail is still listed as the breeder of both of these foals. Nug Bar was the 1950 colt on the side of Nuggett Hug when she went to Pettigrew.

Nye credits Pettigrew with starting Nug Bar on his racing career that netted him a Register of Merit with the old AAA rating. He went stakes placed in the 1952 Juvenile Invitational Handicap, the 1954 Arizona Downs Championship and the 1953 RMQHA Stallion Stakes. He won ten of his 63 starts from 1952 to 1955.

Nug Bar was sold to Pat and Grace Smith of Oakdale, California in 1955. Nug Bar became an ROM show horse earning points in cutting, working cow horse, western riding, roping and barrel racing. Nug Bar became a successful sire of both runners and show horses. He sired 19 halter point earners and 22 performance point earners. This includes 10 ROM performers and three open and one youth AQHA Champions. He sired 26 racing ROM with one stakes winner and two stakes placed runners. His runners include his leading money winner Mick’s Nug Bar winner of $32,662. Nugita Texas was his stakes winner in the 1965 Pacific Coast QHA Spring Futurity. She also has four seconds in races like the 1965 Inaugural Handicap and the 1966 Sunland Park Fall Derby. She had 12 wins in 77 starts earning $31,077.

Desto Bar a full sister to Nugita Texas was an AQHA Supreme Champion, Superior halter mare in the open and youth divisions and an open and youth AQHA Champion. She was the 1969 AQHA High Point Youth Halter Mare. She earned 124 halter points, 14 western pleasure points, 7 tie-down roping points, 6 hunter under saddle points, 1 heeling point and 22 youth showmanship points. She was AAA rated on the track with earnings of $6,111.

Zanzabar Joe was the second AQHA Champion and a Superior halter horse sired by Nug Bar. He earned 59 halter and 12 performance points. Honey B Isle was the third AQHA Champion with 29 halter and 13 performance points. True Bars was Superior in barrel racing. He earned 88 open points and 27 youth performance points. He was an AQHA open World Show qualifier in open barrels in 1977 and in 1973 he was a youth World Show qualifier in barrel racing, stake racing and pole bending.

He placed in the top ten in each of these classes with his best finish a third in the 1977 open barrels. Spanish Nugget was the 1977 AQHA Youth World Champion Working Hunter.

The daughters of Nug Bar produced 74 racing ROM with six stakes winners and eight stakes placed runners. They earned $317,125. The leading money winner was Flash Alert winner of $30,267. This 1969 gelding had 136 starts finishing first, second or third in 56 of his races. He was stakes placed with a third in the 1977 Cal Expo & State Fair Championship. The leading

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... money winning stakes winner is Quick Jack winner of the 1965 Yakima Meadows Futurity and the 1965 Palouse Empire Futurity with earnings of $28,371.

Some of the other stakes winners were Cassius Deck winner of the 1966 Tumbleweed Spring Futurity, Miss Possum Bar winner of the1964 Waitsburg Futurity and Locomotion Lady winner of the 1981 UQHA Fall Derby.

Van Glass was a 1961 gelding who was out of Bar Glass by Nug Bar. This gelding had a speed index of 100. He had 113 starts on the track finishing first, second or third in 58 races. He earned 95 AQHA points in Cutter & Chariot Racing finishing first in 15 of his 29 races. He was the 1973 AQHA Reserve High Point Cutter & Chariot Race Horse. He was a Superior as a racehorse and a Cutter & Chariot racehorse.

The daughters of Nug Bar produced 66 arena performers that earned 27 ROM with seven AQHA Championships earning three superior halter and three superior performance horse awards. They earned 1,746 AQHA points.

Treasured Isle was an AAA/ROM race mare sired by Nug Bar. She was the dam of several runners and performers. Her produce record includes six ROM runners with one stakes placed runner and two performance ROM that earned two AQHA Championships. Cosmic Treasure was the stakes placed runner in the 1976 Bay Shore Juvenile Stakes. Her other racing ROM were Moon Isle Go, Pistol’s Treasure, Go By Me and Moons Treasure.

Isle Breeze was one of her AQHA Champions. He earned 33 halter and 34 performance points to earn his Championship. The second AQHA Champion was The Big Fix. He was not only an AQHA Champion but a Superior halter horse as well. He earned 55 halter and 25 performance points.

Isle Breeze was the sire of the AQHA Reserve World Champion Senior Reining Horse Slide Me Again. This mare was Superior in heading and heeling. She earned 212 AQHA performance points. She was the 1987 AQHA High Point Heeling Mare. This show mare is the dam of 13 foals with 12 performers that have earned $257,633.85. Her foals include Love Em N Lena the 2004 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity

Bear Hug [1933] proved to be a good broodmare sire for Sid Vail.

Photo courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum

Three Bars [1940] proved to be a great start and he got his start with Vail’s Bear Hug mares.

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Reserve Champion, Smart Sliden Lena the 2001 NRHA Limited Non-Pro Derby Reserve Champion and Lenas Wright On the 1996 AQHA World Champion in Junior Working Cow Horse and the 1994 NRHA Open Futurity Champion. Lenas Wright On is a million dollar sire with foals like Hes Wright On the 2010 NRCHA World Champion Open Bridle; 2010 NSHA World’s Richest Stock Horse Champion and the 2010 NRCHA World’s Greatest Horseman Reserve Champion. Hes Wright On was the 2016 Equi-Stat #2 Leading Junior Reined Cow Horse Sire. His foals have earned over $500,000. He is the sire of Plain Wright the 2015 Snaffle Bit Futurity Reserve Champion.

Nic A Dee Bar was a 1976 stallion out of Miss Kaweah Bar

by Nug Bar. This horse earned 114 AQHA performance points and 50 halter points to earn a Superior in heading and halter. He was an AQHA Champion.

Miss Tango Bar by Nug Bar was the dam of five ROM with four in the arena and one on the track. Her foals include three AQHA Champions Country ‘N Spice an AQHA Champion, Pimas My Daddy an AQHA Champion and Cascade Katie an AQHA Champion and Superior halter mare.

Redetta Nug Bar another daughter of Nug Bar is the dam of Cedar Lemon Twist who has earned 312 AQHA points in the open, amateur and youth divisions earning an ROM in each division. He is a Youth AQHA Champion. His full brother is A Bit OF Gold the 1984 AQHA Youth Reserve World Champion Three-Year-Old Halter Gelding. This gelding has earned 49 AQHA halter and performance points. A third full brother is Golds Tip N Seeker has an ROM in performance with 26 points.

Miss Wonder Bar was the foal that Nuggett Hug was carrying when she was bought by Pettigrew. She was like her brother in that she went to the racetrack. She proved to be stakes winner with a win in the 1956 Bright Eyes Handicap. She finished second or third in six other stakes races garnering $12,085 on the track. She was a AAA rated runner that won 16 of her 55 starts running from 1953 to 1956.

Miss Wonder Bar became the dam of several ROM runners with her most successful runner being Easter Bee by Be Sure Now (TB). This horse was a stakes winner of the Yavapai County Futurity and stakes placed with one second and three thirds in four other stakes races.

Miss Wonder Bar has founded a branch of the Nuggett Hug tail female line through her daughter Que Linda. Que Linda is a ROM racing mare sired by Go Man Go. Que Linda is the dam of eight foals with seven ROM. She is the dam of two stakes winners. They are The Lynx winner of the 1974 Saila Fall Futurity. The other stakes winner is Six Te the winner of three stakes races including the Golden State Futurity (G1).

Linda Te is an unplaced full sister to Six Te. This mare has her own branch of the Nugget Hug line through Miss Wonder Bar through Jess Tee Off the 2011 Sam Houston Futurity (G2) winner. He earned $281,566. His half-sister Linda Tee Fire has earned $372,835. She was stakes placed in five stakes including a second in the 2013 Tricky Dust Stakes. She was a finalist in the 2012 All American Derby G1 and the Texas Classic Derby G1. These two runners trace in his tail female line through their dam Jess Linda Te, a race-winning daughter of Linda Te Chick,

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a multiple stakes winner of such races as the Quarter Horse Breeders Classic. Linda Te Chick is out of the stakes placed mare Dashin Linda who was third in the All American Derby (G1). Dashin Linda is out of Linda Te. Miss Wonder Bar was born in 1951 and between her birth and 1955 things get a little cloudy. We know Homer Pettigrew purchased Nuggett Hug, but he never shows up as an owner in AQHA records. Then we find that she becomes the property of Roy Wales. The AQHA tells us that Sid Vail transferred Nuggett Hug to Roy Wales in 1953. She was never transferred to Homer Pettigrew.

Roy Wales was an Arizona rancher, roper and trainer. He had Nug Bar at his place when Pat and Grace Smith first saw the horse and they traded Roy a gelding for Nug Bar. This was in 1955. When we look at the AQHA produce record we see that she was the dam of two foals born in 1955. The first one is Fran Jo. But when I look at the AQHA Stud Book I find a different pedigree for Fran Jo. So apparently this is an error.

Roy Wales was a Driftwood fan. Driftwood or Speedy as he was called was the famous racing and roping stallion that came to prominence as a breeding stallion when owned by Channing and Katy Peake.

We will let Nelson Nye tell us how Nuggett Hug came to be bred to Driftwood. We find this information in a November 1965 WESTERN HORSEMAN story Nug Bar …the do-it –all kind.”

Nye was researching the history of Nug Bar and the horse’s owner Grace Smith got a letter from Katy Peake and we quote parts of that letter “Nuggett Hug never did belong to me. I had her on the ranch for Roy Wales, who sold her to Dale Robertson.

She was a top broodmare and had, I believe, at least two other AAA foals, before Roy acquired her.”

Peake continued in the letter, “While she was here, she had a Texas Dandy colt, Dandy Bear, a gelding and rope horse. She also had a Driftwood colt, the stallion Wooden Nugget, which we are standing along with Speedy Peake. Wooden Nugget was never run but is making a fine working event horse and will be shown at reining, roping, cutting and pleasure. The mare, herself, had a lot of substance and character.”

Dandy Bear is listed in the AQHA as an appendix bred horse.

The records show that his sire and dam are unknown. The timing of the transfer of Nuggett Hut to Roy Wales shows that Dandy Bear could very easily be Nuggett Hug’s 1954 foal.

Nuggett Hug produced three foals by Driftwood. They were Wooden Nugget, Quick A Lick and Hug Me Tight. Hug Me Tight was the first and she is listed as foaled in 1955. This would show that Nuggett Hug was bred to Driftwood in 1954 after she foaled Dandy Bear. Hug Me Tight was unshown in the AQHA but through her we have a very powerful line of horses tracing in the tail female line to Nuggett Hug. Hug Me Tight was the dam of Hug Me Chick. Hug Me Chick was an NCHA money earner and a noted roping horse. He was inducted into the Stock Horse Hall of Fame as a working stock horse on the California Circuit. This stallion in turn was the sire of Hug Me Chiquita. She earned $7,798.78 in the NCHA with a Certificate of Ability. She was a Superior cutting horse in the AQHA. She earned 61 AQHA points.

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When they bred Hug Me Chiguita back to her sire Hug Me Chick, they got Hug Me Chickadee who was an NCHA money earner and AQHA point earner. She was the dam of Dry Darlena, winner of $97,953.91 and Lenachick, winner of $70,766.87.

Lenachick was the dam of Playboys Ruby.

Playboys Ruby was the 1992 NCHA Non-Pro Super Stakes Champion and an NCHA NonPro Derby Reserve Champion. She was a double winner at the 1991 Memphis Futurity winning both the open and Non-Pro as well as being the Champion at the Non-Pro in the Will Rogers Futurity and the Augusta NonPro Futurity.

Playboys Ruby took her show record and moved into the broodmare band to become a successful producer. She is the #2 Equi-Stat leading dam of cutting horse money winners.

Her foals have earned over $1.8 million. She has seven foals that have won over $200,000 and they include Jack Ruby, Little Janey Lena, Playin CD and Ruby Tuesday DNA. Ruby Tuesday DNA is the dam of horses with Equi-Stat earnings of over $1.3 million making her #12 on the Equi-Stat leading dams of cutting horse money winners. Her leading money winner is Hydrive Cat the 2006 NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion and Champion Stallion. The foals of Hydrive Cat have earned over $3.5 million.

Dash Ta Fame by First Down Dash is a stakes winner of the Golden State Futurity (G1) and the Primero Del Ano Derby (G2).

The dam of Dash Ta Fame is Sudden Fame, who is out of Bar Dearie. Bar Dearie was a stakes winner in the Zia Handicap. Bar Dearie is out of Barred Girl. Barred Girl is out of Barred Hug, a daughter of Hug Me Tight.

Dash Ta Fame is the #1 stakes siring son of First Down Dash. His runners have earned over $19 million. He is the sire of over 90 stakes winners. His leading money winner is Gun Battle, the winner of $669,449. Gun Battle won the 2006 Zia Futurity G1 and he was second that year in the All American Futurity.

Dash Ta Fame is the broodmare sire of horses that have earned over $18.6 million and his leading money winner is Five Bar Cartel the 2013 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt who won the Ed Burke Million Futurity G1 that year.

Nug Bar [1950] and his sister Miss Wonder Bar [1951] were a great beginning to a very productive life for Nuggett Hug. Photo Courtesy Author’s Files.

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Mares With More continued Dash Ta Fame is now the all-time leading sire of barrel racing money winners. His foals have earned over $19 million. His leading money winners include Sierra Hall Of Fame winner of $318,334, Real Claim To Fame winner of $269,698 and Famous Silk Panties, winner of $288,017. The sons and daughters of Dash Ta Fame have produced the winners of over $14 million in the barrel racing arena. His grandget include Fame Fling N Bling the winner of $768,192.

Quick A Lick was the next Driftwood foal out of Nuggett Hug. She was foaled in 1956. This mare earned one AQHA performance point. She was the dam of several foals with only one earning any AQHA points. The point earner was Hit And Win by Direct Hit. Quick A Lick was the dam of Warwood, a mare by War Chant.

Warwood was the dam of Woody Wood Chex. Woody Wood Chex was the dam of Smart Nancy Chex. Smart Nancy Chex was a 2000 NRCHA Open and Limited Open Hackamore Classic finalist. This mare earned 24.5 AQHA performance points.

Wooden Nugget was the third foal by Driftwood and out of Nuggett Hug. This stallion was a noted performer and roping horse. Wooden Nugget became a reined cow horse that reportedly won seven of 15 shows on the California Circuit in 1964 and 1965.

As a roping horse he won such rodeos as Pendleton, Ellensburg and Walla Walla. Wooden Nugget was retired after an injury that ended his career. Wooden Nugget sired a limited number of foals.

They include Driftwood Bars, an AQHA Champion with 29 open halter and 29 open performance points.

The AQHA reports that Nuggett Hug changed hands again in 1957 when Wales sold her to Dale and Chet Robertson’s Haymaker Farms of Yukon, Oklahoma. Her produce record shows that she added to her produce record with six more foals. This included foals by three different stallions. She produced Fire Star by Spanish Fort that went AA/ROM on the racetrack. Her two foals by Rebel Cause ran AAA times with The Walkin Boss being a stakes placed runner in the 1967 Magic Empire Winter Futurity and the Magic Empire Spring Futurity. Running Reb was not only AAA on the track, but he earned two open halter points and .5 open performance points. Rue Charge was an unraced daughter of Nuggett Hug. This mare was the dam of two ROM racehorses and granddam of two ROM racehorses.

The last owner of Nuggett Hug was B. L. Littleton. She produced only one foal for Littleton. That foal was Miss Pacific Jet. She was sired by Pacific Jet. Miss Pacific Jet was the granddam of Rubix Cube, an NCHA money winning cutting horse.

Nuggett Hug was a broodmare that started life on the ranch that stood the legendary Three Bars. She went from their out into the world to contribute wherever she went. She was successful with her cross on Three Bars. She contributed to the legend of Driftwood as a sire of great horses. Then she spent several years contributing to Haymaker Farms, one of the legendary breeding farms of the fifties and sixties. She is truly one of our “Mares with More” as a mare that was successful wherever she went.

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Jerry Derby | The art of ‘hattery’ still exists in Grand Junction

By Regan Tuttle ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... n October, I was set to show the last of the Western Slope Reining Horse Association’s club series at the Mesa County Fairgrounds. The WSRHA produces three big club shows each year, two in Grand Junction, Colorado and one in Rifle, Colorado.

As show time drew closer to the Harvest Buckle Bonanza, I realized I didn’t have a decent felt hat to show in. I’d ridden in a straw hat all summer, but the October show really called for a nice, felt, winter cowboy hat.

Earlier this year, I’d already been hat shopping. I’d made a trip back home to Tulsa, where I worked throughout college in a western store there. In the old days, that store had a fulltime hat expert, someone who knew what they were doing, cleaning and shaping hats.

To my disappointment, I couldn’t find anyone in the Tulsa store help me select the right hat, let alone shape one the way I wanted it. I kept delaying my hat purchase.

When I arrived in Grand Junction on Oct. 19 for the paid warm-up at my reining show, I saddled my horse, Heza Nu Chex Rebel, and wore a ball cap. Realizing I was running out of time, I googled my local hat store options.

As it turns out, Grand Junction Western Wear exists about a mile north of the fairgrounds, and I’d seen the signage there before probably 100 times.

Walking in, I was impressed with the number of hats available. I asked myself why I’d never stopped in. When I began speaking with the sales attendant, he told me the hats are made locally — in Grand Junction — and finished on the spot for customers.

Then, I met the owner, Jerry Derby. The old man impressed me, mostly because he seemed like a real hand. But, also because he knew what he was doing. Derby’s been building, customizing and shaping hats for a lifetime.

He talked me into a 5X beaver, one he made, and he assured me he’d shape it up nicely, quarter-horse style, the way he did for Marvin Kapushion and the other horse trainers he helps.

He told me stories about his customers over the years: barrel racers who made the big money, team ropers who are members of the PRCA, and some other cowboys that I know down where I currently live around Norwood, Colorado.

Derby took his time with my hat, and he talked my ear off about his younger years spent in Texas and his rodeo days riding broncs (he’s got the pictures to prove it). And we talked about the dying art of a real hatter, one who makes and sells hats.

At the same time, I watched him run my hat’s brim under the thick vapor that billowed out of the metal pipes on his counter. His large fingers worked quickly pressing the brim’s creases over and over.

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He strategically inserted a piece of foam inside the satin, and he assured me my hat wouldn’t get caught by the wind gusts and blow off in the middle of my reining pattern in the arena down the road.

When he was finally finished, he showed my name embossed in gold letters inside the brim.

“That’s a winning hat,” he told me.

He went on to explain that he makes a deal with all of his customers. When they leave his shop to go on and compete, they must bring him back a beer in celebration of their victory.

I told him not to plan on my coming back anytime soon.

My riding coach couldn’t come to my reining show, and my horse was unpredictable anyway. I told him “Rebel” had a lot of talent (he’s a big stopper), but he’s kind of a hard horse to ride. Circles are the hardest maneuver to execute on him, and sometimes I can’t keep my horse collected up and looking good.

“It’s alright,” Derby said. “You just remember, when you win, you bring me back that beer.”

I headed back to the fairgrounds and showed several classes — the limited, the rookie, novice horse and green reiner — at that last WSRHA show.

“I’m just here to show,” I told myself. “I’ve got a nice horse, and whatever happens — well, I’m gonna just ride.

There’s nothing else I’d rather do this weekend anyway.”

My scores for the two days were very average. I never DQ’d, and I marked anywhere from a 64 to a 68.5 that weekend.

On Sunday afternoon, I tabbed out with the ladies in the show office, and thumbed through the results book to look at some of my penalties. Upon doing so, I was surprised to see that I’d won the rookie class.

Somehow my 68.5 was good enough to take first, which reminded me that we never really know how things are going to end. Sometimes we do better than we think we did; sometimes an average ride can make for a winning ride.

“Oh, yes,” the office ladies assured me. “Head to the awards table and pick up your plaque.”

I had collected my award, loaded my horse, called my dad and was almost finished with my two-hour trip home when I realized I’d forgotten something.

I owed Jerry Derby a beer. That was a winning hat.

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Top Right | Jerry Derby bull riding during his rodeo days [late 1950’s] Bottom right | Jerry Derby finishes a customizes a firstplace cowboy hat. (Photo by Regan Tuttle)

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Frenchmans Guy| Induction into the 2018 Casey Tibbs foundation

By Larry Larson ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... ecoming a LEGEND isn’t an overnight process and the life story of the American Quarter Horse Stallion FRENCHMANS GUY isn’t any different. The vibrant 31-YearOld Stallion owned by Myers Performance Horses – Bill & Deb Myers along with sons Chad, Billy, Brandon and Brady from St. Onge, South Dakota – was formally inducted into the CASEY TIBBS FOUNDATION as the 2018 RODEO ANIMAL ATHLETE on the evening of November 3rd at their sold out Tribute Dinner in Fort Pierre, South Dakota.

After proving himself in the arena, he went on to consistently sire progeny that have overtaken the Barrel Racing World and Performance Arenas along with siring a AAA winner on the Racetrack. He has sired multiple NFR Qualifiers in Barrel Racing, Team Roping and Steer Wrestling along with Junior NFR Qualifiers as well. Producing winners with Lifetime Earnings to date exceeding $12+ Million, those numbers continue to rise daily.

Foaled in 1987, the palomino stallion, sired by the proven sire Sun Frost by Doc’s Jack Frost, is out of Frenchman’s Lady, a daughter of Laughing Boy, a AA son of Lightning Bar AAA. Bred by the Loiseau Family from Egan, South Dakota, the Myers acquired Frenchmans Guy as a weanling. He unfortunately lost his right eye as a yearling but through his unending trust, they continued on with his training and arena competition – he excelled in everything he was challenged with. His accomplishments included being a Finals Qualifier for both the PRCA Badlands Circuit and the South Dakota Rodeo Association (SDRA) along with caputuring a Reserve Championship in the Northwest Ranch Cowboy Association (NRCA).

Known World Wide for his ‘natural athletic ability, big heart, extended stride and speed’, Guy’s record is exemplary and he has etched his mark in record books that will be there for many years to come. A well deserved honor for this EQUINE LEGEND and the family that has dedicated a lifetime to his success!

Top | CASEY TIBBS FOUNDATION Honorees for 2018 included (left to right) Steve Mowry, Presho, SD, Past Rodeo Great; Bill & Deb Myers, St. Onge, SD, for Frenchmans Guy, Rodeo Animal Athlete; Kristi Lensegrav-Birkeland, Dupree, SD, Rodeo Cowgirl Great; Yvonne & Glen Hollenbeck, Clearfield, SD, Ranch Cowboy Family; Alice (Sutton) & Georga Sutton, Gettysburg, SD, for Raymond W. Sutton, Sr., Rodeo Promotor; and Jake Rinehart, Highmore, SD, Rodeo Cowboy Great. (Photo courtesy of the Casey Tibbs Foundation) Top Right | Frenchmans Guy running at a PRCA Rodeo in Dickinson, ND in 1995.

Bottom Right | Myers family with Frenchmans Guy.

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GoHorse.com | The team that leads the path to safety

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... hat started out as a dream, a mission, a focus, of two driven women to bring together the countries horse enthusiasts for the convenience of the industry, turned into a lifesaving reality. Laurie Massaglia and Jenny Fudge, a mother-daughter team with a combined 50 years of experience in entrepreneurship and the horse industry, live in Georgia. They founded GoHorse. com, in January 2018, on a business listing platform for horse boarding stables, vets, farriers, hay, tack shops and more, to stop the headache for horse owners searching to find the perfect fit for their needs. The site sports an easy map view, reviews, snapshots info on each business, and the ability to show horse boarding vacancies.

What the ladies didn’t expect was the impact that they would have when disaster struck.

As Hurricane Florence threatened the Carolinas in September of this year, GoHorse.com saw a need and didn’t hesitate to launch an emergency feature on the site to help evacuees know where they could take their horses as the threat became devastation. As the site features around 1,400 horse facilities registered in Georgia, and 8,000 plus nationwide, over 300 of them changed their GoHorse.com boarding status to, “accepting evacuees.” With the help of Facebook and News Stations like WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the word spread, and evacuees had a clear line of site to get the help they needed.

They jumped into action again giving those effect by Hurricane Michael an immediate tool to evacuate horses, and other animals, to a safe location, which is no easy task. The site features a filter specifically for barns willing to help during a horse evacuation in any location within the states.

“Literally all they have to do is go to the GoHorse. com main page, then search for whatever city they need to know about,” said Fudge. “They can look at all the listings and start contacting places that may be willing to help them on a short-term basis through the crisis.” In this instance evacuees searched for “Hurricane Evacuees Welcome.”

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“We are very interested in responding to the needs of the market, so national disasters are just one of the examples of how the company will flex toward supplying features to meet market needs,” says Fudge.

So how can one help during an emergency?

•Add your barn or stable as a place that welcomes hurricane evacuees or welcomes those during other emergencies.

•Share GoHorse.com for those in need to search for emergency listings near them on social media.

How can you get help from Gohorse.com during an emergency?

• Sign up your horse business for free on GoHorse.com •Use the search engine to find barns willing to take in those in need during emergencies. You can search by city and state to find who has availability.

•Feel free to message @gohorsemap on Facebook or call them at (770) 925-5857 if you need help finding somewhere to take your horses.

How to get involved?

•Spread the word by telling your boarding stable, other riders you know, farriers, and other horse businesses and friends about GoHorse.com.

•Social media postings help a lot, especially those for other horse-related groups. The more people who know about the site, the bigger it can grow for the benefit of our community.

•Consider Guest Blogging for their blog.

•Sponsor a contest - If you have a business with products that you think GoHorse.com customers would like, contact them.

•Give them feedback. They love hearing ways that the site can be improved.

All horse businesses can list on GoHorse.com.

“We want to map every horse business across the country,” states Massaglia. “Horse stables, farriers, vets, horse trainers, riding lesson providers, health practitioners, hay providers, saddle makers, tack and feed stores. All of it is valuable to our users searching in a specific area. The idea is to make it easy for a horse person to locate horse resources in any area of the country.”

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“We at GoHorse want to thank all of those who signed up to help evacuees during the tragedy of Hurricane Florence and Michael.

As thousands join the relief effort to help those devastated by Hurricane Michael and those who are still yet to be accounted for, GoHorse.com urges users to continue to help in any way they can.

Thank you for being a part of the GoHorse family, and for banding together during a time of great need.�

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On the Road with SeeYa

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By SeeYa [Bye Bye Biankus] ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... y name is SeeYa, a quarter horse mare, my human is Sharee, and we live in Oregon.

Notice that I said, “My human.” Humans don’t own us, we own them. We own their time, their love, their care, their worries and we own a lot of their money.

I have been writing my column since 2004 and my main focus is to train humans. I will take you with me on the rodeo trail as a barrel racer. You would not believe the adventures I have in store for you. What is even more interesting, is the things that happen when I am at home.

May 2014 Not only is rodeo season upon us, so is fair time! Yep… they go hand in hand at my house and always have. Any rodeo household with kids, can understand. There are horses, steers, cows, sheep, goats, pigs and the like. At least at my house there is…but my house is STRANGE! All of my humans and animals loaded up and headed for the first fair of the year, which means that Sharee left that man she lives with, Shane, to take care of the rest of us. Now Shane and I have a love/hate relationship. We do like each other but while Sharee is gone, he tries to see how many of my rules he can break! He, of course, gets in trouble when Sharee gets home because I tell her all about it…and he leaves evidence.

Rule #1…The human must find me and give me my grain and if it is raining, they MUST bring it to my stall. NOPE! “SeeYa,” Shane calls, as he sets my bucket by the gate and then promptly leaves. REALLY! I have been known to leave it there and not eat it if it is raining and that doesn’t go over so well when Sharee gets home.

Rule #2…The human must also find me morning and night in my big pasture to make sure I am fine. NOPE! “So how is

SeeYa,” asks Sharee on the phone. “Fine,” replies Shane. “Did you go out and find her and make sure?” asks Sharee. “Nope,” says Shane. Then there is screaming followed by…”listen, I can see her ears above the blackberry bushes, she is fine.”

I am just glad there are only three fairs a year!

So….when the troops got home, minus the pig that was sold, Candy Cane, our miniature cow, told me all about it.

Pig – All blues, Reserve Champion Rate of Gain, out of 100 hogs, and second highest seller at the sale.

Goat – All blues.

Sheep – All blues, but didn’t get to go in her showmanship class because she is afraid of sheep! Yep…you heard me right – AFRAID OF HER OWN KIND! Patton, Sharee’s son, got her when she was only five hours old and raised her in the house for three months in a diaper. I don’t want to talk about it. When she got old enough, she went outside to live with John, the 4-H goat. Yep – she has never been around a sheep. She spent her showmanship class outside the ring getting use to the sheep after she jumped up in Patton’s lap and hid her head in his armpit during her conformation class.

Only at my house!

Steer – Grand Champion Feeder Steer. Champion Intermediate Showman, Reserve Grand Champion Over All Beef Showman.

Candy Cane– According to her, she was perfect. According to her, she was the hit of the show AND the most popular. According to her, she got all blues. She also said that she got to be a steer and a horse. WHAT?!

It seems that if you are the Over All Grand Champion Showman for your type of livestock, you get to show in a competition called, “Round Robin.” Ok? I guess that means you get to show all five types of livestock and whoever is the best at showing all of them is the BIG WINNER. Fine.

Well…according to Candy Cane, she is the best and the safest and bla, bla, bla. She also said that there weren’t any horses at the show until the competition started. Ok. All the little humans went to the other barns to learn how to show other animals that they have not shown before. Fine. Some of the kids are small, so when they came to the beef barn to learn to show a steer, the big humans thought that it would be better to learn on Candy Cane. Makes since.

So, what about the horse part???? Since there weren’t any horses to learn on….yep….you are on track. Candy Cane became a horse. Weird!

Until next time…just because you are a cow…does not mean you aren’t a steer and a horse… sometimes…SeeYa

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About the Author | Bye Bye Biankus, AKA SeeYa, is an AQHA mare by The Sovereign (Ettabo) x Mzpath Biankus (Biankus). She had a 10 year barrel racing career. She has published two books “On the Road with SeeYa,” volume I and II, along with being published in several newspapers and magazines. SeeYa went to heaven in July of 2017 at the age of 26.

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By Jay Merriam DVM, MS ........................................................................................................................................... he injured working horse can present an Diagnostic Dollars unpleasant series of decisions. In my early years of practice, we often turned to “Dr. Green”, (pasture therapy) for the hoped for results after some sort of a major leg or body injury. And many times, come spring, the once hobbling worker would show up looking sound and slick after his winter vacation. Problem was that we often knew less about his health after he came back than we did before we let him out. And we had no idea if the work ahead would be tolerable or just a short term respite from what he’d had. Of course, back then we rarely had more than a vague idea in the beginning of the specifics of the injury…hmmm. “Curb” splint ,Nope front tendon? Hock? Pins? Whatever. The terms we had to learn from the old vet books,” wind gall” , smudge, hip bound, stifled.. were pretty vague and known to only a few old timers. We’d be told of various toxic rubs, blisters or injections to memorize and produce and how to use them.

And since pasture time was cheap and readily available as was replacement horseflesh, often there was no better alternative. Those days are gone! Let’s do the math.

Better diagnosis…. this is the key. Knowing the very deep specifics of the injury and it’s extent can lead to a better understanding of appropriate therapies with proper outcome the result.

This then leads us to several aspects of the costs involved i.e. does surgery need to be done? With rest following. or some other invasive therapy? shoeing then a program of rehabilitation? or can we go straight to some sort of rehab/ physical therapy?

Will there be a need for long-term therapy or can we expect full healing and return to function?

Once we have an idea of these things, we can start to cost it out. Are we looking at a cost in rest time (which should be expressed as per diem), or a cost in lost work? or cost of (and this is usually the big one) knowledge, training, compatibility and continued work at a high level? Or is the outlook so bad that we consider retirement or even euthanasia from a welfare perspective? We’re not replacing a set of bad tires on a truck, we have to consider a lot of factors and moving, living parts before we can make a decision. And usually, with severe injuries acquired while working at a high level the pressure is on to repair and restore a good horse, not junk him and run to the sales.

In the Internet age, Dr. Google has replaced Dr. Green for the most part. Once your vet has uttered the words of a possible range of diagnoses, Dr. Google or Wickipedia can cut through the babble and start you down a road.. Unfortunately, consulted too early it is often the wrong one, because it takes the literal diagnosis and goes directly to the Worst Case scenario. This has led to the early demise of some very salvageable animals in my experience over the last 45 years and is unfortunately a pretty common approach by an owner who stops on the diagnostic path too soon e.g there’s a huge difference between Superficial Digital tendinitis and Superficial and deep digital tendinopathy with involvement of superior check ligament desmitis. We need to be very clear on the diagnosis before we start writing checks since not much of what I’m going to talk about is covered by insurance (But that may be changing).

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This is where, at least up front, you will get the most bang for the buck. And now it’s pretty easy to find someone or a wellequipped clinic that can help refine the diagnosis to the point of getting the answers that will allow us to make decisions.

Lets look at some of the things that need to be considered in decision making.

1.Physical Diagnosis by a skilled clinician familiar with your discipline is still the number one choice: hands on, eyes open and listening carefully are the hallmarks to look for. Localization by nerve blocks is critical in many cases, but not always possible or necessary.

2.Appropriate imaging. This is simply the use of digital Ultrasound/x-ray after localization. Once read, further images may be needed via CT or MRI or Bone Scan. No matter which one is used, interpretation by someone in the field is critical.

3.Appropriate immediate therapy i.e surgical removal or repair of bony lesions. Cast or splint application, corrective or supportive shoes or appliances (hospital plates, wooden shoes, slings or other support as needed).

4.Rehabilitation/PT according to a clear plan with a qualified team. Look at long-term prognosis, available facilities, finances and even insurance (loss of use etc).

5.Go in with realistic expectations and humane or welfare considerations in mind.

Once we’ve gone down this list it is decision time, and no doubt finances must enter the picture here. Factors include; replacement cost, work time income lost, training of a new horse or re-training of the injured one.

And who is going to supervise, where is the nearest facility and what do you look for as far as credentials?

Certifications: ACVSMR (American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation) is a newer group formed for just this reason, made up of individuals who are practicing Equine Sports Medicine and have gone on to get further training in the various types of diagnosis and rehabilitation available.

They can do everything from PT to stem cell and regenerative therapy to supervising exercise programs on underwater treadmill, oscillating floors, laser, infra-red, and much more.

Facilities: These are sometimes hospital based as this one in Europe (Equitom.com). Weatherford Equine, TX, Colorado State University Equine Sports Medicine, Myhre Equine Clinic New Hampshire. Others are independent but available to vets of your choice to prescribe appropriately; The Otherside ranch (tosranch.com) Snowmass, CO. Turner Equine, Minnesota. (Specialty diagnosis with Thermal imaging and surgical services) To name just a few.

Treatment Modalities available, a partial list.

Underwater treadmills have been a part of equine therapy for many years, but the latest models provide a wider therapeutic range and a lot of science based information to their use. One of the big considerations during rehab is “load”. How much weight is appropriate for how long? does concussion help or

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Image 1 - Training of the horse and handlers is critical. Most animals adapt well and many actually enjoy the sessions.

Image 2 - Depth is appropriate for some back and shoulder pain, there is less axial rotation at this depth so especially good for acute sacro-iliac injuries and shoulder pain. As the depth of the water is lowered to the knee/hock level there is more axial rotation and flexion of the back. At water levels at the hoof/ pastern there is much more pelvic flexion, less rotation. Some really good science has emerged to support this. ***A horse that is painful under saddle and might benefit from increased range of axial rotation could be exercised in a water level above its knee, while a horse recovering from back surgery, undergoing rehabilitation, or that requires strengthening and conditioning might be best exercised in a water level above its shoulder, the team concluded Tendon and lower limb injuries can be treated differently by adjusting the levels over treatment time. Floating with toe touching allows the tendons to be worked with minimal load in the acute injury phase while lower levels will increase load slowly as

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the cardio-vascular system is re-conditioned. Water temperature can also be adjusted according to the amount of inflammation.

Time in the treadmill is best monitored by charting pulse rate and evaluating general fitness at therapy time. All of this means that there must be well trained personnel working at all times.

The end result‌ this is more and more becoming the path of treatment for many deep injuries.

Coupled with proper post-operative care, hydro-therapy must be considered in any long term plan.

NEXT Time.. Vibrating floors, lights and lasers.

Electro-stim and dry needles, shockwave, magic shoes and more! ***Biomechanical responses of the back of riding horses to water treadmill exercise.

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Fall Real Estate Market Report| Mason & Morse Ranch Company

By John Stratman | Broker/Owner ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... t Mason & Morse Ranch Company, dba RANCH COMPANY, we cover a variety of market segments across the U.S. including farm, ranch, recreation & lifestyle properties.

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Market report – In light of a strong national economy we are seeing concern over softening corporate earnings, effects of increasing tariffs and rising interest rates. Despite these warning signs, stability in values defines most segments in the rural real estate market.

Trends in the 2018 real estate markets have continued to be stable from the prior year. In the case of buyer motivation, value and return on investment are the book ends as buyers seek quality properties where they can see value in the purchase price and/or a desirable yield over time. Buyers remain diligent in their decision to purchase despite the amount of money available to the market place. Tax deferred exchanges continue to be a relevant factor for the lower and mid-range points in the market, although cash buyers in the higher price market segment continue to outweigh buyers seeking financing. Areas with proximity to population centers continue to have the most activity, however, we are seeing a trend of price reductions and inventory buildup due to increasing building costs and interest rates.

Agricultural Farm and Ranch The agriculture markets are stable with good working size ranches being sought out based upon today’s calf prices. While a number of ranch properties appear to be strongly priced in today’s market, we are seeing some new listing prices that offer value and economic sustainability. Farm values continue sideways influenced by investor objectives focused on rate of return and farm operator buyers focused on increasing costs and interest rates, record crop production, worldwide drought conditions and export, trade and tariff talks.

We expect values to remain stable with any near-term upside limited to increases in commodity prices.

A change in commodity prices and hence a change in land values will be influenced by U.S. and foreign relationships and the value of the US Dollar. Generally, inventory is limited for good to excellent quality farm and ranch lands and the market absorbs appropriately priced new listings well.

Recreation and Lifestyle Recreational luxury property sales have slowed as buyers seek to find value in a market where many properties are perceived as overpriced. The upper end of the market has slowed as those buyers are watching to see how the trade tariffs impact

the economy. The middle sector of the market appears to continue to be active. There is good activity on the lower end of the price spectrum below a $3 million where the buyer pool is larger and interest rates remain relatively low historically. We do expect that this sector could be influenced by a slowdown in the housing market.

Expectations We expect 2019 to be very active in all sectors. Rising credit markets will impact buyer demand as buyers seek value opportunities. Limited inventory of larger properties will continue to maintain strong prices in this market. Pricing on mid-range inventory will be determined by accurate valuations by sellers in order to attract buyers.

Working ranch prices will be directed by the outlook for the calf and meat markets. Aside from the effect of the trade tariffs, we are cautiously optimistic that we will see some improvement as cattle numbers have flattened out and prices for most classes of livestock have begun to improve. As has been the case, beef exports will continue to a key component and the rising US $ is not helping that situation.

Farmland values are likely to continue to be flat. While the trade was hopeful for improvement in commodity prices in 2018, the record crop production and flare up of the trade tariffs have kept a lid on those expectations. We continue to expect the better farms to hold their value. Areas with specialty or perishable crops such as vegetables, nuts and tree fruit are seeing continued upward prices, especially in light of demand form the myriad of investment funds seeking agricultural assets. There is, however, still strong interest from large and small investors as well as family farm operators for market priced farmland. This should continue as long as interest rates do not rise much further.

Recreation and lifestyle properties include several sub-categories including: hunting and fishing properties, horse properties and rural lifestyle and estate properties. Hunting and fishing properties have continued to be slow to sell as buyers remain cautious about future economic conditions and buyers find it difficult to deal with some the valuations. The upper end of quality hunting & fishing properties while slower have shown that those buyers are still willing to purchase as several hallmark sales have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region this past season.

Despite that, there is a buildup in inventory and price reductions are occurring. We continue to note that “niche” markets for recreation and lifestyle properties will see varying results, due to geographic considerations, lifestyle choices, proximity to amenities such as outdoor recreation, equestrian events, quality of hunting, live water, proximity to population centers and the economy. These factors generally will influence the trend of recreation and lifestyle properties going forward.

Overall, we are optimistic about the markets we serve as available inventory and value based pricing continue to dominate the market place. The Ranch Company (www.ranchland. com) personnel are prepared and available to assist you with your real estate buying and selling needs across the U.S.

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