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of our benchmark stallions. He crosses back on the Zan daughters’ real well and he crosses back on the few daughters of Strawberry Jack and Chocolate Jack that we still have. The top performers to date for Watch Tyree Two are Sunups Misty Star and Ima Tyree Two Watch. Ima Tyree Two Watch is a three time AQHA World Show qualifier with 84 open performance points, 1.5 open halter points and 4.5 amateur performance points. He is an AQHA Superior Heeling Horse. His dam is the mare Calamity Pat Star. Calamity Pat Star was sired by Wimpy George by George Paul and out of EZ Dawson. The dam of Calamity Pat Star was Cutie Pat Star by Pat Star Jr. Sunups Misty Star was the second superior performer sired by Watch Tyree Two. She is Superior in Heading. She was a two time AQHA World Show Qualifier. She is the 2011 AQHA Amateur Regional Experience Grand Champion Heeling Horse for Region Three. She was the 2010 AQHA Amateur Regional Experience Reserve Grand Champion Heeling Horse for Region Three. She was shown in the AQHA Region Three competition by Greg Booth, Vickie’s husband. Sunups Misty Star has earned 74.5 open performance points, .5 open halter, .5 amateur halter points and 1 amateur performance point. The dam of this horse is Misty Star Eyed by Star Eyed Jack. The dam of Misty Star Eyed is Poco Paula
Girl by George Paul. Poco Paula Girl is out of Poco Sunup by Poco Young by Poco Speedy. Vickie moved on to two stallions that have been used but not
breed too many outside mares but we really liked the conformation of those horses and that is why we kept daughters of his. They both would have been responsible for bringing this horse into the program. The pedigree of Skips Poquito is an interesting trip back to the
“Skips Poquita was a horse in the background...But we kept a number of his daughters... in our broodmare band.”
to a large degree in the breeding beginning of the Sunup Ranch, program. They are Gay Bar Robin with mares like WR’s Golden and Skips Poquito. Here is how Tiney, WR’s Sonny McCue, Gay Bar Robin came to the Sunup Downbeat and Nick’s Nurse who Ranch, “Mom locates a Gay Bar King stallion named Gay Bar Robin. We bought him expressly to keep some daughters because Gay Bar King is such a strong maternal sire. He is in the legends story of Gay Bar King. His dam is Double Teas Robin by Double T Poco going to Sunups Star Watch is working to conPoco Bueno. On tinue the Watch Tyree Two line and will the bottom she is someday replace his sire in perpetuating out of a mare go- this line of horse on the Sunup Ranch. ing to Poco Robin by Poco Bueno. He sired mostly all carried the blood of Old Fred colts, but we have some daughters the foundation sire of breeding and we cross them to the Tyrees. programs like Hank Wiescamp’s Describing Skips Poquito, famous program. Vickies says, “I believe he was The stallion roster for the the last siring son of Skipper’s Sunup Ranch includes five stalKing. He had some notoriety as lions that personify the Sunup the sire of Miss Poquito Queen. Ranch breeding program. They He was a horse in the background are Watch Tyree Two, Sunups but we have kept a number of Starwatch, Zans Tyree Drifter, daughters. So those daughters are Watch Red Sunup and an outcross in our broodmare band. We didn’t
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