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Mares With More | Kiowa’s Diana

By Larry Thornton ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... he husband and wife team of Stan and Mary Kay Steyskal and their Steyskal Quarter Horses of Papillion, Nebraska are widely known in the quarter horse circles. They have been in business since the 1960’s with horses like Tiger Leo and Iron Rebel and a broodmare band built on foundation mares like Kiowa’s Diana.

The success of the Steyskal training and breeding program carried them to the AQHA Leading Breeders of Performance Horses List a list they have been a part of since 1987. They also became fixtures on the AQHA Leading Breeders List of Register of Merit show horses as well. They received the NSBA Jack Benson Memo-

rial Award in 2001 for their contribution to the pleasure horse. Their foundation sire Tiger Leo is in the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame along with Natural Iron and Good Version two of the horses they bred. Stan and Mary Kay have been dedicated to the breeding of good quarter horses not only well known in western pleasure, but they have always strived to breed a horse that could do it all.

Mary Kay tells how it began with some information about Tiger Leo and his then owner Walt Chamberlain, “Stan rode bareback horses and then he got interested in cutting horses. We were introduced to Walt Chamberlain’s sister Margaret.

We were interested in Leo bred horses, so she took us to see Tiger Leo and a horse called Sugar Band that was by Sugar

Bars.”

She continued, “Walt ended up sending Tiger Leo to Stan as a training horse.

I think he was six years old. The first year Stan broke him to western tack and he won, among other things the reining at Aksarben. Which was a big show in this area. The next year, he went back to Aksarben and won the senior cutting and finished his AQHA Championship. Tiger was only defeated twice that year in cutting.”

Tiger Leo would earn his AQHA Championship with 24 cutting points, 8 reining points and 25 halter points. His halter record shows that he was shown 12 times at halter with six Grand Championships and two Reserve Grand Championships. He would run AAA time on the track with four wins making him a AAA/

Tina Tiger Leo was Superior Halter Horse that became a Nebraska State High Point Cutting Horse.

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AQHA Champion. He earned $1,195 on the track.

Stan and Mary Kay bought and syndicate Tiger Leo forming the Tiger Leo Syndicate. Tiger Leo would sire 118 performers with 91-point earners with 74 performance ROM, 33 halter and performance Superior Awards and 11 AQHA Champions. He would become a noted broodmare sire with his daughters producing foals that earned 21,513.5 points with 295 performance ROM, 7 AQHA Champions, 110 Superior Awards and five World Champions. Tiger Leo was a noted broodmare sire of Western Pleasure Horses enabling him to enter the NSBA Hall of Fame.

The purchase of Kiowa’s Diana by Stan and Mary Kay becomes an integral part the success of Tiger Leo and the Steyskal’s breeding program. The brother and sister team of Margaret Chamberlain-Hawkins and Walt Chamberlain will fill us in on the details where this mare came from and then we will look at why she is a Mare With More.

TIGER LEO sor 1958 QUARTER HORSE #0174497

TINA TIGER LEO ch Sor. 1964 QUARTER HORSE H-99; P-47

KIOWAS DIANA blk 14.1 1957 QUARTER HORSE #0082685

The story of Kiowa’s Diana and Chamberlain Family has its beginning in 1900 when their grandfather homesteaded southwest of North Platte, Nebraska. Their first horses were wild horses brought into Nebraska by the carload from places like Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. These wild horses became known by the family as ranch horses. They would import the wild horses breaking the geldings to be used as ranch and riding horses and using the mares as broodmares. These mares became the base of the Chamberlain breeding program. Margaret believed that the wild horses brought into the area “were of Spanish descent.”

The mares would be bred to what was called a coach type Percheron. The foals produced from these mares became good candidates as “light driving horses.” Walt told that, “The people at that time used a spring wagon with a team of light driving horses. About like a pickup today. So that was a good market until the automobile took over.”

The next phase of the breeding pro-

JOE REED II ch 1936 QUARTER HORSE LEO sor 14.2 1940 #0000985 QUARTER HORSE LITTLE FANNY #0001335 b 1937 QUARTER HORSE #0001572 RENO LION ch 1936 THOROUGHBRED CONNIE ch 1941 (USA) THOROUGHBRED FAIR LAWN (USA) b 1928 THOROUGHBRED (USA) KING LADYS BLACK EAGLE b 14.3 1932 blk 1944 QUARTER HORSE QUARTER HORSE #0000234 #0006054 SOPHISTICATED LADY blk 1934 QUARTER HORSE #0000177 LADYS BLACK EAGLE blk 1944 KIOWA MAID br 1952 QUARTER HORSE QUARTER HORSE #0006054 #0080436 MISS HERSHEY br 1946 QUARTER HORSE AQHA 19,093

gram came with the Army Remount Service. The Army Remount Service was designed to help the Army build a good source of horses for the Cavalry. They would canvas the country buying horses of a variety of breeds to be used in the program. The breeds consisted of Thoroughbreds, Morgans and Arabians.

The times were tough, and the remount stallions allowed the ranchers an opportunity to improve their horses by using well-bred stallions with good conformation, without spending a lot of money.

These stallions were free for the rancher to use and the colts produced could be sold back to the government at the age of three for $155.00 apiece. The horses not selected by the Army were left to sell and use as the rancher pleased. The first remount stallion the Chamberlain family used was a Morgan horse that Margaret called Old Morgan.

We’ll let Margaret explain how their breeding program progressed, “The first remount stud they gave you wasn’t going to be much, but if you took good care of

JOE REED ch 1921 NELLENE sor 1931 JOE REED ch 1921 FANNY ASHWELL b 1914 CERULEAN ch 1923 BLUE BONNET ch 1921 INFINITE ch 1921 GALATZ 1916 ZANTANON ch 1917 JABALINA br 1920 JOE MOORE b 1927 BELLE b 1921 KING b 14.3 1932 SOPHISTICATED LADY blk 1934 TEEOH ch 1937 MARE BY ARAB HORSE

JOE BLAIR DELLA MOORE 1 FLEETING TIME LITTLE RED NELL JOE BLAIR DELLA MOORE 1 ASHWELL FANNIE RICHARDSON BROOMSTICK SKY BLUE BALLOT MATTIE NICHOLS ULTIMUS CONTINENTAL LEMBERG SPRINGFOIN LITTLE JOE JEANETTE 2 STRAIT HORSE BAY MARE LITTLE JOE DELLA MOORE 1 CAP 2 SMOKE HOUSE ZANTANON JABALINA JOE MOORE BELLE KING GOLD MEDAL

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him, then they’d give you a better one. Daddy took good care of him like they wanted you to, so when he needed another stud, he went to Fort Robinson and picked from what was available.

The next stallions used in the remount program at the Chamberlain Ranch were the stallions Mine Sweeper and Dry Moon. Walt remembered them this way, “Dry Moon was an above average racehorse. The remount service was more interested in good conformation than racing pedigrees. But there was a lot of good remount horses and Dry Moon was probably about the best we ever had.”

The race record of Dry Moon indicates that he earned $61,049 racing from two to eleven. He won 8 stakes races including the Radio Stakes twice. His stakes record shows that he raced regularly at distances of 5 to 6 furlongs and that tells us he was a speed horses and not a distance runner.

Dry Moon is a son of Olambala. His dam is *Honeymoon

by Matchmaker. He was foaled in 1918.

He added, “Mine Sweeper was an above average race horse as well.” Mine Sweeper was a son of Sweep and his dam was Sous Marine by Marcovil. His race record shows that he was stakes placed with two seconds in the Quebec Derby and the Edgewater Gulf Hotel Claiming Sweepstake. He was first, second or third in 32 of his 65 races winning $10,835.

One of the early stallions used in the ranch breeding program was an Arabian. The use of the Arabian blood was Margaret and Walt’s father, James L. Chamberlain’s idea.

Margaret recalled, “This Arab was not a modern-day Arab.

He stood not quite 15 hands. Daddy got him from Selby Stud in Portsmouth, Ohio. He had a big hip, good bone and balance. His sire and dam came from Lady Wentworth’s stud in England. His sire was the first Arabian to stand 16 hands.” Our conversation indicated that there may have been more than one Arabian used on the ranch.

Margaret added this about the use of the Arabian stallion, “At the time there was a lot of part Percheron mares in the country and when they crossed that Arab stud on those mares you put that pretty head on those colts and you got a very attractive horse. Not a speed horse in the sense of what we have now. But they were very attractive horses.

I remember one guy buying one at our sale and when he rode that horse down the road, everybody wanted to buy that horse.”

Walt told about the introduction of quarter horses to the ranch came in the mid 1940’s. “Dad sold his cows and went into the steer business. He was in South Texas buying cattle.

He had never heard of a quarter horse, but he found a horse named Teeoh. He liked the horse and they were just starting the quarter horse association. The man he bought him from had papers on the horse from the quarter horse association.

His name was Melby Butler and he was being drafted into the army and he wanted to sell Teeoh. There were a few quarter horses in Nebraska before Teeoh, but we crossed him on those half thoroughbred mares and they were a better horse than we had ever ridden before. We got to liking them.”Walt found Teeoh to be a very good ranch horse with the right qualities, “Teeoh was a cowboy’s horse. He was more of a bull dog type of horse. He had a tremendous

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... amount of strength. I remember a time or two running across a badger hole that might take him down to his knees, but he would pull himself right back up. It didn’t turn him upside down. He had a lot of power and he could keep his feet up under him. Horses we raised were basically from those half thoroughbred mares and the Teeoh’s were better than anything we had ever ridden before. They were a cowboy’s horse. Those Teeoh’s were horses that had a lot of strength and power.”

Margaret found that Teeoh was a horse “that sired good horses from just about any kind of mare.” She still had some of that blood in her horses.”

Lady’s Black Eagle was next. Walt told the story this way, “A man named Calvert at Junction City, Texas raised him, and Lane Hudson bought him in a sale down there. I bought him from Lane.”

He continued,” Lady’s Black Eagle and Tiger Leo were the two best studs I ever owned, and I basically wasted them when I had them. I look back now and see how I should have used them. But Lady’s Black Eagle was one good horse and he had a tremendous amount of strength and power. He gained a pretty good reputation with the calf ropers around the country and of course our ranch horses.”

Walt added, “For the level of mares that I bred to him and the limited number, Lady’s Black Eagle sired above average horses.”

Lady’s Black Eagle was the sire of Kiowa’s Diana. He was also the sire of Kiowa Maid, the dam of Kiowa’s Diana. Lady’s Black Eagle was sired by King P-234.

The dam of Lady’s Black Eagle was Sophisticated Lady. She was a daughter of Joe Moore by Little Joe. Joe Moore was out of Della Moore.

The dam of Kiowa Maid was Miss Hershey. This mare was sired by Teeoh.

Teeoh was sired by King P-234. He was out of Gold Metal by Little Rondo. Her dam was a Billy Anson Mare. The cross of Teeoh on the double breeding to Lady’s Black Eagle gives Kiowa’s Diana a breeding pattern of 2 X 3 X 4 to King P-234. Margaret remembered Miss Hershey this way, “I haven’t thought of Miss Hershey for a long time. She was a 15 to 15.1 hand mare. She was a good tough gritty using horse.”

The dam of Miss Hershey was a mare listed in the AQHA Stud Book as a Figure 2 Ranch Mare. Her sire is the Arab stud.

Her dam is a mare by Mine Sweeper. The rest of the pedigree is listed as unknown, but certainly must go back to those original wild horses brought to the ranch that became ranch horses.

A breeder in the horse business must sell their horses to make a living. So why did Kiowa’s Diana become a candidate for a sale in North Platte? Margaret responded, “She was too little. I remember her as a good deep bodied kind of mare, but just too little. So, I put her in the sale in North Platte and Mary Kay and Stan bought her. They were just getting started in the horse business. When you raise all these fillies and can’t keep them all you are going to end up selling some that could do you a lot of good. I guess Kiowa’s Diana was one of those that I should have kept.”

The adage “good things come in small packages” certainly applies to Kiowa’s Diana. This mare was small, about 14.3 hands. She was not a real pretty mare, but a mare that could outproduce herself. As you will see the Kiowa’s Diana and Tiger Leo cross was a cross made in heaven. A cross that reflects the Leo/King Cross as well as linebreeding to Little Joe and Della Moore.

The inbreeding found in Kiowa’s Diana to King P-234 indicates a strong tie to Little Joe. Little Joe was the sire of Zantanon, the sire of King P-234. The sire of Sophisticated Lady was Joe Moore. Joe Moore was a son of Little Joe. This gives us a breeding pattern of 4 X 4 X 5 X 5 X 6 to Little Joe in Kiowa’s Diana.

The dam of Joe Moore was Della Moore. Tiger Leo was sired by Leo who was sired by Joe Reed II by Joe Reed P-3 and out of Little Fanny by Joe Reed P-3.

When we combine the blood of Tiger Leo and Kiowa’s Diana we have a breeding pattern of 5 X 5 X 6 X 6 to Della Moore in their foals.

Stan and Mary Kay bought Kiowa’s Diana and her foal by Tiger Leo. That foal was Connie’s Kitten. They would later buy Kiowa Maid and Miss Band by Sugar Band. Miss Band was out of Kiowa’s Diana. Kiowa’s Diana and Miss Band were bred by Margaret.

Miss Band was the first foal out of Kiowa’s Diana. She was sired by Sugar Band by Sugar Bars and his dam was Bandette by Band Play. Miss Band was unshown. She was the dam of 12 foals.

They include the performers Sabrina Leo,

Tammy Tiger, Jimmy Tiger, Jenny Tiger and Timothy Tiger–all sired by Tiger Leo. The leading point earner from this group was Tammy Tiger. This 1971 bay mare earned 655 AQHA points in the open and youth divisions. She was Superior in Youth Showmanship, Youth Hunt Seat Equitation, Youth Western Horsemanship and Youth Western Pleasure. She earned two Youth Western Horsemanship and two Youth Western Pleasure Superior Awards. She was an AQHA Youth Performance Champion and a Youth AQHA Champion. Sadly, this mare had no registered foals.

Jimmy Tiger was a sorrel 1972 gelding and the second leading point earner out of Miss Band. He earned 524.5 AQHA points in open, youth and amateur divisions. He was Superior in Amateur Trail, Open Trail, Open Halter, Youth Halter and Youth Western Pleasure. He was an Amateur AQHA Champion and he had two AQHA Youth Championships.

Jenny Tiger earned 250 AQHA points earning Register of Merits in the open, amateur and youth divisions. She had Superiors in Amateur Hunter Under Saddle and Open Western Pleasure. Jenny Tiger produced three foals with one ROM in Lil Miss Izzy.

Sabrina Leo and Timothy Tiger were both ROM in the open division. Sabrina Leo earned her Rom in western pleasure with 10 points. She won two of the three times she was shown. Timothy Tiger earned his ROM with 14 points in western pleasure and hunter under saddle. He earned his ROM in four shows.

Tracy Tiger was an unshown daughter of Miss Band that was sired by Tiger Leo. This mare is the dam of Trace Of Good Bar. This 1988 gelding was sired by Zippos Mr Good Bar. He earned 994 AQHA points in the open, youth, amateur and novice divisions. He has five Superior Awards. He has two in Western Riding one in the amateur and one in the open.

He has two in Western Pleasure one in youth, one in the open and one in the amateur. He was the 1992 AQHA Justin Amateur Rookie in the 31-49 Year Division.

Good Trace is a full brother to Trace Of Good Bar. This 1992 geldings has 627.5 AQHA points in the open, amateur, youth and novice divisions. He was an AQHA Youth Champion and he had Superiors in Open and Youth Trail.

Miss Tiger Band was unshown and

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... another full sister to Tracy Tiger. This mare was the dam of Zip N Win, a 1986 bay gelding. He was sired by Zippo Pine Bar. He was Superior in Western Pleasure and had earned 85.5 AQHA points in the open, amateur and youth divisions.

Mr Good Band is a 3/4 brother to Zip N Win. This 1988 bay gelding by Zippo Mr Good Bar by Zippo Pine Bar earned 187 AQHA points in the open, amateur, youth and novice divisions. He was Superior in Open Western Pleasure.

Connie’s Kitten was the filly at the side of Kiowa’s Diana when Stan and Mary Kay bought her. Connie’s Kitten was a 1963 brown mare with a limited show record. She had one AQHA halter point and 10.5 western pleasure points with an ROM. She was injured and retired to the broodmare band before she had the opportunity to improve her show record.

The Connie’s Cotton performers include Kitten Cause by Iron Rebel. This 1975 mare has 182.5 AQHA points in the open, amateur and novice divisions of both the halter and performance categories. She was Superior in Amateur Western Pleasure and Open Hunter Under Sad-

dle. She was the 1979 AQHA High Point Junior Hunter Under Saddle Horse and an Open AQHA Champion.

Classic Iron was a 1977 sorrel stallion sired by Iron Rebel and out of Connie’s Kitten. This horse had 44 open performance points with an ROM. Conalynx was a 1978 bay stallion sired by Doc’s Lynx and out of Connie’s Kitten. This stallion has earned $37,099.36 with an NCHA Certificate of Ability and an NCHA Bronze Award.

Miss Quick Kitty was an unshown daughter of Connie’s Kitten and sired by Me Quick Too. This mare was the dam of Annie Iron who earned 83.5 AQHA points. She was the 1989 AQHA High Point Hunter Hack Mare.

Told Ya So was a full sister to Miss Quick Kitty. She was the dam of Skipster Leah. This mare earned 50 PHBA halter points and she was a 1987 PHBA Reserve World Champion Halter Mare. Told Ya So was the dam of Get Me A Good Bar with an open and amateur ROM while earning 132 AQHA points.

Tiger Connie was foaled in 1979. This chestnut mare was sired by Tiger Leo and

out of Connie’s Kitten by Tiger Leo. This makes Tiger Connie 1 x 2 inbred to Tiger Leo. Tiger Connie was unshown.

The Tiger Connie foals include Crimson Iron by Iron Rebel. This gelding has 514 AQHA points in the open, amateur, youth and novice divisions with an AQHA Youth Championship and a Youth Superior in Hunter Under Saddle. This horse was the 1995 Justin Rookie of the Year 15-18 winner. Crimson Iron is a double registered AQHA/APHA. His APHA record gives him 2,531 points with five APHA World and Reserve World Championships. His APHA World Championships include World Champion Amateur and Youth Equitation Champion; Youth World Champion Hunter Under Saddle and World Champion Western Riding.

Native Iron is a full brother to Crimson Iron. This gelding has 250 AQHA points in the open, amateur, youth and novice divisions. He is Superior in trail. Leota Pine is a half-sister to Crimson Iron and Native Iron. She is sired by Zippo Pine Bar and out of Tiger Connie. This 1995 mare has 99.5 AQHA points in the open and amateur. She is Superior in Western Pleasure.

Bill Tiger Leo was an AQHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse and an NCHA Open Futurity Finalist. Shows the versatility of this great cross.

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The third foal out of Kiowa’s Diana was Tina Tiger Leo. This 1964 mare earned 146.5 points in halter and performance.

She is Superior in open halter with 99 halter points with 14 Grand Championships and 9 Reserve Grand Championships.

She earned her performance points in cutting with 26 points and western pleasure with 21.5 points. She was an NCHA money earner.

Tina Tiger Leo was the dam of Tinas Tigress by Sugar Bars Jr. She was dam of Tinas Affair and Enticing Affair. Tinas Affair was a Superior Halter Horse with 107 AQHA open, amateur and youth halter points. Enticing Affair earned 105.5 points in the open, amateur, youth and novice divisions earning three ROM one in the open and two in the amateur.

Bill Tiger Leo was Kiowa’s Diana’s 1965 foal sired by Tiger Leo. This good gelding earned 332 AQHA points in the open and youth division in halter and performance. He was Superior in Western Pleasure and an AQHA Champion. Bill Tiger Leo was an NCHA money winner of $12,357.47. Stan showed him to the finals of the 1968 NCHA Open Futurity.

El Tigre Leo was the 1967 foal of Kiowa’s Diana. This son of Tiger Leo earned 76 AQHA points and he was an NCHA money winner of $2,863.25. Tiger Tradition was born in 1969. He was a racehorse w i t h o n e

win and a speed index of 79. He also earned four AQHA performance points.

Lonsum Tiger was the 1979 NCHA Open Reserve World Champion Cutting Horse. He earned $30,555.20 in the NCHA and was an NCHA Derby Finalist with a fourth-place finish. He also finished third in the NCHA Non-Pro Finals.

He earned 15 AQHA performance points for his ROM. Lonsum Tiger was foaled in 1971. Tigermatic was an NCHA money earner of $452.22. He was a gelding foaled in 1972.

Jeanie Tiger was the 1973 daughter Tiger Leo and Kiowa’s Diana. This mare has an AQHA show record, but no points were earned. She is the dam of Jeana Lynx by Doc’s Lynx. Jeana Lynx is the dam of Certified Zippo, who has earned 64.5 AQHA points and an AQHA Superior Award in western pleasure. Certified Zippo was sired by Zippo Pine Bar. The 1987 foal of Jeanie Tiger was Federal Investment. This bay gelding has 65.5 AQHA points in the open, amateur and novice divisions. The Big Investment was the sire of Federal Investment and his full sister Finesse Investment. Finesse Investment was the dam of six-point earners with four ROM. Federal Issue was another full brother to these two foals. He was a 1993 bay gelding that earned 175.5 AQHA points in open and amateur halter and performance points. He has a Superior in Western Pleasure.

Typical Tiger was the 10th foal out of Kiowa’s Diana. He was sired by Tiger Leo. This bay gelding earned 18 open

performance points and $2,986.72 in the NCHA. The next Tiger Leo/Kiowa’s Diana foal was Legendary. This 1976 sorrel stallion earned two AQHA points and $3,283.30 in the NCHA. Tiger Diana was another NCHA money winner for the Tiger Leo/Kiowa’s Diana cross. This mare earned $1,519.54 in the NCHA. She was the dam of Classic Zippo, an AQHA ROM show horse with 76.5 points. Classic Zippo was sire by Zippo Pine Bar. Goodliness was a 1989 roan mare sired by Zippos Mr Good Bar and out of Tiger Diana. Goodliness was an AQHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse with 77 AQHA points. Tiger Cheetah was the last foal from this cross and the last foal out of Kiowa’s Diana. He was unshown in the AQHA and NCHA. Kiowa’s Diana and her success for Stan and Mary Kay contributed a great deal to the Steyskal breeding program.

That contribution makes her one of our Mares with More.

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All photos courtesy Stan and Mary Kay Steyskal 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.

Left photo | Tammy Tiger represents the second generation of the Tiger Leo/Kiowa’s Diana cross.

Foal photo | Kiowa’s Diana was a small mare but her foals made up for her lack of size. This colt shows the size and quality she produced.

Stan & Kiowa’s Diana

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Deafness makes for no disability with Gotta Rawhide Whiz Reining career looks bright for NRHA paint mare

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eff Tuttle of Coweta, Oklahoma said he never really liked paints all that much. For more than 20 years, he’s been breeding NRHA mares that produce Palomino or dun foals. In 2013, though, he ended up with a horse that would change his mind: Gotta Rawhide Whiz, a little paint filly,

by Spooks Gotta Whiz out of his prized mare Sheza Rawhide Rebel.

He first fell in love with the horse because of her looks; in fact, her barn name is “Fancy Face.”

But from the beginning, Tuttle always wondered if the horse were deaf. She didn’t seem to react to noise when he went to feed, clean stalls or do other chores.

Like he does with most all of his 2-year-olds, Tuttle sent the mare to Gary Putman of Gainesville, Texas to get her started and see what kind of a reiner she’d make. Putman reported he really liked the horse, but he also confirmed that Fancy Face was indeed deaf.

“If she is eating or whatever, and you slide the stall door open … If you had her tied up, and hollered and clapped your hands … She just stands there — she can’t hear anything,” Putman said.

Putman, whose been a professional trainer his whole life, had started a few deaf horses previously, two of them daughters of “Gunner” — Colonels Smoking Gun — the $5 million sire and National Reining Horse Association hall-of-famer who was also deaf.

Experts know that there is a genetic mutation that runs in paint horses that’s associated with deafness, and Fancy Face’s sire and the legendary Gunner have similar pedigrees. (They’re- actually half-brothers.)

Both have Katie Gun on the bottom — by John Gun,

by One Gun, by Mr. Gun Smoke.

Putman’s earlier deaf prospects didn’t work out so well.

“They were not easy to start — not broncy — but numb and dumb took me about 45 days just to get them where you could just ride them around, and guide, and just pay attention,” he said.

On the other hand, Fancy Face was different. She seemed to be just what the NRHA rulebook explains the essence of a reiner to be: “willingly guided or controlled with little or no apparent resistance …”

“She just rode like a horse that could hear,” Putman said.

And that’s the way he trained her. He said he “clucked” to ask the mare to speed up, and to turn around.

“And every time I stopped her, I would say ‘whoa’ to her just like she could hear,” he said. “I didn’t do

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Putman said riders naturally use their bodies when making verbal cues. To not use sound to cue a horse would make for a different ride altogether, one that could actually screw things up, he said.

“You end up riding a little different. That kind of confuses the horse actually,” he said. “I just rode her like she can hear.”

The Tulsa Reining Class in September of 2017 was Fancy Face’s first show. There, professional horseman Ruben Vandorp (who has approximately $800,000 in NRHA lifetime earnings with a long list of titles) did well and marked a 211.5 on her.

A few weeks later, Vandorp took the mare to the American Paint Horse Association World Show in Fort Worth, marked a 218 and won the 3-year-old level IV class. He said he expected to do well, but also knew there were two other nice horses in the class very capable of taking world show honors.

“But they didn’t show as good as the little mare did that day,” Vandorp said. “She was just awesome.”

He said he completely agrees with Putman; he doesn’t change a thing on Fancy Face. He doesn’t make any adjustments, or compromises, and rides her just like she has her sense of hearing.

“It doesn’t make any kind of difference on a good [horse].

She’s very tuned into all your other cues,” Vandorp said. “She’s a special little mare. I love her.”

And for the owner? Tuttle, who competes in the non-pro division said he can’t really tell that the horse is deaf either, and he loves riding her too.

At the 2017 NRHA Futurity in held in Oklahoma City last November, Tuttle marked a 210 in his class on her, and made the consolation finals. He said he is open to selling Fancy Face, but it would take a certain price to let her go.

Next for Fancy Face is likely the National Reining Breeders Classic this spring, and probably a showing at the NRHA Derby that follows.

Putman and his wife, Teresa, have decided they’ll flush an embryo out the mare. They plan to breed Fancy Face to a horse that has more than $100,000 in winnings to see what they can get. Putman said he cannot say for sure which stallion just yet.

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Left photo | Professional horseman Ruben Vandorp, who won a reining title at the 2017 APHA World Show, said deafness makes no difference on a good horse like Gotta Rawhide Whiz. (APHA/ Paint Horse Journal courtesy image) Right photo | Owner Jeffrey Tuttle of Coweta, Oklahoma celebrates a good run in the non-pro with professional trainer Gary Putman at the 2017 NRHA Futurity. (Photo by Regan Tuttle) About the Author | Regan Tuttle is a writer and editor. She currently rides with Carl Wood of Doubletree Horse Farm in Delta, Colorado. She shows NRHA shows on a Palomino gelding, Heza Nu Chex Rebel.

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The Working Lines | Music Mount

By Larry Thornton ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... ave you ever said or heard someone say, “If you open a dictionary and look up the definition of what a quarter horse is, you’ll find a picture of such and such a horse?” Well that is the thought that came into my mind when I looked at the history of Music Mount.

Music Mount was foaled in 1944 on the ranch of his breeder J. W. Shoemaker of Watrous, New Mexico. Shoemaker sold the colt to Herman and Helen Snyder of Pendleton, Oregon in 1946. Music Mount went on to be a proven show horse and sire for the Snyder’s. He was there senior sire from 1946 to 1970. A look at this stallion will show us why his picture could be used as an example of the definition of a quarter horse.

THE SHOW RECORD The show record of Music Mount is somewhat sketchy as much of his career in the arena was prior to the AQHA keeping show records and points earned. It has been stated that as a halter horse he was Grand Champion every time he was shown. An ad in the August 1949 issue of THE QUARTER HORSE JOURNAL verifies his cre-

dentials as a halter horse with good quarter horse conformation. The ad indicates that he was shown four times in 1947 standing Grand Champion Stallion each time. He was shown one time in 1948 and he was the Grand Champion stallion at that show. The picture that accompanied the ad shows him standing Grand Champion at a show in Pomona, California.

The official AQHA show record indicates that Music Mount was shown three times in cutting earning seven points receiving a Register of Merit. He was also shown in NCHA sanctioned cuttings earning $537.99. His last year shown was in 1953.

An unidentified ad indicates that he was the champion cutting horse in the Northwest Cutting Horse Association in 1953.

THE PEDIGREE For Music Mount to have his picture in the dictionary by our definition of a quarter horse, he must have the pedigree of a quarter horse. J. W. Shoemaker was an AQHA Hall of Fame breeder and a part of a line of Hall of Fame breeders that perpetuated the blood of Old Fred, the great foundation sire found in the pedigree of Music Mount. The other Hall of Fame breeders that will come into the pedigree history of Music Mount

are Coke Roberds, Marshal Peavy and Hank Wiescamp.

The line of Old Fred breeders begins with Coke Roberds, a Colorado breeder that owned Old Fred. As the story goes Roberds saw the flashy Old Fred hitched to a freight wagon. Roberds needed a new herd sire as his good stallion Primero, a thoroughbred was killed in a train wreck. He secured the stallion as his herd sire. Old Fred was a palomino with a lot of white. At one time it would have been considered excessive white and he would have been turned down for registration in the AQHA. Old Fred was sired by a horse named Black Ball. Black Ball was reportedly foaled in 1888 in Lockwood Missouri. He was bred by Alex Choate. He was sired by Missouri Rondo a son of Printer II by Old Cold Deck. Old Cold Deck was sired by Steel Dust or a son of Steel Dust as reported

by Victoria Short in her book UNREGISTERED FOUNDATION SIRES OF THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE. Old Cold Deck stood in Missouri. The dam of Black Ball was a mare known as Nan. Nan a black mare was sired by a Standardbred and out of a Standardbred mare.

The dam of Old Fred was a palomino

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... mare sired by John Crowder. John Crowder was a son of Old Billy. Old Billy was the foundation sire of the Old Billy line of South Texas Quarter Horses. His sire was Shiloh and his dam was Ram Cat by Steel Dust. Steel Dust was sired by Harry Bluff and out of a thoroughbred mare. Steel Dust ties the pedigree of Black Ball and the palomino mare together.

The success of Coke Roberds and Old Fred would manifest itself through such noted breeders as Peavy, Wiescamp and Shoemaker. Shoemaker would start on his quest as a quarter horse breeder when he bought the “historic” Watrous Ranch. Shoemaker was born in New Mexico and as a young man he had stayed at the Watrous Ranch.

The Watrous Ranch was a ranching empire founded when Samuel Watrous found gold in the “placer mine of San Pedro.” The Watrous Ranch was a 23,000-acre ranch with a 22-room house. The Watrous Ranch enterprises included ranching and farming.

Shoemaker bought two stallions and seven mares in 1931 to start raising his ranch horses. The stallions were Nick and Plaudit.

Shoemaker would buy Nick (who would become his foundation sire) and Plaudit

from Jack Hauskins.

Nick or Nick S as he is known was bred by Marshal Peavy. He was sired by Sheik P-11. Sheik P-11 was bred by Coke Roberds. He was sired by Peter McCue and out of Pet by Old Fred. The dam of Nick was Sylvia, a mare bred by Peavy. She was sired by Bob H by Old Fred.

Peter McCue was the famous stallion that was the sire of horses like Harmon Baker, Hickory Bill, Jack McCue and John Wilkens. Peter McCue was purchased by Si Dawson of Hayden, Colorado. When Dawson died his close friend Coke Roberds brought Peter McCue to his ranch and used him until the horse died.

Peter McCue was sired by Dan Tucker

by Barney Owens by Martin’s Cold Deck

by Old Billy. The dam of Dan Tucker was out of Lady Bug by Jack Traveler by Steel Dust. Lady Bug was out of Harry Bluff the sire of Steel Dust. Peter McCue and his sons and grandsons will play a role in the breeding career of Music Mount.

Plaudit was sired by King Plaudit a thoroughbred sired by Plaudit the 1895 Kentucky Derby winner. King Plaudit was an Army Remount stallion. The dam of Plaudit

was Colorado Queen by Old Nick a son of Old Fred. This is not the Nick that Shoemaker bought. Shoemaker would sell Plaudit to Waite Phillips and his Philmont Ranch of New Mexico where he would go on to start his career as an important sire.

When Waite Phillips donated his ranch to the Boy Scouts of America, they would sell all his horses. Shoemaker would buy a colt named Gold Mount. Gold Mount was the sire of Music Mount.

Gold Mount was sired by Brush Mount

by Chimney Sweep. Brush Mount was out of Hula Dancer by Jiggs by Fred Litze by Old Fred. The dam of Gold Mount was Miss Helen by Plaudit. The dam of Gold Mount was Headlight by Old Joe by Harmon Baker

by Peter McCue. This gives Gold Mount a breeding pattern of 5 X 5 to Old Fred.

The sire record of Gold Mount is an interesting one. He sired only 44 registered foals with 12 performers. His performers include three race starters and 10 arena performers.

One of the racehorses was Maddon’s Bright Eyes. She was a multiple racing champion including two times as the AQHA Racing World Champion in 1949 and 1951. She won seven stakes races. Gold Mount sired

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GOLD MOUNT pal 1940 QUARTER HORSE #0002078

MUSIC MOUNT buck dun 1944 QUARTER HORSE #0005229

PANSY dun 1935 QUARTER HORSE #0004216

BRUSH MOUNT pal 1938 QUARTER HORSE #0015000

MISS HELEN pal 15.1 1935 QUARTER HORSE #0006331

MADDER MUSIC br 1924 THOROUGHBRED (USA)

CHIMNEY SWEEP b 1927 THOROUGHBRED (USA) HULA DANCER pal QUARTER HORSE U0072408 PLAUDIT pal 1930 QUARTER HORSE #0001657 HEADLIGHT 3 sor 1924 QUARTER HORSE U0239206 LEONARDO br 1918 THOROUGHBRED (USA) HELEN MARIE ch 1913 THOROUGHBRED (USA)

WHISK BROOM ch 1907 POLLY FLINDERS br 1912 JIGGS 1 buck 1926 RAINY DAY MARE pal KING PLAUDIT br 1917 COLORADO QUEEN buck 1926 OLD JOE ch C S MARE

BROOMSTICK AUDIENCE BURGOMASTER SLIPPERS FRED LITZE EASTER PRESENT WAGGONERS RAINY DAY

SWEEP br 1907 ETHEL PACE br 1898 STALWART ch 1901 VARIANT b 1904

BEN BRUSH PINK DOMINO TROUBADOUR SUNBEAM MEDDLER MELBA DISGUISE BEN-MY-CHREE

PLAUDIT WILD THISTLE OLD NICK 1 MARE BY LABOLD HARMON BAKER ANSON MARE

J V TAYLOR MARE dun 1925 QUARTER HORSE U0072557

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... three arena ROM performers including one AQHA Champion in Nugget McCue S who was bred by J. W. Shoemaker.

Pansy was the dam of Music Mount. She was foaled in 1935 and bred by J. V. Taylor of Roswell, New Mexico. She was registered

by J. W. Shoemaker who was her owner at the time. She was a dun mare.

When you read the registration application you see that Pansy was approved for registration provided they found more out about her pedigree. She was simply listed as out of a J. V. Taylor Quarter Mare. They apparently didn’t find anything about the pedigree of the Taylor mare. Pansy was still registered based on her conformation.

The sire of Pansy was another Army Remount stallion a thoroughbred named Madder Music. He was raced but won only one of his 19 starts. The AQHA registration application for Pansy indicates that Madder Music was standing with Sam Means of Silver City, New Mexico when he sired Pansy. Ranchers would get a remount stallion from the Remount Service to use in their breeding program. The Army would have first choice to purchase the foals produced by the stallion.

Madder Music was sired by Leonardo or Leonardo II as he is listed in some pedigrees. Leonardo won the 1920 Hopeful Stakes and the 1921 Withers Stakes. Leonardo was sired by Sweep the famous son of Ben Brush. Sweep was out of Pink Domino by Domino. The dam of Leonardo was Ethel Pace by Troubadour and she was out of Sunbeam by Hindoo. The dam of Madder Music was Helen Marie

by Stalwart a son of Meddler. The dam of Helen Marie was Variant

by Disguise by Domino.

Madder Music sired a limited number of foals in the AQHA with only 15 showing up in the records. He sired just one AQHA racing ROM a thoroughbred named Noo Music earning a 75-speed index or an A rating in the old rating system. Twelve daughters of Madder Music produced 36 registered foals. One of those mares was Mabel.

She is the dam of Silver Light. Silver Light was an AQHA ROM cutting horse with 38 points. He was an NCHA Top Ten Open cutting horse in 1954 and 1956 earning $16,329.10. He was an NCHA Bronze Award winner.

The Madder Music mares include Hepler’s Goldie. This mare produced such foals as Little Joe the Wrangler a son of Joe Hancock

by John Wilkens by Peter McCue. Little Joe the Wrangler sired the AQHA Champions Spade Ace and Viv. The Little Joe the Wrangler daughters include Sparky Joann.

Sparky Joann was the dam of Coy’s Bonanza an AQHA Champion and leading sire. His foals include the AQHA High Point Halter Stallions Beau Bonanza, Ricky Bonanza, War Leo Bonanza and Mister Bonanza. Coy’s Bonanza sired Major Bonanza an AQHA Champion, was a Superior halter and western pleasure horse as well as the 1977 AQHA High Point Working Cow Horse. Major Bonanza was the sire of 11 World Champions and his foals earned 48 superior awards.

Pansy would produce five foals. The first one we will look at is Daisy Shoemaker by Golddust Shoemaker. Daisy Shoemaker was the dam of Gold Mount’s AQHA Champion Nugget McCue S who earned his ROM with 11 halter and 10 performance points. He was an NCHA money earner of $326.94. Nugget McCue S was the sire of Shoemaker’s Pay Day the 1953 AQHA High Point Working Cow Horse.

Daisy Shoemaker was the dam of Fame Shoe Mount by Cripple Mount a son of Gold Mount. Fame Shoe Mount was an ROM runner with a AA speed index. Fame Shoe Mount was a full brother to Shoemaker’s Dude a Superior halter horse and an AQHA Champion.

Daisy’s Queen was out of Daisy Shoemaker and sired by Nugget McCue S. This mare was the dam of 13 foals with 9 point earners with two ROM and one AQHA Champion. Mr Tuff McCue was the AQHA Champion. The other ROM was Flying Daisy.

Monte’s Music a full sister to Music Mount was unshown. She is the dam of Hal’s Music and she is the dam of Circle Bay Star an AQHA Superior reining horse. Monte’s Music is the dam of another mare named Music’s Pet and she is the dam of Quarter V Bars an AQHA ROM performer. Quarter V Bars has 247 PHBA halter and performance points.

Scotch Lady is another full sister to Music Mount. This mare was purchased by Hank Wiescamp and she produced Great Chance (32

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“Daisy Shoemaker,” a 1/2 sister to Music Mount.

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“Gold Mount,” the sire of Music Mount.

Photo Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum

“Cookie Mount,” an AQHA daughter of Music Mount.

Photo Courtesy Nancy Brown

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... halter points), Scotch Nick (ROM with 18 halter and performance points), Scotch Maid (4 halter points) and Beau Chance (14 halter points).

The last foal out of Pansy as Hank Shoemaker. This 1949 stallion was bred by Shoemaker. Hank Shoemaker sired only three performers that earned six halter and performance points. He was the broodmare sire of the AQHA Champion San Splash.

THE SIRE RECORD Music Mount sired 406 foals from 25 crops with 121 performers in a variety of events from halter, racing and the arena. His 88-point earners earned 1,246 AQHA points with 20 performance ROM, 10 AQHA Champions and two Superior Award winners. He sired 20 race starters with 8 ROM and one stakes winner.

Melody Mount was the first big show winner and she was foaled in 1948. She would become an AQHA Champion with 23 halter points and 46 performance points. She was shown eight times in halter winning one class. She was a three-time Reserve Grand Champion. She earned her performance points in Cow Horse (7), Reining (14), Tie-Down Roping (13), Barrel Racing (11) and Western Riding (1). She was the 1958 AQHA High Point Working Cow Horse.

Melody Mount was out of Hi Spot by Pay Dirt a son of Bayard (TB). Hi Spot was out of Ladies Maid by Crow, a Clay McGonnigle quarter horse.

Cookie Mount is the second AQHA Champion sired by Music Mount we will look at. This mare earned 15 halter and 9 performance points. This mare had two Grand Championships at halter and her performance points were in working cow horse (1), reining (2), tie-down roping (2) and western riding (4).

The AQHA produce record for Cookie Mount shows that she is the dam of four performers. They include Kilowatt an NCHA money winner, Ishcaboola with 16 halter and 5 performance points and Hooky Dell an AQHA Champion and Superior Halter Horse.

The dam of Cookie Mount was Madam Grande a King Ranch bred mare. Madam Grande was sired by Babe Grande. Babe Grande was one of the sons of Old Sorrel used in the King Ranch breeding program to perpetuate the blood of Old Sorrel for the ranch. Old

Sorrel was sire by Hickory Bill and out of the Dr Rose Mare whose pedigree is unknown. The dam of Babe Grande was a daughter of Hickory Bill.

The dam of Madam Grande was Mirasol by Solis. Solis was sired

by Old Sorrel and out of the mare we know today as “Mother of Solis.” She was a thoroughbred mare sired by Right Royal.

The dam of Mirasol was Almirado by Old Sorrel. This gives Madam Grande a breeding pattern of 2 X 3 X 3 to Old Sorrel and a breeding pattern of 3 X 3 X 4 X 4 to Hickory Bill. When we see Hickory Bill is a son of Peter McCue it brings Old Fred and Peter McCue back together. Just as Coke Roberds did when crossing Old Fred with Peter McCue in his breeding program.

Rhythm Mount was an AQHA Champion daughter of Music Mount. She earned 24 halter points and 13 performance points. She earned three Grand Championships and two Reserve Grand Championships at halter. Her ROM in performance with her points coming in reining (7) and western pleasure (6). She is the dam of two AQHA point earners. They are Petite Valley with one performance point and Rhythm’s Boss with two AQHA performance points.

Latigo Mount is an AQHA Champion son of Music Mount. He earned his Championship with 17 halter points and 36 performance points. He was Grand Champion Stallion two times and Reserve Grand Champion five times. He earned his 36 performance points in cutting (31), western pleasure (4) and jumping (1). He earned his NCHA Certificate of Ability earning $2,240.92.

Latigo Mount was out of Snow Bird by King Tonto. King Tonto was a son of Silver King. Rhythm Mount was out of Hanson’s Kitty

by Silver Prince. Silver Prince was a son of Silver King. Silver King was sired by Old Sorrel by Hickory Bill and he was out of Clegg Mare #3 by Sam Watkins by Hickory Bill. Thus, we have a 2 X 3 breeding pattern in Silver King to Hickory Bill taking us back to Peter McCue in the mares bred to Music Mount.

The next AQHA Champion we will look at shows the versatility of the Music Mount foals. Scamper About is a dun mare by Music Mount that got her AQHA Championship after earning her performance points on the racetrack. She was an AA rated runner with a racing ROM. This mare started 37 times with five wins, five seconds

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“Pansy,” the dam of Music Mount.

Photo Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum

“Doc Bar Linda,” and Robin Severinson-Merril.

Photo Courtesy Robin Merril

“Music Mount.” Photo Courtesy Cedar Ridge Quarter Horses

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A Youthful dream and the definition of a quarter horse As I dug out the slides of Music Mount and Cookie Mount, I remebered that they were taken by me in about 1957 when I was 17. Judy Vikturek, a friend of mine, and I were with my parents on a vacation trip to Yellowstone when we persuaded them to stop in Pendleton, OR so we could see Music Mount.

Judy and I had our own horses, just regular grade geldings, and had been riding for several years. To see such a famous stallion as Music Mount, was an event we didn’t want to miss.

As we drove into the ranch and parked next to a large corral, a group of riders approached. Judy and I went to meet them. The lead rider was an older man riding a big buckskin horse. He stopped, and we told him we had come to see Music Mount. He had a big grin on his face and he reached a hand down to proudly slap his horse on its neck several times, saying, “Well, here he is. Old Buck himself!”

We were in awe. He continued, “We’re just out to do some cutting with him, so why don’t you girls climb up on the corral fence and watch.” So, we did.

The cattle were Herefords, the setting beautiful, the sky brilliant blue, and we sat on that fence and watched the magnificent Music Mount cutting cattle. When they were through, we walked back to the barn area and took photos of Music Mount, saddle sweat marks and all. We also were shown some of his get, including Cookie Mount.

When we shyly inquired how much some of these horses might cost, he grinned at us and said that they were cheaper for young girls like us! We assumed that this man was Mr. Snyder, although neither of us remembered being told that.

When we returned to the car, Judy and I were aghast to see, lying there on the back seat, forgotten in our excitement, was our newly purchased movie camera! What a treasure it would have been to have had Music Mount cutting cattle on film.

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and three thirds. She earned 32 halter points. She was shown 11 times at halter with 8 wins with 7 Grand Championships and 3 Reserve Grand Championships.

Hand Made Music was an AQHA Champion son of Music Mount. He earned his AQHA Championship with 15 halter points and 39 performance points. He earned four Grand Championships and three Reserve Grand Championships at halter. His performance points came in western pleasure (31), western riding (3), reining (2), hunt seat (2) and cow horse (1).

The dam of Scamper About is Milligan’s Miss Revenue. The dam of Hand Made Music is Lady Revenue. These mares are full sisters in blood by Revenue by Young Midnight by Midnight. Midnight was sired by Badger by Peter McCue. The dam of Midnight was Nellie Trammell by Ace by Peter McCue. The dam of Young Midnight was Trixie by Midnight. The dam of Revenue was Salty, and she was sired by Billy The Tough by A D Reed by Peter McCue. The dam of Salty was Peachie by Joy and Joy was out of Lou Trammell by Peter McCue. The dam of Mlligan’s Miss Revenue was Jodie H. The dam of Lady Revenue was Roan Lady. Roan Lady and Jodie H are full sisters sired by Roan Hancock by Joe Hancock by John Wilkens by Peter McCue. The dam of these two mares is Triangle Lady 9 by Red Buck by Buck Thomas by Peter McCue. This gives these mares a breeding pattern of 5 X 6 X 6 X 7 X 5 X 5X 6 X 5 X 5 to Peter McCue. Music Delight by Music Mount earned her AQHA Championship with 21 halter points and 81 performance points. She took home three Grand Championships and six Reserve Grand Championships. Her 81 performance points came in cutting (68), reining (9), western pleasure (2) and western riding (2).

She was Superior in cutting. She earned $2,749.04 to receive her Certificate of Ability in the NCHA. Music Delight was out of Diamond H by Midnight Jr a 3/4 brother to Revenue. Midnight Jr was sired by Midnight and he was out of Salty. The dam of Diamond H was Delight. Delight was sired by Pankey’s Lucky and out of a Pankey Mare. This makes Delight a ¾ sister to Belle of Midnight the dam of Miss Night Bar the dam of the great racehorse and sire Jet Deck.

The next AQHA Champion is Swing’N Sway a 1956 son of Music Mount. This horse earned 13 halter and 19 performance points. His performance points came in Tie-Down Roping (12), Reining (5) and Heeling (2). The halter record shows that he was shown five times with 4 wins and two Reserve Grand Championships.

Swing’N Sway was out of a mare named Lowry Girl 28 who was bred in Oklahoma by Fred Lowry. She was sired by Gray Hancock by Joe Hancock by John Wilkens by Peter McCue. This Gray Hancock was an unregistered son of Joe Hancock.

Her dam was a Lohman Mare and her pedigree is unknown.

Honey Bee Music was a daughter of Music Mount that earned 214 points in the open and youth show divisions. This record netted her an AQHA Championship in the open and a Superior in open halter. She earned 118 open halter points with 10 Grand Championships and 8 Reserve Grand Championship.

Her 33 open performance points came in western pleasure (22), reining (7), western riding (3) and cow horse (1). She was shown in the youth by Nick Arismendi earning 53 points in showmanship (23, western pleasure (20), western horsemanship (8) and western riding (2). She earned 9 youth halter points

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... with Arismendi. Her record with Sandy Hoffman shows one show with one halter win and one point earned.

The dam of Honey Bee Music is Honey Buck. She was sired by Trigger McCue J by Dynamite by Little Fort by Black Bob. The dam of Trigger McCue was Pansy by Black Bob. Black Bob was sired by Bob Caraway

by Casey Jones. Casey Jones was sired by Peter McCue. Yellow Bess was the dam of Honey Buck and she was sired by Texas Miller and out of Bessie Clyde, pedigree unknown.

Gaye Mount is the last of the AQHA Champions and she will take us to an interesting way that Music Mount has contributed to the quarter horse as a broodmare sire. The foals out of daughters of Music Mount have produced 262 performers with 152 point earners in all divisions (youth, amateur and open). His arena point earners have earned 6,397.5 points earning 58 ROM, 16 AQHA Championships, 22 Superior awards, three high point awards and 4 World Championships. The race foals out of daughters of Music Mount produced 15 racing ROM with two stakes winners. One of the stakes winners was Tiger’s Music winner of the LSRVQHA Futurity and the Treasure Valley QHBA Derby.

Gaye Mount will start us off and she earned her AQHA Championship with 18 halter points and 24 performance points.

She was Grand Champion three times and Reserve Grand Champion once in 8 shows.

Her performance points came in reining (10), cow horse (4), western riding (4), western pleasure (3), cutting (2) and trail (1).

The dam of Gaye Mount was Fly Kimble

by Sonny Kimble. Sonny Kimble was sired

by Zantanon. Zantanon was sired by Little Joe and out of Jeanette by Billy by Big Jim. The dam of Sonny Kimble was Queen

by Valentino. She was out of Jabalina by Strait Horse. This makes Sonny Kimble a ¾ brother to King P-234.

The dam of Fly Kimble is Lucy Moore

by Pal O Mine by Billy Sunday and out of Dora Du Mar by Little Joe. The dam of Lucy Moore is a mare by Joe Moore by Little Joe. This gives Fly Kimble a breeding pattern of 3 X 4 X 4 to Little Joe. Gaye Mount was the dam of nine that were AQHA point earners and/or NCHA money earners. When we look at her performers we see that she is the dam of 8 foals

by Doc Bar. Her Doc Bar foals are Doc’s Music Man ($1,435 with a Certificate of Ability and one AQHA point); Doc’s Snow

Flake (with a Certificate of Ability earning $6,924.56); Doc’s Yakoon ($2,378.53); Doc’s Coyote (with a Certificate of Ability and the NCHA Bronze Award earning $78,091 with a performance ROM and 18 points); Doc’s Shasta (with a Certificate of Ability earning $8,277.17 with a performance ROM earning 10 AQHA points); Doc’s Goldielocks (with a Certificate of Ability with earnings of $18,365.86 with a performance ROM earning 17 AQHA points); Doc’s Chardonnay (AQHA Champion/Superior western pleasure with 90 AQHA halter and performance points) and Doc’s Cinch Bet (with a Certificate of Ability earning $3,805.91 earning 7.5 AQHA points). The ninth point earner out of Gaye mount was Black Commander by Hesa Commander. This gelding earned his Certificate of Ability with $19,586.91 in earnings.

He earned 7 AQHA performance points.

The Doc Bar cross on Lil Fore by Music Mount produced Doc’s Music Bar. This gelding earned $75,918.15 receiving not only his Certificate of Ability but the NCHA Bronze Award and the NCHA Silver Award.

He was ROM with 46 AQHA performance points as well. He earned 42 points in cutting and 4 points in western pleasure.

Lil Fore brings us back to the pedigree roots of Music Mount. Her dam was Scooter R a daughter of Matador Sugar Foot by Nicky. Nicky was a son of Sheik P-11. Sheik P-11 was sired by Peter McCue. The dam of Sheik P-11 was Pet by Old Fred. The dam of Pet was a Primero mare. Sheik P-11 was bred by Coke Roberds. The dam of Scooter R was a mare called Big Buckskin and her pedigree is unknown.

Doc Bar Linda was one of the all time great youth show mares. She was sired by Doc Bar and out of Betty’s Mount by Music Mount. This mare in the capable hands of Robin Severinson-Merrill earned 448 youth performance points and 61 youth halter points. They received four youth superior awards in halter, showmanship, western horsemanship and hunter under saddle to become AQHA Youth Performance Champions and AQHA Youth Champions. They were the 1972 AQHA Youth World Champions in Hunter Under Saddle.

Betty’s Mount was out of Josita by Joe Reed II. Joe Reed II was sired by Joe Reed P-3 and he was sired by Joe Blair (TB) and his dam was Della Moore. The dam of Joe Reed II was Nellene by Fleeting Time. The dam of Josita was Ladies Maid by Crow a Clay McGonnigle quarter horse. Ladies

Maid was the dam of Hi Spot the dam of Melody Mount the first AQHA Champion we looked at.

Music Mount through Doc Bar Linda has had a great influence on the modern reining horse. Doc Bar Linda is the dam of Topsail Cody, the 1980 NRHA Open Futurity Champion and the 1981 AQHA World Champion Junior Reining Horse. Topsail Cody is the sire of horses that won over $1.2 million in reining. His leading money winner is Cee Blair Sailor winner of $114,820.

Topsail Cody is the sire of Topsail Whiz the all time leading reining horse sire with earnings of over $12 million.

The daughters of Music Mount have shown an ability to produce versatility with halter, arena horses and racehorses. One of those mares is Madam Music is the dam of nine AQHA and NCHA performers with eight point and/or money earners. She is the dam of four racing ROM including the stakes winner Miss Music Bars. She is the dam of two arena ROM including Doc Bunnell with NCHA earnings of $18,436.57.

The leading point earner from the Madam Music foals is Terrible Scotch who earned an AQHA Open and Youth Championship with three Superiors in western riding, open halter and youth halter.

The dam of Madam Music is Lowry Girl 57 by Lowry Boy 4 by Roan Hancock by Joe Hancock. The dam of Madam Music was Lowry Girl 80 by Star Deck.

You might say we left the best for last.

The mare we are taking about is Snippers Sarah who earned 1,834 AQHA points in the open and amateur divisions. She earned seven Superiors with five in youth and two in the open. She was an AQHA Youth Performance Champion and Youth AQHA Champion. She was the 1976 AQHA High Point Halter Horse, the 1976 AQHA High Point Youth Halter Mare, the 1976 AQHA World Champion Aged Mare and the 1974 and 1976 AQHA Youth World Champion Aged Mare.

The dam of Snipper’s Sarah was Snippy Music a full sister to Swing’N Sway. The dam of these two horses was Lowry Girl 28

by Gray Hancock.

No matter where you look Music Mount fills the bill as a great example of a quarter horse. His picture belongs in the dictionary as an example of a quarter horse.

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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 home.

July 8, 2005 My weekend was a typical 4th of July Rodeo Run. It was one thing after another as usual. I just can’t take Sharee anywhere without a big story to tell. I am sure some of you think I make this stuff up for entertainment purposes, but that is just not true.

We pulled into our first rodeo at 2 a.m. Friday morning. Sharee didn’t want to haul me in the heat of the day and she didn’t want to fight the Portland, OR traffic with the truck and trailer, so we left Thursday night after it cooled off.

Upon arrival Sharee set up the electric tape pen for Tally, my four-year-old traveling and I. She then took me to the pen, took my halter off and I walked right in. She then took Tally’s halter off as Tally looked at her, spun around and went running through a 20-acre pasture. After Sharee caught Tally, she put her in the pen, shut the gate and then took off the halter. Tally looked at her put her chest on the fence, which Sharee had not hooked up the electrical charger yet and ran right through it.

Sharee’s husband, Shane, jumped over the fence, put his arms around my neck and tried to keep the tape from wrapping around me as Tally went bouncing through the pasture like Peppy La Pue dragging the whole fence behind her, even the posts.

Shane retrieved the fencing and the posts out of the waist high grass and put the pen back up.

Sharee caught Tally, for the second time, and tied her to the trailer, where she remained for the next nine hours. That will teach her.

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By the next night, Tally had watched me stand in the pen, being good as always, and decided that she too would behave for the rest of the weekend, so she didn’t have to stay tied to the trailer.

My run that night was pretty, but I didn’t run very fast.

Day two was uneventful, if you can believe that. I made a nice run, picked up a check and ran the way I should. I think it had something to do with the whip to butt conversation and Sharee and I had. Her friends make fun of her and say that she doesn’t hit me hard enough to scatter flies and I think they should just stay out of it, before she gets a different idea.

Day three was a great day. The ground was too deep for me, but I tried my heart out, earned a check and I got a lot of treats.

Day four was the day from hell. Before I tell you what happened, I want you to know that everyone is just fine and that no serious damage occurred.

First thing in the morning, Sharee gave me my asthma medicine and I had a reaction. I actually fainted and did the funky chicken on the ground and scraped my leg. I think Sharee was on the verge of needing CPR at that point. The vet said I was going to be fine and even though it was very scary, no harm was done.

They decided that I wasn’t going to run so we packed up and headed for home.

On the way home, a tire blew on the pickup. Sharee kept us all safe as sparks were shooting out the back, the trailer was swaying back and forth, while pieces of rubber were bouncing off people’s windshields.

The freeway was not wide enough to pull completely off to the side, making for a dangerous situation.

A half an hour into the ordeal we had everything we needed

to change the tire, except for the jack. I am not going to tell you why the jack was not in the truck as it would be better on Shane and Sharee’s marriage if I didn’t.

Sharee started calling friends and they came to our rescue about two hours later.

In the meantime, it was 100 degrees outside and Shane and Sharee were trying to get the lug nuts loose as they waited for a jack.

Sharee, like most women, couldn’t leave well enough alone.

She tells Shane, as he is lying under the truck with semis rocking the trailer as they passed it going 70, “I told you we needed new tires, and you said they would be fine as long as the cords weren’t showing. “So, what to think about that?” Shane replied, “Well I was right. The cords are now showing and now you need a new tire.” I haven’t seen Sharee laugh that hard in a long time.

She was also in a panic over the heat and us being trapped in the trailer. She kept filling jugs with water out of the shower, crawling into the trailer and pouring it over our backs. Tally thought she was crazy and I was so happy to see her each time that I nickered.

We finally got back on the road headed for home as the phone started ringing off of the hook. The rodeo family had heard about my “fainting,” and the blow out, and they were trying to figure out where we were and if they could help. Again, what a great family I belong to.

Until next time…make sure you always have a jack…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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A novel new approaches to treatment of a case of Navicular disease

By Chuck Maker DVM ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... olonel K, an 11-year-old quarter horse, hadn’t been up on his game lately running barrels.

He’d been run during the summer rodeo seasons on the western slope of Colorado for the past five or six years. Last year he started to show some lameness in the beginning of the season.

When he came in to see us, he hadn’t been doing well and was struggling to turn in a fast time and get around the cans cleanly.

At a walk, Colonel K had a tendency to land on his toes first rather than flat or heels first. Almost due for a shoe reset, we noticed that the toes of his shoes were considerably more worn than the heels and his frogs were small, dried out and atrophied. The past four or five resets this year had been set in three degree full pads with fully set open heels and pour in pads by the farrier.

Hoof testers were used to check for any pain in his feet and it was easy to see that when pressure was applied progressively from the apex of his frog to the bars and heels he became more and more difficult to examine. Colonel lacked energy when jogged in hand and didn’t want to go. The owner stated that when out on a trail he was extremely choppy and he tripped often which wasn’t normal. When lunged in a circle he had a very stiff gait without the normal free forward movement of both shoulders. While jogging in a circle he “head bobbed´ showing his lameness further with the head and shoulder movement upward when the inside foot struck the ground. Smaller circles in either direction would elicit a dramatic head bob on the inside limb.

To further isolate the lameness, flexion tests were performed increasing his lameness one complete grade and supporting a lameness of both front feet; distal limb flexion tests temporarily place extra stress on the fetlock, pastern, and the coffin joints helping to isolate a horse’s lameness to a region of the leg prior to considering nerve blocks. Subsequent nerve blocks to numb or desensitize the heels of Colonel’s front feet were done, and completely abolished his lameness strongly supporting the diagnosis of navicular disease or syndrome.

Many of us growing up hanging out at barns, rodeo grounds or horse shows have heard of navicular disease, navicular syndrome or caudal heel pain and react to those terms with some well-deserved trepidation. The disease affecting the caudal or rear aspect of the foot’s bony structure and closely associated soft tissues ligaments and tendons has been cited as far back as the early 1700s in France. The disease disproportionately affects horses who perform in sport activities with high levels of impact and concussion on their front feet. It can affect normally conformed horses with disproportionate loads across their feet and horses with abnormal conformation with normal

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loads across the feet.

High resolution modern digital X-rays were obtained to examine the bone structure of the back of the foot to determine an accurate diagnosis and define the best treatment moving forward.

Horses have four bones below the fetlock: the long pastern, short pastern, coffin bone and navicular bone. Horses with navicular syndrome or heel pain have specific patterns of disease on the navicular bone as depicted by the arrows shown. Changes commonly noted in affected horses include: • Elevated number of or abnormally shaped lucent zones along the distal or sloping borders of the navicular bone • Poor definition between the palmar cortex and medulla due to subcortical sclerosis • Crescent-shaped lucent zone in central eminence of flexor cortex of navicular bone • Enthesiophyte or calcium formation on proximal border • Asymmetrical shape • Proximal or distal extension or flattening of the flexor border Medical treatment options for chronic episodic foot pain over the years have included special podiatry techniques, pain management with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications or NSAIDs such as Banamine, Equioxx, Previcox or Phenylbutazone as well as coffin joint or navicular bursae with steroid (e.g., triamcimalone) and hyaluronic acid preparations. Unfortunately in many cases these options with repeated use fail to return horses to their original level of athletic performance due in part to not addressing the underlying disease process.

A rather new approach which is proving to be superior is the use of these standard modalities in combination with a new class of drugs called bisphosphonates (e.g., OsPhos or Tildren).

These belong to a class of drugs used in people for over 40 years to combat the effects of bone loss seen with osteoporosis. This class of drugs targets the cells in bone known as osteoclasts which reabsorb bone. In navicular disease these cells are activated with chronic repetitive concussion and further the loss of bone density to the navicular bone leading to pain and further inflammation. Chronic inflammation and upregulated inter cellular messaging over time leads to bone loss and changes in the structural make-up of the navicular bone. Ultimately left unchecked, concussion and osteoclast recruitment lead to osteoporosis, bone edema or fluid retention and a loss of structural integrity which are definable as the radiographic changes seen on x-ray and MRI systems used in equine sports medicine.

In the end confirming the source of a horse’s pain as it pertained to the heel in this case and obtaining accurate diagnostic

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... information led to a better understanding of a successful treatment option including OsPhos. To date it has also allowed for measurement of his progress, both under saddle and comparatively with digital imaging. While temporarily abolishing pain with the use of NSAID and steroid pain relievers is important, preventing further bone resorption is proving to be equally important in many cases. Appreciating a different element of navicular disease’s pathophysiology allows one to understand why this relatively novel treatment modality may be synergistic with other methods.

As a rule the road of diminishing returns is dependent on many factors. Digital x-rays and MRI technology have enabled a better, more complete understanding of the bone and soft issue ligament and tendon components to the foot and this age-old disease affecting performance horses, and have greatly reduced the number of horses undergoing neurectomy or surgical severance of the nerves carrying sensation to the back of the foot. Rather a synergistic approach to balanced farriery and new and old medical options are being used to lengthen the interval between steroid injections or abolish their need altogether allowing for a better prognosis and return to athletic potential in our equine athletes. The expanding use of the bisphosphonate OsPhos has shown improvement in cases similar to Colonel K and anecdotally seems to provide clinical relief for four to six months.

In the initial study evaluating the efficacy of OsPhos as a treatment for navicular disease 114 horses were enrolled in a blind study who had been confirmed to have navicular disease1. Of the 86 horses who received OsPhos, 67 percent improved one degree of lameness within 28 days compared to 20 percent who received a placebo and rest alone (on a scale of 0-5 with 0 being sound and 5 being non-weight bearing lame).

By 56 days post treatment 74 percent of the OsPhos horses had improved at least one lameness grade compared to only 3 percent who remained sound that received a saline placebo. Furthermore of the horses treated with OsPhos 9 percent had an improvement of three lameness grades, 52 percent improved by two lameness grades and 18 percent of horses improved by one lameness grade.

Due to the long standing and progressive nature of Colonel’s lameness he was placed on an oral pain reliever for 15 days to provide immediate relief. He was also given initial injections of a rapid acting cortisone and hyaluronic acid into each front coffin joint. At the same time he was given an intramuscular injection of OsPhos and sent home with instructions to schedule a re-evaluation in 56 days. After a 56 days of rest, Colonel K was reassessed and found to be sound at the walk-trot over a hard flat surface. Thereafter he was put back to work in a slowly progressive fashion increasing the intensity and duration of

saddled exercise over a five-week period. Subsequently staying sound, he was allowed to start running patterns at eight weeks and has been sound since.

As this case depicts, navicular syndrome can be quite challenging to treat as it often takes many different modes of therapy to help keep horses comfortable. While many horses with navicular syndrome can be maintained with proper shoeing and infrequent maintenance injections of their navicular bursa or coffin joints, a subset of horses with more severe radiographic findings can be a challenge to manage via the conventional route. Time has seemed to serve as additional evidence in Colonel’s case that OsPhos therapy is yet another modality that can be quite helpful. Helping horses live happy and sound lives with the appropriate care in the discipline for which they were raised and trained is a fulfilling goal.

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Authors note 2017: To date Colonel K has continued to do very well maintaining his owners desired level of competition getting “around the cans”. OsPhos continues to help other equine athletes in our practice. Most notably we have found it to be helpful in managing chronic lower thoracolumbar back pain in the dressage, hunter jumper and event horse populations. These types of cases share a similar etiology in that they often involve a chronic repetitive movement that elicits inflammation and boney remodeling and sclerotic bone. It continues to also help those horses affected with bone pain associated with hock arthritis and proximal suspensory disease in both English and western sport. In both cases it’s use appears to be synergistic with other therapeutics used in these cases, helping horses maintain sounder fuller athletic lives.

1 Freedom of information summary: Original new animal drug application Osphos April 28, 2014 NADA 141-427 OSPHOS Clodronate injection Horse. For the control of clinical signs associated with navicular syndrome in horses. Sponsored by: Dechra, Ltd.

About the author | Dr. Maker, who practices at Alpine Animal Hospital in Carbondale, CO, is passionate about enriching the human animal bond both large and small. Dr Maker obtained his education at Penn State, the University of Tennessee and at the University of Minnesota’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Minneapolis where he interned. Thereafter he practiced in a large equine and cattle practice in north central Minnesota for three years before joining Alpine in 1997.

He enjoys both patient centered equine clinical practice and veterinary practice management. His areas of special clinical interest are sport horse lameness and preventive and emergency intensive care.

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North Texas Horse Country

By Lisa Moden ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... riving down a Texas highway north of the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, you see o n e horse ranch after another.

Visitor’s think--I Wonder why all these horse ranches are here? The equine enthusiast thinks—Man I wish I could live here! The equine industry has exploded in the North Texas corridor traveling North on Highway 377 leading out of the DFW metroplex from Aubrey to Whitesboro. It is a constant draw for all aspects of the equine industry. There are days the trucks and trailers may outnumber the cars, from the normal bustle of horsemen and horsewomen hauling their horses to a trainer, a vet, another farm, to a lesson, delivering a sale horse, buying a horse, riding with a friend, going trail riding, moving mares to another farm, competitions and even the traditional life of just going to check and gather cattle.

North Texas and Southern Oklahoma have become popular locations for the

equine industry. For years Aubrey and Pilot Point Texas were considered one of the most highly esteemed equine areas throughout the United States. At that time the growth of horse ranches was moving north up the Highway 377 corridor. Now the entire corridor from Aubrey to Whitesboro is populated with horse ranches. This attraction has been going on for sometime.

“What is it that attracts the horsemen?”

You ask. The three main draws for the equine community to the area are: sandy loam soil, climate and proximity.

Sandy Loam soil is a must if you are a horseman moving to Texas. If a person isn’t knowledgeable about soil you can be fooled by location. The Sandy Loam corridor is only 30 miles wide and runs from the Red River in Cooke and Grayson Counties, south 200 miles. The East boundary of the Sandy Loam soil is just a few miles East of Hwy 377 and can turn to black land very quickly. The black land is good for farming but most horsemen don’t care for it and will insist on the Sandy Loam. The sandy loam has such great density and base that

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after heavy rains the soil will dry quickly.

The density and base of the sandy loam soil is what makes it so incredible for footing in a riding arena and also a great composition for growing Coastal Bermuda grass.

Coastal Bermuda grows best in sandy loam as it is drought tolerant and can handle heavy grazing and close defoliation. It is also the most economical forage to feed as it is readily available and the next step up in protein values is alfalfa which nearly triples in price.

Climate is another reason so many equine enthusiasts have moved to Texas.

They come from all over the United States and possibly where winters are harsh and harder to keep horses trained and ready for competition. Winter in North Texas is inviting with average high temperatures in the 50’s and average low temperatures in the 30’s. However, there is that occasional snowfall or ice storm that will send us to a standstill. But, never fear for the sun generally comes out and temperatures rise again in a timely manner.

Location! Location! Location! Many

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... of the largest equine breed shows and specialized events, not to forget the race tracks, are located in Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Tulsa and surrounding areas. All of these cities are a reasonable driving distance from North Texas and on any given weekend you will find breed shows, reining, cutting, halter, working hunter, barrel racing, roping, cowhorse, mounted shooting, team roping, rodeo, racing and ranch horse versatility events at one or all of these outstanding facilities. The proximity makes it an easy day trip to go spectate or compete! In November and December these facilities hold some of the most prestigious events in the Western Equine industry hosting the American Quarter Horse World Show, American Paint Horse World Show, Appaloosa World Shows, National Reining Horse Futurity, National Cutting Horse Futurity and the National Barrel Horse Futurity. That is 2 full months of outstanding competition from the best in the industry.

During the fall, in these major events, you will find that the International presence

is overwhelming. Nationals from Japan, Brazil, Australia, all of Europe and more will travel to the Dallas Fort Worth area to spectate and also make purchases, both from the equine and retail side of the industry.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is within 70 miles and an easy drive for those flying in or out of North Texas.

Equine buyers both international and domestic will fly to Texas to look for their next great prospect or show horse. The horse population in North Texas is unprecedented. A serious buyer can leave the DFW airport and drive in a 100 mile radius and access Weatherford, Gainesville, Whitesboro, Tioga, Pilot Point, Aubrey, Denton—and all points between to view all the horses that they want in a day!

The breeding business is one entity of the equine industry that keeps traffic flowing. Each breed and discipline are well represented by world class stallions and producing mares. The pedigrees and records from the breeding progeny are exceptional. From the outstanding breeding, derives prospects that are of the highest

quality for sale and create even more traffic. Equine breeding and training entities go hand in hand as many of the popular stallions and mares are still being shown successfully. With the modern day technology of embryo transfer, mares can continue to be successfully shown and have recipient mares carry their embryos, which is a very big business in the area.

Horse trainers in Texas are considered to be some of the best in the World. Walk in any given barn and find numerous trophies and buckles on display for World Champions, Futurity Champions, Derby Champions, NFR Champions and the list goes on. With the combination of horse trainers and the North Texas amenities, owners along with Non Pro, Youth and Amateur competitors will travel from afar, with hunger for success, to be a part of the equine community.

The reasons and types of people that want to be a part of this area are endless.

Horse trainers that move to the area from other states will also have a following from their customers who will also make

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North Texas Horse Country continued the move and buy property. Many horse owners are retirees who still have horses to compete or breed with. People who work from home will relocate to get closer to a trainer or the community. Many will purchase a second home for a place to stay when they come to ride with their trainers.

The equine industry is paramount to economic development in so many ways that have been unrecognized by society. Along with successful equine industry you have the downline (???)that makes the industry successful, including but not limited to farriers, veterinarians, feed companies, tack stores, clothing stores, truck and trailer sales, and of course Realtors!

One more reason that people covet the North Texas area is the sense of community and fellowship. There is nothing like being able to share your love of horses and the sport with your neighbors and friends who appreciate and understand the industry. Many times your neighbor may have interest in a different equine discipline as the equine industry is so vast. But it’s the camaraderie that makes it fun to “cheer” for your neighbor. Horsemen stick together through thick and thin, win or lose. It’s knowing that if you need help your neighbor is there to help and they know horses.

It’s the cowboy way of life!

I moved to Whitesboro Texas 20 years ago as a professional in the equine industry. I worked at a ranch as a trainer, breeding manager and ranch manager. I love the equine industry and I am still active as a professional judge for the American Quarter Horse Association, American Paint Horse Association, National Reining Horse Association and the National Snaffle Bit Association, along with being a Professional Horseman with AQHA. I have been a Realtor, with Ebby Halliday Realtors, for the past 10 years and work primarily Farm and Ranch sales. I am also an Accredited Land Consultant with the Realtors Land Institute, which is an elite group of land professionals that specialize in land and ranch transactions. I have my own horses that I raise and show and enjoy them immensely. I will always be a part of the Equine Industry that I love as a horseman and a Realtor. They go hand in hand for me today. Peers from the equine industry respect me for my knowledge in real estate. My experience has helped me become an expert in farm and ranch real estate as I understand the function of land and structures that horsemen are looking for. My passion is ranch real estate with a hint of equine.

As my brother in law, who is a native Texan, says “she wasn’t born here but she got here as fast as she could.

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About the Author | Lisa Moden is an accredited land consultant, top producer and a 2016 VIP Customer Service Award Winner.

She can be found riding your horses or at Ebby Halliday Realtors in Whitesboro, TX lisamoden.ebby.com

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