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CONTENTS

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15 The Working Lines Matlock’ s Pedigrees

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Blackburn Connection

32 Pink Polyester Suit | Mental Performance Strategy Weber Quarter Horses

44 Mare Power

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58 Get Schooled | Home school on horseback

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66 the ins & outs of PIGEON FEVER New school combinded with old

72 Equine 15 Naturald 78 Mares N More | Royal Jazzy 87 Real Estate Corral 86 & 95 Real Estate Reports 102 Hot Products 104 Horse Sale Reports

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The Working Lines | M atlock’ s Pedigrees

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Blackburn Connection

By Larry Thornton .......................................................................................................................................................................................................

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atlock Rose is a legend in the history of the American Quarter Horse. His name is synonymous with World Champion Cutting Horses like Peppy San and Peponita; AQHA Champions like LH Quarter Moon, Martha King, an AQHA Honor Roll Reining Mare, and many other top horses that were shown in the arena in a variety of events. He set a standard as a showman and trainer that has been the model for others to follow.

The first time I saw Matlock Rose in person was when he judged the Block And Bridle Show when I was a student at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. I was in awe of him, and all I could do was stare and hope to someday get to meet him. My wish came true when I started my pedigree research and writing.

I did several interviews with him and was so proud the day I was standing looking at this very well-bred filly in Fort Worth, and he was standing there, and he said, “That’s a nice filly, Larry.”

I was so surprised that he remembered me. Matlock Rose knew who Larry Thornton was, and that has stayed with me to this day.

Matlock Rose trained, rode, owned, bred, bought, and sold many great horses over the years. It is impossible to list them all.

To me, he could pick out a horse seeing something that attracted

him to that horse, and he would be successful with that horse, and the pedigree didn’t seem to matter. His ability and mindset about a horse is what may have made him the great horseman.

There were a lot of different pedigrees in those horses but, then I saw some similar threads or patterns in some key individuals that were interesting to me as a pedigree person. We will first look at some early horses that Matlock trained and showed that carry the blood of Blackburn.

The first big move in the training career of Matlock Rose was his working for E. Paul Waggoner’s 3 D Stock Farm at Arlington.

This is where he found the legendary Jessie James and where he switched this famous horse from roping to cutting. Matlock was ready to show Jessie James when he moved on to work for Lester Goodson, a horseman and car dealer from Magnolia, Texas, that became an AQHA President.

LESTER GOODSON AND BUSTER WAGGONER Lester Goodson purchased Buster Waggoner; a Waggoner bred horse. He turned Buster Waggoner over to Matlock. It appears that Buster Waggoner had come along with Matlock when he left the 3 D Stock Farm. The show record for Buster Waggoner and Matlock Rose came about before the AQHA kept records on show horses. So we don’t know very much about their time together.

Lester Goodson and Matlock receiving trophy for the Breckenridge, Texas win Photo courtesy University of North Texas Photograph Archives.

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Bubba Cascio is one man that does know about Matlock and Buster Waggoner. Bubba, the racehorse trainer, and cutting horse trainer and rider was a longtime friend of Matlock. He recalled the horse this way, “He was a Dun horse with a black tail and mane, and he could really run and turn a cow. He really could. He was a hell of a horse.”

Bubba continued, “Matlock didn’t show him but about three or four times. The first time Matlock left the ranch with him, he went to some big, big cutting up around Fort Worth and beat them. That horse had never been away from home.” The cutting Bubba may be referring to could be at Breckenridge, Texas. A photo of the Matlock and Buster Waggoner that accompanies this story reads, “Champion Breckenridge NCHA April 30, 1949.” The photo is courtesy of the University of North Texas Photograph Archives.

When Matlock left the Three D Stock Farm, he was disappointed to say the least. He had trained Jessie James for a year, and they wouldn’t let him show the horse. He felt that Jessie James was as good as Poco Bueno, and he never got to prove it, at least not while he was there. Shortly after he left in May, they let Elmo Favor show the horse on the Fourth of July, and they won. He felt that Favor got the credit for training Jessie James.

When he left his Waggoner employment, he said he would be back to beat them.

Matlock kept his word at the cutting at Breckenridge, Texas.

This is what Matlock told Sally Harrison in her book MATLOCK ROSE THE LEGEND and the cutting at Breckenridge, “That was

BLACKBURN dun 1927 QUARTER HORSE #0002228

the best cutting I ever won, ‘Matlock recalled with great satisfaction forty-five years later.’ I beat them all, just like I told them I would, and I did it on one of their own horses.” The horses he beat were Jessie James, the 1951 NCHA Reserve World Champion, Skeeter the 1950 and 1951 NCHA World Champion and Housekeeper the 1949 NCHA World Champion, and of course, the great Waggoner stallion Poco Bueno. Harrison also tells us that not only did Matlock win the cutting, but he was featured in the Universal Studio Newsreel that was seen by eighty million moviegoers in their local theatre. Buster Waggoner earned his NCHA Certificate of Ability with earnings of $1,660. After his show career with Matlock, he earned his AQHA ROM in 1957, earning nine AQHA Cutting Points.

Buster Waggoner sired only 44 registered foals, with seven performers earning 211.5 total halter and performance points.

He sired four ROM, one AQHA Champion, and one Superior performer. His AQHA Champion was Magnolia Lady, who earned 18 halter and 36 performance points. The Superior performer was TAMU Buster Kay with her Superior in Youth Western Pleasure. She earned 117 Youth performance points and 25 open performance points. The daughters of Buster Waggoner produced 115 foals, with 21 performers earning 494.5 halter and performance points with one Superior performer. The Superior performer was Zanto’s Buster with a Superior in Youth Showmanship. This gelding earned 111 youth performance points with one halter and two performance points in the open division. This gelding was an AQHA Youth World Show finalist

YELLOW JACKET rd dun 1908 QUARTER HORSE U0081674

SISS b QUARTER HORSE U0079663

BUSTER WAGGONER dun 1945 QUARTER HORSE #0008336

LADY BUCK THOMAS II buck 1928 QUARTER HORSE #0002561

BUCK THOMAS sor 1921 QUARTER HORSE U0068963

YELLOW WOLF MARE QUARTER HORSE U0081694

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LITTLE RONDO 1 ch 1895 QUARTER HORSE U0075570 BARBEE DUN dun QUARTER HORSE U0074789 PETER MCCUE b 16.0 1895 QUARTER HORSE U0077937

PETER MCCUE b 16.0 1895 QUARTER HORSE U0077937 STOCKINGS 2 pal 1915 QUARTER HORSE U0066929 YELLOW WOLF buck 1912 QUARTER HORSE U0081693

LOCKS ch 1880 MINNIE b 1882 LOCKS ch 1880

DAN TU br 1887 NORA M b 1880

DAN TU br 1887 NORA M b 1880 OLD FR pal 16.0 PRIMER

OLD JO ch 1907 OLD M buck 190

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Buster Waggoner was truly Waggoner bred as he was sired by Blackburn by Yellow Jacket and the dam of Blackburn was Siss

by Peter McCue. The dam of Buster Waggoner was Lady Buck Thomas by Buck Thomas by Peter McCue. The dam of Lady Buck Thomas was a daughter of Yellow Wolf. Yellow Jacket, Blackburn, Buck Thomas, and Yellow Wolf were all used as sires on the Waggoner Ranch.

PHILLIPS RANCH AND BLACKBURN When B. F. Phillips Jr. became interested in show horses, he went to Matlock to find horses to show, and they found a gelding named LH Quarter Moon, and he became a top show horse that earned his AQHA Championship and his Superior in Halter.

Matlock would eventually sign on as the ranch manager for the Phillips Ranch of Frisco, Texas.

The famous Waggoner Ranch of Vernon, Texas, would become a source of horses for the Phillips Ranch show and breeding program. Matlock explained it this way, “I used to work for Waggoner, and I knew all those old mares, and I went down there and bought five/six mares for Mr. Phillips and a horse called George Dun, and he turned out to be a roping and reining horse. I did a little bit of everything on him, and that is where it got started right there.”

George Dun was sired by Hollywood George, a Burnett Ranch bred horse by Hollywood Gold, and out of Ruthie by Be-

som, an army remount stallion. George Dun then gives us a shot of the blood of Hollywood Gold by Gold Rush. The dam of this gelding was Lady Beaver 2. She was sired by Beaver Creek, a son of King P-234. Beaver Creek, a Waggoner stallion at this time, was bred by Jess Hankins. The dam of Lady Beaver 2 was Lady Blackburn IV a daughter of Blackburn, giving him a tie to the Blackburn blood. Lady Blackburn IV was out of a Rainy Day mare by Waggoner’s Rainy Day. Lady Beaver 2 was one of the mares they purchased from the Three D Stock Farm. She was the dam of Poco Dotty by Poco Bueno. Poco Dotty was the dam of the Phillips bred Mike Echols, the 1964 AQHA Honor Roll Reining Horse. She also produced Poco Pattie for Phillips Ranch, and she was by Poco Red Ant, a son of Poco Bueno used in the Phillips program.

Poco Pattie earned 18 halter points as a two-year-old.

George Dun started his show career in 1956 at the age of three. At this point in time, the shows would name a champion for each event between the junior horse and the senior horse. On his way to his AQHA Championship, George Dun won the junior reining at the following shows earning overall Reserves in reining at Madill, Oklahoma, Fort Worth, Texas, Wharton, Texas, and Dallas, Texas. He won the junior reining and a Reserve Championship in roping at Plano, Texas.

They also had a Using Horse Contest at the shows. This contest is similar to our modern World’s Greatest Horseman. They would cut a calf out of a herd of cows with calves and rope the calf

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DAN TUCKER br 1887 NORA M b 1880

BARNEY OWENS BUTT CUT VOLTIGEUR KITTY CLYDE

br 14.3 1871 sor 1876 b 1872 b 1860

DAN TUCKER br 1887 NORA M b 1880 OLD FRED pal 16.0 1894 PRIMERO MARE

BARNEY OWENS BUTT CUT VOLTIGEUR KITTY CLYDE BLACK BALL MARE BY JOHN CROWDER PRIMERO COKE ROBERDS MARE EUREKA SUSIE MCQUIRTER OLD BEN BURTON MANDY

br 14.3 1871 sor 1876 b 1872 b 1860 blk 1888

OLD JOE BAILEY ch 1907 OLD MARY buck 1908

ch 1902 b ~1890 ch b 1874 pal 1896

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... formance points in reining, earning 13 points. Poco Lynn was sired by Poco Bueno and out of Lady Blackburn III

by Blackburn and out of a Rainy Day mare by Waggoner’s Rainy Day. Poco Jan was an AQHA Superior Halter Horse with 103 halter points. She was sired by Poco Bueno and out of Little Electra by Beaver Creek and out of Lady Blackburn III, the dam of Poco Lynn. Little Electra and Lady Blackburn III were mares purchased from the Waggoner Ranch.

When Phillips bred Poco Red Ant to Little Electra, they produced Poco Electra, an AQHA Superior Halter horse with 93 halter points earning an AQHA Championship with 11 reining and one western pleasure point.

She was a part of the 1958 show string along with George Dun, Poco Lynn, and Poco Jan. When Matlock and Phillips started, it appears they had a plan. Get the best show horses and build a reputation for the Phillips Ranch with that carrying over kc e r B t a into a breeding program. The Waggoner Ranch prog ttin ning the cu in w r e n vided the horses to start with, and then they planned o g g Buster Wa s. d a n s. x a e e k T iv c , h o e to start breeding their own horses, and Blackburn rc g tl Ma ph A enrid s Photogra a x e T h was a common thread at this point in the key inrt o iversity of N n U sy e rt u dividuals used for their show string and breeding o and Photo c program. tie it down to BLACKBURN simulate what you would do to doctor the anBlackburn was born in 1927. The breeder of Blackburn is imal. Then they would rope and tie a calf from the chute, and listed in the studbook as J. L. Fuqua Jr. of Amarillo, Texas. But last, they would cut a cow from the herd. The picture of George several historical writers have related a different story on who Dun that accompanies this information was taken after Matlock, bred Blackburn.

The story basically goes this way. The stallion and the gelding won a Using Horse Contest at Wharton, Texas.

Yellow Jacket was used George Dun earned his by the Waggoner Ranch AQHA Championship in from about 1916 or 1917 early 1957. He was ROM to 1924. The Waggoner in performance, earning Ranch then gave Yel24 halter points, 26 reining low Jacket to Lee Bivins points, 40 tie-down roping of Amarillo, Texas, in points, 15 western pleasure 1924. points, and two working According to writers cow horse points. He was like Robert Denhardt, the 1957 and 1958 AQHA Richard Chamberlain, Honor Roll Roping Horse Barbara Muse Huntingfor the Phillips Ranch. ton, and Franklin ReynThe Honor Roll title latolds, Bivins bred Yellow er became the High Point Jacket to five mares reAward. portedly owned by EdThe 1957 and the 1958 gar Thompson. These show string included Poco mares produced the stalLynn, Poco Jan, and Poco lions Yellow Boy, CowElectra. Poco Lynn would boy, and Blackburn in become an AQHA Cham1927. Yellow Boy went pion in 1957, earning a onto be P-18, and CowSuperior in halter with 103 boy went on to be P- 12 points, and she was the in the AQHA Stud Book.

1958 AQHA Honor Roll Poco Jan AQHA Superior Halter Mare Blackburn was regisHalter Mare. She earned tered as P-2228.

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What makes this so er gave his famous old interesting is the fact that Yellow Jacket horse to all three of these stallions Mr. Lee Bivins of Amaare listed in the AQHA rillo. Edgar Thompson, Stud Book as bred by Folsom, New Mexico, three different people. was associated in some Richard Chamberlain in way with Bivins and THE QUARTER HORSE was allowed to breed a JOURNAL story, “Speed few mares to this horse. and Cow Sense, The Story (Yellow Jacket) He matof Yellow Jacket,” reports ed a mare named Siss to that Cowboy P-12 was Yellow Jacket and got bred by Ed Thompson; a colt which he named Yellow Boy P-18 was Cowboy and which he bred by Lee Bivins, and sold to J. L. Fuqua when Blackburn was bred by J. five years old. Mr. Fuqua, L. Fuqua.

Chapham, New MexiAndrea Mattson, in her co, sold this same horse book ROOTS, FOUNDAto the Waggoner’s years TION BLOODLINES OF later, and they named THE QUARTER HORSE, him Blackburn. Since he tells us that Blackburn was was once owned by Mr. known by more than one Fuqua, it is reasonable name during his life. She to assume he might have Poco Lynn the 1958 AQHA Honor Roll Halter Mare reports that he was known been given that name as Cowboy and Fuqua by (Fuqua) at some time or Photo Courtesy Author’s Files Yellow Jacket. The regisother, but we do not defitration file on Blackburn nitely know.” that is now housed at the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Blackburn came with a pedigree rich in the history of the and Museum sheds some light on the Blackburn story and who quarter horse. His sire Yellow Jacket was bred by Jim Barbee of bred him. The information on who bred Blackburn comes in the Kyle, Texas. Franklin Reynolds, in the story, “Yellow Jacket... A form of a letter written by Glen Turpin for E. Paul Waggoner.

Most Wonderful Horse” that appeared in the May 1959 and June Mr. Turpin wrote, “Years ago the late Mr. 1959 issue of THE QUARTER HORSE JOURNAL, quotes W. T. Waggon- Lige Reed that Yellow Jacket came to the Waggoner Ranch in 1916 or 1917. He had been a noted racehorse. He was a red dun stallion that stood about 15 hands two inches.

Reed indicated to Reynolds that Yellow Jacket “showed some evidence of thoroughbred blood, was well-formed and had a good disposition.” Lige Reed would work on the Waggoner Ranch from 1903 to 1933. He then went to work for the equally famous Burnett Ranch.

Yellow Jacket was sired by Little Rondo by Lock’s Rondo. The dam of Little Rondo was Minnie Franks by Project.

The dam of Yellow Jacket was Barbee Dun, who was bred

by W. W. Lock. Barbee Dun was sired by Lock’s Rondo. This gives Yellow Jacket a 2 X 2 breeding pattern to Lock’s Rondo.

This means that Lock’s Rondo is found twice in the second generation of Yellow Jacket’s pedigree. Lock’s Rondo was sired by Whalebone. Whalebone was bred by William Fleming. Whalebone was sired by the famous foundation sire Old

Billy. Old Billy was sired by Shiloh. The dam of Old

George Dun winning the Using Horse Contest at Wharton, Texas.

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Billy was Ram Cat by Steel Dust. The dam of Whalebone Kitty Clyde by Star Davis. The dam of Siss was an unwas Paisiana, who was sired by Bailes’ Brown Dick and known mare, so; we have no pedigree information. out of Belton Queen by Guinea Boar.

The story, “The Waggoner Horses” by Franklin ReynThe dam of Lock’s Rondo was Mittie Stephens by Shi- olds in the October 1956 issue of THE QUARTER loh Jr. Shiloh Jr was sired by Shiloh. This gives Lock’s HORSE JOURNAL tells us a little about what kind of Rondo a 3 X 3 breeding pattern to Shiloh. The dam of horse the Blackburn foals were. Reynolds tells us, “Son Mittie Stephens was Nellie Gray by Dan Secres. Her dam Probst, a Waggoner cowpuncher for 17 years, and now was Texanna by Chieftan. This pedigree is according to foreman of the Whiteface Ranch.... describes Blackburn Victoria Short’s book UNREGISTERED FOUNDATION colts as tough, with stout backs, good for big ranch work SIRES OF THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE. and good roping horses. They could carry a man all day, The dam of Barbee Dun was Mary Lee. Mary Lee was he says.” sired by Joe Lee by Hamilton’s Joe. Victoria Short tells Paul Curtner, the owner of Poco Pine, gave me some us that Mary Lee was out of Nellie, a Lock mare. Barbee interesting insight into the kind of horses produced by Dun was bred by W. W. Lock, the man that stood Lock’s Blackburn. He had this to say, “An ole boy that worked Rondo. up there one time told me about them. He didn’t call The dam of them Blackburn’s, Blackburn was Siss, but they had about and she was sired by 80 head, and they Peter McCue. Peter lotted them every McCue was sired night. You’d go out

by Dan Tucker. Dan about four in the Tucker was sired by morning and rope Barney Owens by one of them and ride Martin’s Cold Deck. them all day.”

Martin’s Cold Deck Curtner added, was sired by Old “The ole boy said, Billy by Shiloh. This ‘If you can ride gives Blackburn a him five jumps in cross to both of the the morning, you Old Billy strains of had it made.’ They quarter horses. Yelwasn’t too bad; the low Jacket gives Waggoner Ranch Blackburn the South got along with them Blackburn’s Registration photo Texas strain of Old pretty good. But Photo Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum Billy. This strain of they would buck.”

Old Billy is promiHe continued, nent in horses like Little Joe, Zantanon, King P-234, Pos- “But they all would in that part of the country. Because sum, San Siemon, and so on. The other Old Billy strain they weren’t haltered until they were two or older, and comes from Peter McCue, whose sire line traces directly that makes a lot of difference. If they would’ve startto Old Billy. The Peter McCue line has given us such not- ed them out as weanlings or yearlings and halter broke ed stallions as Harmon Baker, Dodger, Pretty Boy, John them, messed with them, they probably would have been Wilkins, Joe Hancock, and Sheik P-11. a different horse. But they’d wait till they were twos or The dam of Dan Tucker was Butt Cut. This mare was better and go to start breaking them, and that is still hardsired by Jack Traveler by Steel Dust. The dam of Butt er to do.”

Cut was June Bug by a horse we will call Harry Bluff II. The success of Blackburn has mostly come through This Harry Bluff was a grandson of the original Harry his daughters as he had only three foals shown in the Bluff. Harry Bluff II was sired by Telegraph by Harry arena that have points. Buster Waggoner, Red Waggoner, Bluff. The original Harry Bluff was the sire of Steel Dust. and Sugar Mae were the point earners. Buster WaggonThe dam of Peter McCue was Nora M, a thoroughbred er earned his nine AQHA points. Red Waggoner earned mare. Her sire was Voltigeur by Vandal. Her dam was three performance points for the second ROM, and Sug-

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... ar Mae earned four halter points. A large number of his daughters are listed as performers, but that appears to be participants in the Produce of Dam, which didn’t award any points. The daughters of Blackburn did produce 255 performers that earned 4,327.5 AQHA points with 79 ROM, 25 AQHA Champions, and 19 Superior Award winners. These foals include the AQHA Champions Snipper W, also an NCHA Open World Champion, Poco Mona, a Superior Cutting Horse, and an AQHA Honor Roll Cutting Mare that earned her Superior in cutting and Poco Bob, an AQHA Champion with Superiors in halter and cutting. Some of his other AQHA Champions include Poco Pico, Poco Robin, Poco Diaz, Poco Bay, Mr Blackburn II, Mr Blackburn 16, Mr Blackburn 40, and Mr Blackburn 37.

Blackburn contributed to the Waggoner Ranch as well as the Cowan Ranch, the Paul Curtner breeding program, and the Blackburn Ranch of North Dakota. One of the cutting arena’s outstanding cutters was High Brow Hickory, and he gives us an example of how Blackburn shows up in the modern pedigree. High Brow Hickory was an NCHA Open Futurity Reserve Champion that earned $197,292. Despite his success in the arena, High Brow Hickory is best known as the sire of High Brow Cat, the all-time leading sire of cutting horse money winners of

over $80 million.

High Brow Hickory is sired by Doc’s Hickory, and he is out of Grulla San who is a daughter of the mare Blackburn 36, who was bred by the Blackburn Ranch. Blackburn 36 was sired by Poco Nino and out of Lady Black 62

by Blackburn, and she was bred by the Waggoner Ranch.

Matlock rode many horses over the years, and he started with horses that carried the Blackburn blood. We will go on from here to delve into some other horses and their pedigrees I like to call Matlock’s Pedigrees.

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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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By Donene Taylor | World Champion Tie-Down Roper ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... oday’s Mental Performance Strategy is inspired by a story that did not make it to the final edit of my book, Heart of a Champion. It concerns chasing down and achieving BOLD GOALS–which takes courage. So, where does courage come from? The Latin root of the word “courage” is “heart.” It takes a lot of heart to get what you are striving for, especially when you are scared.

Surely you have had moments where you were laser clear about your BOLD GOAL. You identified the next step to take, but the next step scared the “dickens” out of you. There are many ways you can experience fear. Physically, it may present symptoms like a faster heart rate, butterflies, tightening in the chest, or a flood of emotions. It may show up as a conversation, you have with yourself, or someone else, explaining all the reasons why you don’t need to take this next step. Your conversation may include some standard one-liners such as, “I’m not ready.” “I’ll do it, someday.” “I don’t have time.” “I’m scared.” “What if, I fail?” “This is a dumb idea.” “People like me don’t do things like this.” “I’m uncomfortable.” “What will other people think, say, or feel?” You may be really good at talking yourself into staying comfortable, even though you know you MUST do this thing, in order to reach the goal. I call these moments of being scared and totally outside my comfort zone my “Pink Polyester Queen Suit Moments.”

My first “Pink Polyester Queen Suit Moment” occurred when I was 13 years old. I had qualified to compete in the National Little Britches Rodeo Finals, in all my junior rodeo events, and the queen contest. The next year I would be competing in the Senior Division ages 14 –18 years, but I decided to go ahead and compete against the older girls in the queen contest. When I decided to compete in the queen contest, I’m sure my mom and grandma thought this

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would be “good experience” for me, but I was thinking, “I’m going to WIN this queen contest!”

I diligently prepared by studying the rule book, practicing my speech, taking modeling lessons and learning my modeling routine. When I got the horsemanship pattern down to a “tee,” I was ready! My grandma and I left early for the finals, since the queen contest was a couple of days before the rodeo. She helped me with final preparations and drove me to all the places I needed to be for the written test, one-on-one judge’s interview, and the big banquet that included modeling and giving my speech.

When the time came for the banquet, I had on a padded bra and girdle (mom’s idea) under my pink, polyester suit.

My grandma had done her best work styling my hair and applying the makeup. It was then that I looked in a mirror and saw how different I looked. I got scared. I was way outside my comfort zone. The person looking back at me in the mirror was someone I had never seen before. With all the practicing I had done, I had never seen myself all made up, with my hair tightly curled. Instantly I reacted by crying off all my grandma’s best work and insisted she remove every curl from my hair. I started a negative, internal dialogue of, “This is not how I practiced.” “I’m not doing this.” “This isn’t what I do.”

“I’m uncomfortable,” and “I don’t belong here.”

My sweet grandma talked me down off the “ledge” and poured powerful words of wisdom into me, as to why I COULD do this, as she reapplied my makeup and restyled my hair. While she worked her magic, I was thinking about all the work I had done up to that point. My internal dialogue suddenly turned positive. “I have done the hard part.” “I have worked very hard.” “I’m prepared.” “I want to WIN this!” I realized that what I wanted was on the oth-

....................................................................................................................................................................................................... er side of those fear feelings. I needed to lean into the fear and do something I had never done before.

Sometimes, you must put on your “Pink Polyester Queen Suit” and just do what scares the heck out of you.

Period. There is no other way to say it, analyze it, or process it. Fear can be a great precursor for getting you to the next level. I have a sign hanging in my barn with a quote from John Wayne which says, “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” As I look back on that time in my life, I’m proud of myself that I didn’t “turn-out” of the queen contest, though it did cross my mind. Even though I didn’t win, I did receive the honor of winning 2nd runner-up. In retrospect, the queen contest wasn’t that bad, and I’m glad I ‘saddled up.’” Leaning into fear and discomfort grew me immensely, and it would serve me well, on down the road in life.

The mental performance strategy I am sharing with you today is the very strategy my sweet grandma used to help me. She didn’t push, pull, or drag me off the “ledge,” when I was scared and uncomfortable. She spoke powerful, confirming words of encouragement, positivity, and belief into me which rekindled my belief in myself and in my preparation. The faith I had in myself, all along, bubbled up, filling my confidence “fuel tank.” That’s what the power of positive words will do.

It is essential we speak positive, life-giving words to ourselves and others. With that in mind, every day I speak positive affirmations and confidence-conditioning statements to myself. I don’t do this to be cocky, arrogant, or to “one-up” anyone. I do it because it helps me to keep my confidence “fuel tank” full, so I can give more of myself to others. Should my “fuel tank” be half full, then I only have half as much to give daily, as I serve others and pursue what sets my soul on fire. Each morning, I fill up my fuel tank with affirmations that I need. It is a daily recommitment I make to myself, so I can present the best version of myself.

To help you in your pursuit of BOLD GOALS, I would love to share these powerful “I AM . . . posters“ that my Firebrand Marketing team and I designed to help remind you that you already have everything you need inside of you, so you can run down your BOLD GOALS. Setting and achieving BOLD GOALS is all about your journey and who you become in the process. It involves becoming the person you are capable of being– the best version of yourself. In my book, Heart of a Champion, I share a quote from motivational speaker, Jim Rohn, who said, “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”

You may be blocking what is already inside of you, but

I guarantee you are not lacking anything. You may need different strategies, or you may need to invest more time and effort on the task at hand, but I want you to know you CAN do it. A great first step to filling your confidence “fuel tank” is to include a daily mental practice of saying and writing powerful affirmations. It will be time well invested to do the daily mental practice, and you will not regret doing it.

DEVELOP A HEART OF A CHAMPION More strategies you can easily implement can be found in my book, Heart of a Champion, Proven Strategies to Help You Discover the Heart of a Champion That Beats Within You. I can also help you develop your courage and tackle those BOLD GOALS. I would be honored to help you become the best you can be through one-on-one personally coaching sessions. If you would like to book a coaching session contact me at donenetaylor@gmail.com.

I encourage you to visit my website DoneneTaylor.com and enter your email address to receive these beautiful “I AM” posters. Print them off and hang them in a place where you will see them daily. These posters will act as a “sign of success” to help coach you up to fill your confidence fuel tank daily with high octane fuel.

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MARE POWER

By Maria Tibbetts

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he quest for a top-selling horse begins long before that foal is born. In an industry where broodmares sometimes sell for less than the cost of a single stud fee, it’s easy to get distracted by the top side of a pedigree.

But those whose names are attached to some of the top sires in the business know a mare can help or hinder a brilliant stallion, and that it truly does take two to tango. Jeremy Barwick, a partner in the Brazos Valley Stallion Station, saw more than 2,000 mares come through the barn doors last year.

“I’m a big believer that the mare is probably 90 percent of the foal. You have to start with a mare that is conformationally sound. I really believe they have to look the part before they can be the part. If the mare doesn’t look the part, she’s not going to have a foal that does.”

Barwick believes that even if the mare doesn’t have a performance record, if the pedigree is sound and the conformation is there, the mare can produce standout offspring. “But if they don’t have the conformation, it’s going to be hard to produce that.”

While conformation is the foundation of a foal, pedigree can be a good indication of what to expect.

“What’s worked in the past is going to give you a good shot at success,” he says.

But he’s not counting on “magic crosses” to consistently produce top-of-the-line horses.

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“How often do you see full brothers and sisters that are equally successful? You might get one, but how often do you get another one?”

In his job he sees it a lot—a certain cross produces a great horse, so the owners breed the same mare to the same stud over and over. “You may have some good ones, but you’re not going to repeat that one great one.”

Rather than concentrating on breeding a specific stud to a specific mare, he sees more success in finding bloodlines that are complimentary, and matching those up. “I think you should always diversify, because there are always new, upcoming studs. Breed the very best with what’s the best in your mare. Do your homework and look at what you’re breeding to.

You have to be open-minded.”

At their stallion station they stand some of the top studs in barrel racing, cutting and reined cow horses, and see the best of the mares in those disciplines come through. When Barwick has input into the breeding decisions, he is completely candid about the mares that get bred, believing the end goal is always to produce get that’s better than the sire and dam.

“There’s a weakness in every horse and there are strengths in every horse,” Barwick says. The ability to see both is essential for producing better horses. “The idea is to build on the weaknesses to make them stronger, and find the stallion that will help the strengths.”

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While he works with horses that have performance records in the six- to seven-digit range, with prospects bringing tens of thousands of dollars, he recognizes that not every segment of the industry is that caliber.

Whatever your budget, he says, the best advice he can give is to find the best mare you can, within your budget. That budget is going to vary based on your goals for the offspring, but it’s not realistic to expect the stallion to fix the mare’s flaws in the offspring. “If we’re honest with ourselves, that probably works only about 2 percent of the time,” he says.

You’re better off to find the mare with the strongest weaknesses, and a stallion that will improve them, keeping in mind that improvement may not happen.

The key is to know what you can live with and what will accomplish your goals.

A Ladylove Story When it comes to the power of a mare, few know that value better than the Loiseau family.

“It is our belief that in order to promote a stallion, you HAVE to have good mares,” said Lis (Loiseau) Hollman. “A great stallion will, in our opinion, do a

lot to help an average mare. But a good mare will do a tremendous amount to help any stallion.” Frances Loiseau, Lis’s mother, saw the potential in Casey’s Ladylove when she was a two-year-old in a sale ring in Walnut Grove, Minnesota in 1963. Frances waved the winning number while her husband was outside, taking home the buckskin filly with appendix papers for $720 (about $6,000 today). Bred by Virgil Ningen of Porter, Minnesota and sold through Ted Faltinson’s horse sale, the Loiseau family had Casey’s Ladylove inspected by the AQHA in 1963 and she was officially registered as a Quarter Horse.

More than 50 years later she was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame, based on the progeny she produced.

On the top side Casey’s Ladylove can be traced back to Poco Bueno, and on the bottom side she was double-bred to Joe Hancock.

After seeing her potential in the show ring, the Loiseaus bred Casey’s Ladylove for the first time as a 3-year-old to Laughing Boy, an AQHA-registered grandson of Three Bars, a 1940 Thoroughbred.

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Frances Loiseau’s daughter, Barb Westover on Casey’s Ladylove.

Gary Westergren, Frances Loiseau, Jim and Joni Hunt, Lynn Weishaar and John Johnson with Firewater Frenchman on sale day. Gary Westergren bought Firewater Frenchman as a weanling at the Open Box Rafter Ranch Sale. He later purchased Frenchmans Bo Dashus as a weanling and bred the two, resulting in the 2018 NFR qualifier, Fiery Miss West. Both Firewater Frenchman and Frenchmans BoDashus are grand-get of Casey’s Ladylove.

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That pairing produced four foals, one of which was Frenchmans Lady, who, at age 15, produced a palomino stallion by Sun Frost. They named him Frenchmans Guy. Today he’s the number two barrel racing sire in history, with 813 offspring that have earned more than $8 million in barrel racing alone, according to EquiStat. He also made the list for roping sires*, coming in at number 57, with two offspring in that discipline that earned more than $10,000 each.

Of the fifteen foals Caseys Ladylove produced, three were by Tiny Circus. Two were geldings and the third was a mare, Caseys Charm. Caseys Charm was bred to Sun Frost, owned by fellow South Dakotan Pat Cowan, and the pair produced French Flash Hawk, “Bozo,” who sold for $400 as a 2-year-old, but three world titles, three reserve world titles, five National Finals Rodeo average titles and four Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo titles later, he was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2018.

“We’ve seen time after time, crossed a lot of different ways, these mares produce stallion-quality colts and broodmare-quality fillies,” Hollman said.

Today, three and four generations removed from Casey, six barrel horses at the 2018 WNFR—all mares-can trace their roots back to the buckskin mare from Minnesota. At the 2018 Calgary Stampede, 61 percent of the barrel racing money went home with barrel racers mounted on Casey’s progeny.

“The common denominator in all these stallions is that their dams were daughters or granddaughters of Casey’s Ladylove,” Hollman said.

Part of the strength of the program today can be attributed to the eye for horses Frances Loiseau had, which she passed on to her kids. When her husband James died in 1977, leaving her with eight kids and a herd of horses, Frances made the decision to keep the mares and carry on the business.

“My mother was extremely particular,” Hollman said. “She had a great eye for horses. She could look at a horse and say instantly whether she liked it. She either liked it or she didn’t. Somebody once asked, ‘How do you know if it’s a good horse or not?’ She replied, ‘How do you know if a man is good-looking or not? You just know.’”

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The family has never been afraid to make tough decisions when it came to keeping stallions and breeding mares. “We geld an awful lot of horses,” Hollman said. “People would always ask, ‘Why did you geld that horse?’ My mother always said, ‘The world needs good geldings more than it needs one more stud.’”

Those that remained stallions had to be outstanding in three areas: disposition, conformation and athletic ability. Their mares had to have solid conformation, a good mind and kind disposition. “We’ve had the advantage of having ridden, raised, trained and been around several generations of these horses. Chances are, our trainer has ridden their mother and grandmother,” Hollman said.

While the mares carry a lot of strengths, it’s the stallions that make usually make history, primarily because a mare’s productivity is limited, compared to a stallion’s. “Historically, a mare produced a foal a year, if you’re lucky,” Hollman said. “A stallion could breed dozens of mares a year. People promote their stallions, and justifiably so. Mares aren’t in the forefront of advertisements and programs because they’ve only been producing one colt a year. That’s perhaps why people didn’t realize what a big part the mares played.”

While embryo transfer has increased a mare’s potential production, it’s still limited. “For some mares, it’s maybe doubled or tripled their production. Because of that I think it’s easier to recognize a strong maternal line,” she said. “There’s more opportunity to capitalize on those maternal genetics than there was in the past because of embryo transfer.”

Lis and her husband John have been raising horses for most of the 39 years they’ve been together, but they’ve decided it’s time to slow down a little and see what else life might bring. Last year they had about 27 foals, but they sold eight broodmares on the Open Box Rafter sale this year, and plan to sell a few more at the same sale next year. “Not because we don’t love it and want to keep doing it, but we’re reaching a point where we need to back off,” she said.

While the decision to sell some young mares was difficult, and she hates to part with any of them, she says it’s gratifying to see how excited people are to get these maternal genetics.

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Jessica Routier riding Fiery Miss West, offspring of Firewater Frenchman and Frenchmans BoDashus, both descendants of Casey’s Ladylove. Routier and Fiery Miss West are qualified for the 2018 W NFR at number eight. Gary Westergren is the breeder and owner of Fiery Miss West. Photo by Billie-Jean Duff.

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Mary Kjerstad, Barb Westover, Bev Kennedy and Jim Loiseau, children of James and Frances Loiseau, at the AQHA Banquet honoring Casey’s Ladylove’s contribution to the Quarter Horse industry. .....................................................................................................................................................................................................

James and Frances Loiseau.

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“It really worried me to sell these mares, but it was great to see the homes these mares have gotten. There’s no reason they shouldn’t be as successful as we were, because these mares continue to produce great performance horses, great broodmares and stallions generation after generation.”

Of the eight mares that sold, the high seller was Oh La La Frenchgirl, bringing $34,000 and the low seller brought $15,500. Three 2-3 year old mares each brought between $25,000 and $33,000—a long way from a $720 filly in a Minnesota sale ring.

They’re keeping all the mares that are age 14 or older, and will gradually retire them, so they aren’t getting out of the breeding business completely.

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out time and time again, not just with Casey’s Ladylove, but with other great mares.” While the legacy may have started with Casey’s Ladylove, it hasn’t ended there. All eight of James and Frances Loiseau’s children still own offspring of Casey’s, and either breed them or perform on them. *Equi-Stat has been tracking roping earnings for ten years, compared to 30 years for barrel racing.

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Frenchmans Violet, granddaughter of Casey’s Ladylove. Frenchmans Violet’s daughter, Oh La La Frenchgirl, sired by Stoli, brought $34,000 when she sold last summer. Lis Hollman says, “I think the similarity between Oh La La Frenchgirl and her dam, Frenchmans Violet, who is a granddaughter of Casey’s Ladylove, shows the consistency these mares produce.”

Photos by Larry Larson.

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One remarkable woman in Penrose, a beautiful, rural community south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has begun a quite amazing equine educational experience for homeschool kids of all ages.

Mrs. Shawnee McAninch of McAninch Farms, puts her heart and soul into these homeschool kids, and notably during this pandemic.

Shawnee credits her acquired equestrian talents and skills to her love of horses and the people throughout her life who have taught her so much about horses. The program that Shawnee has created, “Get Schooled. Homeschool on Horseback,” not only offers useful equine education but an opportunity for homeschool kids to be socialized and outside to boot. To continue to grow the program, Shawnee needs more staff, scholarships for needy students and funds for grounds maintenance and expansion.

“Get Schooled. Homeschool on Horseback,” offers exposure to horses, which is therapeutic but really what the kids take away from this is customized and specialized riding lessons. Shawnee is not only a long-time horse owner and lover but a homeschool mom herself, so this program is especially close to her heart. Although Shawnee began her business ventures some time ago as a non-profit, this new program is her special baby and she will do what it takes to make it fly off the ground even more than it has. It has been well under way since this past summer, 2020, but so much more is needed for McAninch Farms,’ “Get Schooled. Homeschool on Horseback” program to be amped up and made into a resource for all homeschool kids in Colorado and beyond.

When asked what her goals are for this unique program, Shawnee said, “My top goal is to create a sustainable program for students. My second goal is to provide scholarships to needy students.

My third is to offer the program to our community to help parents affected by COVID-19, to have an option for their kids to get out of the house and have some fun and learn new things.” What better way for homeschool students to be enriched than with a horseback ride?

Shawnee has made it clear that what her program offers is not “therapy” and she is not certified as a therapist or even officially as a trainer. Shawnee calls herself a “horse lover,” but by sheer repetition, exposure, and commitment to everything equestrian, over decades of time, since she was young, Shawnee really is an unofficial horse expert. In the same way a person is “grandfathered into” a career, Shawnee has become, over her life, a horse trainer and loves to bring people closer to horses.

Consequently, Shawnee and her awesome program are worthy of funding. Her service to rural homeschool students through a unique, specialized, equine educational program during a difficult pandemic period, stands out in her small community and she and her team want it to grow and help more students. Please visit the McAninch Farms Facebook page for more information on how to donate to this worthy educational cause. Your donation will go towards sustaining and expanding the program, including staffing, materials, equipment, scholarships, and grounds maintenance and expansions. Please do not hesitate, donate today, Shawnee and her team thanks you for your generosity.

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New School, combined with Old WE all know that WE, as HORSE PEOPLE, are a DIFFERENT breed. When our horses are sick, we will stop and nothing to the best we can for them. WE go to the vet, we research, we ask the old-timers, you know, the ones who successfully raised horses. “New school” is not always better than “old school.” Bacon grease will cut through proud flesh. We do not need to buy a product at the feed store. By the time we nurse our horses back to health, WE might know everything there is to know about the illness, not just what we were told at the vet office.

This article has the scientific facts and the “old school how-to that your vet does not always tell you. These methods of dealing with the dreaded infection, “Pigeon Fever,” are tried and true. The “facts” are proven; the rest is “old-timer” methods that cannot hurt and almost always helps a great deal. Trust me, any horse person who has dealt with this infection, and in my case more than once with over $8,000 on one horse due to internal abscesses, knows more than most.

History

The term “Pigeon Fever” is an old school term as typically, the abscesses settle in the horse’s chest resembling a pigeon’s breast. It was first reported in San Mateo County of California in 1915.

What

Gram-positive bacteria Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar equi, has many names as in Pigeon Fever, Dryland Distemper, Equine Distemper, and Colorado Strangles.

Bacteria Facts

It can survive up to two months in hay or bedding and more than eight months in soil.

The bacteria have an incubation period of three to four weeks, meaning that once your horse is exposed, it could take a month for them to show symptoms. It is EXTREMELY contagious.

Over time, horses will build up enough antibodies to overtake and fight the disease.

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How

The bacteria enters the horse’s system through scrapes, scratches, wounds, mucous membranes, or insects.

Types

External Abscesses [most common] | These abscesses can break out anywhere along the body, head, limbs, chest. Surprisingly, these types of abscesses do not cause a lot of pain. The fatality rate for this form of infection is extremely low.

Internal Abscesses [most concerning] | Fewer than 8% of affected horses develop internal abscesses, which are hard to diagnose. These abscesses are typically found in the spleen, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Most of the time, horses that cannot fend off the bacteria for an extended period of time, causing recurrent abscesses that last for a few months, are those that suffer this condition.

Most internal abscesses are found in older horses. The treatment is lengthy, expensive, and the death rate is 40%.

Ulcerative Lymphangitis | This form presents severe leg swelling and cellulitis. It is excruciating. In extreme cases, the prognosis is not good due to relapse and the development of laminitis.

Treatment

[regardless of type]

GO TO THE VET

• Ultrasound may be used to locate an abscess pocket so it can be lanced and drained. Often, the swelling is more significant than the abscess itself, making it challenging to lance just the abscess in a place that it will drain the best.

• Your vet will most likely prescribe an anti-inflammatory to help with draining and pain.

• In some cases, especially with internal and leg effected types, antibiotics are given to reduce other complications.

• Now, you might have heard that antibiotics in external cases can cause internal presentations. According to Suzanne Pratt, DVM, a 2005 study was conducted at UC Davis that found the wives’ tale to be untrue.

• Once the abscess is lanced, it will drain for a week or two.

By Sharee LaRue External Abscesses Your veterinarian will lance and drain the abscess and flush it out with a mixture of Betadine and water. They may also put in a drain tube as Pigeon Fever abscesses continue to produce pus. This allows for the wound to stay open and drain. They will also prescribe anti-inflammatory and possible antibiotics. Your job at home is to flush the wound several times a day via a dosing syringe and Betadine solution and keep the drain hole open. You will also want to take your horse’s temperature morning and night and report a fever to your vet [average horse temperature is typically between 99 and102F].

Other remedies for maximum healing time consists of

• Use a drawing salve to draw the infection out of the body.

This is messy and stinky…but worth it. Do not apply the salve to the wound opening.

• Take a pillowcase with a plastic zipper and fill it with uncooked rice. Heat it in the microwave [unless it has a metal zipper, then use the oven] until it is pretty warm to the touch, but not hot. Apply the heat compress to the affected area using polo wraps or bailing twine to hold it in place until cool at least two times a day. You can also use a feed sack and duct tape.

As long a horse is eating and drinking, the infection will run its course, much like a common cold virus.

Internal Abscesses Blood tests, such as synergistic hemolysis inhibition (SHI), will show infection or chronic inflammation. Other forms of imaging, such as X-Ray and MRI, can be helpful.

Horses found to have internal Pigeon Fever are usually left in veterinarians’ care or closely supervised and treated at home. IV antibiotics, pain meds, and anti-inflammatories are given.

The longevity of treatment depends on repeated blood tests and other diagnostic measures. You will also want to take your horse’s temperature morning and night and report a fever to your vet [average horse temperature is typically between 99 and102F]. This is a long road to recovery and can take longer than two months before the treatment is successful.

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Pigeon Fever continued Ulcerative Lymphangitis Antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory treatments are required to prevent prolonged infection, lameness, weakness, and weight loss due to pain. Keeping the affected area clean and disinfected is a must. You will also want to take your horse’s temperature morning and night and report a fever to your vet [average horse temperature is typically between 99 and102F].

Use a drawing salve to draw the infection out of the body.

This is messy and stinky…but worth it. Do not apply the salve to open wounds, just the surrounding areas.

You will also want to apply a warm compress a few times a day by reading the instructions under this article’s “external abscess treatment.”

Applying “dry” cold therapy between hot helps with healing time and pain.

Control the Spread

Quarantine all affected horses as far away from other horses as possible. It is best to keep the affected horse stalled to control the distribution of pus, but if a pen or pasture is all you have, it will do.

Collect the pus from the abscess in a bucket. Dispose of it along with all affected bedding by burning it. Wash the bucket out with bleach every time.

Remove the top layer of soil in the contaminated area and dispose of it in garbage bags. In most cases of pasture care, there is no practical way to eliminate the bacteria from soil.

• Wear disposable gloves • Wash your hands after treatment • Wear doubled old plastic sacks on shoes when treating the affected horse and dispose of them each time.

• Have one set of clothes to use to treat affected horses. Change your clothes when caring for the rest of the herd.

• Bleach anything that comes in contact with other horses, as in the trailer you took the affected horse to the vet in.

• Use fly spray, fly sheets, and other insect deterrents.

• Clean up poop to keep the insect population down.

Prevention

Fly control is key to prevention and control.

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Pigeon Fever is sometimes confused for Strangles, another infection that causes abscesses that is much more serious, or an infected puncture wound. The only way to know for sure what you are dealing with is to have the pus cultured by your vet.

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Equine 15 NATURAL R. Harry Anderson, PhD | Total Feeds, Inc. In my 50+ years experience working and consulting in the animal nutrition and well-being field, I have not seen a product with the same impact on equine health as Equine 15 NATURAL. Over 12 years ago I received a request from a Canadian company to advise them on a discovery they had made that could have a positive impact on the health of animals. After listening to some very interesting stories about how this simple product was reducing health problems in several species of animals, I became interested and not only watched their work, but had the opportunity to test it on some special cases of health problems in the equine world. Equine 15 NATURAL is, as the name implies, an all-natural product composed of a natural form of sulfur mixed with lignin sulfonate. As with most new food/feed or medical products, the work and testing to get permission to sell it took several years, but has been worth the wait time because of the outstanding benefits being reported by people using this product for physical problems in horses. Equine 15 NATURAL is produced by Nu Paradigm Animal Health, LTD in Calgary, AB and marketed by Total Feeds, Inc., Weatherford, TX. Equine 15 is totally natural and is not a drug or medication and no medical claims are ever made for its use.

Back to the beginning of my experience, I had the opportunity to test Equine 15 NATURAL on some rather severe health situations and was impressed with the results. The first case was a mare with a foal near weaning age that contracted EPM and was suffering severe neurological damage as a result. At that time she was unable to walk in a straight line as her rear quarters would not track with her front feet. It was so severe that the attending veterinarian was recommending euthanasia. They were treating with the common EPM treatment at that time with very-little success.

With only a few weeks of adding Equine 15 NATURAL on her feed at the rate of 5 grams per day, she showed much improvement and went on to near full recovery. The second experience was with a horse at a veterinary clinic that had cancer in one eye and the veterinarian was about to remove the eye, but decided to try Equine 15 NATURAL as there had been field reports in Canada of some limited success with this. After a short time of application, the cancer in the eye did slow in progress and the eye was saved. Neither of these successes can be explained as to the mode of action or why it worked.

What is known about the mode of action of Equine 15 NATURAL is rather limited. Since it is simply a nutrient that is required by all living organisms, there are many uses of sulfur in the metabolic activity in the body. One can speculate on many things. What is known from testing in the laboratory is that it does attenuate or slow the growth of certain viruses. It was challenged with several common viruses and in each case it did slow the replication rate. This could allow the immune system to gain control of a virus; however this is just speculation. The exact mode of action and why it is so beneficial is still unknown.

Equine 15 NATURAL was cleared to be sold in the U.S. in 2019 and since that time we have had a wide variety of experiences with using it in some rather serious situations. Because of the many different successes with it being of benefit to horses, people have shared literally dozens of stories about the benefits of this amazing product. The following is a partial list of benefits in horses as reported by customers: “controlled and reversed symptoms of EPM” 72 WorkinginHsymptoms orse Magazine 2020 Winter “reduction of navicular”

“shivers symptoms alleviated” “reduced chronic cough” “eliminated heaves” “watery eye stopped” “improvement in deteriorated suspensory ligament” “reduced anxiety” “reduced inflammation in a hock” “knee swelling of unknown origin reduced” “reduced severe hives” These are only a few of the stories related to us and, there are many more that are well documented. The following are some interesting examples: KASON AND HATTIE WOLFE – TX “We absolutely LOVE the equine 15!

The results seem almost instantly!

The barn cough went away within 5-6 days! The mare with a sore back leg isn’t showing signs of soreness anymore!! & my gelding’s face has grown all the hair back as well as no signs of allergies anymore! You are amazing Doc! I will be posting it on our business page~ so excited!! Thank you so much” MICHAEL UHL – CO “Good morning, Harry, saw your show on TV about Equine 15 and I have a horse that had one eye that drains a lot too. I got a hold of Phil and got some Equine 15, and in just 3 days his eye drainage stopped. Great stuff. Thanks Michael Uhl from Colorado” CINDY SHONK – KINGMAN, KS “I just want to let you know that I use equine 15 on my horse for Melanoma. He is a 20-year old Appaloosa and it is working great!!! Thanks for making such a great product!!!”

MELISSA MEROW – WS “I have a 12-year old mare that started showing signs of one of the PSSM’s 2-X. She was tested for PSSM 1,2 and IMM. All were negative. Haven’t had a testing done for others. , but showing signs of tying up, excess lactic acid muscle soreness and periodic lameness. I had not been able to ride her for over a year. I had tried numerous products and exercise programs, no joy. After talking to Dr. Harry Anderson about equine 15 for a clients EPM horse I asked if it would work for my PSSM horse and he said let’s try it. Low and behold, 3 weeks after giving it to her I was able to ride her! Love this stuff!”

LIZ TRUAX – BOWIE, TX “I started my yearling filly on Equine 15 approximately 3 months ago. This filly had been very sick with pneumonia as a weanling. She was up and down health-wise for most of her weanling year. We dealt with what we thought were physitis issues off and on. She finally reached a point where the lameness was obviously her right front. She was literally dragging her right front toe as she did not want to pick her leg up. The farrier had to trim her foot with leg forward as she would not allow him to bend her leg and lift the shoulder. She was x-rayed by a veterinarian and diagnosed with OCD in her shoulder. The prognosis was not good. We were told injections or surgery might make her more comfortable but not much hope for any more than that.

Euthanasia was recommended. After speaking with Dr Anderson, we started feeding her 8lbs of Total equine daily along with 1 teaspoon of Equine 15. Within just a few weeks we could see improvement in her. We could see improvement weekly. She has steadily progressed to the point you cannot tell she was ever lame.

She races around the pasture with the other yearlings. She can now stand and bend her knee to lift her foot for a trim as if nothing is wrong. Equine 15 was lifesaving for this young filly.”

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Mares with More| Royal Jazzy

By Larry Thornton ........................................................................................................................................................................................................

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hose of us that have been around the quarter horse for a while know that Bubba Cascio is a name familiar to the racing industry as one of the greatest racehorse trainers to ever send a horse to the track. He won two All American Futurities with Three Ohs and Rocket Wrangler, and he was the trainer of the legendary Dash For Cash, to name just a few of his famous runners. But before Bubba became that successful racehorse trainer, he started life on the racetrack with his family and then a side trip through the cutting industry.

When Bubba was about three or four years old, his parents divorced, and he went to live with an aunt and uncle. The uncle was the track maintenance supervisor at a track named Epsom Downs in Houston, Texas. Epsom Downs was a replica of the famous track of the same name in England. This English racetrack is the home of the important Epsom Derby, which is best known as “The Derby.”

When racing was legalized in Texas in the mid 1930’s the Epsom Downs of Houston was built, becoming a key racetrack.

But legalized gambling didn’t last long, and in about 1937, legalized gambling went down again. Epsom Downs of Houston became a training track, and this became the home of a young Bubba that was destined to be the legendary horseman we are

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When you grow up on a racetrack, and you are a son of a trainer, you pretty much become a jockey, and Bubba is no exception. Bubba’s dad was Jake Cascio, a successful racehorse trainer in his own right. Bubba, the jockey, would ride Garrett’s Miss Pawhuska, an AQHA Hall of Fame mare and the dam of three champions, including Vandy’s Flash, an AQHA Racing World Champion as well as the divisional AQHA Racing Champions in Vanetta Dee and Vannevar. He rode Mae West Ferguson for the breeder of Go Man Go. The breeder was J. B. Ferguson.

Mae West Ferguson became the grand-dam of Hustling Man, an All American Futurity winner, another Ferguson bred runner. He also rode horses like Rocket, Hot Shot R, and Goodson’s Snappy. He rode Goodson’s Snappy to a track record for 300 yards in :16.00 at Del Rio, Texas, in 1946.

Bubba Cascio is like many young men; he outgrew his being a jockey. This is where Matlock Rose steps into the picture. Matlock would go to work for Lester Goodson, where Jake Cascio was training the Goodson racehorses. Matlock was hired to train and show the Goodson performance horses. When Bubba and Matlock crossed paths at Goodson’s, it set the young man on a new path. Bubba, no longer a jockey, became a cutting horse rider and trainer.

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Here is how Bubba describes his meeting Matlock Rose. “I idolized him. I wanted to walk like him, and I even had my hat shaped like his. I wanted to ride a horse like him and felt I never did do it as good as he did it.”

Bubba took to his new career like a duck to water. He would ride a horse like Do Si So, Ott, Calamity Jane, Poco Mona, Jessie James, and Royal Jazzy. With Ott, he won the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, Southwestern Stock Show & Rodeo in Fort Worth, and the Sandhills Stock Show in Odessa. With Calamity Jane, he won the Kansas City Royal Stock Show, the Dixie National Stock Show, and he was part of the team that put her in the 1956 NCHA Open Top Ten. His co-riders were Bob & Judy Burton and Billy Bush. With Poco Mona, he won the National Western Stock Show in Denver, and he was a part of the team that put her in the 1955 NCHA Open Top Ten. His co-riders were owner B. A. “Barney” Skipper and Shorty Freeman. He was the first to win a stock show on a Paint (Calamity Jane). He believes he was the last to show Jessie James.

Matlock would eventually take the job of manager of Edgar Brown’s Pinehurst Stable of Orange, Texas and Bubba became a trainer on the staff. It was at Pinehurst that Bubba came to find a mare named Royal Jazzy. Royal Jazzy would become a member of the Bubba Cascio family, and that is the rest of our story and LITTLE JOE br 1905 JEANETTE 2 1901 STRAIT HORSE dun

this edition of Mares With More.

Bubba tells the story of how Royal Jazzy became a part of his family this way, “She was a coming three-year-old, and they had a load of them on the van that we were going to start doing something with and she came off the van, and she looked like a little ole Thoroughbred mare. A little ole slim looking thing.

Mr. Brown said, ‘Bubba, she is a small one, and you are small l guess we will let you have her.” Bubba would be the only trainer for Royal Jazzy from that point on.

Royal Jazzy and Bubba would make their first appearance in an AQHA show in February 1959 at Fort Worth in the junior cutting. She would earn fourth place in a class of 53, earning her first three AQHA points. They would appear in several more AQHA shows, with their first win coming in the Junior Cutting at the State Fair of Texas in October in a class of 42 junior cutters.

Bubba recalls this show and how he definitely knew after this show he had a special horse. “I won the junior cutting at State Fair of Texas at Dallas in 1959. This is when they would work the senior horse against the junior horse for the trophy. The money was different for each event, but they would run the two winners to name a show champion. You know you don’t have much of a chance to beat the older horses. Well, two horses tied for

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They tied for the senior championship, and I beat them both.”

Bubba continued about what made this mare so special, “She had something I had never seen another horse do, and I just let her do it. I’d tell my help to turn that cow to me, and if that cow was moving, I would say let her come to me, and if that cow came to her, she would get down nearly on her belly trembling like she was going to have a heart attack and the people would start screaming and hollering. I could see the cash register go bling when she would do that.”

Bubba had his horse, but could he keep her? “When Mr. Brown split the Pinehurst thing up in 1960, I said, ‘I would sure like to buy this mare, but I didn’t know how to go about it.’ I went and asked him, and this was on a Friday. He said Bubba, ‘I will give you till Monday at nine o’clock to buy and if you don’t, I’ve got another man I am going to sell her too. I had just gotten married, and we had a baby. I had $1,900 in the bank.

Anyway, I tried one or two people, but I hadn’t said anything to Matlock. He had been so good to me, but I called him up told him I wanted to buy her. I said, ‘Matlock, she is ready to sell, but I don’ have the money! They want $5,000 for her.’ He said, ‘Where are you going to be in the morning?’ I told him, ‘I am going to be here in Fort Worth.’ He said, ‘Meet me at the gate in the morning, and we will talk about it.’ So when I walked out to the gait, he reached in his pocket and gave me an envelope. He said, ‘Here you go buy that mare you need her bad.’ That is how I got that mare.”

He added this to put his purchase of Royal Jazzy in perspective, “Back then horses weren’t bringing a lot of money.

Don Dodge bought Poco Lena for $8,000. He bought Snipper

W for $7,500. And these horses were ready to go.” Poco Lena would be a five-time NCHA Open Reserve World Champion, and Snipper W was the 1953 NCHA Open World Champion.

Bubba recalled this about his mare and an opportunity to sell her.

“When I was riding out of the arena one time, this fella called me over to his box and said that if I took that mare back to her stall and took the halter off her, he would have a man there to put his halter on her. And he would have a check for $25,000 cut for me.”

“I owed Matlock $1,500 on that mare, and I had been paying him some each month. He had his horse right there, and I told him a man wants to give me $25,000 for her. If you need the money, I will go sell her. He looked at me and said, ‘When I gave you that money to buy her, I thought you needed that mare, and you still need her.’ I said ok, and I went back and told him I was going to keep her. I went from there to Tennessee, and I tied winning the Junior, and Poco Mona won the Senior. She was a hellva mare, and I beat her.”

Bubba used the following story about what kind of a cutter Royal Jazzy was. “I went to Ruidoso, and I asked Matlock to keep the mare for me. I didn’t want her standing around, and he said, bring her over here. I was gone about a month, and he calls me and said Weatherford that year had a cutting, and Leo Huff didn’t have a horse to ride. What about him riding your ole mare? I said, yes. Well, he wins the cutting. They come back by Gainesville, and he wins that cutting. Well, I was down there for something and went by there. Leo was sitting there, and he said, ‘Come here, Bubba.’ I said, ‘What you need.’ He said, ‘I thought you was a hellva hand on a horse. You was just beating them people with that mare, but you ain’t nothin’ anybody can ride that mare. You’re just another rider.”

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Royal Jazzy would earn an AQHA Superior Award in cutting with 279 AQHA cutting points. They would win the State Fair of Texas AQHA cutting three times. They won the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo two times and the Memphis Stock Show.

She was an NCHA Silver and Bronze Award winner. She would finish seventh in the 1961 and 1962 NCHA Open Top Ten and win the 1963 NCHA World’s Championship Finals. She earned $28,197.43.

Sadly Royal Jazzy would die before she produced any foals.

She became an integral part of the Cascio family, serving as a source of income to keep Bubba on his road to success and his Hall of Fame career. But this sad part of the story may come into focus, even more, when we talk about her pedigree and what she might have produced as a broodmare.

T h e pedigree history of Royal Jazzy starts

earned NCHA Top Ten rankings for four years. He was third in the top ten in 1952. He stood second with the NCHA Reserve World Championship in 1953 to go along with his NCHA World Champion Stallion title. He was sixth and ninth, respectively, in the 1954 and 1955 top ten. He won $23,976.19 in his cutting career. He earned the NCHA Certificate of Ability, NCHA Bronze, and NCHA Silver Awards. He was Superior in cutting in the AQHA with 106 performance points.

Royal King not only had a good show record, but his sire record got a good start. He sired seven AQHA and NCHA performers from his first crop, with all of them either going on to earn an ROM or money in the arena. This first crop included the great cutting mare, Miss Nancy Bailey. Miss Nancy Bailey would earn the NCHA Hall of Fame Award. She was also the 1952 and 1953 AQHA High Point Cutting Horse. She made the NCHA Top Ten five times from 1952 to 1957.

Royal King would sire 590 AQHA registered foals.

He became an AQHA leading sire of ROM. His A Q H A performers earned 88 ROM with 10 AQHA Championships and 15 Superior Awards. His Bubba a nd Roya foals earned l Jazzy w inning th 3,971.5 points e NCHA Finals in with Earl Albin, the owner of her in the AQHA. 1964 sire, the great Royal King. According to the column He sired Royal “Cow Horse Legends” by Melinda McCutchen in the REMUDA Lightning, the 1963 AQHA MAGAZINE titled “Dan Taylor-A Cowboy Legend,” Earl Albin High Point Western Pleasure Stallion.

His sold the mare Jazmau to Clyde Henderson of Lubbock, Texas. AQHA Champions include M & M Moon King, Royal Angel, She had a foal by Royal King. That foal was Royal Jazzy. As the Royal Cupie Doll, Royal Lightning, and Royal Rainy. His Supestory goes, Albin bought the foal back as a two-year-old, and rior Cutting Horses include King Caperton, Royal Dandy, Royal she was turned over to Dan Taylor, a top roper that was heavily Fleet, and Skeeter Conway. The NCHA earnings for Royal King involved in Rodeo. sired horses stands at $346,969.52. Some of these performers Here is what Taylor had to say about the filly that he believed were Royal Chess, NCHA Reserve Open World Champion, was the best horse he ever rode, “Most people who have horses 1972 AJQHA World Champion Cutting Horse, and an NCHA just dream about riding a horse like her. I’ve ridden a lot of good Hall of Fame member; Jazzy Socks, NCHA Non-Pro Futurity horses, but she stood out above the rest.” When telling about Reserve Champion, and Royal Royale, NCHA Futurity Finalist.

Royal Jazzy, Taylor used phrases like “the real goods” and “this King Caperton, Royal Morris, and Skeeter Conway were NCHA mare handled unbelievably well.” Taylor put about 30 rides on Bronze Award winners. His NCHA Silver Award winners were the mare, and she returned to Albin. Albin sold her to Stanley Miss Nancy Bailey, Royal Chess, and Royal Jazzy.

Bush, who sold her to Pinehurst Stables, where she was put Royal King was a son of King P-234, who was a son of Zantain the hands of Bubba Cascio. non by Little Joe. The dam of Zantanon was Jeanette by Billy by Royal King was a highly successful show horse and sire. He Big Boy by Sykes Rondo. The damMof King P-234 Working Horse agazine 2020was WJabalina inter 81

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by Strait Horse by Yellow Jacket. The dam of Jabalina was a Bay consistencies in the pedigree of this mare. Some pedigree reMare who was believed to be a daughter of Traveler, who was searchers list the sire of Coldy as Yellow Jacket. the sire of Little Joe. Garford Wilkinson wrote a biography of Royal King that apRocket Laning was the dam of Royal King, and the AQHA peared in the December issue of THE QUARTER HORSE JOURInternet records shows that Rocket Laning was sired by Dolph NAL in 1965 titled “Royal King.” In this story, Wilkinson tells and his sire is unknown. The dam of Rocket Laning is Cricket us that Rocket Laning carried the blood of Dolph, Gregg Horse,

by Coldy, and then Internet records pretty much stop for Rock- Cricket, Mamie, Coldy, and Rose. But today, we never see the et Laning. Dolph, Gregg Horse, in most all of our Mamie, or Rose pedigrees, was in the pedigree sired by a horse of this great named Gold Digmare. ger. The Gold The Gregg Digger they are Horse brings referring to was in Rocky Red, bred on the W. T. the full brother Waggoner Ranch to Royal King, of Vernon, Texinto our discusas. Gold Digsion of the pedger is listed in igree of Rocket my AQHA Stud Laning. This Book as owned gelding is listed

by John Weeks in the AQHA Earnshaw of Stud Book as Ballinger, Texas. out of Rocket Gold Digger is (Rocket Lanlisted as sired by ing) by Dolph Folsom; a stallion

by Cremo. used on the WagPedigree regoner Ranch for searcher and several years. author Victoria Folsom is Anne Short has found in Bob a very interestDenhardt’s book ing and useful FOUNDATION booklet called SIRES OF THE STUD PLAY AMERICAN ON NAMES. Q U A RT E R This is a compiHORSE. He lation of names was bought as a of horses that 12-year-old stalwere known by lion for duty on more than one the Waggoner name. On page Ranch. He was a 11, she lists a palomino, and his horse named pedigree is unCremo by Yelknown. The Waglow Jacket. The Royal Jazzy and Bubba when they were at Pinehurst. goner Ranch had alias for Cremo a lot of palomiis the Gregg nos and duns in their history. Folsom came from Folsom, New Horse. This brings Cremo, alias the Gregg Horse, into the pedMexico, thus the name. He was described by one of his owners igree of Rocket Laning. Thus we have come onto one of those as a 14.2 hand 1100-pound horse. The dam of Dolph is listed as interesting moments of conflicting information. Which pedigree Queen. Queen, in turn, is listed as a daughter of Yellow Jacket, for Rocket Laning is right and which is wrong? the famous Waggoner Stallion.

Albin would buy Jazmau back, and she would produce a The dam of Rocket Laning is the mare Cricket sired by Coldy. number of foals that played a role in the influence of Royal The fact that Cricket is sired by Coldy is another one of those King as a sire. When Albin bought the mare, she had a foal sired

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by Cody’s Tony that is listed as bred by Henderson. This filly was Tony Jazzy. This mare would go on to produce Jazzy Socks, the 1969 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity Reserve Champion. Jazzy Socks was the dam of Son Ofa Doc, who sired cutting horses that earned over $5.4 million.

His foals include Bob Acre Doc, the 1991 NCHA Open World Champion, and the 1994 NCHA Non-Pro World Champion. The NCHA Open Reserve World Champion in 1991 was Son Ofa Senior by Son Ofa Doc. Short Doc was another NCHA Hall of Fame cutting horse that earned the 1990 NCHA Open Reserve World Championship. Jazzy Socks is the dam of Doc Wilson, an NCHA Hall of Fame cutting horse and sire of foals that have earned over $1.1 million. His leading money winner was Commandas Wilson, winner of $130,368.

Royal King Tony was another Tony Jazzy foal that was sired by Royal King. Royal King Tony Royal Kin g winning would sire a filly named Queen Vicky. When they the Gran d Champ bred Queen Vicky to Doc Quixote, they got Jazio Wyoming State Fair n Stallion at the zote. This gelding would win the 1984 and 1985 NCHA .

Abilene Non-Pro World Championship with George Glover, his owner Spectacular in the saddle. Glover and Sonny Rice would team up to make Jazzote the 1986 NCHA Open World Champion Cutting Horse. Non-Pro Classic Reserve Championship. She is the dam of MH Bodees Starlena, winner of He won $586,212.

Royal Jazabell was a full sister to Royal Jazzy. She earned $333,722. Dual Jazz, a son of Jazabell Quixote, is a million-dolone halter point and seven performance points. She became the lar sire of cutting horse money earners of over $1.3 million. dam of Bill’s Jazabell by Cutter Bill. Bill’s Jazabell would place A look at the pedigree of Jazmau will give us an indication of her third in the 1975 Open and Non-Pro Futurities. She helped carry contribution to the cutting ability of Royal Jazzy. Her sire was her owner Spencer Harden to fourth in the NCHA Non-Pro Top Ten. She was named the 1976 NCHA World Champion Mare with a top ten finish in the open. She also carried Harden’s son Mark to the NCHA Reserve Youth Championship.

Harden would breed Bill’s Jazabell to get one foal named Jazabell Quixote by Doc Quixote. Jazabell Quixote would win the 1982 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity and then earn the 1983 Super Stakes Non-Pro Reserve Championship and the NCHA Derby Non-Pro Co-Reserve Championship.

Jazabell Quixote would get her own branch of the Jazmau family. She is the dam of horses that have earned over $1.2 million.

Heading the list is her son July Jazz, winner of the 1989 NCHA Open Futurity and the reserve champion in the Non-Pro Futurity.

He would earn $302,315. Jazalena/Smart Lil Jazalena (APHA/ AQHA) was the 1988 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity Reserve Champion. She earned $145,809. Some of her other money earners were Jazzy Joe Lena, winner of $118,876; Hickoryote, winner of $110,627, and Jazzy Little Giant, winner of $99,873. Royal Serena Belle, a daughter of Jazabell Quixote, was the 1996 NCHA Futurity Open Reserve Champion. She earned $124,196.

She is the dam of One Time Royalty, the 2010 NCHA Open Futurity Champion. One Time Royalty is the sire of Royal Isabella, winner of the 2016 NRCHA Non-Pro Futurity and the NRCHA Intermediate Non-Pro Futurity. Jazzy Joe Lena is the grandsire of horses that have earned $1.2 million with his leading money Royal Jazzy and Bubba’s daughter Jodi winner Woodys Bad Boy with earnings of $355,434 and winner Photo Courtesy Bubba and Judy Cascio of the 2008 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity. Jazzy Starlena was the

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Little Jazz, a son of Jazz. Jazz was the sire of Red the sire out and become the sole owner of this great stallion. of Jessie James, the great cutting horse Matlock Rose rode Bubba Cascio lost an integral part of his family when he to the 1951 NCHA Open Top Ten Reserve Championship. lost Royal Jazzy. When you ask him about this great mare, The dam of Jazmau was Maurzy by Band Time. Band Time he lights up and has fond memories of his great mare. He was a Thoroughbred sired

by High Time, and he was out of Bandymo

by Uncle. The dam of Maurzy was Sis Bailey B by Fred Bailey by Old Joe Bailey. Fred Bailey was out of Big Dun by Buck by Old Joe Bailey.

The dam of Big Dun was Big Nancy by Red Electride.

The dam of Sis Bailey B was Roxie by Buck

by Old Joe Bailey.

This gives Sis Bailey B a breeding pattern of 2 X 4 X 3 to Old Joe Bailey.

The NCHA Hall of Fame mare Miss Bubba on Goodson’s Snappy with Mr. Goodson and his dad Jake.

Clipping from THE QUARTER HORSE magazine.

Nancy Bailey by Royal King reinforces the blood of Jazmau as a cross on Roy- certainly has good reason because of the little mare that al King. Her pedigree shows that she was out of Nan- “would get down nearly on her belly trembling like she cy Bailey by Old Joe Bailey, and her dam was Nancy was going to have a heart attack and the people would start

by Red Electride. These horses were bred by Jack Wh- screaming and hollering. I could see the cash register go iteside, the original partner with Albin, when they pur- bling when she would do that.” She had to be a thrill to chased Royal King. Albin would later buy Whiteside ride, making her one of our Mares with More.

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Montana Ranch & Recreational Property Real Estate Assessment 2020

By Rod Freeman, Realtor & Member of MT Ranch Properties, a division of BHHS Montana Properties. ......................................................................................................................................................................................................

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ontana Ranch Properties specializes in recreational, agriculture, land, and sporting properties across the state of Montana. BHHS Montana Properties is the largest volume Real Estate firm in Montana with 17 offices across Western Montana. My personal web site is BitterrootHorseProperty.com.

The major source for the data that will be presented was Montana Land Source, a service and web site, www.mtlandsource.com, headed

by Andy Rahn who, in addition to his other talents, is an Accredited Rural Appraiser. The site tracks all available Montana land listings and sales for all properties 200 acres and up. Currently the site is reporting 435 properties for sale consisting of 976,253 acres with a total listing value of $1,791,956,964.

Andy just completed compiling a report of sales by number of properties for all of 2019 and 2020 through October.

This data revealed a significant surge in unit sales during September and October, with 25 sales during September 2019 compared to 35 during September 2020 and 24 sales during October 2019 compared to 40 during October 2020.

Sales for 2020 have routinely exceeded 2019 sales despite the pandemic travel restrictions and concerns.

Another part of this evaluation looked at time on market and in this area, Andy was surprised to observe that there had been an increase in time on market for the sales for 2020 as compared to 2019. A further examination of this data revealed that fewer qualified properties had entered the market during 2020 while a significant portion of the sales were for properties with extended time on the market.

There are several items driving this segment of the market as well as the often much smaller recreational, sporting, and equestrian properties, for which there has been a significant increase in sales during 2020.

The first potential market driver is the pandemic itself which has created a desire for buyers to seek more remote and/or private properties as a place of seclusion and anticipated safety.

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The second potential market driver has been the publicity surrounding Paramount’s Yellowstone series. The primary ranch featured in the series is just south of Darby Montana. The first three seasons were filmed 30% in Montana and 70% in Utah, however the production company has pulled out of Utah and season four is being filmed in its entirety in Ravalli and Missoula county, and primarily in Ravalli. The movie industry has been responsible for buyers discovering Montana on three occasions, first with a River Runs Through It, second with the Horse Whisperer and now with Yellowstone.

A third potential market driver has always been here but the first two discussed have contributed to a re-discovery of these, Montana has unmatched natural beauty and plenty of wide-open spaces.

We expect the market for land sales to continue to increase during 2021, particularly for recreational, equestrian, and sporting properties. As Montana continues to have more cows than people, the cattle market is a market driver for the larger ranches and farms. Beef production is projected to slightly increase in 2020, with a more significant increase projected for 2021. In fact, the largest projected increase for the next five years is for 2021. This cattle market statistic may contribute to a continued loss of the family owned smaller cattle operations with those properties being sold to developers in the areas surrounding the Montana’s population centers and the consolidation of ranches into larger holdings. As a personal comment, it is sad to see the loss of so many smaller outfits but as these owners continue to age and their sons and daughters continue to seek non-agricultural employment, the disposal of these ranches becomes more and more likely. It is a sad fact of life today that ranchers and farmers are dirt rich and income poor.

As difficult and dangerous as it is to attempt to predict the future, we are positive about the potential for the current real estate market, particularly for the areas that Montana Ranch Properties focuses on, to continue to expand.

Montana Ranch Property ranch and recreational experts, (www.ranchmt.com) are ready to assist you regarding either finding your Montana dream property or in our premium market knowledge and tools to assist you in successfully marketing your property. Looking forward to seeing you on down the trail.

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The outbuildings are an essential element of what must be described as having a Western architectural design, with clean lines, and total functionality.

The horse barn has 3 stalls with turnout runs, storage rooms, finished tack room/office, wash rack with hot and cold water, and a laundry area with a half bath. To round out the barn facility there is a 100x200 outdoor arena, a loafing shed and 60 ft round pen. The upper level apartment has an open floorplan, Alder cabinets and plenty of storage and a Rinnai instant hot water system providing for domestic use and in floor radiant heat.

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22 min N.W. of Weatherford - paved highway. Gently rolling to heavily rolling to with scattered trees to timber along the creek to open fields. Productive coastal bermuda and cultivation land.

A tremendous hors facility including 2 covered arenas, a huge elaborate show barn, 3 more stall barns, traps.

32.4 Acre Horse Facility Multiple nice res1003 Lamkin Road, Mineral Wells, TX. A nice 16 stall horse idences or suites, barn, with 4 rollup doors, office, break room, apartment, foreman’s home, tack room, and wash bays. An impressive 300x130 covered laborer’s quararena, with extras. A 140x140 outdoor cutting pen, 2 breakters. Many barns ing pens, a 4-horse panel walker, many traps I paddocks. for supplies. An A 3-2.1-2 remodeled brick home with a metal roof, a douincredible propblewide laborer’s quarters, pipe and V-mesh fencing, water erty. $13,897,500 wells, great soil and coastal bermuda. $1,395,000

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60 Acre “ESMS on the Brazos” Equine Breeding Facility & Ranch

268 Acre Gorgeous Cattle & Horse Ranch

801 Cougar Road, Lipan, Parker County, TX. A private location only 20 minutes southwest of Weatherford and/or just south of Brock in southern Parker County on a paved county road. The property is breathtaking as well as productive with its coastal bermuda & wheat land creek bottoms and scattered to thick hardwood trees. An impressive and luxurious 7,445 SF Mediterranean 2 story stone & stucco home overlooks the captivating property. % minerals owned and conveyed. $5,250,000.00, will divide.

22.26 Acres 4 8 7 0 Hwy 67 South, Graham, TX. A SF 54 Santa Fe style home with an adobe tile exterior and a flat roof. An open concept home. A large, covered arena, two horse barns, an office/ bunkhouse, haylimplement barn, steel cattle pens, co-op water, ponds, pipe fence and gated entry. $789,500.00.

SW Weatherford, TX. Set up as an equine breeding, fertility, and semen operation on sandy loam soil next to the Brazos River. High quality improvements include 2 barns totaling 86 stalls with apartments, office, Semen labs, 3-2 stone home & pool, riding area, covered round pen, hay barn, stone entrance, paved driveway, extensive pipe fencing, 15 paddocks, and 14 loafing sheds. $2,385,000

152 Ac “Rock Creek Ranch” Cutting Horse Facility 1788 FM 1885 west, Weatherford, TX. A 3200 SF, 3-3, stone, ranch style home, metal roof and wrap around covered porch. A spacious, open floor plan, granite and marble surfaces, antique oak timbers/ beams, and stained concrete floors. Very high-end rustic home.

A stone patio, custom pool, hot tub, and waterfall. Covered out. door kitchen, bar, dining area, and fireplace.

Covered arena, 20 stall barn, outdoor arena, shoplstorage bldg., commodity barn, excellent coastal bermuda, scattered post oak trees & timber. $3,950,000.00.

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WEATHERFORD - Recently completed construction on this beautiful breath taking facility. Features an 8 stall show barn with all the amenities. Wash Rack, Tack and Feed room, fly system, automatic waterer, 40 x 120 equipment shed with storage. All just built. An incredible great room is attached with ceiling to floor stone fireplace. granite counter bar in kitchen area, Vaulted ceilings 22 Ft. Restroom and shower all custom tiles and stone. All pipe and stainless fencing. Year round creek. The perfect place to build your own custom retreat!!!!! 15 Min to Fort Worth. The Perfect Country Retreat. A Must see and Priced to sell!!

BOBBY NORRIS $950,000

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NOCONA | INCOME PRODUCING PROPERTY!!

This unique Western Village sits on the highest point in Montage County, it boasts a Fudge Factory, Boutique & Trading Post.2 br, 2 bath Barndominium 84x36, with 4-12 stalls with automatic

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water and feed room.

Separate guest cottage with bathroom. Tiny home, 4 RV park hook ups, 2 water wells, 2 ponds, 3 septic’s. All under 2 years old.

BOBBY BOWDEN $389,500 $385,000

GRANDVIEW - Beautiful ranch home surrounded by 66 acres of scattered trees and improved pastures in the desirable Grandview ISD. 5 bedrooms and bathrooms with multiple living areas and a game room with wet bar and fireplace.Guest house and in ground pool with views of pecan orchard. Fenced and cross fenced for horses with concrete floored shop and 4 stall horse barn. This place is absolutely gorgeous and worth yousell!!

GABE WEBSTER $1,400,000

LIPAN - One of a kind Corporate Retreat or family ranch less than an hour West of Down- town Fort Worth. This custom home includes all the upgrades including an outdoor kitchen with rock fireplace and heated saltwater pool with waterfall and spa.

Excellent hunting and fishing from 3 stock tanks. Beautiful lake site where buck and turkey creek join. All new fences, cross fenced into 3 pastures. Automatic gate, barn and holding pens. Lots of road frontage.

BOBBY BOWDEN $1,235,000 $ 1,195,000

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POLLVILLE - 21.649 acres in Peaster isd on 920, 2 miles north of Peaster schools. Pipe fences and pond and electric on property, tree line views, rolling terrain. Recently planted in coastal Bermuda grasses.

2 loafing sheds, large mature scattered oak. Seller owns minerals.

BOBBY NORRIS $433,000

This Western Colorado ranch has an appealing set of assets, starting with 142 acres of pastures and irrigated hayfields, a very nice custom home, horse facilities, automatic waterers, and a gorgeous mountain setting.

Though the property is very private and secluded, it is only a mile

distant from the town of Crawford. The West Elk mountain range offers hundreds of miles of wilderness trails for hunting and exploring, and the Crawford Reservoir is only a mile away for boating and fishing. The home has a total of 5 bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths, with a spacious great room with custom fireplaces. The master suite on the main level is very spacious, with a 5-piece master bath and large walk-in master closets and big views of the surrounding mountains.

There are two offices and two smaller bedrooms sharing a jack-and-jill bath, as well as a powder room and laundry. Above the garage is a spacious 2-bedroom apartment with a large living room, kitchen, and full bath. The acreage is set up with several individual pastures, each with its own frost-free waterer. This a truly special horse property or small cattle ranch with good water rights, and blazing-fast fiber-optic internet right to the house.

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Fall Real Estate Market Report | By John Stratman | Broker/Owner

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....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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.

Our agents “Live It to Know It” and offer our clients more than 133 years of experience.

MARKET UPDATE: Last Spring we reported that the COVID-19 pandemic would create hardships and opportunities in the real estate market. What we didn’t know is how pronounced those hardships and opportunities would be. We have seen the residential marketplace boom in big cities and small towns throughout the middle part of the country. Anything with a “Roof on it” in the rural market has seen strong interest this summer and fall. Likewise, the mountain resort areas have also boomed as people both vacationed and relocated to these attractive locations, in fact so much so that traffic jams and overcrowding have become evident in many of the resort markets.

The land, farm and ranch markets have been much less impacted by the rush to move away from the high-density cities, but nonetheless have been active. The agriculture production lands have been the slowest to transact as the ability to turn a profit or return on investment has been impacted by low commodity prices and high input costs.

We believe this trend is in the beginning of change and we have seen some rebound in grain prices. We expect that commodity prices will continue to move upward slowly over time and with that will come a modest uptick in land prices for working farms and ranches Agricultural Farm and Ranch Large working ranch sales activity are driven by 1031 activity and while demand is light, there is not an abundance of quality inventory. Our forecast is that this trend will continue until we see some uptick in cattle prices.

Farms were still sluggish due to low grain prices. While grain markets are likely to continue to be driven by supply side matters, we expect the lower interest rates and alternative investments to the stock market will increase

interest in farm properties as a safe investment in uncertain times. Land values are driven by the strength of the neighborhood as neighbors have been the principal buyers as of recent.

Recreation and Lifestyle The recreational markets continue to be active as buyers seek privacy and outdoor activities as well as the benefit of secluded “rooftops””.

Expectations The impact of COVID-19 will continue to impact markets into 2021 as unemployment for many remains a factor. We do not see any inflation pressure as this is mainly driven by a low unemployment near 4-5 percent. The Federal reserve should keep interest rates equal to current rates to help maintain positive economic momentum. The outcome of the election will have some impact and another round of Federal stimulus may be on the horizon.

However, just finalizing the election results will provide some relief to the uncertainty and let the marketplace find its own way.

We expect 2021 to be an active year in real estate. As the markets navigate the effects of election, trade outlook, direction of the stock market and the economy, and moving past COVID-19, we expect to see good activity for land and most forms of real estate.

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 begin to improve.

We are cautiously optimistic for general improvement in working farm and ranch sales as money finds its way to undervalued assets.

Overall, we are optimistic about the markets we serve as available inventory and value based pricing continue to dominate the market place. Mason Morse Ranch Company agents are available to assist you with your real estate buying and selling needs across the U.S. Please contact one of our land professionals to discuss your needs by calling 877-207-9700 or going to www.ranchland.com.

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High Selling Horse GS King Duster Drift Of the 25 two year olds started under saddle, offered by the Bartlett Ranch, Lot 49 ,Twoeyesintheback a blue roan gelding topped the herd at $9750.

He is by Two Eyed Jazzy Buck and out of a Royals Diligent mare, Royals Miss Fancy. This gorgeous fellow traveled to Montana to make his new home.

September 19 marked the Saturday of the 20th Annual “Fall” Sale held by the Smith family and Dr. H. B. Bartlett.

In combination with the May Sale this was our 57th Sale.

An active crowd of buyers on sight and through Superior Livestock took home 31 broke geldings, 23 two year olds started under saddle, 1 two year old stallion, three yearlings, 16 weanlings and 3 bred mares. 22 states were represented.

COMPLETE SALE RESULTS CAN BE FOUND AT www.wyohorses.com AVERAGES 31 broke geldings $19,863 23 two year olds $6239 3 yearling mares $3767 16 weanling fillies $3116 1 stallion $6250 3 bred mares $5167 The high selling gelding was Lot 80 GS King Duster Drift a blue roan 7 year old gelding. Duster is a big, upstanding fellow that has made his living on a ranch. He sold for $44,500. The top 10 geldings averaged $30,400 and the top 20, $23,838.

One two year old stallion, Lot 50 Rey Of Sparky Shines sold for $6250. This pretty dark palomino is by the late Stallion, Wyo Sparky Shines and out of a daughter of Dual Rey, Can You Trotter. He makes his new home in Texas.

Three pretty yearlings sold and the high seller was Lot 8, ELS Smoke N Gypsy at $4400. This well- bred pretty palomino mare is by ELS Smoke N Playgun and out of a Watch Two Eyed Buck/Quick Safari daughter, Safari Tyree. She will live in Nebraska.

3 bred mares offered by Bill Smith sold. All were by Royals Diligents and had been pasture bred on the Bartlett Ranch for many years. The high seller was a 3-in- package, lot 21 Red Tail Hock a red roan mare with a buckskin filly by side by Temping Fling and pasture exposed to Tempting Fling for a 2021 foal. She brought $6750 and was Texas bound.

The sale topper for weanlings was Lot 76, HBB Rose Gold Gal, a stunning palomino mare by Woody’s outstanding stallion, Ima Metallic Gold by Metallic Cat and out of a daughter of Playboys Buck Fever, Buckin Bay Rose.

She brought a price tag of $7700. Utah is her new home.

The WYO sale members and crew wish to thank all that were in attendance or bid on Superior Livestock and congratulate the successful buyers. We truly appreciate your confidence in your purchases. Our 38th May sale will be held in Thermopolis, Wyoming on May 15, 2021. It will feature broke geldings, started two year olds and yearlings.

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HIGH SELLING HORSE lr duel swanky roan

$15,000 2016 Bay Roan Gelding | Leo Hancock Roan x Swanky Duel Hancock | Bred by Lauing Ranch Sold to Florida

What an amazing 2020 BLUE VALENTINE & DRIFTWOOD Heritage Production Horse Sale! Due to an outbreak of Vesticulas Stomatitis in Missouri, the difficult decision was made to offer the same great horses in an online only format via DVAuction for 2020. The 2020 Blue Valentine & Driftwood Heritage Production Sale included selections from the heart of the 6 breeding programs featuring modern horses carrying the genetics of Blue Valentine and Driftwood. Every single horse in the sale was 5 panel N/N either by direct testing or parentage. Beginning on September 12 through September 19th, a large number of online bidders from 28 states and Germany viewed on the internet and bid on the 56 lots. Horses found new homes with buyers from 20 states coast to coast along with Texas and Florida. There was a lot of interest in the offerings and it held strong through the entire sale week.

The highest selling horse, Lot 12, offered by Lauing Ranch in South Dakota, was a grandson of both Leo Hancock Hayes and Revue Hancock. LR DUEL SWANKY ROAN, a 2016 bay roan gelding, trained and shown by Becky Amio in the AQHA Ranching Heritage Challenges, found a new home in Florida for $15,000.

The highest selling weanling stallion, Lot 1, was a very nice blue roan was sired by Lauing Ranch’s JM ROWDY BLUE HAYES out of LR Hancocks Blue Pat. The homozygous roan stallion brought $6,700 finding a new home in Texas. The second highest selling weanling stallion, Lot 3, a red roan colt, sired by the late Hancock Red Fox out of LR Revue Berry Maid, is now home in Ohio at $5,000.

Highest selling weanling filly, Lot 14 was a beautiful bay, Bonny Blues daughter out of a Revue Hancock daughter, LR Hancocks Rainbow. This show stopping filly from Lauing Ranch sold to Kentucky for $4,700. Lot 20, the second high selling filly was sired by Plenty Coup Bonnet out of Wyo Blue Contessa and has a new home in South Dakota for $4,200.

Offered by Diamond S in Kansas, Lot 4, Plenty Happens N Blu, was the high selling yearling. Sired by Letit Happen Hancock out of a Plenty Try daughter, Plenty Black Philly, the blue roan yearling brought $4,000 to a Nebraska buyer.

The highest selling brood mare was a 2013 dun roan daughter of Rojos Klassy Roan out of a Leo Hancock Hayes x Fox Coup daughter. Offered by Lauing Ranch, Lot 34, Foxy Dun Rojo found a new home in Kentucky for $6,300.

Overall averages 25 Weanling Stallions – $2,654 16 Weanling Fillies – $2,926 3 Geldings– $7,417 Top 5 Weanling Stallions - $4,300 Top 5 Weanling Fillies - $4,120 From the partners at BV&D: “To the bidders and the buyers, we sincerely appreciate the confidence you showed in our horses and us as breeders. We especially really appreciate you using the online format with DVAuctions. This was a new direction for all of the breeders and we sincerely thank everyone for their support.” The Blue Valentine & Driftwood Heritage Production Sale date has been set for September 11th 2021 with the same outstanding horses from great breeders with one vision to once again bring you an offering of outstanding horses!

LAUING RANCH SD | SUNRISE FARM AL HENDERSON CATTLE COMPANY UT B & T PERFORMANCE HORSES KY DIAMOND S QUARTER HORSES KS MOONSHINE CREEK QUARTER HORSES AR Follow our Facebook group | 605.280.4823 | 270.230.3888 heritageproductionsale@gmail.com Photo by Douglas Busby Photography

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2020 IOWA BREEDERS CUTTING FUTURITY RESULTS AUGUST 29TH | KIRCHNER ARENA IN CLARINDA, IOWA | PRORATED ADDED | $3,500

3 YR. OLD OPEN

3 YR. OLD NON PRO

1st Go – Plum Crazy – Owned & Shown 1st Go – Plum Crazy – Owned by Kelly Terryll of Chokio, MN., shown by Garth by Kelly Terryll - 136 | $759.60.

2nd Go – Ms Connie – Owned & Shown Bullis of Norfolk, NE. 137 | $759.60

by Dennis Clinton of Center Point, IA. 133 | 2nd Go – Plum Crazy - 137 | $759.60 $759.60 Finals - Plum Crazy – 274 | $1,012.80 Finals - Plum Crazy – 256 | $1,012.80

Iowa Breeders Cutting Futurity 2021 Nominated Stallions

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Nominated Stallions, Stallion Auction, Mare Nominations, Futurity Results, & Offspring For Sale BOWMANS METALLIC CAT Luke Jones Perf. Horses - Allerton Metallic Cat x High Brow Cat lukejonesperformancehorses.com Bowmans Fancy x Lenas Jewel Bars lukejones7@yahoo.com 641-870-0090 ________________________________________________ GUITAR GUN Broken J Lazy A - Applington Playgun x Freckles Playboy Ann Luebbers - 319-269-4010 Dainty Lena x Smart Little Lena Gary Sampson - 641-373-6235 ________________________________________________ JACKPOT QUIXOTE CASH Jamie & Justin Hosek - Clutier Jackpot Cat x High Brow Cat Gail & Don Guthrie Miss Quixote x Doc Quixote Jamie 319-231-8819 gfguth@gmail.com jamiedawn9@gmail.com ________________________________________________ LITTLE MAHOGANY BOON Jerry & Va. Williams – Corydon Smart Little Lena x Doc O’Lena Little Bessie Boon x Boon A Little 641-872-2115 williams@grm.net cell 641-344-1623 ________________________________________________

RL STYLING REY Gary & Tracy Thede - Reinbeck Stylish Rey x Dual Rey tlt_39@hotmail.com Miz Calypso x Freckles Playboy 319-239-6171 ________________________________________________ SJR PLAYREY Chaz & Misti Salisbury - Allerton Dual Rey x Dual Pep Playguns King Badger x Playgun mistiwilliams08@outlook.com 515-782-0234 ________________________________________________ SMART WATER Foltz Quarter Horses - Lineville Smart Little Lena x Doc O’Lena Mike Foltz - 641-344-4663 Tap Water x Freckles Playboy Mike Gilbert - 641-414-0997 Joe Walker - 515-681-5762 ________________________________________________ SWAPPIN FRECKLES John & Lissa Blake – Dorchester Widows Freckles x Freckles Playboy Smart Little Swap x Smart Little Lena John 563-794-1331 johnandlissablake@gmail.com Lissa 563-387-7021 ________________________________________________

A Mare Sired By A Nominated Stallion, May Be Nominated, Bred To Any Stallion, Foal Eligible For Iowa Breeders Cutting Futurity

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18th Annual Sugar Bars Legacy Horse Sale Report Auctioneer, Seth Weishaar

The sale was held at the Historic Sheridan County Fairgrounds in Sheridan WY to a packed house of buyers and horse enthusiasts. Horses sold to 17 states across the nation, either in person or represented on the phone.

22 Weanling stud colts avg. $3180 23 Weanling fillies avg. $1424 23 Saddle horses avg. $9204 7 Yearling colts avg. $3562 5 Brood mares avg. $2960

High Selling Colt $16,000 HR NY Shining Dillion

High Selling Riding Horse $16,500 DDD Dashing N Driftin

Res. High Selling Riding Horse $16,000 FQHR Blue Lynx River

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The Sugar Bars Legacy sale continues to gain momentum in the quality and selection of weanlings, yearlings, saddle horses and broodmares horses available from the Sugar Bars Breeders and guest consignors.

This year’s sale broke several records for high selling horses and averages. A true testament to the dedication and perseverance in keeping the Sugar Bars line of horses in the spotlight.

Top Weanlings Lot 18, HR NY Shining Dillion 3/20 Buckskin stallion by Hes Busy Shining x Busy Winin Chex X All Ready Smart x Smart Chick Olena from Haight Ranch to Sue Arata, Columbus, MT for $16,000.

Lot 22, Coolin In Boonsville, 4/20 Palomino stallion, by JS Pure Seduction x Lena Peptolena X Famous Prophesy x Hez Gonna Be Famous from Karla McDonald to Marilyn Woods, Boxeman, MT for $5,000.

Lot 43, Wild Card, Morning Sky Champ, 5/20 black stallion by Heza Blue Boon Champ x Once In a Blue Moon X Cats Blue Star Bucks x BNE Dash of Blue from Deer Run Ranch to Tom & Sonya Coolahan, Hermosa, SD for $5,000.

Top Yearlings Lot 56, HR Pure Profit, 5/19 Buckskin Stallion by Profit Power x Profit Increase X Cook N Oak x Cook County ETC from Haight Ranch to Mike Cherni, Sheridan, WY for $5000.

Top Riding horses Lot 88, DDD Dashin N Driftin, 2015 Bay gelding sired by El Miguel x First Down Dash X Ali Jack x Docs Jack Frost from Broken Arrow Livestock to Donna Hunt, Newcastle, WY for $16,500.

Lot 78, FQHR Blue Lynx River, 2012 Blue Roan gelding sired by West River Blue x Blue Star McKeeg X Snips Roan Baker x Roan Bar Dandy from Paul Cook, to Steve Russel, Victor, MT for $16,000.

Lot 81, Mr. San Peppy Bones, 2013 Brown gelding sired by Smart Sugar Bar x Smart Little Lena X Mr. San Peppy x Leo San from Marc Matlick to Brent Hudson, Waverly Hall, GA for $15,000.

Plan to attend the 19th annual Sept. 18th and 19th. Sheridan WY. More photos and information on Sugar Bars Legacy Facebook page.

2020 RAYMOND SUTTON SALE REPORT

A pleasant autumn day welcomed buyers to the 69th Raymond Sutton Ranch production sale. For over 60 years the sale has been at the ranch, but due to the Corona virus the sale was hosted online by Pro Horse Services. That did not stop buyers from coming Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Some sat in chairs and on feed bunks following the bidding on their phones. They watched their chosen horses and decided to raise their bid or move to another lot. Other buyers relied on the photos and videos posted online to guide their decisions while staying home. Horses sold to 19 states going as far as Washington and Oregon on the West coast, Virginia and Kentucky on the East coast, Arizona and Texas to the South and a number of states in between.

The offering consisted of 62 weanling lots, 17 geldings, and 3 stallions. The foals and geldings were all from matings of the ranch’s stallions and mares. The high selling filly was a palomino by World Champion Cow Horse, Cooking Merada out of Ms Solid Gold Karma (AQHA Superior Solid Gold Edition daughter).

She went to a Texas $3,200. The high selling colt was a palomino by Jack Frost Edition (ROM heading, points in heeling, barrels, halter) out of RWS Pobres Badger Ms (Young Gun/Peppy San Badger granddaughter). He stayed in South Dakota for $1,700.

There was a tie for second high selling filly between a red roan by Royal Vaca Rey ( Vaca Rey -Smart Little Lena/Autumn Boon out of Royal Black Peppy - Peptoboonsmal’s full sister) and a palomino by Wimpys Hi Roller (reserve Select World and level 2 World aged

stallion) by CRS Cats Esterlita (Hi Brow Cat/Grays Starlight granddaughter). Both went to South Dakota buyers for $2,500. Other fillies selling: buckskin by Jack Frost Edition out of RWS Pedros Joy for $1775 to Colorado, bay by Just A Silver Duck (Blue Duck Okie son) out of Lenas Bouncing Chex (Night Deposit Chex daughter) to South Dakota for $1,675, palomino by Jack Frost Edition out of RWS Peggy Cody to Texas for $1,000 and sorrel filly by Sweet Gallo Oak (Gallo Del Cielo son) out of Tara Rey (Vaca Rey daughter) to South Dakota for $1,020. The average on the top 10 fillies was $1,600. The average for all fillies was $1100.

The second high selling colt was a bay by 7th place AQHA all age tie-down roping stallion CD Cut The Lights out of RWS Peppys Lady (Mr San Peppy granddaughter) to Wyoming buyer for $1,500. Other colts selling: buckskin by Jack Frost Edition out of RWS Lotta Joy for $1375 to South Dakota, bay by Just A Silver Duck by RWS Blame It On Rio (Peptoboonsmal/Cutter Bill) for $1,300 to South Dakota, bay by Legendary Cutter out of Sweet Jo Misty – the double bred Cutter Bill colt sold for $1,250 to South Dakota. One of the younger colts in the sale was a bay overo by Rios Santana (Peptoboonsmal/Cutter Bill) out of RWS Ravens CeeCee going to Missouri for $1025. The average on the top 10 colts was $1,213. The average for all colts was $790.

The geldings ranged in age from yearlings to 7-yearolds. The younger horses sold for the higher dollars and the average on the 18 geldings was $896 . The volume buyer, a repeat customer from Kentucky, took home seven head.

The Sutton family would like to thank all the buyers, both repeat and new.

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High Selling | Stud Colt | $4850

(Paddys Best Whiskey X Miz Colonel O Lena) Denny & Doris Lauing, owners of Lauing Mill Iron L Ranch conducted their 20th Annual Quarter Horse Production Sale with an Online Auction August 24-August 30.

United County Bertolotto Real Estate & Auction Inc. of Sturgis managed the online specialty livestock sale with 20 head being offered. Registered bidders from 13 states from as far away as Oregon, Washington, Texas and Arizona participated.

The Weanlings averaged $2268 with the top selling weanling fetching $5950, a bay stud colt sired by Ima Special Kindaguy (Frenchmans Guy X Melt Away) X Paddys Bold Ruler (Irish Pay X Lady Bar Horn). A Buckskin Roan Filly out of the Lauing’s senior sire, Dare To Be French (Frenchmans Falcon X Frenchmans Francesca) and Dam Starlights Koko closed

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the bidding at $3050. A limited number of foals was sold that was sired by Paddys Best Whiskey, 2014 stallion (Paddys Irish Whiskey X Best Performance). A Buckskin stud colt out of Miz Colonel O’Lena (Colonel Frenchmans, X Miz Holly San Lena) and “Whiskey” sold for $4850.

Denny and Doris understood that changing their sale from being held in-person to online was going to be challenging but are very pleased to report that they plan on continuing the sale the same way in 2021.

Your ongoing support and confidence in our program is greatly appreciated. Follow our ranch updates on our website www. lauingmillironlranch.com or our Facebook Page. The Lauing Mill Iron L Ranch along with United Country Bertolotto Real Estate Real Estate & Auction Inc. wish to thank everyone for viewing, registering, participating and purchasing from the online sale.

If anyone would like more information on Specialty Livestock Auctions please contact Bob at 605-720-2021. Happy Trails!

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