Stallions

A little over a year ago, my good friend Kristin Aus finally tired of listening to me bemoan the loss of my stallion Flyin Panther.  She sent me a link to an ad for an Ivory James son for sale…..and suggested we partner on him.  I whined and complained, but in the end, did what she suggested and called the owner LeDona Newcomb, Newcomb Cattle Company in Oklahoma.  LeDona and I visited about Ata Boy James,,,,,he sounded like a nice colt, certainly very well bred being a son of none other than Ivory James one of AQHA’s seriously up and coming race sires, and out of a very nice daughter of Heza Fast Man.

Barrel racers like the Ivory James horses…..and that’s what we raise here…..barrel horses.  Owning half interest in Ata Boy James certainly made sense.  Luckily, a friend of mine was traveling to the Heritage Place Sale, he had trailer space on the return trip, and Ata Boy James was on his way to North Dakota!

Ata, as he’s known around the ranch, arrived at the ranch in great shape!  This sweet, kind, amazing soon to be two year old colt stepped off the trailer…he didn’t skip a beat, walked around his pen, rolled in the mud and settled right in.  THAT is the Ata that I’ve gotten to know and love……easy going, very smart, so accepting of everything his life presents to him.  We haven’t had to endure any ‘terrible two” behavior with a young stallion which is always nice!

In addition to his great disposition and demeanor,,,the ‘rest of the story’ will make Ata a very nice sire of barrel horses!  His sire Ivory James   http://www.stallionesearch.com/show_stallion.asp?horse=680 will have sired $10 million in race winners by the end of 2016.   http://www.stallionesearch.com/501/IvoryJames.html  Ivory James and leading sire PYC Paint Your Wagon are full brothers, both being sons of Corona Cartel and out of the wonderful mare Dashin Follies, highest selling AQHA broodmare, selling in 2010 for the sum of  $875,000.

His dam’s sire Heza Fast Man was not only a successful race horse with a SI-111/AAAT/ROM/Superior, (SW)17-10-4-1, $801,356, AQHA Racing Champion Three-year-old Colt, Won:  Texas Classic Futurity(G1), Vandys Flash H.(G3), Kevin Burns Memorial Futurity, 2nd: All American Futurity(G1), All American Derby(G1), 3rd: QHBC Championship Classic(G1), Finalist: Remington Park Derby(G1), Z Wayne Griffin Directors S.(G3),  he also had 2010 progeny winnings of over $11 million.

Take a look through Ata Boy James extended pedigree here  http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ata+boy+james   You’ll find the horses that wrote AQHA racing history, the names that frequent the pedigrees of leading barrel horses and rodeo horses.  Ata Boy James first foals will be born here at Flying O Ranch in 2016.  They have both been sold prior to birth.  His mares for the 2016 breeding season include AQHA daughters of Bullys on Fire, Panther Mountain, Royal Shake Em, Roll the Cash, Fishin Kisses and Gitngone and APHA daughters of Cherokee Treasured, Big Country, and Western Bugs.

Updates on eligibilities for Ata Boy James sired foals will be posted as his foals mature.

Thank you Aus Ranch Performance Horses for partnering with us on this nice young horse.  And thank you Newcomb Cattle Company for offering him for sale!

Furrtreeous First aka Furry is a beautiful black son of Furrtreeous.  His dam is a daughter of a fantastic son of First Down Dash, First Place Dash.  Lots to like in this young horse’s pedigree, conformation, disposition and mind!  Injured in a barn accident as a youngster, Furry is unraced.  However, we’re confident that his performance would’ve been outstanding!

His sire Furrtreeous AQHA Race SI-108/AAAT/ROM/Superior; 14-6-3-2, $424,651; (SW) Won: Speed Horse Gold and Silver Cup Futurity (G1), Southwest Juvenile Championship, 2nd: Remington Park Derby (G1), 3rd: Heritage Place Furturity (G1) is making a name for himself as a sire of both race and barrel horses.  His dam, First Place Style, was AA/ROM at the track and has foals currently racing and winning.

Move back another generation in Furry’s pedigree and Oak Tree Special’s  solid speed genetics are apparent : SI-107 AAA+/ROM, 26-16-2-2, Earnings $628,470,  2003 AQHA World Champion Race Horse, 2003 AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Race Horse, 2003 AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Race Colt,  Won: Texas Classic Derby-G1, TQHA Sales Futurity-G1, Dash For Cash Derby-G1, Retama Park Derby,G1, Remington Park Derby-G1, MBNA America East Challenge-G2, 2nd: Heritage Place Futurity-G1, Heritage Place Derby-G1, 3rd: Longhorn Derby-G3.  http://www.stallionesearch.com/default.asp?section=21&story=12623 this link adds great information about Oak Tree Special.

Furrtreeous’ dam’s sire Rare Form’s SI-120/AAAT/ROM/Superior (SW)27-17-2-2, $278,191 and was  AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Race Horse,  AQHA Champion 3-Year-Old Colt, Champion 3-Year-Old Colt in Mexico.  Truly My Style is a daughter of Easy Jet.

Here’s an extended look at Furrtreeous First’s very well written pedigree  http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/furrtreeous+first.

Furrtreeous First foals are BBR eligible and Flying O Ranch Incentive eligibile.  His first foals will arrive in 2016.

Thank you Schwartz Quarter Horses for the opportunity to own this horse!  We love our Furry!

2016 Better Barrel Races Banner, displayed at the BBR Finals, and select BBR events in 2016, designed and created by Hadley Barrel Wraps.  (used with permission)

His photography is done by Sara Erhardt Schank.  Thank you Sara and Hadley Barrel Wraps!

2000 Bay Quarter Horse Stallion
Son of Champion Racehorse Splash Bac and a producing daughter of barrel horse sire and All American Winner Merganser

To Be Announced, aka Chrome, is the new guy at Flying O Ranch in 2013.  The first time I saw Chrome, he was a three year old, consigned to the Heritage Place Sale in Oklahoma City.  I helped his then owner, a friend of mine, get him ready for the sale.  I admit it, I wanted to buy him.  Chrome is beautiful.  He’s a big fancy stocking legged mahogany bay horse, wide strip on his face, and he has the prettiest head!  He’s just about perfectly made, with super leg conformation, a huge hip, and every piece of him just fits together the way a good one should. I knew Chrome’s dam High Steppin Merg personally; what a gorgeous mare and great producer.  She was the producer of several nice race horses, and a mare with a very strong pedigree being a daughter of Champion  barrel, pole and race horse sire AND All American Futurity winner, Merganser, and out of an Azure Te daughter with a 108 speed index.  Chrome’s sire is the beautiful AAA 2 Year old Champion Splash Bac. That’s all part of why I wanted to buy him….the rest of it is that I just loved the horse!  But the guy sitting in front of me at the sale, Kelly Hildreth, had the last bid…..Chrome brought more cash than I could afford to spend that day.  A few years ago I chatted with Kelly, and he was thinking about selling Chrome…..people’s lives change, and Kelly thought he might be interested in selling him.  Our conversations continued, until last spring when he priced Chrome and I decided (finally) to buy him.  Dreams do come true …..and the horse that stepped off that transport this past October is the horse I loved at Heritage Place ten years ago….he’s everything I remembered and more.  I am so excited about his future here at Flying O Ranch!

Chrome’s a beautiful individual.  He’s quiet, smart and super athletic.  His foals are good barrel horses, rodeo horses, rope horses and all around ranch horses.  I think he brings something pretty special to the breeding program here and can’t wait for 2015 when his first North Dakota foals are born.  They will be eligible for our ranch barrel incentive program.

2000 Bay Thoroughbred Stallion

A race winner, race winning sire and an impeccable pedigree!

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Rock Climb, sired by leading Thoroughbred sire Gulch, and out of a Lyphard daughter is a race winner of over $50,000.  The Gulch/Lyphard cross in TB breeding is a well known niche breeding and Rock Climb is certainly living proof that the cross works!  He’s 15.2 hands, beautifully put together with a gorgeous head, big hip and very strong shoulder, short back and long underline.  He has excellent bone, leg conformation and perfect feet.

Since he’s been here at Flying O Ranch, we’ve raised several QH foals by him and feel he is an exceptionally nice choice to add speed and outcross genetics in Quarter Horses.  His pedigree brings over $8 million in race winnings in four generations.  According to AQHA records, he is one of only nine sons of Gulch used in QH breeding programs.  As his foals enter training, we’ve found them to be intelligent, very trainable, and fast!  Two of them will be competing in arena events in the very near future.

From a very limited crop of TB foals to go to the track he has sired a high percentage of race winners.