WORKING LINES STAN WEAVER QH PART 2 By Larry Thornton Our initial look at the Stan Weaver Quarter Horses took us through the formation of this ranch horse breeding program with a look at the mares that set the foundation for the program. We saw how the mares Pretty Miss Denver and Stormy Dun Dee laid the foundation for the program with their significant crosses to Poco Bueno, Blackburn, and Pretty Boy in their pedigree. These mares were reinforced in the broodmare band with mares like Roan Bar Maid, Little Chex Too, and Budhas Playgun as significant producers of horses that have represented the Weaver breeding program in the show pen and rodeo arena. This time, we will look at some of the first stallions that these mares and their daughters were bred to and the bloodlines they brought into the breeding program. BEAUS RED MAN The stallion roster for Stan and Nancy started through a mare named Miss Ole Twist (The Ole Man x Sandra Twist x Hard Twist). She had a weanling colt on her side when Stan first saw her, and he became the first ranch stallion for what became Weaver Quarter Horses. His name was Beaus Red Man, and his sire was Mr Beau Chance (Beau Chance x Call Me Robin x Robin Redbreast). “Beaus Red Man was the first stallion that I bought. I really liked him, and he was a big horse. I really liked his dam, and she was in the sale. She was an own daughter of The Ole Man. If you go back and look at his three-generation pedigree, there are three stallions in the AQHA Hall of Fame. His sire was a grandson of Skipper W, then on the bottom side was The Ole Man, and the second dam was sired by Hard Twist.” Stan recalled the importance of the mare influencing his selection of this colt as his first stallion. He stated it this way, “The mare is a big deal to me. I think the mare, and you will hear that the mare is responsible for 60 to 75 percent of the foal. I think the mind and all that they get from the mare is important. Beaus Red Man was a weanling when I went to the sale, and his dam was a big, pretty mare. I think that is what got me to buy him. I don’t think there is any one thing I look for, but I like a strong mare family.” He continued about the influence of Beaus Red Man on his broodmare band, “The three Beaus Red Man daughters out of Pretty Miss Poco (Call Me Blackburn, Beaus Miss Denver, and Beaus Miss Blackburn) are really the foundation of our program along with Beaus Poco Dee, his daughter out of Stormy Dun Dee. If you go back, you will see that 60 to 70% of our mares trace back to the two foundation mares through these four mares.” He professed, “I really didn’t realize he was that well-bred. I
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bought him from a rancher from Glasgow, Montana, and he had those daughters that were so important to our program.” He then added, “We had a gelding named Ace that was a full brother to
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the Pretty Miss Poco mares, and he was a Montana State 4-H Pole Bending Champion.” The pedigree of Beaus Red Man shows that his grandsire, sire Beau Chance, was by Skipper W. The dam of his sire, Mr Beau Chance, was Call Me Robin (Robin Redbreast x Elms Lucky Lass x Skipper’s Lad). Skipper’s Lad was a son of Skipper W, which gives Mr Beau Chance a breeding pattern of 2 x 4 to Skipper W (Nick Shoemaker x Hired Girl x Cowboy P-12). Robin Redbreast (Robin Reed x Sandy Reed x Joe Reed II). This horse was intensely inbred to Joe Reed P-3. Robin Reed was sired by Leo (Joe Reed II x Little Fancy x Joe Reed P-3.) The dam of Robin Redbreast was Sandy Reed by Joe Reed II by Joe Reed P-3, giving him a 4 x 4 x 3 x 3 breeding pattern to Joe Reed P-3. When we look at Beaus Red Man’s second dam, Sandra Twist, she is out of Petty Bounce by Joe Bounce by Joe Reed P-3, giving him a breeding pattern of 7 x 7 x 6 x 6 x 5 to Joe Reed P-3. The sire of Hard Twist is Cowboy P-2. This gives the pedigree of Beaus Red Man a breeding pattern of 5 x 7 x 5 to Cowboy P-12 (Yellow Jacket x Roan Lady x Stalks). The dam of Roan Lady was Bonnie Wilken by John Wilkens. The sire of Stalks was John Wilken (Peter McCue x Katie Wawekus x Wawekus). This gives Roan Lady a 2 x 2 breeding pattern to John Wilkens. POCO IMA DOC The next stallion we will look at is Poco Ima Doc and he had a significant career as a sire for Weaver Quarter Horses through his daughters. Weaver described him this way, “I paid $5,000 for him, and for that time, was an unbelievable amount of money. He was broke to ride, and I rode him on the ranch and then bred him. He was a better mare producer than a stud producer, and we got some really good mares, and they were really always good headed and good minded. He had some really good geldings, too. They had a lot of speed; they were used by high school kids for roping and barrel racing. He was a really good horse.” Poco Ima Doc was sired by Poco Bueno 2 (Poco Bueno x Miss
