WORKING LINESSTAN 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

BIG SANDY, MONTANA AT THE WEAVER RANCH

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

Hotrock 67 x Hot Rock). We will start with Poco Bueno, whose first claim to fame was when he was sold by his breeder Jess Hankins to E. Paul Waggoner for $5,700. Poco Bueno would go on to be a great show horse, winning Grand Championship honors at such shows as the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, the National Western Stock Show in Denver, the State Fair of Texas in Dallas, and the American Royal in Kansas City. Poco Bueno would become an outstanding cutting horse who built a legend for his power as a cutting horse. He would retire until the AQHA started awarding points for ROM and AQHA Championships. He came out of retirement to earn 37 halter points and 8 performance points to earn the ROM and his AQHA Championship.

Poco Bueno would become a leading sire with his foals earning 3,522 halter points, and they earned 21 Superior Awards. His performance foals earned 3,617.5 points with 84 ROM, and his performers earned 13 Superior Awards. His foals earned 36 AQHA Championships. He was not one of the first to earn an AQHA Championship, but two of his foals were among the first AQHA Champions. They were Poco Lena and Poco Tivio, both out of Sheilwin (Pretty Boy x Blackburn Mare x Blackburn). Poco Lena and Poco Tivio would make strong statements in cutting when crossed with Doc Bar. This is familiar because Poco Bueno, Pretty Boy, and Blackburn were an important part of the pedigree of the foundation mares Pretty Miss Denver and Stormy Dun Dee. So Poco Ima Doc brings that into the pedigree again, moving these bloodlines forward in the pedigree.

Poco Bueno was sired by King P-234 (Zantanon x Miss Taylor x Old Poco Bueno). Old Poco Bueno was sired by Little Joe, and this gives Poco Bueno a breeding pattern of 3 x 3 to Little Joe, as the sire of Zantanon was Little Joe.

Miss Hotrock 67 (Hot Rock x Pretty Lady 67 x Pretty Boy) was bred by E. Paul Waggoner. E. Paul was the son of W. T. Waggoner and grandson of Dan Waggoner, the founder of the vast Waggoner Ranch that at one time was the largest ranch under one continuous fence, as they say.

Hot Rock (Cowboy H x Peggy S x Wardlaw Stallion) was the sire of Mayflower Daugherty. She was out of Panzarita Daugherty, who was sired by Little Joe The Wrangler (Joe Hancock x Hepler’s Goldie x Madder Music), and out of Panzarita (Spark Plug x Five Dollars x Jim Trammel).

Panzarita Daugherty would prove to be an outstanding producer when bred to a variety of stallions, including three AQHA Champions. She would produce Poco Panzarita when bred to Poco Bueno. This mare was one of the AQHA Champions with 74 halter and 23.5 performance points, earning a Superior in halter. Poco Panzarita was a ¾ sister to Poco Bueno 2. Poco Mayflower by Poco Dell by Poco Bueno would earn 42 AQHA halter points. Poco Violet Hill was a full sister to Poco Mayflower, and she earned six AQHA halter points. She was the dam of Fulton’s Hillbar, an AQHA Champion and Superior halter horse.

Pretty Boy (Dodger x Little Maud x Tip) was a Waggoner Ranch stallion that sired a number of daughters that were bred to Poco Bueno. When his daughters were bred to Poco Bueno, we have already seen Poco Lena and Poco Tivio, and they were full sisters and brothers to Poco Champ and Pretty Pokey, both AQHA Champions. Poco Pine, Poco Stampede, and Poco Paul Dee were AQHA Champions sired by Poco Bueno and out of Sheilwin by Pretty Boy. Poco Jane by Poco Bueno and out of Mary Jane W by Pretty Boy, and she was the dam of the legendary King Fritz. Pretty Lady 67 was out of a Waggoner Mare breeding unknown.

The dam of Poco Ima Doc was Doc Tilly (Doc’s Prescription

DOC OLENA DOC BAR LIGHTNING BAR b 1967 ch 14.2 1956 DANDY DOLL

SMART LITTLE LENA QUARTER HORSE POCO LENA POCO BUENO sor 13.3 1979 #0493297 b 1949 SHEILWIN

QUARTER HORSE SMART PEPPY PEPPY SAN LEO SAN #1565822 sor 1965 sor 15.0 1959

PEPPY BELLE

IMA BIT OF HEAVEN QUARTER HORSE ROYAL SMART ROYAL KING* ch ro 15.1 1996 #0439891 sor 1958

MOSS JACKIE TOBIN

QUARTER HORSE PEPPY SAN BADGER MR SAN PEPPY LEO SAN #3441822 sor 14.3 1974 sor 15.1 1968

PEPPY BELLE

PEPPYS FROM HEAVEN QUARTER HORSE SUGAR BADGER GREY BADGER III rd ro 1987 #1089924 sor 1959

QUARTER HORSE ROYAL BLUE BOON BOON BAR

AQHA#2579469 bl ro 1980 b 1972

SUGAR TOWNLEY

DOC BAR

TERESA TIVIO

WEAVERS POCO HEAVEN QUARTER HORSE ROYAL TINCIE ROYAL KING ch ro 2000 #1601972 ro 1965 TEXAS DOTTIE

QUARTER HORSE

AQHA # 3906948

POCO BUENO 2 POCO BUENO KING x Miss Tilly 5 x Pal Billy 5), and she was an unshown mare. Doc’s Prescription (Doc Bar x Teresa Tivio x Poco Tivio) gives Poco Ima Doc brings another cross of Poco Bueno, Pretty Boy, and Blackburn into the Weaver program.

Doc’s Prescription earned his performance ROM with 16 points in western pleasure and nine halter points. He was shown in 31 halter classes and won 29 of them, mostly as a yearling and weanling, where no points were awarded. He was an NCHA money winner.

Doc’s Prescription sired foals that earned 8,438.5 points in the AQHA. He sired 136 ROM performers with 44 Superior Award winners three World Champions, and four Reserve World Champions. He sired horses that earned over $2.5 million in cutting, reining, reining cow horses, and pleasure. His arena champions include Doc’s Diablo, winner of the 1979 NCHA Open Futurity, Dosey Doc, winner of the 1986 NCHA Non-Pro Super Stakes, Bakers Prescription, winner of the 1986 NCHA Non-Pro Futurity and Neat Prescription, the 1985 AQHA World Champion Junior Cutting Horse.

The sire record for Doc’s Prescription highlights his success as a sire of performers, but his daughters made him even more successful as a broodmare sire. He is the broodmare sire of horses that have won over $3.5 million in cutting, reining, reining cow horse, and ranch events. These foals have earned 12,850 AQHA points from 686-point earners with 225 ROM performers and 39 Superior earners that earned 49 Superior Awards with six World Champions and six Reserve World Champions.

Docs Stylish Oak (Doc’s Oak x Docs Stylish x Doc’s Prescription) serves as an example of the foals his daughters produced. He earned $65,979 in the arena, and then he became the sire of horses that have earned over $9 million. He is also the broodmare sire of horses that have earned over $19 million with 4,148.5 AQHA points with 98 ROM, 16 foals earned 17 Superior Awards, and nine Reserve World Champions. His daughter Stylish Play Lena was the dam of 27 money earners with $2,149,139 in earnings. Her foals include Smooth Talkin

Style, an NCHA Horse of the Year, and Hottish, an NCHA Reserve Horse of the Year. Both are leading sires.

Doc Tilly was out of Miss Tilly 5 (Pal Billy 5 x My Miss Tilly x Hot Rock). Pal Billy 5 was sired by Billy Kid East by Babe Grande Jr. His dam was Sancho Lady 15 by Sancho. The dam of My Miss Tilly was Miss Tilly Dun by Hot Shot B, a full brother to Hot Rock. This gives the pedigree of My Miss Tilly a breeding pattern of 3 x 4 x 5 to the full brothers Hot Rock and Hot Shot B. This, again, is like the blood of Poco Bueno we move the blood of the full brothers Hot Rock and Hot Shot B forward in the pedigree of the foals produced by linebreeding.

It is through the daughters of Poco Ima Doc that he has made his contribution to the Weaver breeding program. He was the 2007 and 2008 MQHA Broodmare Sire of the Year, an award given to the stallion that has at least five daughters in production, and some of the foals out of his daughters have had to be performers. Some of the performers include Weavers Poco Heaven, who was seventh in the 2003 NRCHA Limited Open Snaffle Bit Futurity. He was out of Weavers Poco Dee, who is out of Beaus Poco Dee by Beaus Red Man, and out of Stormy Dun Dee. Weavers Smart Poco was the 2004 IBHA World Champion Cutting Horse. He was an NCHA money earner as well. His dam was SNW Foxy Poco Dee, who was out of Foxy Blackburn Dee by Stormy Fox, a son of Stormy Dun Dee.

Ima Bit Of Heaven

Ima Bit Of Heaven (Smart Little Lena x Peppys From Heaven x Peppy San Badger) is the sire of Weavers Poco Heaven and Weavers Smart Poco, and he is the next stallion we will look at. Stan stated it this way, “Ima Bit Of Heaven is the horse that put our program on the map.” He described him this way, “He was extremely quick, athletic, and has an impeccable pedigree. Ima has an excellent set of withers, good bone, a nice sloping shoulder, four dark feet and is a pretty red roan color.” A look at his pedigree will tell us about the genetics he brought to the breeding program.

Smart Little Lena (Doc O’Lena x Smart Peppy x Peppy San) was the 1982 NCHA Triple Crown (NCHA Open Futurity, NCHA Open Super Stakes, and the NCHA Open Derby) winner. He is a leading sire of money winners with earnings of over $40 million. His leading money winner is Red White And Boon a 5-time NCHA Non-Pro World Champion.

Doc O’Lena (Doc Bar x Poco Lena x Poco Bueno) was the 1969 NCHA Open Futurity Champion, and again, we see the Poco Bueno, Pretty Boy, and Blackburn blood enter the Weaver breeding program. Doc O’Lena was a leading sire of money winner of over $15 million, with his second leading money winner being Tap O Lena, winner of over $500,000. Smart Peppy was sired by Peppy San (Leo San x Peppy Belle x Pep Up) in the 1967 NCHA Open World Championship. Royal Smart was the dam of Smart Peppy, and she was sired by Royal King by King P-234. Royal Smart was the dam of Royal Santana, an AQHYA World Champion and an AQHA Amateur World Champion in cutting.

Peppys From Heaven (Peppy San Badger x Royal Blue Boon x Boon Bar) is the winner of $143,350, including a win in the 1991 NCHA Non-Pro Derby. She is the dam of horses that have won over $350,000, with her leading money winner being Seven From Heaven, the 2004 AQHA World Champion Junior Cutting Horse.

Her sire Peppy San Badger (Mr. San Peppy x Sugar Badger x Grey Badger) was the 1977 NCHA Open Futurity Champion. Mr San Peppy (Leo San X Peppy Belle x Pep Up) was the 1974 and 1976 NCHA Open World Champion. He was a full brother to Peppy San, and that gives Ima Bit Of Heaven a breeding pattern of 3 x 3 to these full brothers. The dam of Peppy San Badger was Sugar Badger (Grey Badger III x Sugar Townley x Lucky Jim), a ranch mare for Joe Kirk Fulton. Peppy San Badger is a leading sire of cutting horses with earnings of over $25 million and over 7,500 AQHA points. His leading money winner is Little Badger Dulce winner of over $ 600,000.

Royal Blue Boon (Boon Bar x Royal Tincie x Royal King) was the 1984 NCHA Open Super Stakes Co-Champion. The foals of Royal Blue Boon have made her the all-time leading cutting horse money-earning dam with earnings of over $2.6 million. Her foals include Red White And Boon, the five-time Non-pro World Champion and earner of $930,954. This horse is followed by Bet Yer Blue Boon, the 2000 NCHA Open World Champion, Peptoboonsmal, the 1995 NCHA Open Futurity Champion, and Autumn Boon, the 1998 NCHA Open Super Stakes Champion.

Boon Bar (Doc Bar x Teresa Tivio x Poco Tivio) and another cross of Poco Bueno, Pretty Boy, and Blackburn into the breeding program. Boon Bar earned $12,325 and was a favorite to win the 1975 NCHA Open Futurity, but an illness kept him out of the finals. He had won both go-rounds, scoring 224 and 225. He would sire horses that earned over $2.3 million with horses like Doc’s Poco Doc, the 1978 NCHA Open Futurity Reserve Champion.

The significant contribution of Boon Bar was through his daughters. He is the maternal grandsire of horses that have won over $6.8 million. His leading producing daughter was Royal Blue Boon, but his other major producer was Boon San Sally, who is the dam of Boon San Kitty, an NCHA Horse of the Year, and a dam of horses that have earned over $1 million. The foals out of Boon San Kitty include Rockin W, the 2009 NCHA Open Futurity Champion.

Boon Bar was a product of the Doc Bar on Poco Tivio mares nick that is so prominent in the influence of Doc Bar on the Western performance horse. His dam, Teresa Tivio (Poco Tivio x Saylor’s Little Sue), produced ten foals by Doc Bar. In addition to Boon Bar, they include Doc’s Haida ($67,305) dam of Haidas Little Pep, an NCHA Open Futurity Reserve Champion; Fizzabar ($50,841) NCHA World Champion Mare and Doc’s Remedy ($47,453) leading sire of horses like Sugar Remedy winner of the 1981 NRCHA Open Snaffle Bit Futurity. Fizzabar was the first Doc Bar to enter the cutting arena, and her success fueled Doc Bar’s rise in the cutting industry. Royal Tincie gives this pedigree two more crosses to Royal King as her dam is out of Texas Dottie by Royal Texas by Royal King. This gives Ima Bit Of Heaven a breeding pattern of 4 x 4 x 6 to Royal King.

Ima Bit Of Heaven has become another broodmare influence on the Weaver breeding program, and a number of his daughters are NCHA and NRCHA money earners. They include SNW Heavens Showgirl, winner of the Montana Reined Cow Horse Futurity Stallion Stakes. She has lifetime earnings of over $20,000 in the reined cow horse. She is now a Weaver Ranch broodmare. Another performer in the broodmare band is Weavers Heaven Lou, who won the fence work at the Canadian Supreme and the Montana Reined Cow Horse Futurity. On the gelding side, SNW Heavens Powder has an NCHA Certificate of Ability with $10,236 in earnings. The versatility of the Ima Bit Of Heaven foals shows up in some of his other performers, including SNW Travalen Heaven, with 217 AQHA points in the amateur and open divisions that have been earned in ranch classes, including several Versatility Ranch Horse All Around wins.

Ima Tuf Lena

Ima Tuf Lena is another stallion purchased for the program as a yearling and has no show record. But he has supplied a number of mares for the broodmare band. Weaver has reported this about Ima Tuf Lena, “He has been a mainstay in our sire battery for 20 years. We purchased him as a yearling. He possessed the looks, bone, and pedigree to be a popular sire. We had more repeat buyers for Tuf colts every year. That speaks volumes. His contribution to our remuda is the large number of daughters that we have retained for the broodmare band. They are good producers with good maternal instincts, are good milkers, and give their colts that people-pleasing attitude. His daughters produce the thick, good-looking kind. Ima Tuf Lena was honored in 2019 as the Montana Quarter Horse Association Broodmare Sire of the Year.”

Ima Tuf Lena (Tuf N Busy x Smart Bo Lena x Smart Little Lena) brings some familiar bloodlines to the remuda. But he also brings some interesting outcross bloodlines. His sire, Tuf N Busy, earned three Superior Awards in reining, heading, and heeling with over 250 AQHA points. Tuf N Busy (Bueno Chex x Keeping Busy x Nunes Dell) is the sire of foals that have earned 3,740 AQHA points with 27 ROM. His foals include Good N Busy, the 2000 AQHYA World Champion Heeling Horse.

Bueno Chex (King Fritz x Sutherland’s Miss x Jodie The Tuff) was an AQHA Champion, and a leading reined cow horse sire and broodmare sire. He is the sire of many fine performers, including Aledo Bay, the 1979 NRCHA Open Snaffle Futurity Champion. His daughters have produced horses like Master Checks, the 1991 NRCHA Open Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion.

King Fritz (Power Command x Poco Jane x Poco Bueno) was an AQHA Champion and an important sire. His foals include many fine reined cow horses and 11 AQHA Champions. His foals include Wolverine Chex, the 1975 AQHA World Champion Senior Reining Horse. Power Command was an AQHA Champion sired by King P-234, and Sutherland’s Miss was sired by Jodie The Tuff, and she was out of Tangerine W by Bert P-227. Jodie The Tuff was sired by Little Jodie (Little Joe Springer x Dixie Beach x Beetch’s Yellow Jacket), and his dam Tangerine was out of Lady Coolidge by Beetch’s Yellow Jacket. Dixie Beach and Lady Coolidge were full sisters. This gives Sutherland’s Miss a breeding pattern of 3 x 3 to the full sisters.

Poco Jane was one of the Poco Bueno/Pretty Boy mares we saw earlier. This gives King Fritz a breeding pattern of 2 x 3 to King P-234.

Keeping Busy (Nunes Dell x Aliso Okie Gal x Easy Keeper), the dam of Tuf N Busy gives the pedigree another cross to Poco Bueno. Nunes Dell is sired by Poco Dell by Poco Bueno, and that gives the pedigree of Tuf N Busy a breeding pattern of 4 x 4 to Poco Bueno. Nunes Dell was out of Nunes Pollita (Wilson’s Drifter x Wilson’s Lady Lee x Wilson’s Dirt Dobber). Wilson’s Dirt Dobber was sired by Dan Waggoner. The dam of Wison’s Drifter was Wilson’s Private Stock by Dan Waggoner. Wilson’s Lady Lee was out of Wilson’s Sheba by Dan Waggoner. This gives Nune’s Pollita a breeding pattern of 3 x 3 x 3 to Dan Waggoner (Waggoner’s Rainy Day x Midnight mare x Midnight).

Easy Keeper, the sire of Aliso Okie Gal, was sired by Driftwood (Miller Boy x The Comer Mare x Barlow), and his dam was Smoky McCue (Waggoner x Harmon Baker mare x Harmon Baker), and she was out of Okie Girl (Joe Tom x Miss Tommy 99 x Tom (Scooter). Waggoner was sired by Midnight by Badger by Peter McCue. Joe Tom was sired by John Wilkens by Peter McCue, and Tom (Scooter was sired by Midnight by Badger by Peter McCue. This gives Easy Keeper a breeding pattern of

Peter McCue.

The sire record for Ima Tuff Lena is focused on one mare, Ima Tuf Missy, who earned 606 AQHA open and amateur points. She was the 2009 and 2012 AQHA Reserve World Champion in heading. She is Superior in heeling and heading. She is an AQHA Champion and 2009 AQHA All Around High Point Junior Horse. She was ROM in halter and the 2017 International High Point Halter Mare. Her dam is Lady Beckwith Dun, a daughter of Stormy Dun Dee.

The four stallions we have looked at are four important foundation stallions for Stan Weaver Quarter Horses. When you look at some of the other stallions that are and have been in the program, you will see the pattern of stallions with great female families. Here is an example with Gems And Starlight (Gray’s Starlight x Gems Emerald x Doc Bar Gem), who has a number of daughters in the broodmare band. Gray’s Starlight is out of the great Doc’s Starlight dam of the leading sires Gray’s Starlight, Gallo Del Cielo, and Paddys Irish Whiskey. His dam Gems Emerald is a full sister to Starlight Gem, the 1996 NCHA Non-Pro Super Stakes Champion.

Now we have the rest of the story and how the Stan Weaver Quarter Horse breeding program was built around good mares and stallions. Stallions and mares come from some great bloodlines that are reinforced with some great mare lines.