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KT Sioux Shining Truth, “Truth”
Colt
Sire: Nugget of Truth
Dam: HK ShineOMite Sioux, “Sioux”
Date Born: 3/07/26
Color: Buckskin
Price: $5,000
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Here’s the honest Truth: this buckskin colt has the pedigree, the build, and the kind of mind you want to bring home. He was one of the babies Kade and I halter broke last week, and he’s already standing for pictures like he’s done this before.

His mama, Sioux, came to us from Texas, and she has never met a person she didn’t want to visit with. She’s sweet, people-oriented, and loves attention, and she passes that right on to her foals. Don’t let the sweet fool you, though. Her sire, A Shiner Named Sioux, could flat-out work:

• 35 AQHA Performance Points
• LTE $163,934
• 2011 AQHA World Champion – Junior Working Cow Horse
• 2010 AQHA World Champion – Junior Reining
• 3rd – 2010 NRCHA Derby Open
• Top 10 – 2009 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity (High Score Reined Work)

Sioux’s dam is by Doc O Dynamite and is a producer of champions, adding even more depth to his pedigree.

Truth’s sire, Nugget of Truth, never set foot in a show pen. He was broke to ride and spent most of his life doing the real job as a ranch remuda stallion for McMullin Ranch, where he became the foundation of their ranch horse breeding program. Nugget didn’t need trophies. His résumé is the horses he sired: conformationally correct, big-boned, hardy, and trainable with willing minds. Many of them have gone on to be dependable working and riding horses across multiple disciplines.

So Truth gets two World Championships and $163,934 from his mama’s side, and a whole remuda’s worth of ranch horses from his daddy’s side. That’s arena talent and get-it-done toughness in one fuzzy buckskin package.

Arena, ranch, or someday the breeding pen, Truth has all the ingredients. All he needs now is his person.

Sioux came to us all the way from Texas, and she’s a sweet mare who loves attention. Her name says it all: a little Shine from her sire, A Shiner Named Sioux, and a little Dynamite from her dam’s side. Put them together and you get ShineOMite. 💥

Sire side: Sioux is by the great A Shiner Named Sioux, a son of Shining Spark. He earned $163,934 and 35 AQHA performance points, and he did it in both the reining pen and the cow horse arena:

• 2011 AQHA World Champion, Junior Working Cow Horse
• 2010 AQHA World Champion, Junior Reining
• 3rd, 2010 NRCHA Derby Open
• Top 10, 2009 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity, with the high score in the reined work
• Kalpowar RCH Open Futurity Champion and Champion of the Reined Work
• Kalpowar RCH Open Stallion Stakes Champion
• Finalist in the NRHA Open, Intermediate Open, Limited Open and $50,000 Open Futurities

Two World Championships in two different events, in back-to-back years. That’s not a horse who does one thing well. That’s a horse who does everything well.

Dam side: Sioux’s dam, Trips Ms Dynamite, is by Doc O Dynamite and is a producer of champions.

With a World Champion reining and cow horse sire and Doc O Dynamite on the bottom, Sioux brings the kind of versatile performance blood we love to see in our broodmare band.

Sire: A Shiner Named Sioux
Dam: Trips Ms Dynamite
Foaled: 2/7/2013
Color: Bay

Lena is a really sweet filly. She loves people, loves attention, and will happily take all the scratches you’re willing to hand out. She comes by it honestly: her sire, Midnight Kat DR, is known for being quiet, personable and easy to be around. Lena just took that and added a little extra “pick me!”

Sire side: Midnight Kat DR comes from the Davis Ranch program in Logan, Utah and was started by Clint Davis. He’s quiet, extremely trainable and athletic, with the ability to extend, bend and move with real quickness and balance. He’s a pleasure in the arena and around the ranch.

He’s by Starlight Midnight, a 2002 black stallion and NRHA money-earner who qualified for the 2007 AQHA World Show in Junior Heeling, earned more than 60 AQHA points and holds an AQHA ROM. Starlight Midnight is by the legendary Grays Starlight, whose offspring have earned more than $10 million, making him one of the leading sires in the NRHA, NRCHA and NCHA. Midnight Kat DR’s dam, Slick As A Cat DR, is by Magneticat, a red roan stallion known for his size, bone, cow sense and big stop. Magneticat is a son of Metallic Cat, one of the most influential sires in the cutting horse industry.

Dam side: Twist (Sheriffsredpinedoll) is a buckskin mare with a strong reining pedigree. She’s by The Sheriff Dunit, a son of the legendary Hollywood Dun It. The Sheriff Dunit earned more than $3,500 in the NRHA, was in the AQHA Top 10 for High Point Senior Reining, and holds AQHA ROMs in Open and Amateur Reining with 51 AQHA points. Twist’s dam, Headin For Hollywood, is also a money-earner. She’s by Great Red Pine, who earned $60,952, placed third at the 1991 Congress Futurity and fourth at the 1991 NRHA Futurity. Twist’s pedigree also traces back to the legendary Hollywood Jac 86.

That’s Grays Starlight, Metallic Cat, Hollywood Dun It, Great Red Pine and Hollywood Jac 86, all in one sweet buckskin filly. With that much cow and reining blood behind her, Lena has the breeding to go cutting, reined cow horse, ranch versatility or roping. And she’ll be the first one at the gate to meet you.

Sire: Midnight Kat DR
Dam: Sheriffsredpinedoll, “Twist”
Foaled: 3/09/26
Color: Buckskin
Price: Sale Pending

Howie was the last foal born on the ranch in 2025, and he showed up big. He’s out of Mud and by Tank, and he’s been the stout kid in the pen ever since. Plenty of body, a strong hip and good bone, all in a balanced package that’s hard to walk past. With a name like Happy Days, he’s got some Fonz in him: he’s cool, he’s good-looking, and he knows it.

Sire side: Tank (KT HotTime in Cowtown) is by KR Gun Powder, a son of the legendary Colonels Smoking Gun (“Gunner”) out of A Bueno Poco Dunit. KR Gun Powder won the 2016 APHA Senior Reining World Championship after only nine shows and earned nearly $13,000 in NRHA earnings. Tank’s dam, KT Cow Cuttin Hottie, is by Cow Cuttin Colonel. He’s an NRCHA Superior Cow Horse with AQHA Open and Amateur Performance ROMs. He also placed third at the 2006 NRCHA World Show in the Non-Pro Hackamore and was WRHA Non-Pro Derby Reserve Champion.

Dam side: Mud (Educated Downdirty) is a daughter of An Educated Guess, the top AQHA point-earning son of Smart Chic Olena. An Educated Guess earned 385 AQHA reining points and more than $20,000, with multiple AQHA World Show placings and circuit championships. Howie’s granddam, Plain Dark Chocolate (“Rudy”), is by Just Plain Colonel. He earned $52,676 and is the NRCHA’s No. 6 all-time leading sire, ranking among the top sires in reined cow horse, cutting and reining for more than a decade. Rudy’s bottom side adds Par Three and Doc N Willy.

That’s World Champion reining blood, leading cow horse sires and proven AQHA point-earners, all wrapped up in one stout chestnut colt. Howie has the build and the pedigree to go reining, cow horse, ranch, roping or all-around. Pick a direction. He’s ready.

Sire: KT Hot Time in Cowtown, “Tank”
Dam: Educated Downdirty, “Mud”
Foaled: 5/30/25
Color: Chestnut
Price: $5,000