KT Miss Blue Belle, “Peaches” Filly Sire: KT King of Blue Dam:KT Miss Benelli Girl, “Nelli“ Date Born: 3/27/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Buckskin (Roan?) Price: 6,000 Stunning buckskin filly by KT King of Blue and out of KT Miss Benelli Girl, “Nelli.“ Nelli is an eye-catching buckskin that cousin Patricia claims. She is a big, impressive, striking mare with a pedigree that is bred to perform. Her dam, Pepper, is a Dry Spec a Pepper daughter, who was the 1986 Eastern Idaho QH Assn. Senior Cutting Champion. She is a granddaughter of Dry Doc; who is in the National Cutting Horse Association – Horse Hall of Fame. He was an NCHA Futurity Champion, NCHA Earnings: $85,149, AQHA Reserve W.CH. CUTTING. Nelli is a granddaughter of Cue Bars Laddie, who is a roan stallion that has been shown as a reiner, cowhorse and rope horse. He was the recipient of the Open AQHA All Around Trophy and is a CCHA Hall of Fame Horse. KT King of Blue is out of KT Copper Queen Isabelle, “Izzy,” and by Shining Blue DR, “Bish.” Bish is a very good looking son of Autumnator, who is sired by SMART LITTLE LENA. Smart Little Lena is earner of $743,275, NCHA Triple Crown Op Ch. Autumnator’s dam is AUTUMN BOON is an earner of $244,470 NCHA. Dam of 26 foals, 17 perfs earning $1,003,985 NCHA/WS. Bish’s dam is Plum Sparkling who is by Shining Sparkler, a gorgeous palomino son of Reining and Reined Cowhorse Leading Sire Shining Spark. Izzy is out of Captains Double Coy and KT Copper Queen Cleo. Izzy was used as a ranch horse before she became a broodmare, and she really goes after the cows. Izzy’s pedigree includes many greats like Major Bonanza, Sizzlin Hot, Major King, Docs Dee Bar and more.
KT Shiney in Cowtown Colt Sire: KT HotTimein Cowtown, “Tank” Dam: Jazabell Shine Date Born: 4/18/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Palomino Price: 6,000 Here is another fancy foal by Tank. We just love his foals, they have great minds, are very trainable and have a lot of natural ability. This fancy guy is out of Jazabel Shine, “Bell.” Tank is by KR Gun Powde and is out of KT Cow Cuttin Hottie. KR Gun Powder is by Colonels Smoking Gun and out of A Bueno Poco Dunit. KR Gun Powder is the 2016 APHA Senior Reining World Champion. In only 9 shows, Gun Powder has been titled as the 2016 APHA Senior Reining World Champion and has amassed nearly $13,000 in NRHA earnings. Hottie is by Cow Cuttin Colonel and out KT Copper Comet. Cow Cuttin Colonel is a major contender in the cow horse industry. A few of his accomplishments include: NRCHA Superior Cow horse, AQHA Open and Amateur Performance ROM, 2008 Paul Dice Memorial Non Pro Bridle Champion, 2007 WSQHA Amateur Hi Point Working Horse Champion, 2006 NRCHA World Show Non Pro Hackamore – 3rd!, 2005 AQHA Amateur Performance ROM, 2005 IRCHA Non Pro Derby Reserve Champion, 2005 Paul Dice Memorial Hackamore Classic Reserve Champion, 2005 NRCHA World Show Non Pro Hackamore Finalist, 2004 WRHA Non Pro Derby Reserve Champion, 2004 Circle Y Derby Amateur Champion/4th in the Non Pro, 2003 WRHA Non Pro Reining Futurity Reserve Champion. Jazabell Shine is by AQHA Rom earner Shiney Men Can Jump. Shiney Men Can Jump is by Shining Spark, who is in the AQHA Hall of Fame, World Champion, ROM Performance, NRHA money-earner, AQHA Leading Sire, NRCHA Leading Sire with $3,000,000. NRHA $3,000,000 sire. Sire of: World Champion Offspring, Superior Performance Offspring, AQHA High Point Performance Offspring, ROM Halter Offspring, ROM Performance Offspring, NRHA Money-earners and NCHA Money-earners. On the bottom side Shiney Men Can Jump is out of Ms Jumpin Jack Sprat, who is a daughter of Docs Jack Sprat. Docs Jack Sprat is an earner of AQHA Show H-58/P-43, Superior Halter, ROM Performance, AQHA Champion, NCHA $3,069.33, NCHA COA, SIRE OF: 125 performers and leading sire with NCHA earnings over $3.4 million. Bell is a fancy rabicano bay mare. She has a great personality and loves attention. She is broke to ride but has not been shown.
KT Hit the Jackpot Filly Sire: KT Jackpot City Dam: Continental Piper, “Piper D” Date Born: 4/14/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Dun (Possibly homozygous dun) Price: 6,000 Big eye-catching dun colt by KT Jackpot City and out of Continental Piper, “Piper D. Jackpot is out of Lenas Abbie N Charge and is by City Smarts. He has a phenomenal pedigree that includes Smart Little Lena, Mr. Charge Bar, An Educated Guess, Smart Chic Olena and more. Smart Little Lena and has lifetime earnings of over $89,000.00 a ROM in cutting, and has sired offspring earning over $100,000 in NCHA money. Mr. Charge Bar was a racehorse, but he also was an NCHA money earner, had 33 AQHA performance points, 11 halter points, and an SI of 75. An Educated Guess has 385 reining points, and the highest point earning son of Smart Chic Olena. Jackpot is a pretty moving stallion with tons of ability, he can run barrels, turn a cow and more. Piper D is a daughter of AQHA point earner Continental Cad and is out of a Zip it up daughter. Continental Cad has points in Heading and Heeling. He has offspring winning in Roping, Games, Barrel Racing, Reining, High Point Jr. Rodeo and High School Rodeo Assoc. This young mare is heterozygous dun. Zip It Up is an AQHA CHAMPION, Superior Halter, 1984 Open, Performance ROM. Piper D’s pedigree also includes Snipper Reed, Imperial One, Skipper W, Mr Jaguar and more.
KT Hollywood Kandy Colt Sire: Doll Docsan Dam: Butter Milk Kandy Date Born: 4/5/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Dunalino Price: $6,000 Here is another great colt by Doll Docsan, “Leroy.” Leroy was a stallion with a performance packed pedigree along with a very good disposition. He was a very smooth ride with tremendous talent, beautiful movement and huge stop. He was quiet and trainable which he passes along to his foals; he consistently produced fantastic foals with looks, color, conformation and brains. Leroy was unshown due to a wire cut injury that took a long time to heal. He has produced 1 foal that has NRHA earnings. He also has a 3 year old competing in Western Dressage, was 3rd in Canada in July 2016 and has racked up more 1st place finishes since then. He is sired by Dolls Union Jac- ROM, NRHA earnings, and sired foals that have earnings in excess of $310,000.00 in NRHA, as well as earnings in NRCHA, Buckskin Assoc., and the AQHA world show. Leroy’s dam is Docsan Jeany who has produced foals with earnings in excess of $3700.00 and AQHA point earners. Kandy is another great mare from Dal Dagnon. She has a lot of great old school breeding, Poco Bueno, Oakie Bar, Snipper Reed and more. She is a big built mare with a lot of power.
“Laroy” Colt Sire: Doll Docsan Dam: KT Mocha Fudsey Lena, “Mocha” Date Born: 3/16/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Dunskin Price: $10,000 Laroy is flawless colt with a personality you can’t beat. He greets you out in the pasture to get scratches. His sire, Doll Docsan, “Leroy,” was a stallion with a performance packed pedigree along with a very good disposition. He was a very smooth ride with tremendous talent, beautiful movement and huge stop. He was quiet and trainable which he passes along to his foals; he consistently produced fantastic foals with looks, color, conformation and brains. Leroy was unshown due to a wire cut injury that took a long time to heal. He has produced 1 foal that has NRHA earnings. He also has a 3 year old competing in Western Dressage, was 3rd in Canada in July 2016 and has racked up more 1st place finishes since then. He is sired by Dolls Union Jac- ROM, NRHA earnings, and sired foals that have earnings in excess of $310,000.00 in NRHA, as well as earnings in NRCHA, Buckskin Assoc., and the AQHA world show. Leroy’s dam is Docsan Jeany who has produced foals with earnings in excess of $3700.00 and AQHA point earners. Laroy’s dam, Mocha, is one of our favorite mares. Her sire was a stud from BNB Quarter Horses. Mocha’s dam, Cheyenne was a really nice mare that goes back to Smart LIttle Lena, Docs Oak, Tuff Continental, Jackie Bee, Imperial Dixie, Thirsty Blue Boy, Coy’s Bonanza, Wimpy, Skipper W, Little Joe the Wrangler and more. Mocha is a really nice mare that produces tremendous foals.
Monday I felt pretty worn out, but I am sure lots of people felt worn out on Monday. Everyone was back to school and work. Rainy the miniature horse was out when Toni went to check cows, so she was a miniature horse wrangler and put her away. The old mares that Kade and Toni put down in circle 5, where they have lots of grass, were not happy about being down there. I guess they need more pampering. Toni stayed with grandma Monday night.
Because Toni stayed with Grandma on Monday night, she normally just goes to mom and dads and has dad drive her out to check in the side-by-side. There was nothing to see however. On Tuesday I told Toni all these buckskin King fillies look alike. She said no, Peaches has a spot, they do look a little different, but not a lot. Toni also told me we have to get down to 3 fillies we are keeping and put prices on the rest of them. I told her impossible. So we compromised at 3 each. And so we priced BBs to sell, and now she is sale pending. Toni really wanted to keep that filly, but she wants to keep them all, as do I. Toni, Kaine, Jaxsen and I worked on fence in circle 6 on Tuesday so we could haul Tank out. He is still up at Tonis and would like some more grass.
On Wednesday Jeannie came out and picked up the gelding that dad and Kade got for her at Moses Lake sale. Toni took her around to pet the foals. She really liked Almy, like most people that meet him. He is just a really friendly colt. The boys took the tack out of the Wilson so Toni could take it to Allie’s on Thursday with Benelli and Annie to get AIed. Toni, Jaxsen and I worked on some more fence on Wednesday night. Anna went to Puyallup with Hannah to take pics at the show. Anna had two steers showing there so she was really excited to go.
On Thursday Bell had a cute colt by Tank. Dad and Toni took two of the mares to Allies, Benelli and Annie. Annie is a re-breed to a Shiner Named Sioux and Benelli is being bred to GSR Rein N Bullets who is HZ dun and black. We are excited about both potential foals. Now just keeping fingers crossed that they take the first breeding and we get foals out of them. Benelli has a NZ Scotch Time colt at her side now that is AWESOME. This is our second NZ Scotch Time foal and we like them. On the way home Toni got pulled over, no not for speeding, but because the tabs on the trailer were expired. No ticket. Anna and Hannah took pictures all day at Puyallup and they had a long day. One of Anna’s steers she wold was Grand Champion for type and Reserve for Showmanship. Great job on that steer! Toni had a lot of phone calls when she got back from hauling mares with dad, so I did most of her and my chores, and I told her I had Friday off, so lets skip building fence.
On Friday the Meachams minus Jaxsen went to Wenatchee for Trap Shooting State. Anna and Hannah were in Puyallup shooting pictures still. Kaine and Jaxsen went to school. Ben went to work. Mom and Dad went to Moses Lake for fencing supplies. The dogs and I went to circle 6 to work on fence. Later in the afternoon some nice people from Oregon stopped by to look at horses, so the dogs and I got a fence building break. And the neighbor Cecily brought some coffee by for me and then I went and stayed with grandma. Jaxsen stayed the night with mom and dad, so dad went and got us all pizza from the Pizza Station in Connell for dinner. Ben was running around after work getting circles running. That seems like a never-ending job. Kade had a great first day/night at State trap. The Connell kids added a full team for 2024 so up to three teams at State. It is a great group of kids.
Saturday morning I stopped and picked up Jaxsen on my way home. Jaxsen and Kaine worked on their steers and heifers. Anna and I went down and got almost all the fence done by 1. We had one circle gate left but we had to go sort cows for some people to come and look at them. And besides the fact that Reynolds and Rush had gotten out (two yearling bulls that we had been using but got back in to feed and sell one and put one with the show heifers) and we had one sick calf to doctor, it was a complete waste of time. Not only a waste of my time of sorting but a waste of time showing them. The wife was nice. We turned the cows down to circle 5, so they have a little more grass and the circle is on. Kade shot his heart out at Trap Shot State and scored an 80. He shot great last year too but this is an improvement. Good job buddy, all the kids did an awesome job. Connell #1 team was 6th place. Toni went and bought us a new drill and some more batteries for the tools while she was in Wenatchee. We needed a bigger drill to put in the circle gates. Because I can’t smell, I may have burned up the other one. Ben and I went to a friend’s 50th birthday party Saturday night. We had a great time after a long day. Jaxsen stayed at my house Saturday night because his parents were later getting home from State than anticipated.
Sunday morning Toni and I went down and finished the fence. Kaine and Jaxsen worked on their steers. Anna worked on her steers and heifers. Toni and I took a lunch break after the fence then started moving mares into Tanks pen. The fencing projects always take longer than we think they should, so we got a late lunch. The mares were all happy to be on grass, there were too many of them in his pen at Toni’s house, so they were getting supplemented with Alfalfa and now they are in lush green grass. We also moved some of the older open mares down to that field because of the amount of grass available. We tried to put Revel in with Tank but even with all the grass, her or her colt went straight through the fence so they had to be brought back in and she got hauled back home. Now she is being bred to Cappy. Tank now has 9 mares and is a happy camper. He will get a few more before it is all said and done but they haven’t foaled yet. We also got our water going on Sunday. We have big guns in the little pastures to keep our grass green for the horses. The yearling fillies really ran and had a good time when we turned their sprinkler on. It is always fun to get the water on. It adds an extra hour of chores to move the water but so worth it.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau. Such a good paraphrase of the famous quote, especially when thinking about livestock. There are so many choices that just aren’t worth the exchange. The price of livestock is always worth it. What they give back to us makes everything we put into them worth it. Always buy the horse.
The kids had one more day of spring break on Monday(for Teacher in-service day). Jaxsen informed me Sunday he would like this to be his day, and he does not want to waste it working. I told him I did not want him wasting it doing nothing. So…a little bit of both happened. Maybe more in his favor since I had to go to work. The air strike happened on the Russian Olive trees at little past 8. Toni and the kids barely had the cows out in time. The cows were overall cooperative, so that was good. Toni stayed and watched the helicopter for most of the time he sprayed to make sure the cattle stayed in. Anna and Kaine took his pickup into Deweys to get the leaf springs fixed. Anna continued to get ready for Reno. Kat brought Kady’s heifer down for Anna to clip, and spent the night, so we left from our house on Tuesday.
Tuesday morning before the sun, Kat, Anna and I headed to Reno for the Western Regional Angus show. We left at around 5:30 and got there around 4:30. Dad took Glo to Jordans to get a good start on her. Toni had her stolen child again to check cows, etc. Toni had court on Tuesday as well. Also on Tuesday we bought a fall heifer from Seldom Rest, we are super excited to get her. Kade put some rides on Holly and Gucci, which are two of his favorite of the two year olds. He pretty much likes them all but Wild because Wild is too big. She is big. Toni had meetings Tuesday night so Kade didn’t get to ride as much as he wanted.
Wednesday in Reno we slept in to 6, since we do not show on Wednesday. Anna and Kat washed heifers, I made the bed and got everything set up. Then Kat went and got Kady from the airport. There was livestock judging on Wednesday, Kady got 10th, good job Kady. Toni was super busy at home. Benelli foaled and Abs took it, so Toni got them in. She went out to check in the pasture and Yo had foaled and the foal looked like she had fallen in a circle track, but had gotten out, so she brought them in. Then she had to hurry home for court. That night when the boys were feeding Bailiey had foaled, Toni also had to get them in, Bailey had not cleaned. In situations were the foals have had some trauma, we go ahead and give those foals a colostrum supplement just to be on the safe side. We use Nursemate ASAP the majority of the time. Toni also used Right Start Plus on one of them because we had it. All three foals were out of buckskin mares so Toni is anti buckskin mares.
On Thursday we only got up a little earlier since the girls did not show until 1. Both did great in showmanship, Kady got a call back. Toni had more foals on Thursday, Butterfly had a beautiful palomino filly by Tank. Toni and dad moved Yo and Bailey over to the heavy pen. Woody, the Leroy colt out of Kandy Kane, was helping her, or being in the way, however you want to put it. Revel was acting off and had wax so Toni went and checked her a couple of times. She was way down in the corner. When Toni and Kade went out at chore time to bring Revel in, Revel had a big dunskin colt that was just getting up so they left the pair out in the pasture. Toni went to Grandma’s Thursday night.
On Friday we got up early in Reno since Kady was in class 1 with her PGS heifer. They did great and won their division. Blondie was in Bred and owned, and she was reserve champion in her division. Devo (Anna heifer) and Missy (Kady heifer) were in the same April class, and they stood well in their class and showed great. Allison Trimble Paparoa lost Cue Bars Laddie on Friday, he is the sire to Gunner. He was 28 years old. Gunner must have heard the news, because he came through the dessert to the house on Friday and dad and Toni had to push him back down. Marlo came to help with chores. Kade worked on the two year olds on Friday. Toni, Kade, and Marlo ran over to the Central Washington Livestock sale to look at horses but not much was there on Friday night. Kaine’s class went to Mr St Helens on Friday, they left at 4:30 in the morning and did not get home until midnight. It looks like Kaine had a lot of fun.
Another early morning in Reno on Saturday for the ROV (open show). Kady had to fly back to South Dakota Saturday morning, so she helped wash the heifers and then Kat took Kady to the airport. I got Missy ready for Kat, and Kat showed her in the ROV show. Kat has never shown before, just watched her kids show for 20 + years, so this was her first time. Her and Missy did great. Anna showed Devo in the same class, and Blondie was later in the December class. Leslie took Kaine, Julian and Ady to the Davenport show on Saturday. They all did great, especially Ady. Ady was 5th overall in market and Ady was 6th overall intermediate showman. Kaine made it back to the final round in showmanship. Toni and Jaxsen moved horses on Saturday and built fence. They had about 30 head to move around. Ben worked around the house with the rental equipment. Kade had a trap shoot in the morning then him and dad went to the Moses Lake horse sale, we sent one, Voodoo, and dad and Kade came back with two…
On Sunday we got up at 4:30 again in Reno and headed home. We had snow, rain, sun, wind all on the drive home. Erina and Terry came out to see Katana’s filly, and the rest of them and pet Almond. They also got to see Piper D’s brand new red dun colt, that I named Hit the Jackpot and Toni wants to call Hitman. Piper D wasn’t happy with all the extra people so Toni gave that colt some Nursemate ASAP as well. We really go through the stuff. Kaine and Ben worked with the big equipment moving dirt. Then they brought big bales down to put out. Toni and the boys continued building fence in circle 6 to turn Tank out. It was a good, productive weekend.
This week was our first truly spring like weather and we got a taste of leaving our coats on the fence posts. We have all the studs out now except Tank. Gunner has his final group of mares for this year. The other studs we can move mares in and out. We have quite a few in with MC to see what he is going to do. We are really excited about the foals we have on the ground. So much absolute quality. It is hard to make decisions on which ones to keep. We really want to keep them all.
KT Major Fire Bug Colt Sire: KT Gunners Sage Bug Dam: KT Roths Golden Girl, “Goldy” Date Born: 2/28/24 Click here for more pictures Color: Possibly Red Roan Price: $5,000 Here is an impressive colt by KT Gunners Sage Bug and out of KT Roths Golden Girl. KT Gunners Sage Bug is out of Continental Lady Bug and is by KT Gunpowder N Lead. Gunner is a roan dunskin son of Cue Bars Laddie, AQHA point earning and producing stallion. Gunner’s dam, Pistol, has been shown NFQHA, has been featured on rule book and in the NFQHA magazine. She is a great working ranch horse, rope horse, and the kids can ride her as well. Pistol’s sire, Gold Country Charro is a dunskin stallion that was shown in 1998 and 1999 in halter at local shows. Lady Bug is a big boned Continental Cad daughter going back to Mr Blackburn on the bottom. Goldy, is very versatile mare, she was Ben’s pick to ride for many years and Toni took her to the Othello fair, where she was shown halter and western equitation. She is a big pretty mare that now she is a broodmare produces outstanding foals with a lot of eye appeal. Her pedigree includes Major Bonanza, Docs Rickashay, Docs Dee Bar, Lucky Lynx, Catechu and more.
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