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KT King of Blue

KT King of Blue
Stallion
Sire: Shining Blue Dr
Dam: KT Copper Isabelle 
Date Born: 5/22/18
Color: Blue Roan, he is color tested as E/E, a/a
Price: $15,000 OBO
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KT King of Blue is a fancy true blue stallion. He 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. This is a filly that was our first 4th generation foal. We were able to show her prior to her injury, and now we use her on the ranch. She really goes after the cows. Izzy’s pedigree includes many greats like Major Bonanza, Sizzlin Hot, Major King, Docs Dee Bar and more. This colt was born 5/22/18. King has been color tested as a true blue roan that is homozygous black mane and tail. E/E, a/a. He was in training with Tim Johnson winter 2020 and had a refresher in spring 2022 with Jordan Pace.  

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KT Stars Go Blue, “Star”

KT Stars Go Blue, “Star”
Mare
Sire: Just Plain Starlight, “Colonel”
Dam: Blue Eyed Reflection
Date Born: 5/06/20
Color: Chestnut with 4 socks and blaze
Price: $8,000
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Star is an impressive mare with a pedigree that speaks for itself. She is out of Blue Eyed Reflection, a daughter of Colonels Reflection, a point earning stallion and son of Colonel Freckles. She is out of Reba Lynx, who was a daughter of Docs Lynx with One Gun on the bottom side. Blue Eyed Reflection’s full brother has his ROM and her sister is a barrel horse. VERSATILE! This colt’s sire is Just Plain Starlight, “Colonel,” who is a son of Tamalight; winner of $21,492.10 in NCHA dollars and COA. Colonel’s dam is Wright on Sugarnic, winner of the Cascade Cutters Futurity. Wright on Sugarnic is by Lenas Wright On, World Champion Jr. Working Cow Horse, Reserve World Champion Jr. Reining, ROM, AQHA point earner. Wright on Sugarnic’s dam, Just Plain Sugari, has NCHA earnings of $111.31 and is an AQHA point earner. She is a granddaughter of Smart Little Mesa, Slide Me Again and Just Plain Colonel, who are all money and pt earners. In addition to this dazzling pedigree, this filly is ELEGANT with lots of chrome. We were planning on keeping her but have not had time to start her.

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KT Judge Dat Apache, “Judge”


KT Judge Dat Apache, “Judge”

Colt
Sire: Judge Dat Cash (PD)
Dam: RH Apache Butterfly
Date Born: 4/24/22
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Color: Gray
Price: $7,500
KT Judge Dat Apache is a showy gray colt with a pedigree bred to perform. His dam, Butterfly, is by Apache Blue Boy and out of RR Sonoita Melissa. Apache Blue Boy has 1,119.5 AQHA performance points, Superior Heading, Superior Heeling, Superior Tiedown Roping, 2007 AQHA World – Res Champ Sr Heading, 3rd Sr Heeling, 5th Am Heading, 9th Am Heeling, 9th Sr Tie-Down Roping, 2008 World Champion Amateur Heading Horse, 2011 Res. World Champ. Amateur Dally Team Roping Heading, 2011 World Champ. Amateure Dally Team Roping Heeling, He is by Blue Boy Doc, NCHA money earner ($405.93) and producer of NCHA & NRHA winners. This colt’s sire, Judge Dat Cash, “PD,” is by Judge Cash, AQHA Race SI-110/AAAT/ROM/Superior, (SW) 34-12-10-3, $115,936. Won: Pocatello Downs Spring Derby, Boise 440 Championship, Leon Dafoe Memorial S. 2nd: Boise Futurity[G3] 3rd: All American Gold Cup(G1), RACE & BARREL HORSE SIRE, NFR qualifiers, Barrel Futurity and 1D winners. Sire of Race Money Earners of $1,223,619. PD’s dam is by First Smart Money: AQHA Race SI-105/AAAT/ROM, (SP)17-3-4-4, $32,613, 3rd: New Mexico Juvenile Challenge-G3, Los Alamitos Stakes. SIRE RECORD: Sire of 218 foals of racing age, 110 starters, 68 ROM, as of 05/13/2014. Chief Earner: Capones Vault SI-107, Earned $503,501. 3/4 Brother to Holland Ease.
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I can’t believe that summer is already coming to an end.

Monday proved to be an interesting August day. We woke up to the rain pouring so hard on the way to work that you could barely see through it and thunder and lighting storms. Power outages, pumps going off, fires around from the lighting strikes. But it made for a cooler evening for the 4H meeting that night. Anna took her little bull over that she is going to show at the NILE. The rest of the kids took their “bad” steers.  Meaning Jaxsen took his Angus Loki, and Kade and Kaine took their char steers. At this point all of the kids steers have been to a show and are ready to roll. There were some FFA kids there that had not been to a show. McCall ran the meeting and Whitney and Toni assisted. The meeting went long so that everyone had a chance to get their steers out and moving. Some of the steers need more work, some need more weight, some just need more everything, but the fair is coming up and these kids have all worked hard and will have a good time. All the adults enjoyed the get together.

Tuesday morning I took Kaine to Moses Lake to get his Ag Permit. We were in and out pretty fast. Toni to Kade to Tri Cities, to get brackets put on his teeth, then teeth pulled then braces. Poor kid. But don’t worry, he still practiced roping. You won’t be a good roper if you can’t rope through the pain. Mom went and stayed with grandma on Tuesday. Dad did not harvest Monday or Tuesday due to the rain. So Jax went with Dad to the tri-cities where dad bought him brunch. Jax proceeded to try to eat an entire chicken fried steak with all the sides. Unclear what Dad got because everyone was amazed that Jax thought he could eat that much. He did not get it eaten. He was so full the rest of the day he couldn’t do much and maybe was a bit sick. The men fixed circles Tuesday evening. Anna found some dogs on the road, cute little ones, a mom dog and her puppy. So Toni and I spent most of Tuesday night driving around trying to find their owners. The general consensus was from the people that we talked to that the dogs had been dropped off and people had seen them around. We found out that some friends had to put their old dog down that day, so we took the little found dogs to them for their kids. Good deed of the day done. The parents maybe weren’t too happy with us, but friends are friends.

On Wednesday morning Toni and Kicker ran two loads of cows to Moses Lake. They made it back in record time. We haven’t taken cattle to Moses Lake’s sale yard before, but the people there unloading were nice and it is way closer than Toppenish. Lets just hope the prices are similar. Anna went to Tri Cities to get the meat at Bryans. She took her friend Josie with her and they got milkshakes for lunch.  I had a skin appt midday. Toni stayed at grandmas that night.  Toni did most of chores, so I just moved the water and played with the foals. The kids are working on their show animals, and have started halter breaking some for next year.

On Thursday after washing steers and heifers, Kade convinced Jaxsen to pull the roping dummy for him. There was way too much negotiation considering all that Kade does for Jaxsen and finally Toni had to tell Jaxsen to get his butt outside and drive the 4-wheeler around. Jaxsen would only agree to 30 minutes and set his timer. Kade wasn’t too impressed with his horse and Slick is pretty unimpressed with Kade. Slick doesn’t want to be a roping horse at 18 years old. Kade decided he needed a new horse between his old horse and his young horse. Our hay got swathed on Thursday. And we had people come out to look at the horses on their way to the Okanagan stampede. They had come to look at a few foals but Toni gave them a tour and they looked at all the foals and the yearlings.

On Friday the kids, mom and I all got haircuts. I went out and fixed fence after and got some pics of the calves. The kids washed steers and then I got pics of Kade and Anna to upload for the show. I used show pics if we had a good side shot. I went and stayed with grandma Friday night and Toni and Kade rode. Kade was still not eating due to the braces and the pulled teeth, but he needed to get his riding time in.

Saturday Anna and Kade went to WSU meats judging. They left at 4:30 am.  Ben and Kaine started tattooing the bull calves. I helped when I got home. At chore time mom’s cow Libby was down by the gate and dad has been wanting us to put her in the alley to eat down the weeds. Well we just let her out the gate thinking she would stop in the alley to eat weeds while we shut the gates. Nope, she took off to find friends. We ended up clear down by circle 5 and had to lead her all the way back home. It was not the best laid plan. She ran over people, ran into the 4-wheeler, hid in the corn, overall proved that having a pet cow isn’t ideal.

Lane came down on Sunday. Anna and Ben got up early and finished tattooing the calves that were weaned. Kade and Jaxsen came down early to wash their steers, Kade and Toni were headed to Dayton to get Electra, she is Jag’s full sister by Double and out of Tuffy, she has been roped off of, but not ridden in a year, so Kade was getting her to try roping off of. They also picked up Nugget from Jeannie. Marlo came down and we went out and got some pics of the heifer calves and then went down to do chores. Toni had some Sr pic plans, she was not home by 5:30, the planned start time, so we were instructed to start. She got there after the first costume change. She had some great ideas and they turned out really well.  Anna also needed pictures for the final AQHA Youth project, so the pictures killed 2 birds with 1 stone. Anna has put in a ton of time with her yearling, Gunnie, so we are hopeful that she does well in the program. The program deadline is coming up for anyone that wants to apply. We know of one great kid applying this year, but anyone can apply.

This was our last full weekend home of summer vacation. Next weekend we go into the BF Fair for setup. I can’t believe that summer is already coming to an end. On a positive note, for anyone that wants to support the kids, they will be selling steers at BF Fair on Aug 25, CBJLS on Sept 9, and Othello on Sept 16. OR if someone wants to support local kids but doesn’t want to buy an animal you can donate to the North Franklin Livestock Booster- they are all set up and ready to support kids at the fair this year. Checks go to NFLB c/o Christine Jenks, 2543 Rangeview Rd, Othello, WA 99344.

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Last Week in Pictures

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KT King of the City, “2”

KT King of the City, “2”
Colt
Sire: KT Jackpot City
Dam: KT Copper Isabelle 
Date Born: 4/12/22
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Color: Palomino
Price: $5,000
Phenomenal colt out of Izzy and by Jackpot. Izzy is out of Captains Double Coy and by KT Copper Queen Cleo. Izzy is our first 4th generation mare. We were able to show her prior to her being injured, then we use her on the ranch for a few years before adding her to our brood mare band. She is a really nice mare that we love, she is one of our favorites. She is really cowy and goes after the cows and dogs. We love her foals, they are very smart and trainable as well as having great confirmations. She is 83% NFQHA and her pedigree includes Sizzlin Hot, Major Bonanza, Ed Echols, Coys Bonanza, Major King and more. KT Jackpot City is out of Lenas Abbie N Charge and is by City Smarts. “Abbie” is a daughter of Smart Like Lena with Mr. Charge Bar on the bottom side. Smart Like Lena is a son of 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 an NCHA money earner, had 33 AQHA performance points, 11 halter points, and an SI of 75. City Smarts is by An Educated Guess, 385 reining points, and the highest point earning son of Smart Chic Olena. City has a full brother that is a reiner and priced at $13,000. This is a pretty moving colt with tons of ability and a performance deluxe pedigree

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KT Gunnin For King, “3”

KT Gunnin For King, “3”
Colt
Sire: KT King of Blue, “King”
Dam: KT Gun in a Million, “Mil”
Date Born: 4/23/22
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Color: Smokey Blue Roan (Color Tested Rn/n, E/E, N/Cr, a/a).
Price: $7,500
Here is a skookum blue colt with a pedigree to match. His dam, Mil is a fancy brindle roan mare by KT Gunpowder N Lead and out of Wright on Sugarnic, “Stinger.”‘ Mil has been color tested by UC Davis as a smoky black and her brindle coloring cannot be explained by chimerism. On top of the crazy color, she is bred to the hilt. Mil’s dam, Wright On Sugarinic (Stinger) Won Pro division of the Cascade Cutters Futurity and is an own daughter of Lenas Wright On. Her dam, Just Plain Sugari has NCHA earnings of $111.31 and is an AQHA point earner. She is a granddaughter of Smart Little Mesa, Slide Me Again and Just Plain Colonel, who are all money and pt earners. She is also the dam of our Stallion, Just Plain Starlight. Top side, Mil is by KT Gunpowder N Lead (Gunner), a son of Cue Bars Laddie. Cue Bars Laddie 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. Gunner is out of Charros Dandy Miss (Pistol) who was shown NFQHA and local shows. Great cow horse/ranch horse/rope horse. Gunner has greats on his papers like Peppy San, Doc O’Lena, Dandy Derby, Docs Jack Frost, and Imperial One. King 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.

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Last Week in Pictures

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Well, the race is on towards the end of summer.

Monday dad went back to wheat harvest. The kids worked on their steers and heifers. Cash came in to get grain Monday night, so Toni and I worked on her, she is one of the two years olds. Cash did great, we lunged her with the bareback pad. Cash has needed extra time because she is on the hotter side. Kade and Anna worked on their 4-year-olds. Kaine chopped down Russian Olive trees. Toni and I also had Kaine and Kade help us switch pens with Voodoo and Shasta. Shasta’s colt injured his leg and we are doctoring him, and we are doctoring Monte. Monte has been in getting doctored since he was a week old. Voodoo stepped on him right off the get-go. Monte is pretty much used to us doctoring on him, but I forget that he doesn’t like Toni because of it. I can be just petting him, half holding him getting ready for whatever Toni is going to put on his leg next and as soon as he senses Toni coming, he tries to bolt on his three good legs. Poor little guy, hopefully he will heal up.

On Tuesday mom went to Connell and stayed with Grandma. Toni took Kade and Jaxsen to Dr appts, Kade is 6.1 ½, Toni did not tell us how tall Jaxsen has gotten, then they got to go to Foodies for lunch. We all love Foodies. Anna ran some beef into a customer in Connell. Kaine chopped trees. They all worked on their steers as well. I picked up mom on my way home from work and Toni went over to spend the night with grandma. Toni and the boys did most of the chores and doctored the colts. I moved the middle sprinkler and fed Gunner weeds. Kade came down and worked on Stormy, Anna rode Jag. Those two love their Double babies.

Wednesday was hump day. After the kids did chores the big boys went and helped Townsends load hay. Toni and I did all our chores and doctored our colts. We messaged on a cute black stud colt we found. I do not think he is homozygous black though and mom did not love him. Toni also found a mare she wanted to buy out of Montana. This one is actually a possibility. Not crazy expensive, pedigree is right. Now she just needs to convince all of us to get on board, and she is working hard at that.

Anna and Kaine flew to LEAD, an Angus leadership conference, in Modesto, CA on Thursday. I took them to the airport bright and early, so then I was at work an hour early. Kendel and Scarlett fed the steers lunch on Thursday for them. Toni and Kade went to a roping for the day with Kass Newman. Kade really wants to be a calf roper. None of us are calf ropers. In fact, Dad roped and rodoed, but Toni and I were never allowed to. Ben rodeod, but didn’t rope. Basically, Kade has no one to teach him but YouTube, and Toni took Kade and Kaine to one roping clinic with Jennifer Casey (they both learned a lot there). Luckily Kass agreed, so they spent the day over there having fun. They took three horses, but Kade only ended up riding Slick. When we got home, we did chores. Then Kade and Toni went for another ride. Kade is pretty dedicated to making Stormy a good riding horse. Stormy proved her value on Thursday when the colts came running out of the trees right at her and she didn’t lose her mind. In fact she barely spooked and pretty much acted like it wasn’t a big deal. Toni says she spooked hard enough for everyone, my horse that Toni was riding also didn’t think it was a big deal because Friday is great. 

Friday Kade went to Pullman meats judging. Mike came out and harvested another steer. Toni, Jaxsen, mom and Chad trimmed yearlings all day, they got 11 out of 13 done. Chad was running late, so Toni was worried something happened to him, because he is NEVER late. But luckily, he was just running late. To make the trimming go well, Toni, Jaxesen, and Mom (the A team) ran the colts down the alley to the house. That just made it easier to catch them, mess with them, more options if any of them were bad. Because we are so far behind this year, most of the colts were just getting their first trim. Mom also helped Toni take some pictures of the ones we want to sell. The trimming lasted for 5 ½ hours without getting them all, but only 2 left.  Jaxsen and I started chores then Toni and Chad got done so we finished. We had to run the colts back, but they did pretty good. The alley and driveway can pretty much be blocked in, with just a few iffy spots. They can’t really get out, but in a few spots, they can go the wrong way. Mom also made clear on Friday that The Joker is her favorite colt. Willie is actually her colt but Willie is big. The Joker is pretty laid back, doesn’t really push or do anything offensive. So, Mom really liked him. Jax hates them all. It was unclear if that was a general statement on horses, colts, yearlings, ag, who knows with him. 

Amazingly we were actually home for a weekend. Except Anna and Kaine who were in CA enjoying themselves at LEAD. On Saturday there were some bull calves that had gotten in with the heifer calves, so Ben, Toni, Kade and I got them in and sorted them off, then decided to sort off the culls cows and the clubby steers. So that was all day. Ben seemed to think we needed to cull more Hereford cows than we planned to cull. But he isn’t in charge of that. He does let his opinion be known. Overall, the calves look really good.  After we got done with that, Toni and I went down for chores. Toni was once again trying to talk to me, Mom and Dad about this mare she wanted. We were all outside. The hose was on and Dad was sitting in his outside chair. I was like, wait you guys, don’t you hear that rattlesnake? Mom and Toni thought it was the hose, but noise was not consistent like a hose, it would start and stop, like a snake. Toni went over and the rattlesnake was about 2 feet from Dad behind the planter. Dad couldn’t hear it at all. So he got up and went and got some shovels and wanted Toni or I to kill it with him. We were like no thanks. Kicker and Ben both ended up coming down. The rattler had 11 buttons on its tail and was pretty big. That was our big excitement for Saturday.  Then I went and spent the night with grandma. We watched RFD TV.

On Sunday we decided to wean the bull calves and sort off the remaining cull cows. Ben and I did that. Toni showed Sting to his new owner, who also wanted to look at some other horses. His kids were also excited to look at the horses so that made it fun. Kade practiced roping. Toni and Kade rode out in the circle. They try to alternate on just relaxing rides and drills/work. Like working on spins, backing, just the work that needs to be done on a young horse. We also replaced the water trough in the colt pen with a bigger one. And because we were all down there, we went ahead and caught King 2, King 3, and Willie for new pictures for their sale ads. All three have really grown and changed. Willie is huge. His full brothers have both gone to be rope horses and I could see Willie doing that as well. King 2 is a tank- short, stocky, quick, but muscle and bone that won’t stop. King 3 has a prettier more refined look without being feminine, he has tons of eye appeal and would make a fancy show horse. We did chores and then Ben and I went to Foodies for dinner before picking up Anna and Kaine from the airport. They had a lot of fun at Angus LEAD. Everyone thinks Kaine is older than he is, so he got to hang out with the 17-20 years olds, instead of the kids his age. He felt that was great fun. He also found out that not all Canadians speak French, which he felt like was a common misconception, which, I do not think is…

Well, the race is on towards the end of summer. Not that we want it to end, we don’t.  Once again, full schedules, full weekends. Lots of projects to get done before the kids go back to school. We still have some really fun foals left for sale. We are also working on the weaning schedule because we start weaning NEXT MONTH!

And don’t forget, if you are looking for beef we have lots of sale, give us a ring.

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