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Some horses leave their mark in the show pen. Others leave it through the generations that follow. City Smarts did both in his own way.

Born in 2005, this handsome chestnut stallion had a pedigree packed with performance horse royalty and all the talent to match. City loved working cattle and could really turn one down the fence. Quick-footed, athletic, and naturally cowy, he embodied the traits that made his bloodlines so respected.

City was sired by An Educated Guess, the highest AQHA point-earning son of the legendary Smart Chic Olena. An Educated Guess compiled an impressive record that included:

🏆 385 AQHA Reining Points
🏆 Over $20,000 Lifetime Earnings
🏆 Highest AQHA Reining Point-Earning Son of Smart Chic Olena
🏆 Sixth on the All-Time Leading AQHA Reining Point Earners List
🏆 Multiple AQHA and NRHA Circuit Championships
🏆 AQHA World Show Finalist and Top-10 Competitor in Reining

City inherited the athleticism, trainability, and cow sense that made those bloodlines famous. But beyond his pedigree, what made him special was his temperament. He was easy to handle, enjoyable to be around, and had the kind of willing attitude that everyone appreciates in a horse.

Unfortunately, City’s own performance career never had the chance to fully unfold. As a young horse, he suffered a broken leg that limited his opportunities in the show pen. Even so, his ability was evident to everyone who saw him move and work. Tragically, after rebreaking that same leg at ten years old, we made the difficult decision to put him down.

While his life was cut short, his legacy lives on.

City Smarts became an important part of our breeding program, passing along his athletic ability, intelligence, and disposition to his offspring. His influence can still be seen at KT Ranch and throughout the area in the horses carrying his blood today. He is also the sire of KT Jackpot City, one of the stallions that helped continue his impact on our program.

Not every great horse gets the opportunity to show the world everything they are capable of. Some leave their greatest contribution through the horses that come after them.

The man. The myth. The legend. City Smarts.

“A good horse leaves memories. A great horse leaves a legacy.”

Palomino Filly
DOB: 5/12/25
Price: $10,000

If you’re looking for a filly with color, class, cow sense, and a great mind, KT Shez Playn Stylish deserves a serious look.

This beautiful palomino filly checks all the boxes—eye-catching color, proven performance pedigree, athletic ability, and a disposition that makes her a pleasure to be around. She’s the kind that catches your attention from across the pasture and impresses you even more when you learn what’s behind her.

Her dam, Promising Style (“Minnie”), is one of those mares everyone loves. Kind, gentle, people-oriented, and always willing, Minnie is broke to ride, naturally athletic, and extremely cowy. She possesses the kind of disposition and work ethic we strive to produce and pass on to the next generation.

Minnie is backed by an exceptional cow horse pedigree. She is a daughter of a son of Playin Stylish, one of the most influential sires in the cutting horse industry:

🏆 LTE $119,550
🏆 NCHA Earnings $111,330
🏆 1999 NCHA Horse of the Year
🏆 1999 NCHA Open Super Stakes Champion
🏆 EquiStat #1 Four-Year-Old Money Earner

On the bottom side, Minnie is out of Miss Oakies Chula, an own daughter of Chula Dual, an NCHA money earner of more than $168,000 and AQHA World Show Senior Open Finalist. This maternal line is packed with proven performers and industry greats including Hesa Commander, Docs Oak, and Duel Pep.

Her sire, KT Heza Pana Dude, is a stallion we proudly raised and retained. Started by Jordan Crabtree in Ferndale, Washington, Dude showed from an early age that he possessed the traits we value most—trainability, athleticism, and an outstanding disposition. He consistently sires big, attractive foals with good minds and natural ability.

His pedigree traces back to Zinks Major Kid, Pana Dude, Major Bonanza, and Skipper W, combining foundation strength with proven performance genetics.

KT Shez Playn Stylish brings together generations of cow horse talent, athletic ability, and trainability, wrapped in a beautiful palomino package. She has the pedigree to excel, the mind to be enjoyable, and the kind of presence that makes people stop and look.

Whether you’re looking for a future performance prospect, ranch partner, or broodmare prospect, this filly has all the ingredients to be something special.

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Pretty enough to catch your eye. Bred well enough to keep it. Golden Looks, Cow Horse Roots

Buckskin Colt
DOB: 3/07/26
Price: $6,000

Some colts are bred for the arena. Some are bred for the ranch. Truth was bred for both.

KT Sioux Shining Truth is a sharp-made buckskin colt with the kind of pedigree, disposition, and build that make a true all-around prospect. He combines elite cow horse genetics on the bottom side with generations of proven ranch horse breeding on the top, creating a colt that should have both talent and practicality.

His dam, HK ShineOMite Sioux (“Sioux”), is a beautiful mare that came to us from Texas. She is one of the sweetest mares on the place—friendly, people-oriented, and always looking for attention. More importantly, she carries an exceptional performance pedigree.

Sioux is by A Shiner Named Sioux, an accomplished performer with:
🏆 LTE $163,934
🏆 2011 AQHA World Champion Junior Working Cow Horse
🏆 2010 AQHA World Champion Junior Reining
🏆 3rd Place NRCHA Derby Open
🏆 Top 10 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open

Her dam is by Doc O Dynamite and comes from a proven producing family, adding even more depth and versatility to this colt’s genetics.

On the sire side, Nugget of Truth represents the kind of breeding that built the American ranch horse. Although he was never shown, he spent the majority of his life as a ranch remuda stallion for McMullin Ranch, where he became a cornerstone of their breeding program. His offspring are known for being:

✔ Big-boned and durable
✔ Conformationally correct
✔ Trainable and willing-minded
✔ Dependable working horses

Time and again, Nugget’s foals have proven themselves as versatile horses capable of handling long days, hard work, and multiple disciplines.

Truth brings together the best of both worlds—the talent, athleticism, and performance credentials of his dam’s side with the toughness, soundness, and usability of his sire’s ranch horse heritage.

He’s the kind of colt we love to raise: good-minded, well-bred, and built to have a job. Whether your plans include the ranch, the arena, or simply a dependable partner you can count on, Truth has all the ingredients to be something special.

KT Sioux Shining Truth — where proven performance meets practical ranch horse genetics.

Built on Truth, Backed by Champions

The man. The myth. The legend.
Around here, Gunner has earned that title more than once.

Some stallions leave their mark with papers. Others leave it with the kind of foals people remember. Gunner does both.

Standing 15.2 hands tall, Gunner is the kind of stallion that catches your eye immediately — big hip, strong bone, excellent feet and legs, athletic build, and a willing attitude that makes him easy to like. But what we appreciate most about him is that he consistently passes those traits on to his foals.

Gunner is a dun roan son of Cue Bars Laddie, an AQHA point-earning and producing stallion known for versatility across ranch, rope, and performance events. The kind of horse that could go do a job and still look good doing it.

His dam, “Pistol,” is a mare we’ve always thought highly of. She’s been featured in both the NFQHA rule book and NFQHA magazine and is the definition of a dependable ranch horse. Quiet enough for kids, solid enough for ranch work, and the kind you can count on day after day. Pistol is by Gold Country Charro, a dunskin stallion successfully shown in halter during the late 90s.

Gunner himself was started under saddle through the Allison Trimble training program and ridden by Jordan Crabtree, giving him a strong foundation and good-minded start from the beginning.

What we love most is seeing how consistently Gunner stamps his foals:
✔ Size
✔ Bone
✔ Color
✔ Trainability
✔ Good minds
✔ Ranch versatility

Whether crossed on foundation mares, rope horse mares, or performance mares, his foals continue to prove themselves as practical, athletic horses with eye appeal and substance.

He’s the kind that fits our program perfectly — cattle people first, raising horses that can work, last, and still turn heads doing it.

Some horses become part of a breeding program.
The special ones become part of the story.

✨ KT Gunpowder N Lead ✨
87% NFQHA
Breeding Fee: $1,500 | LFG

This buckskin roan filly is the kind that catches your eye fast — color, shape, pedigree, and presence all wrapped into one sharp package.

KT Slidin In Sage is another standout by KT Gunners Sage Bug (“Sagebug”), and we continue to really like what this cross is producing. She’s balanced, athletic, pretty-headed, and built with the kind of structure that should hold up for the long haul.

Sagebug traces back to some of our favorite ranch and foundation lines. He’s by KT Gunpowder N Lead (“Gunner”), a roan dunskin son of Cue Bars Laddie, an AQHA point-earning and producing stallion known for versatility and athleticism. Gunner’s dam, “Pistol,” has been shown with the NFQHA and was even featured in the NFQHA rule book and magazine — the kind of dependable ranch mare the whole family can ride.

On the bottom side of Sagebug’s pedigree is Continental Lady Bug, a big-boned daughter of Continental Cad with Mr Blackburn blood adding size, bone, and true foundation strength.

This filly’s dam, Bailey, is a barn favorite around here. She’s the kind waiting by the gate for attention every day, and she consistently passes along that same personable attitude to her foals. Bailey is feminine but strong-made, with the perfect blend of muscle, bone, and athleticism. Before becoming a broodmare, she was ranch ridden and used in the roping pen — and that real-world usability shows in her offspring.

Bailey is by Slide On Bartender, an AQHA point-earning and championship-producing son of the legendary Shining Spark and out of a Two ID Bartender daughter. The maternal side of Bailey’s pedigree brings in names like Jimeny Jumpup, Maverick Coke, Grey Badger II, and Waggoner — proven ranch and rope horse bloodlines that have stood the test of time.

This filly combines:
✔ Cow sense
✔ Reining influence
✔ Rope horse durability
✔ Foundation strength
✔ Ranch versatility

And she does it all while wrapped up in an eye-catching buckskin roan package.

Built to work. Bred to last. Pretty enough to get noticed anywhere she goes.

Anna officially wrapped up college for the summer and started her internship on Wednesday, so now she gets weekends like the rest of us after a busy workweek. Somehow summer schedules always fill up fast around here.

This weekend already looks like a typical ranch summer weekend — we have people coming out to look at horses, and on Saturday we’ve got a junior high girl coming out to work for the day for her SAE project. We always enjoy seeing young kids interested in agriculture and livestock.

Anna is also starting to get calls on show calves, which means it’s time to decide which calves she wants to halter break and get ready to sell. Sale season sneaks up quick.(None of the pictures below are recent)

Kade has been spending a lot of time on the two-year-olds and putting rides on Gucci… who may be turning into his next roping horse if things keep going the right direction.

We’re also gearing up for a big week ahead with Kaine graduating high school next Friday and the joint graduation party with his girlfriend, JayCee. We’re really excited, and honestly very thankful, that Jeana offered to host the graduation party. Her and Scott have already done most of the work too — which we definitely appreciate more than they know.

Dad is finishing up hauling out the last of the sold bulls after we pulled bulls last weekend. Hard to believe breeding season is already moving along that quickly.

Between internships, horses, cattle, graduation plans, and summer chaos… we’re rolling right into June around here.

It’s been one of those full-speed-ahead ranch weeks where everyone was headed a different direction, but somehow it all came together.

Friday, Chad was out and we got a big group of the yearlings trimmed. Jake was here too and got all of the riding horses done, plus Rip and Der — the mini stud. Meanwhile, Anna, the dogs, and I gathered and sorted cows before I had to leave, so Anna called in reinforcements. Before long, Tesa, Anna, and Scarlett were working bull calves and their moms, and once Kaine and Kicker showed up, they jumped right in too. Jake ended up helping there as well while Ben was off fixing circles.

Saturday we finished working cows while Toni made a few trips out to horse shows in between ranch work — pretty standard around here this time of year.

Sunday we loaded up early and headed to Desert Storm in Hermiston with cattle. It was a good weekend for the crew:
🏆 Fall Angus heifer was Grand Champion Angus Heifer in Ring B and Third Overall in Ring A
🏆 The DLX heifer landed in the Top 5 in Ring A
👏 Anna and Kade both did well in showmanship
👏 Both steers placed 3rd in their classes and made the final drive

We also recruited Charley Casey to jump in and help show Angus heifers since all of the Angus heifers ended up in the same class at once — and we sure appreciated the extra help.

Monday gave us a chance to pause a little for Memorial Day and remember the people who sacrificed so we get to live this life we love. We’re thankful for the freedoms that allow us to raise our families, ranch, travel, compete, and gather together — freedoms that came at a cost for many families. We’re grateful to those who served and especially those who never made it home.

Of course, ranch life doesn’t stop. Toni was back showing horses again while Ben, Kaine, and Kade headed to Dan’s to pick up grass hay. If you need some grass hay, we have all of Dan’s but Davidsons that live up the hill texted they have some nice three tie grass hay bales.

We’ve also added a few mares in with the new stud, Classic Metal (“Cal”), and we’re pretty excited to see what the future holds there. We think he’s going to cross really well on several of our mares.

And yesterday brought one more exciting addition — Nutter Butter had our Judge Dat Cash foal… a cute filly! We were really hoping for a filly to keep, so we’re pretty excited about this one. Toni also had a visitor stop by yesterday, which always makes for a fun break in the middle of the chaos.