Weaver Quarter Horses - A History of the Program Celebrating the 30th Annual Sale
PRETTY MISS DENVER Jan. 1, 1970 #0725015 Dun Mare
Pretty Boy Mare By Buck Thomas Blackburn Cowan Mare Poco Bob Lady Cowan 10 Buster W Bert’s Bay Susie
Pretty Buck
Mr Blackburn 41
Lady Cowan
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Mr Blackburn 14
STORMY DUN DEE June 1, 1980 #1599424 Dun Mare
Mr 14’s Susie
Skip Comet Sage Brush Easy Joe Twistie Britches 59 Poco Dun Peggy Ell Poco Blackburn Clover Dee
Bert’s Susie Bee
Comet’s Stormy
Stormy Socks Comet
Twistie Socks
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Poco Loon
Dee Loon
Clover Dun
I have been around horses my entire life. Grow- ing up on the ranch we used them for everything – from feeding to gathering and everything in between. When I was younger, we didn’t have Quarter Hors- es, my dad ran thoroughbreds with a little Tennes- see Walker in them. He liked a big sorrel horse that would get out and cover country, and he instilled in me the idea of a horse that would get out and move. We raised our own horses for the ranch – my dad had a few mares and we would get one or two colts out of them a year. We also rode the mares, but didn’t really have a stallion. My dad would get a young horse when he was two or three-years-old, breed him, and then geld him and ride him. My dad was more of a cow- man. His pride and joy were his registered Herefords, and he would sell bulls to the neighbors. The first time I was really introduced to a Quar- ter Horse was when a neighboring ranch bought a grandson of Poco Bueno. The rancher had gone to Texas to purchase him – this was in the early 1960s. My dad took two mares over to breed to him, and we got two fillies. We kept them and rode them on the ranch and I really liked the one mare. In the fall of 1971 my dad went to a horse sale in North Dakota and bought Pretty Miss Denver. She was a dun mare and was always my dad’s main ranch horse. My dad passed away in 1981 and we never rode her again as I made her a broodmare. In the fall of 1981, Nancy and I went to a horse sale in Glasgow, Montana. There we bought Stormy Dun Dee as a yearling. I broke her and Nancy rode her on the ranch for a few years. In 1983, we went back to that horse sale in Glasgow, MT. It was a con- signment sale and I planned to buy a Quarter Horse stud. I found a good-looking chestnut weanling colt with no white. I really liked his mother, she was the perfect mare, and I bought the colt – Beaus Red Man.
At the time, I didn’t really know pedigrees, I just liked the look of that colt. Turned out he had a really good pedigree, and we were able to start our breeding program in earnest with him. Beaus Red Man was a grandson of Skipper W on the top and his mother was an own daughter of The Ole Man. The second dam on the bottom side was by Hard Twist. That colt had three AQHA Hall of Fame inductees on his papers. I bred Beaus Red Man to Pretty Miss Denver and Stormy Dun Dee. I got three mares and one geld- ing out of Pretty Miss Denver – the mares were Call Me Blackburn, Beaus Miss Blackburn and Beaus Miss Denver. All would become foundation mares of our program. The gelding, we called him “Ace,” was nev- er registered, but he was awesome. We rode him on the ranch for many years. He was coal black with not a stitch of white. The kids did everything on him when they were growing up – roped in the arena and in the branding pen, run barrels and run across cou- lees, gathered cows, and chased horses. He won the Montana State 4-H Pole Bending one year. Ace was the reason I fell in love with Quarter Horses, he was the most versatile horse I ever saw and I just wanted to raise more like him. I bred Northern Fox, a grandson of Two Eyed Jack, to Pretty Miss Denver and got Pretty Miss Fox – another one of our great foundation mares. She was a buckskin mare and still holds the record for the highest selling weaning in our sale. Pretty Miss Fox has several descendants in the sale, including Lot #27 Weavers Ms Busy Fox, Lot #57 Weavers First Play, Lot #67 Weavers MsBusyJudge and Lot #70 Weav- ers SmoothMsFox – all mothers trace to her repre- senting four different stallions exemplifying her di- versity. I got two siblings out of Stormy Dun Dee and
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