Left to right: David Weaver on “Ace” and Daniel Weaver on “Desperado.” Both boys were in high school at the time. Desperado was out of Ace’s full sister, Beaus Miss Blackburn.Two of the best ranch horses that ever lived.
Poco Ima Doc
Beaus Red Man – a gelding and a mare. The mare was a big, good dun mare named Beaus Poco Dee. I lost her at a young age during foaling, and the gelding was a great ranch horse that the kids did everything on. Call Me Blackburn had many foals for us over the years, and we kept every one of her fillies. Beaus Miss Blackburn lived to the grand old age of 28, passing away after she weaned her filly in the fall. She is the grandmother to the Lot #5 buckskin stallion, Weav- ers One Cowboy and Lot #25 buckskin filly, Weav- ers Miss Wright. Beaus Miss Denver was a big, black mare whose last foal, SNW Pretty Miss Blue (by Ima Bit of Heaven), is 23 years old this year and had her 18th colt this spring by Bet Hesa Echo Cat. SNW Pretty Miss Blue is the grandmother to Lot #42, Weavers Paddy Boon. In our 2025 sale there are 71 weanlings and 36 of them trace to Pretty Miss Denver and eight trace to Stormy Dun Dee. In the last ten sales, the high selling weanling traces back to Pretty Miss Denver. In a lot of cases four of the top five colts in the sale trace to her. Stormy Dun Dee was the grandmother to the 2009 AQHA High Point horse of the year, Ima Tuf Missy, pictured on page 19. The gelding Bailey Billingsley rides, Weavers Busy Lad (pictured on page 24), is a great-great-grandson of Stormy Dun Dee. Bailey lives on a ranch in Glasgow only miles away from where Stormy Dun Dee was foaled. Stormy Dun Dee crossed well with Poco Ima Doc and I got two mares from that cross whose descendants are out in the roping world. One of them sold for $150,000 in the Legends of Ranching Sale at Colorado State in 2024. Both Nancy and I have passion for the hors- es and love raising them. As the years went on, we slowly acquired more mares and raised some too that we could put in the broodmare band. Our first big purchase towards a stallion was Poco Ima Doc. I saw him in an ad in a trade magazine and called the lady who owned him up. At the time it was a lot of money
for us, but we bought him and it was such a good choice. “Poco” was always good to his mares, easy to be
around, and his offspring were cowy, fast and had the softest eye. I rode Poco through several calving sea- sons on the ranch and come spring time he would look towards the mountain, ready to be turned out with his mare band. One of the greatest crosses we had on the ranch was between the foundation mare Call Me Blackburn and Poco Ima Doc – a black mare named Call Me Pretty Poco. She was a long time producer for us and many times her colts topped the sale. We are fortunate to have some of her daughters still in the broodmare band, including Weavers Tuf Pretty, the mother to Lot #22, Weavers Keeping Tuf. In the early 1990’s we decided to work to- wards a production sale, a dream of mine since I was a kid. I was terrible at private treaty, but was really getting into the breeding side of horses with pedi- grees and versatility crosses. I planned our first sale for two years and went to every production sale I could to learn how to put one on. Nancy was always good at the advertising and marketing, and somehow knew that the internet was going to be a big part of that. We kept all the weanlings from the previous year’s crop and then had weanlings and yearlings at our first sale in 1996. We have had a horse sale every year since. We were always looking for new stallions and were adding one every so often. The biggest step we took was Ima Bit Of Heaven. We bought “Ima” from Ron Knutson in Spokane, WA. He was a two-year-old. Again, it was a lot of money for us at the time. Origi- nally, Nancy and I purchased Boonlight Dancer from Knutson and went to Spokane to pick him up. Ima Bit of Heaven had been at a trainer in Canada and Knutson was taking him down to California. I asked to ride him and I really, really liked him. For us it was better, be-
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