Ima Bit Of Heaven
Dan Roeser would train them as two and three-year- olds and show them their first year. Then I would show them as four and five-year-olds. I really enjoyed the Hackamore class. At one time, we had 27 mares in our broodmare band that had money won on them. As I got older I cut back on the showing, but we always bought stallions that were athletic and had a trainable mind. We have purchased studs for speed - PC Joes Frost, Perkster, Originally Smooth, PC Laughing Judge – but their ability to watch a cow is one of my top priorities. The Tuf N Busy line has been an extremely popular one for us. We receive more repeat buyers on those two stallions- Ima Tuf Lena and Genuinely Busy – than any of our other stal- lions. But the idea is always to breed for horses with versatility where people can take them any way they want, and they have that good-looking Quarter Horse build and mind. The pendulum has swayed more to the rope horse lately, and I’m really pleased with the stallions we have now for this discipline. The Bet Hesa Echo Cats are showing great potential as well as the Smart Topaz colts in that area. One Gun At A Time and Once In A Play Boon have the genetics to excel in this event and others as well. This is our 30th Annual Production sale, and we have sold horses to all fifty states, seven Canadian provinces, Germany, Mexico, South Africa and Austra- lia. All from our sale in Great Falls, MT off our ranch in the Bears Paw Mountains. We still really enjoy the horses and all the friends we have met through them. I still look forward to the next foal crop and wonder where they will go and what they will accomplish. As a breeder you are always looking to the future. We just purchased a new stallion this summer, a son of Woody Be Tuff, the leading rope horse sire in the na- tion the last two years. His mother is Shelby Boisjoli-Meged’s breakaway roping mare, No Wimpy Turns, that has won over a million dol- lars in that event. Can’t wait to turn him with a bunch of mares next spring.
cause Ima was a horse we could use right away and Boonlight Dancer was just a yearling. So we traded horses and Ima Bit of Heaven came home instead. It actually worked out for everyone – we would not have been able to promote Boonlight Dancer like he eventu- ally was, and Ima Bit Of Heaven helped our program and put us on the map. Ima was out of Smart Little Lena and Peppys From Heaven, a full sister to Pepto- boonsmal. We bought him the first of June that year (1998) and already had the other stallions turned out with all my mares. I always breed my mares as three- year-olds for the first time, but I did have six two- year-olds that were coming into the broodmare band. I also had one older dry mare that was good to get along with. I ended up putting those seven horses out with Ima and then we had seven colts in the follow- ing year’s sale out of him. In 1999, those weanlings brought three times the average of our previous sales, and that’s when we started getting national attention for our breeding program. We bred outside mares to him, and also showed his colts in cutting and reined cow horse. Ima was listed as a Leading Sire of Reined Cow Horses one year, and we showed a lot of his colts.
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I want to thank each and every one of you for showing an interest in our horses and especially those that take one home. God Bless you and we will see you at the sale! - Stan Weaver
Stan and Nancy Weaver, December 2024 The Conservatory at The Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada
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