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All of our stallions are started
under saddle prior to beginning their breeding career.
Both Skip Will Win and Whammy Ball have been ridden
regularly on trail and with working cattle. They are
exceptional rides with a sure-footed feel and smooth
transitions. Call Me Nifty Tu has been trained in
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In Memory of
Starring Cool,
my "Mr Bright Eyes" 2001-2008
We lost a very beautiful horse
on December 9th 2008. Mr Bright Eyes was the horse I
loved to show, whether it was at an AQHA show in
Wichita, Kansas, Ozark Quarter Horse shows or at our
local State Line Horse Shows. We showed him as a
yearling and two year old and he would allow me to primp
and work his coat into a beautiful shine. Clippers,
scissors, banding, blankets, if it had anything to do
with attention, he welcomed it. Many a time he was
mistaken for a gelding while waiting to show because he
just had a great temperment. MBE was special and is
greatly missed. Thank you "Eyes" for being a part of our
life.
Starring Cool "Mr. Bright Eyes", was an own grandson of
Obvious Conclusion and Ima Cool Skip. His Sire was
Starring Obvious by Obvious Conclusion and his Dam was
Sassy and Cool by Ima Cool Skip.
His Sire was 2000 Open Halter ROM, 5th Place at the
World Show in 2 Yr old Stallions, Amateur World Champion
in 2 Yr old Stallions, and in 2001 was the Amateur
Reserve World Champion in 3 Yr old Stallions, 6th Place
in Open at the World Show in 3 Yr old Stallions, and
received an Amateur Halter ROM.
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Dukes Golden Legacy
"Duke", is a 1997 15.1 hand palomino stallion by "Skip
Will Win" and out of "Ms Rapid D Or", who is a 1981
palomino mare out of Halter point earner Rapid D Or by
Rapid Bar who had a speed index of a 100 and points in
Halter. Rapid Bar was a 1958 son of Three Bars and out
of Miss Chicaro, by Chicaro Bill. Rapid Bar was AAAT and
a 1965 AQHA Champion in Halter.
Rapid D Or's Dam, Robin D Or, a 1962 palomino, also had
point earners and race winners in her pedigree. Bras D
Or, a 1940 dun stallion was raced and had points in
halter. Osage Red, a 1945 sorrel stallion had a speed
index of 95. Ms Rapid D Or's Dam, Sokota Sparky, a 1972
sorrel, had points in Halter and a number of Halter and
Performance horses on her Sire's side. Sokota Sparky's
Dam's sire and grandsire were both winners at the race
track and as halter and performance point earners.
Winning Note, a 1960 sorrel stallion, accumulated points
in Halter and Performance. His Sire and Dam were both
race track winners. Clabbers Win, a 1954 chestnut
stallion had a speed index of a 100 with 42 starts, 14
wins, 5 seconds, 9 thirds, and $44,743 in earnings. Gold
Note, a 1952 chestnut mare, had a speed index of 95 with
31 starts, 8 wins, 5 seconds, 3 thirds and $7,531 in
earnings.
Ms Rapid D Or's sire, Sokota Babe, a 1962 sorrel
stallion, accumulated points in Halter and performance.
Sokota Babe was by Babe Cody by Bill Cody. Babe Cody
accumulated points in Halter and Performance while also
being known for siring 11 AQHA Champions, 9 Superior
Halter and performance horses, and the earners of 20
ROMs and 1440 AQHA points.
Bill Cody, a 1944 sorrel stallion and one of AQHA's
first well-known halter horses, was out of Wimpy P-1 and
Pesetita, a mare out of the Old Sorrel. Bill Cody earned
18 Grand Championships, 97 Halter points ( Superior in
Halter) and was the 1952 high-point halter horse.
Duke's sire, "Skip Will Win" is out of "Fly by Night who
is by the great "Blondy's Dude." Blondy's Dude was the
1962 Grand Champion Stallion at Fort Worth Stock Show.
He has 1,402 registered foals who accumulated 2 World
Champions, 1 Supreme Champion and 30 AQHA Champions.
They earned 3,032 halter points and 7,074 performance
points.
Duke is a full brother to our mare
Skips Star D Or
and came to us in October 2007 from JD and Holly Bakke
of Parker, Colorado .
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In Memory of Skip Will Win "Skip",
1984-2010
Skip was a horse that lived a very full life.
Everyone commented how striking he was with his
strong jaw and bright eyes. He had a presence at the
barn and it is definitely missed. We have several
mares out of him and riding horses that will always
keep his memory alive. When we hear the thunder
roll....we know it is Skip galloping through the
sky.
Skip Will Win
"Skip" is a 15 hand rich sorrel, almost chestnut,
stallion that produces exceptional cow horses that
like to go. He is line-bred Skipper W on his sire's
side and Blondy's Dude, Parker's Trouble and Sugar
Bars on his dam's side. All of his foals carry
Blondy's Dude on their AQHA papers.
Skip is a 5 times bred Skipper W stallion. His Sire,
Skippa Little, was a 1977 Palomino bred by Hank
Wiescamp and his Dam was Fly By Night, a 1969 Sorrel
Mare out of Blondy's Dude. Skippa Little sired 81
foals of which 9 were Performers. Performance of his
foals earned: 7 Performance Wins, 13 Performance
points, 36 Halter Wins, 24.5 Halter points, 5 Grand
Championships, 6 Reserve Grand Championships, and 1
Reserve All Around Championship.
Skip is a great-grandson of Skippa String, AAA
stakes winner by Rukin String, 1953 World Champion
Quarter Running Stallion and Racing ROM, by Piggin
String and Queenie, World Champion Quarter Running
Mare in 1944-45 and 1945-46.
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Whammy Ball
"Whammy" is a grandson of Three Bars on his Sire side
and his Dam was Racquet Ball out of Mr Capital Gain,
sire of several cutting horse winners, including Budget
Bar Leona and Gold Seeking Bonnie (Dam: Bonnies Bug by
Tyrees Fancy Dude). Skip's Aid was Racquet Ball's Dam
and was a 1959 Bay Mare bred by the Wiescamp estate out
of Skipper W. Skip's Aid produced 13 foals with 5
performance foals with 28 Halter points, 45 Performance
points, 3 Performance ROMs and 1 AQHA Champion.
Whammy's Sire, Whammy Cat, had a
speed index of 95 with 6 wins, 3 seconds and 2 thirds
out of 22 starts. Total earnings at the racetrack
equaled $2,631. Whammy Cat's achievements were setting a
new track record and a 1964 Racing ROM. Whammy Cat had
55 performing offspring with 13 racing winners, 3 stakes
placers, money earned equaling $37,904, and 15 Racing
ROMs. His foals have accumulated 392 Open Halter points,
33 Youth Halter points, 290.5 Open Performance points,
26 Amateur Performance points, and 113 Youth Performance
points, 10 Performance ROMs, 2 AQHA Champions, 1
Superior in Halter, 1 Superior Performance, 1 Superior
Performance Earner, 3 Show All-Around Wins, and 3 Show
All-Around Winners. Performance Winning offspring were
Open High Point in Reining, Open High Point in Western
Riding, Open Superior Western Pleasure, and National
Cutting Horse Association Winnings.
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Call Me Nifty Tu
"Call" is a 1994 14.3hh dun son of Nifty
Horatio, an own son of Horatio who was an own son of
Sugar Bars. My father sold Nifty Horatio and an own son,
Call Me Nifty Tu in the 1990s to JD and Holly Bakke at
the Legacy Ranch in Parker, Colorado who continued to
breed Nifty and Call. In September of 2005, the Bakke's
contacted us about bringing Call back home. I know Dad
is looking down right now and thrilled to see Call
become a part of our family again.
Call was started as a 3 year old by a cutting horse
trainer showing a lot of potential. He has spent most of
his adult life as a "ride around the ranch" horse but
has also had the opportunity to engage in jumping and
dressage. When Call was 4, a friend of Holly's daughter
needed a horse for a month because her TB was lame. She
borrowed Call and he did a brief time learning to jump.
According to Holly, he wasn't too sure about that
jumping stuff. :) He kept going up to the jump and
trying to eat the fake flowers:) Then a couple years
ago, a close friend of Holly's, Ann, had her appendix
gelding die and she wanted something to ride so she
started riding Call in dressage. The dressage suited
Call because it kept his mind busy. According to Holly,
Call is one of the smartest horses she's ever been
around. Learning all the dressage movements kept him
thinking about the rider and their expectations. He's
very good at the shoulder in, half pass, side pass, etc.
and has learned flying lead changes.
 Call enjoys people and always come when you call him. He
loves attention and also loves work. He insists on being
the first horse that you ride! Call's foals all seem to
have his "work ethic." They don't seem to care what
discipline you train them for, as long as they have a
job and get lots of interaction with people. They also
have his athletic ability. Holly has commented that she
has always thought Call would have been very good at
cutting or reining, but just didn't have the knowledge
to train him for it or the resources to have him
trained.
Call's grand dam, Nifty Rickels, was a halter point
winner and dam of 12 foals with one as a performer,
Heather Light an 1964 dun mare by Leo Lightning. Foals
out of this mare were performers in racing (Sugarton, a
1977 dun gelding by Louton Jet), performance winner and
National Cutting Horse Association winner (Right Sugar
Dandee, a 1978 dun stallion by Ima Dandee Bar
$5,388.66), performance winner, halter winner, novice
winner (HF Lady Ration, a 1996 dun mare by Clarks Hill
Billie).
Nifty Rickel's sire was Rickel's Cody, the grandsire of
272 foals of which 34 were performers collectively
earning 193 Performance wins, 274 Performance Points, 49
Halter wins, 33.0 Halter Points, 4 Performance ROMs, 3
World Championships, 1 Performance Superior Award, 1
Reserve World Championship, 8 Grand Championships, 14
reserve World Championships, 9 All Around Championships.
Other earnings: AQHA World Championship Show $7,715.98,
National Cutting Horse Assoc. $1,284.83, National
Reining Horse Assoc. $4,951.36, 108 Palomino Horse
Breeders Halter Points, and 89 Palomino Horse Breeders
Performance Points.
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