Red Man


Blue Valentine


Gooseberry


Grey Badger II


Rip Rip


Leo


Joe Hancock, horse & owner


Robin Reed


Sugar Bars


Lasso


Randles Lady


Leo Hancock Hayes

Leo (Wikipedia)

Joe Hancock, AQHA Hall of Famer (HancockHorses.com)

Leo the Legend, (Horsesonly.com)

Robin Reed AAAT, (QHD.com)

Joe Reed II, (AQHA Museum)

Sugar Bars the Legend, (Horsesonly.com)

Sugar Bars, (AQHA Museum)

Grey Badger II, (AQHA Museum)

Leo Hancock Hayes

Cowboy Valentine 2 yrs old


Joe Hancock 4 yrs old

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Cowboy Valentine 2014

Cowboy's extended pedigree: allbreedpedigree.com/cowboy+valentine

Cowboy Valentine
2003 brown stallion, 15.2 hh
37.5 % Blue Valentine 3x
18.75% Red Man
15% Joe Hancock 7x
3x Leo (2x Robin Reed AAAT)
8x Joe Reed P3

Wrapped in glorious Joe Hancock brown? Yes. Plain? Not hardly! A stunning horse from the day he hit the ground. Cowboy is poetry and power in motion with a stride that eats up the ground.

Cowboy Valentine 2010

Cowboy’s dam is the cornerstone of our breeding program. A grand-matron whose daughters are irreplaceable and whose sons head up breeding programs in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

Fintry Blue Berry a daughter of Lasso’s Windsor a sire of winning rope and barrel horses and granddaughter of Lasso whose get earned 732 AQHA points (Superior Performance and Superior Halter). Lasso’s daughters have produced earners of 2,232.5 AQHA points plus NCHA and NRHA money winners.

Cowboy Valentine’s maternal grandsire; Lasso’s Windsor is the magic cross of Grey Badger II & Buck Hancock. This pedigree combination is a recipe for winners, from the rodeo arena to the reining pen, ranch horse versatility and mounted shooting. It is represented in such legendary sires as the incomparable Easter Gentleman whose record for a stallion siring the most NRHA Futurity Championship winners in a single NRHA Futurity year stood for 21 years, and is still represented in winners from the Two T Ranch program.

Other notables of the Grey Badger II/Buck Hancock cross are the sires: Cee Booger Red (sire of NFR tie-down winners) and Mr Illuminator the sire of TR Dashing Badger~ Jill Moody’s NFR mare ‘Dolly’. The list is long and too great in scope to cover the entire history of this pedigree combinations influence in anything less than a book!

Fintry Blue Berry’s dam, Berrys Babe, is a daughter of one of Blue Valentine’s most well regarded sons, Gooseberry. During the time Gooseberry headed up the Merritt Ranch-Blue Valentine breeding program siring mostly good rope horses for the ranch and rodeo arena, Gooseberry still managed to sire a two time AQHA World Show qualifier in Jr and Open Working Cow Horse.

Fintry Blue Berry’s second dam, Blue Kewpie Doll, is a full sister to sires: Blue’s Beard, Blues Kingfisher and mare Estrella Azul (dam of Apache Joe Hancock - maternal grandsire of Hancocks Blue Boy) all were well used and widely spread throughout the Hancock Breeders gene pool. To say the number of quality Blue Valentine bred quarter horses would be a fraction of what it is without these four siblings would be an understatement.

Leo Hancock Hayes’s pedigree is one of rodeo, arena and racetrack royalty, he has sired get (only 9 shown to date) who’ve earned 900 AQHA points and counting. Leo Hancock Hayes dam was a double bred granddaughter of Leo and a maternal granddaughter of Sugaree Bars the first AAA (and stakes winning) racehorse to also earn an AQHA Championship. Sugaree Bars sire was Sugar Bars AAA, who had an enormous impact on the AQHA performance and halter world. He sired speed, cow sense and conformation. Sugaree Bars is also the dam of full siblings, Pa Jones (AAA) a barrel horse sire and the AAA stakes producing mare Golly Moses (AAA).

Blue Valentine was an outstanding ranch and arena sire. He spent his winters in Arizona roping and breeding mares and his summers in Wyoming running with his mare band when not being used for roping at rodeos such as Cheyenne Frontier Days. Blue Valentine was voted one of the all-time top ten ranch sires in AQHA history, Western Horseman magazine, Oct 2007. His disposition was second to none.

Blue Valentine’s sire, Red Man earned his AQHA ROM in racing and performance (tie down roping) and was the sire of 20 ROM race and performance earners and top rodeo horses, including an Honor Roll Steer Roping horse.

Joe Hancock was the first Quarter Horse credited with running the ¼ mile in 22 seconds, when races were held along dirt roads and small town tracks. When Joe Hancock ran out of competition he was sold to the Burnett Ranch and the rest is history.

Cowboy Valentine's first ride... just before he turned 3 years old
Brent Trout, trainer (see info pg for more on Brent Trout)
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Cowboy Valentine is the epitome of the ‘modern’ Joe Hancock stallion. He has size without coarseness, speed, excellent feet and legs, a fine hair coat and beautiful dark eye. He is truly one of a kind and passes on his quality faithfully.

Cowboy Valentine 2014

Don & Michelle Thompson
RR # 1 Endiang
Alberta Canada T0J 1G0
(403) 742-9758 or (403) 741-7151


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