RANCH RAISED • ATHLETIC
The ORIGINAL Source of Blue Valentine Bloodlines
VERSATILE • GENTLE
Everyone has a choice...thank you for choosing us.
Danny Schicke has won a lot
of team roping on this big blue
horse and we have more like
him this year.
Dick and Lee Thomas from Idaho winning a good roping
at Simpson Ranch in Wickenburg, Ariz last winter. Dick
gets lots of compliments on his heel horse. Dick didn't
do anything different with training this outstanding
horse, he just started with one like you can buy at the
Come To The Source sale.
This is Bay Roan Dividend who I
have chosen to replace Blues Roan
Hancock (Randy). He is by Blues
Roan Hancock and out of a double
bred Dividend Coup mare. If my
wife has her way I will cut down
the number of mares I run and he
will be a replacement for Jimmy,
my good rope horse. Although I do
not plan to sell him....I have found
myself pricing him recently.
The ultimate reward for me is when
a youngster like little Wylee Cheney
takes one of my horses and goes
on to win. She won this saddle
with one of Vista Grande's versatile
horses - Good job Wylee and good
luck this year!
I've always liked to put a little
speed in our horses, but really
wasn't thinking about barrel horses.
I've been excited to see how well
Laramie's own Stacey Smallwood
has done with her son of Blues
Roan Hancock,who is a grandson
of Blue Valentine who goes back to
Jet Deck. Stacey qualified "Right
Flashy" to go to the BBR World
finals in Oklahoma City this year
in April where she placed 39th
out of 1800 head of barrel horses!
Congratulations Stacey and thank
you for being such a good example
of what horses from Vista Grande
Ranch can achieve.
It was very rewarding to receive pictures of
Linus Clark and Clay O’Brien Cooper winning
the 4
th
Annual Sweetest Loop Pro-Am Roping
in 2009. Linus is riding an 8-yr-old son of Blue
Hancock Cowboy out of a Leo bred mare.
Linus trained this horse himself and Clay was
impressed with the horse’s consistency. He
commented on the excellent handles knowing
all he had to do was come around the corner
and do his job. Congratulations to both Clay
and Linus and their good horses.
Dick and his grandsons, Jackson and Carson.
L7
If you like this color of blue and this level of
quality horses - you're gonna love what we have
coming to the sale this year. Sorry, these
3 now speak French & are being
shown in Europe.
