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Strait From Texas & Dick Peiper He continued, “Then he came up for sale at the sale in Mississippi. We drove down and thought we would spend from 10 to 20 thousand and the horse ended up bringing $47,500. We spent more than we should have. But we brought him home.” The next step was to continue his show career. “We put him with Gary Wells, Bobby Lewis, Shawn Darnell, Ron Emmons and of course JD Yates. “We didn’t really want to stand him to the public. We had enough mares of our own to overwhelm him. But as a four year old he was just about unbeatable. So we didn’t get many mares bred to him that first year. But they sure did get him shown. We left him there and pretty soon he had enough record and enough wins to make him prominent in the paint horse business.” Prominent is an interesting word when you consider that Strait From Texas won 2,130 APHA performance points and that was a record for a stallion. He won his points in 56 shows and averaged 40 points per show, unmatched by any competitor to this day. He was ROM in six performance events and was Superior in each of them. The events were Tie-Down Roping (243 points); Heading (535 points)—still holds the record; Heeling (507 points); Reining (77 points); Steer Stopping (536 points) and Working Cow Horse (232 points)—still holds the record. He had one APHA halter point. He was a four time APHA World Champion and a four time APHA Reserve World Champion. His championships came in Heading with two; Reining and Steer Stopping. His reserve championships came in Tie-Down Roping, Heading, Heeling and Steer Stopping. Some of the other titles include the 1997, 1998 and 2001 APHA World Show Oscar Crigler Cattle Award winner. He is the only horse to win this award three times. He was the 1996 and 1998 APHA World Wide Paint Congress Superhorse. He holds 16 Honor Roll Championships. Ris Key Business (P) Cheyenne Moon Bar Happiness Is (P) Strait From Texas (P) Gunners Pollyanna Hollywood Smoke Golly Polly Mr Highland 4 Bars Moon Deck Cherokee Siemon (P) Miss Pioneer Mr Gun Smoke Pistol’s Holly Golly Miss Prisa Jo Reed Cheyenne Cherub’s Pixie Bruce’s Moon Little Sandy Seco Leo San Siemon Cherokee Maiden (P) Raider’s Pal Pioneer Koy Rondo Leo Kansas Cindy Hollywood Pistol Poco Angelita Lynn introduces us to how Strait From Texas was bred. Straits 6th generation consists of 63 Quarter Horses and 1 Paint and Leo is the dominant sire of Strait’s genetics. “Strait From Texas was bred by Dana Mathes from Montezuma, Iowa. He was foaled in 1992. His dam Gunners Pollyanna was Leo Sheeglo Showdown Joe Miss Caroline
a good daughter of Hollywood Smoke. I believe she won Aksarben in reining with a 12 or 13 old girl and that was a big show way back then. They took this mare down to Texas where Terry Pattison owned Ris Key Business at that time to get the mare bred.” Ris Key Business was a 1984 black tobiano stallion. He was shown to a World Championship in working cow horse and two Reserve National Championships in reining. He was ROM in reining, working cow horse and western riding. He was Superior in reining. He was shown to an APHA World Championship in amateur reining by J. T. Pattison. This stallion earned 187 APHA points in the open and amateur divisions. He also won the APHA Open Reining Sweepstakes. Ris Key Business is the sire of 26 ROM performers with 11 earning the Superior Award in Performance. His foals have won 11 World and National titles. One of his leading performers is RR Risky Mastrpeice who has 1767 points in 8 events. The sire of Ris Key Business was Cheyenne Moon Bar, a quarter horse stallion that won two AQHA halter points. He was shown seven times in the AQHA and won all seven classes. The sire of Cheyenne Moon Bar was Mr Highland. This stallion was shown in two AQHA halter classes as a yearling winning one of them. The sire of Mr Highland was Cheyenne Reed, an AQHA halter point earner. Cheyenne Reed is the sire of Cheyenne Knox, the 1979 AQHA World Champion Junior Western Pleasure Horse. Cheyenne Knox was an AQHA Champion with 90 performance points with a Superior in Western Pleasure and 20 AQHA halter points. The sire of Cheyenne Reed was Snipper Reed by Logan’s Bobby Reed. Logan’s Bobby Reed was sired by Reed McCue by Joe Reed P-3. Snipper Reed was an AQHA Champion that sired several AQHA Champions. They include Andy Coke, Lee’s Snipper, Red Buck Reed, Snipper’s Blaze and Snippy Coke. Snipper Reed was the sire of the phenomenal show mare Snipper’s Sarah. This mare earned 207 performance points and 567 halter points in the open division alone. She was the 1976 AQHA Open and Youth World Champion Aged Mare; 1976 AQHA High Point Halter Horse and the 1974 and 1975 AQHA Youth Reserve World Champion Aged Mare. She earned seven Superiors in Open and Youth Halter; Youth Western Horsemanship; Youth Showmanship and Youth Hunter Under Saddle. The dam of Ris Key Business takes us to the source of the tobiano paint color pattern for Strait With Texas. Her name was Happiness Is. She was a 1973 bay tobiano mare. She was a noted working cow horse. She counts among her wins the 1977 Valley Reining Horse Classic Hackamore Maturity. Happiness Is was sired by Cherokee Siemon, a tobiano paint. Happiness Is was out of Miss Pioneer, a quarter mare. Miss Pioneer was sired by Raider’s Pal by Sky Raider by Star Duster. Her dam was Pioneer Koy by Hondo K and out of Kitty Koy. Cherokee Siemon was bred by Rebecca Tyler-Lockhart. Rebecca was instrumental in the formation of what is now the American Paint Horse Association. She is considered the founder of the American Paint Stock Horse Association, which was the predecessor to the APHA. Rebecca and her late husband George Tyler had such noted horses as Leo San Siemon, Flit Bar and a little ole paint mare named Cherokee Maiden. Cherokee Maiden was the first paint horse registered by Rebecca. She is number 23 in the paint horse registry. Cherokee Maiden was the dam of Cherokee Siemon. With the purchase of Cherokee Maiden, Rebecca Tyler started her on a show career. The highlight of that career came at the1963 Southwestern Livestock and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth. It was at this show that Cherokee Maiden won the three-year and under mare class. She was then named the Grand Champion Mare. She won the Junior Western Pleasure class at this same show. She followed this up by being named the High Point Senior Halter Mare for three year olds and up and the Reserve High Point Horse for halter and performance combined at the American Paint Stock Horse Association Finals in Lubbock, Texas that same year. Cherokee Maiden was sired by a quarter horse named Osage Dan. This horse was sired by Little Dandy by King P-234. The dam of Osage Dan was Evans’ Duel by Little Dandy. This makes Osage Dan 1 X 2 inbred to Little Dandy. The dam of Cherokee Maiden was Maggie by Silver T. He was sired by Yankee Doodle. The dam of Maggie was a bay tobiano mare whose pedigree is unknown. Leo San Siemon was the sire of Cherokee Siemon. Leo San Siemon was sired by Leo San by Leo and his dam was Flying May. Leo San Siemon was a noted halter horse with Grand Championships at shows like the Houston Livestock Show. He was an AQHA Superior Halter Horse with 85 points. Leo San Siemon was the sire of several successful arena horses including the AQHA Champions El San Siemon and Siemon Joe. He was the sire of Blue Siemon, an AQHA Superior Halter Horse with 311 halter points. The paint descendants of Leo San Siemon include Leo San Cita and QT Poco Streke. Leo San Cita earned 347 APHA performance points with ROM’s in Heading, Heeling, Reining, Steer Stopping and Working Cow Horse. He is Superior in all of these events except reining and he missed that superior by two points. QT Poco Streke is an ROM reining horse in the APHA and a Reserve Champion of the APHA World Show Reining Sweepstakes. The common tie between Leo San Siemon and these two horses is his dun tobiano son Leo San Man. Leo San Man is the broodmare sire of Pepsi Poco, sire of QT Poco Streke and he is the broodmare sire of Leo San Cita. Cherokee Siemon earned 39 halter points with six Grand Championships and eleven Reserve Grand Championships. He was the sire of the RW Heaven Bound, 1984 Reserve National Champion Amateur Cutting Horse; Lotta Chatter, an APHA Champion and R Lee Siemon, an APHA Superior Western Pleasure Horse. The dam of Strait From Texas was Gunners Pollyanna.
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