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ROYAL VISTA RANCHES NOW STANDS:
ONE FABULOUS EAGLE
HEART OF THE CARTEL
LAURA AND LUCKY WONDER HORSE
FRENCHMANS GUY
• Lucky Wonder Horse – (First Down Dash-Rosas Cantina CC, Corona Cartel) A 2015 foal, he has First Down Dash crossed on his first, second and third dams, which are all NFR qualifiers: his dam Rosas Cantina CC with lifetime earnings of $400,000+; his granddam Dash Ta Vanila with $150,000+; and his great granddam SX Frenchmans Vanila with $225,000+.
• Frenchmans Guy– (Sun Frost- Frenchman’s Lady, Laughing Boy) Deceased; managing ICSI and frozen semen breedings. The 1987 stallion is a $14M+ leading all-around performance horse sire and sire of the nation’s top rodeo, futurity, open and youth barrel horses.
His recent get include A French Lady, a Future Fortunes round Champion; French Zone, an owner/breeder/rider Champion; and Guys Dashing Jet, a Future Fortunes Derby Champion. He’s a nine-time Future
Fortunes Leading Barrel Sire and the only sire in 2019 with four sons in the nation’s Top 25 Sires list: BHR Frenchie Socks, Frenchmans Fabulous, A Smooth Guy, and Aint Seen Nothin Yet.
• A Smooth Guy – (Frenchmans Guy- Docs Movida, Dry Doc) Deceased; managing ICSI and frozen semen breedings. Foaled in 2005, he’s a $2M+ sire and AQHA Point Earner in heading and heeling. His Pink Buckle progeny earnings total nearly $170,000.
“We also have a few other stallions we stand for owners just to breed their own mares, and we take on a lot of outside stallions for haul-in collection and semen freezing services,” Laura says. “We’re kind of an all-around reproduction facility. We manage stallions and mares, we manage mares for outside stallions as well, so we have semen being shipped in, and we manage donor mares for embryo transfer services and
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