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Bozeman, MT • 8/27/17 • Story & Photography by Larry Larson
Combining legendary bloodlines – already proven on the racetrack and in the performance and rodeo arenas – and adding years of building strong reputations led up to one of the top Quarter Horse arena prospect sales in the nation for 2017. Combining forces, the 3rd Annual Myers Ranch/ Copper Spring Ranch Performance Horse Sale
was presented on Saturday, Aug. 26th at the CSR Arena in Bozeman, Montana.
Copper Spring Ranch, a state-of-the-art facility located on the south edge of Bozeman, is owned by Karen Gilhousen, and they presented
a strong offering of 2 year olds of 2017 along with two yearling stallions. Managers Brian & Lisa Anderson oversee the daily ranch operations along with Dr. Chris Ray, who operates his Ray Equine Service @ CSR situated onsite at the ranch. The ranch stands Prime Talent si 107,
one of the fastest sons of World Champion sire Corona Cartel si 97. A stakes winner of $101,614, he is the sire of multiple AAAT runners with
speed indexes of 100-121, progeny earnings of $1.6+ million and now also producing winners in the barrel racing pen. Copper Spring Ranch recently added the proven sire Furyofthewind si 96 to their stallion battery. With lifetime earn- ings of $70,554, he has progeny earnings of $5.8 million as well as siring a BFA Year-End Futurity Champion and 2017 Old Fort Day Super Derby finalist. New to their program in 2017 is the addition of the gray stallion Firewater Canyon. Sired by World Champion sire & NFR qualifier sire Fire Water Flit, he is out of the multiple NFR go-round winner and barrel futurity & derby Champion Mulberry Canyon Moon with $400,000+ in rodeo & EquiStat earnings.
That proven reputation, tacked onto many years of selective breeding, set the stage as
the nation’s #1 two-year-old program, Myers Performance Horses, offered another outstand- ing group of arena prospects in 2017. Owned by Bill & Deb Myers and their sons Chad,
Billy, Brandon and Brady, their breeding and training operation is situated in a picturesque area of the Black Hills between Spearfish and St. Onge, South Dakota. They are home to leading sire Frenchmans Guy, the still vibrant 30-year-old sire of earners now exceeding the $11 million mark. He is joined in the breed- ing shed by a proven son, A Smooth Guy,
and Cowboys Cartel, a AAA runner sired by Corona Cartel si 97. Young stallions currently being introduced into their program include three Frenchmans Guy sons - Ima Special Kindaguy, This Guyz A Keeper, and Mr Sassy Frenchman. They are excited to now be add- ing the 2015 buckskin stallion Lucky Wonder Horse as a strong outcross on their program mares. A son of First Down Dash si 105, he
is out of 2017 barrel racing money earner
Rosas Cantina CC. The buckskin daughter of Corona Cartel si 97, currently being cam- paigned by Lisa Lockhart, has lifetime earnings
$62,000 co-high seller Take The Fame Guyz, a 2015 gray gelding, was Bill Myers with Shelly Shields after her purchase consigned by Myers Ranch and purchased by Shelly Shields. of co-high seller Take The Fame Guyz.
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