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SUN FROST
A Dominant Force
by Larry Thornton
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Prissy Cline
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Sun Frost is a name that is very familiar to not only barrel racers, but to ropers and bulldoggers as well. His foals have earned over $2 million with Equi-Stat earnings of over $545,000 in barrel racing. His foals have gone on to produce the earners of over $14 million in barrel racing and an untold amount in other rodeo timed events. Sun Frost was bred by Stanley Johnston and owned by Pat Cowan. We will begin his story with Stanley Johnston and his wife Frances and then we will see how he became an influential sire who has left a great legacy in the industry as part of the Pat Cowan breeding program.
STANLEY AND FRANCES JOHNSTON
Stanley Johnston started his career as a South Dakota cattle rancher who became a well-known all-around horseman. He used his horses on the ranch, showed them in the arena and raced them. Johnston was well rounded. He earned the 1956 South Dakota Rodeo Association Bulldogging Championship and the South Dakota Bridleless Cutting Championship titles two years in a row. Johnston’s greatest contribution, however, may be as a breeder
and how he put his Driftwood breeding program together.
The Johnston breeding program got off the ground when he bought several mares by Driftwood, a famous stallion that started as a match racehorse and was also a great roping horse for Ashbury Schell. Driftwood became a noted sire for Channing and Katy Peake on their Rancho Jabali in Lompoc, California. These Driftwood mares served as the foun- dation of Johnston’s breeding program.
The next phase of his breeding program came with the purchase of Poco Speedy, a son of Poco Bueno, who Johnston made an AQHA Champion. Stanley won the 1956 South Dakota bulldogging title aboard Poco Rex by Poco Speedy and out of Keetawood by Driftwood. Poco Rex went on in cutting and as a barrel horse.
The Poco Speedy/Driftwood cross led
to more mares for the Johnston program
and meant the addition of another stallion. Orphan Drift, a grandson of Driftwood, was added to the program and linebreeding to Driftwood was implemented. The Orphan Drift cross on the Poco Speedy/Driftwood mares includes horses like Flintwood, who had 75 AQHA points in tie-down roping,
heading and heeling. Stanley’s linebreed- ing to Driftwood has endured the test of time and helped perpetuate the blood of Driftwood as it shows up in many of the Driftwood breeding programs.
Stanley Johnston had a partner in his wife Frances, who was well known in the arena with her own horses. She won the 1958 Ladies Western Pleasure Championship and 1960 South Dakota Barrel Racing Championship titles. Frances’ favorite mare was River Stardy, an AQHA Champion with points in western pleasure and cutting. River Stardy is by Double Star by Oklahoma Star P-6.
Frances Johnston brought horses into the program in her own name. Two of those were Tonka Wood and Prissy Cline. Tonka Wood, by Driftwood Ike, is the dam of 1980 AQHA High-Point Cutting Horse Rushing Leather.
When Frances bought Prissy Cline, the plan was to make her a barrel racer. But like many plans, the barrel racing career of Prissy Cline never materialized as Frances became ill with cancer, and she died before the team hit the arena. Prissy Cline thus became a broodmare for the Johnston breeding pro- gram and is the dam of Sun Frost.
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