Reed Your Raise’s 2025 Colt

2025 Solid APHA Registered Black Colt

This colt was supposed to be a filly for us to keep because this cross is just incredible every time. Lots of folks swear by the idea of a cow/run cross. In theory, you get the best of both worlds; in practice I’ve seen folks end up with all the turn of a really fast horse, all the speed of a turny horse, and often all the buck either side can give you. This mare actually lives up to that great potential – she’s got the turn of the old Doc Bar horses and the speed from Raise Your Glass.

This colt is no exception – he’s just as good as we could hope. He’d make me a stud prospect if he wasn’t a solid Paint. He’s classy looking, correct, and so, so quick! He’s so fun to watch move!

If you want to win at the barrel, poles, breakaway and heeling all in the same day, and if you have the talent to ride a fast, quick horse, this is your guy! He comes from a long line of horses that would do everything. Actually, his grandsire, Raise Your Rocket, was a PRCA steer wrestling horse sire, so this colt might work at that too. But, since I’ve never jumped off a running horse on purpose, I can’t really swear to that one.

Angie’s dam is a daughter of the great barrel sire Raise Your Rocket – a fast, quick-footed stallion who sired 1D and futurity horses. He put an amazing, flat kneed trot on all his foals.  She is fast and athletic herself as well as being good to handle. We had her broke and the trainer liked her. Despite her cowhorse bottom side, I’ve seen her outrun racehorse mares at short distances.

This colt’s tail female line goes directly to two horses who were foundations of Merle and Rose Marie’s program and instrumental in their early success as breeders. Her third dam, Reeds Little Queen, was a daughter of Rose Marie’s great stallion, Reed Silvertip. He was the last grandson of Joe Reed P-3 and a very successful local sire who never got the promotion he deserved. Her dam was Merle’s great little mare, Chief’s Queen Bee. In addition to many other successful horses, Queen Bee’s first foal was Kristin’s Appaloosa gelding, Apache Joe A. He was a World Champion team roping horse, a 7 time Canadian National Champion and 4 time Reserve Canadian National Champion in a variety of timed and cattle events including barrels, poles, and team penning. His versatility was amazing, but back then a good horse could do all the events. He was a state and regional year end high point performance horse and high point youth horse more times than we could count.  He won at everything from western pleasure to jumping to reining to all the timed events.  He was also an amazing ranch horse and he worked all week. He had just 30 days breaking by a professional and another 2-week tune up a year later. After that, a pre-teen Kristin rode him and Merle roped on him.  He was just a natural.

As exceptional as the foundation of this pedigree is, each generation since has added more speed, turn and competitive ability.  If you are looking for a cow-run cross barrel racing prospect that will make a rope horse too, this colt is a great prospect.

If you want to read more about this family of horses, Merle’s autobiography features them prominently.

$4,500