Apaches Red Hancock our roan foundation Hancock bred stallion prospect 06-17-03 bay roan colt AQHA 4499865 E_,R_,Aa (double black, double roan, heterozygous agouti) Linebred Mr Roan Hancock / Salty Roan He's about 15.3 hh Apaches Red Hancock AQHA  4499865   pedigree: Sire: Blue Apache Hancock sire: Hancocks Blue Boy sire: Mr Roan Hancock dam: Bluebird Hancock dam: Tigeress Bar Leo sire: Tiger Bars Chunk dam: Leos Patron Dam: Taruers Pepita sire:  Mr Roan Hancock sire: Salty Roan dam: Gila Jo Hancock dam: Dee Reed Roan sire: Salty Roan dam: Pepita Dee Reed      Bill Spratt owned Salty Roan for just about his whole life and was a professional roper who did great things with Salty Roan & his get... following is an excerpt taken from Those Hancock Horses, and Baru Spiller's Ranch Horse Legacy... The Blue Valentine Story; both articles are on HancockHorses.com:      "...Salty Roan, a 1960 roan stallion out of Glassy by Patron, was purchased as a colt and owned the rest of his life by Bill Spratt of Lysite, Wyoming. In addition to his ranch use, Salty Roan carried Bill to the pay window regularly and was a Register of Merit sire. Spratt won Cheyenne in 1976 aboard a son of Salty Roan, nicknamed 'Stripe' and the steer ropers named him 'Horse of the Year'. Other ropers, including Don McLaughlin also gathered paychecks mounted on Stripe. Olin Young, twice a winner at Cheyenne, 1979 PRCA Hall of Fame inductee, spent several summers at the Spratt Ranch. He helped to train another Salty Roan son nicknamed 'Cricket' which Bill's son TJ rode to the top ten in steer roping four years in a row. Now 65, Bill and two more generations of Spratts are still competing on descendants of Blue Valentine. Salty Roan also sired Mr Roan Hancock, who in turn sired Hancocks Blue Boy. The key stallion for the breeding program at Dr. John Whipp's Broken Bones Cattle Company in Landers, Wyoming for so many years and whose progeny are in very high demand."      As breeders we are striving for all the good and none of the bad. Right now this colt is slow developing, but looking to the future, we believe this big, pretty headed colt will produce big pretty saddle stock that will perform on the ranch and should perform in the roping arena. 2008 update. We've been having a doctoring job going on... he is sound, but it will be a long time til we get enough healing to control the proud flesh. *curses* - BUT - with today's horse market, we are in NO hurry to breed and add to the problem anyway; the world does not need any more foals for a while. So we figure we have plenty of time to work with this colt before we have to worry about the proving & breeding aspect of this deal. We saddled & rode Red Apache the first time August 2007 - Sterrin said she had never ridden a colt that was this smooth moving, this catty & athletic, and trying to please. She said everything seemed to come effortlessly to this colt. She is excited about continuing on later this year, or next year whenever he is ready to resume. If he still looks tough, well, we'll just wrap his legs & go.       Last month this colt picked up an old hose laying around the yard (he is always up to something) and ended up with a big loop sticking out of the front of his lips... so he walked acorss the yard with it to his younger half brother, and began jabbing him with it over and over trying to get a reaction. (Who is, of course, as much of a character as he is, and refused to rise to the bait.) When I forget and leave the back door open in summer, he steps both front feet up inside, and looks around, and then tries to come on in if I didn't stop the deal. This is one of those rare horses that is so good to be around, you just look forward to all the time you get to spend with him. Baby pictures with dam, Tarvers Pepita, and Blue Apache Hancock  stallions  |  mares  |  horses for sale  |  links  |  email ©1991;  Bucking V Outfit.  All rights reserved.