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I recently purchased Honors from Kim Squires in Oklahoma. This horse was broke and used on a ranch for cow work and started on barrels. However, he was never competed on because Kim became pregnant prior to Honors 4 year old year. He was put out with the mares and has been there until I bought him in April, 2008.
While we were in OK we looked over a dozen of his babies from newborn to 4 year olds and they are very correct and uniformly balanced. They are very pretty with big long round hip, straight legs, pretty heads and balanced from top to bottom and nose to tail. He has already sired pro caliber rodeo, futurity winners, major futurity finalists and 1D performers from less than 50 lifetime foals. This incredible minded individual comes from a very strong maternal line of performers and producers. See some of his foals below.
Honors dam, Bounce of Gold (above), won quite a bit of futurity money in 1983 with Dale Youree in the saddle. She then continued over the next several years putting Kim in the limelight consistently in big events. Almost everything Kim Squires has been running in the last two decades has been by him or from his direct female family. Bounce Of Gold was the mother to eight foals. The first two hit the arena to be very nice barrel horses. The first one was called Bounces Of Gold LTE $22K, AQHA arena ROM with 49.5 points. She was Reserve World Champion Jr Barrels in 1996 and the next year was 3rd in Sr Barrels at the World Show. Also in 1997 another Bounce of Gold offspring Pe De Que was 3rd in the world in Jr Barrels. Is that some kind of a record? I know sires do this frequently, but MARE's? Pe De Que was arena ROM with 37.5 open, 2 youth performance points. Honor's half and full sisters have also been a stellar producers.
That's not even mentioning Jet Of Honor. See below for more information on his tremendous family.
2011 Fee: $1000 with discounts for the following.
- $250 For mares with verifiable rodeo/1D, SI 80+, NCHA, NRHA, NRCHA earnings, AQHA or APHA ROM performance or mares that have produced the same. If you aren't sure if your mare qualifies, drop me an email or call.
- $100 For booking before Feb 1 and/or multiple mares
- ***On farm breeding available with recent negative EVA test, culture, health cert. & coggins.***
- EVA Tested & Vaccinated
- APHA Listed
- Enrolled in BRN4D Incentive Fund & donated breeding to the VGBRA Incentive program, (others are pending).
- Shipped semen: $250 (each shipment per contract)
***2010 foal pictures are posted on the For Sale page. Please take a look.
My first two foals born in Oregon are being started under saddle this year. See pictures on the Sold page.
***2008 Accomplishments:
Congratulations to jockey Kimberly Travis, Jerry & Pauletta Cloud of Elk City, OK owners of Smarty Jo Bug (4 year old daughter of Honors) for qualifying 19th fastest out of 400+ entries to the finals of the 2008 Ft Smith Futurity.
2008 BFA Juvenile accomplishments. Precious Bug On Deck finished in the 1D time break on her first run, in the 2D time break on her second run. Smooth Honor Bug finished in the 2D on her first run and in the 1D on her second run.
Congratulations from baby daddy, Honors A Bounding.
JET OF HONOR a sorrel stallion born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1971. He earned a SI 102, set a new track record at 350 yards (17.78), Stakes Winner of 8 races, 3 places & 2 shows and $15,780 in 24 starts. When he was a young stallion, JOH stood in Okanogan Falls, BC for many years. In his life he sired 1,148 foals in 20 crops. He had 353 starters with 4,778 starts. 172 winners had 677 wins, 32 of those being stakes wins spread among 17 stakes winners with another 20 being stakes placed. Total $ won on the track by sons and daughters is $1.364 million (that is almost exclusively on Northwest tracks; not high dollar tracks). I remember watching outstanding offspring of JOH running when I was young when I spent much of my spare time at the tracks around the Northwest. They were fast, hard knocking, sound and sensible. He was bred to the best mares the Northwest could offer and many that were purchased at the Heritage Place Sale especially to breed to him. Then he was purchased and shipped to back to his home state of Oklahoma to be commercially appreciated for the superior animal he was. His last crop of registered foals was 172 strong; his largest crop ever.
In addition to being very fast, Jet Of Honor sons and daughters are known for being truly versatile performers. In the age that versatility ruled, he sired two halter point earners with 4 halter points. But the offspring of JOH REALLY showed their mettle in the Rodeo arena and AQHA show arena in speed events; 152 performance point earners with 3,369 open points, 1,411 amateur points, 402 youth points among them. These horses earned 59 open, 64 amateur and 33 youth ROM and 14 of them earned 15 open and 4 amateur superior performance awards. Rodeo performance records are harder to gather... Bear with me...I'm working on doing that.
They have great minds to go with their tremendous speed and athletic ability making them very trainable and also making hard things easy for them. Jet of Honor horses are among some of the best horses in the world; never being left out of any discussion of top rodeo/barrel horse bloodlines. With his last crop being foals of 1996, Jet of Honor continues to stay ranked on the leading Barrel sires lists many years after his death. As his last crop become older and are retired to stud or broodmare duty, his is now firmly in place on the leading paternal and maternal grandsires lists.
*In 2003, JOH was one of the two only sires to produce barrel horse progeny earnings exceeding $1 million+ (On The Money Red was the other horse)
*Equi-stat Offspring BR LTE: $1,827,469 and counting
*Average Offspring BR earnings: $6,152
*AQHA WORLD CHAMPION OFFSPRING in barrel racing and pole bending.
*AQHA Incentive Fund Earnings of $17+K, AQHA World Show Earnings of $44+K,
*AQHA Alliances report:
*NCHA Earnings of $1+K,
*National Snaffle Bit Assoc Earnings of $253
*NRCHA Earnings of $2+K
*1991 #1 LEADING BARREL HORSE SIRE
*2007 Top 12 All-Time Barrel Racing Sires ranked by offspring earnings:
#1 DASH TA FAME ($3,547,014 with 291 money-earners recorded)
#2 ON THE MONEY RED ($2,644,097 with 303 money-earners contributing)
#3 JET OF HONOR ($1,827,469 with 269 contributing money-earners)
#4 MARTHAS SIX MOONS ($1,391,233 with 140 money-earners)
#5 BULLY BULLION ($1,268,983 with 194 money-earners)
#6 FIRE WATER FLIT ($1,221,432 with 196 money-earners)
#7 DASH FOR PERKS ($1,213,029 with 148 contributors)
#8 FRENCHMANS GUY ($1,192,001 with 194 contributors)
#9 PACKIN SIXES ($984,415 with 82 money-earners)
#10 NONSTOP JET ($755,173 with 88 contributors)
#11 CASH NOT CREDIT ($740,295 with 98 money-earners)
#12 DR NICK BAR ($706,920 with 105 money-earners)
Outstanding Offspring:
SUPER JET BUG, BARREL RACING EARNINGS OF $77,546
BYE BYE BLUE, $45,049 IN BARREL RACING EARNINGS.
CDF BLAZEN JETOFHONOR,$43,770 BARREL EARNINGS
JETTA C LEO, $38,655 barrel earnings.
JET A BEAM,$34,390 barrel earnings.
JETS IN THE HOUSE, $34,132 BARREL EARNINGS.
EASY HONOR JET, $32,179 BARREL EARNINGS.
HONORS JAZZE JET $30,463 BARREL EARNINGS.
TEASPOON OF HONOR, $30,000
FRUCON, $29,114
JUKE JOINT HONOR, $25,527
JETTIN HONOR, $24,949
MR HONOR BOUND, $24,572
BOOGA JET, $23,926
BLAZE OF HONOR, $20,419
ANTIQUE JET, SI 108, $100,912,
BIG TUFF HONOR JET, SI 101; $31,454
DEVILISH HONOR, $15,572
JET EFFORT JET, SI 101, $64,591
JET CREEK HONOR, $18,863
JET MCGOWAN, $36,329
MISS WANDERING JET, $60,727
MS HOSTESS JET, $65,779
SEXY CLASSY MOON, $51,473
LEAVIN HONOR JET, Held the WHO Games Barrel race record for many years
AND MANY MANY MORE..... To be continued as I find more.
Honors sire: Jet Of Honor
Introducing to the Northwest:
Honors A Bounding!!!! 1995 15.1 hand sorrel son of Jet Of Honor!
Thanks Kim, for giving me this opportunity to own my dream stallion.
He IS the total package!
Above: 2007 Filly by Honors out of Docs Drum Runner (Doc A Doo by Dry Doc out of Shez Dido Step by Big Step). Former owner is keeping this one.
Above: 2002 colt by Honors out of Docs Drum Runner (Doc A Doo by Dry Doc out of Shez Dido Step by Big Step).
Above: 2001 colt by Honors out of Docs Drum Runner.
Above: 2006 colt by Honors out of ??
Above: 2007 colt by Honors out of Mia Drum Runner (All Night High by On A High out of Docs Drum Runner).
Above: Two of Honors kids. Year unknown.
Above: Honors full sister in the background. His daughter out of his full sister in the foreground. 2005
Honors.
HAB x Flaming Jets Tag. First foal by HAB. She is in our broodmare band.
***Foals are eligible for:
BRN4D Incentive Fund points for all age progeny by enrolled stallions across the country &
VGBRA Incentives at the Barrel Daze races in Washington.
Music by: Jeff Carson. "Shine On"
**Looking forward to 2011:
So far there will be foals by Honors A Bounding out of daughters of:
Frenchmans Guy - Red Filly with lots of chrome. Breeding back. Mare is confirmed in foal.
Frenchmans Guy - Red Filly with lots of chrome AND a belly spot. Will Be bred back. Sold to Rachelle Smith! Thanks!
Judge Cash - Red Filly with star, strip & snip. Mare will be bred back.
Mr Eye Opener - Black/brown filly with little white. Sold to Katie McCaslan! Thanks!
Parsan Badger x Peppy San Badger - Red Colt Star stip and snip, One high white stocking. Mare will be bred back.
**2012 is shaping up with the following mares being bred.
Daughter of Captain Biankus - Being bred for 2012 Confirmed in foal!
Daughter of Ima Bit Macho x Judge Cash out of an FG daughter. Confirmed in foal!
Daughter of Gray Bardell. This is the first time this cross has been done. Should be very nice. Thanks Beth!
My palomino daughter of FG is confirmed in foal. Being bred back is the JC and the Parsan Badger daughter.
Below and to the right are pictures of Liz Holder riding Bouncy Lizzy By Honors A Bounding. Pedigree here. Bouncy Lizzy passed away last year. My condolences.
Holders have a 2009 full sister to Bouncy Lizzy. Thank you to the Holders for returning to Honors for another foal. Good luck in all you do. Peggy
Photos by Pixelworx
