Workhorse

04/06/2025

Excited about Starlights Boomernic ranked 3rd in All Time Money won by get and 3 rd in high money won at 2024 Futurity! Boomerstar Harper won Super Horse most money won over 4 years. Owned by Scott and Becky Schumann. We have yearling prospects for sale. Thanks for showing your Boomerstars!!

Back again in 2025 is Starlights Boomernic!

Starlights Boomernic, 2007 AQHA stallion is by NRHA Million Dollar Sire Starlight Wrangler, Grays Starlight. His dam Boomernic Bewitched is by Boomernic, an NRHA Million Dollar and NRHA Hall of Fame inductee.

Exciting news! In 2024, Boomerstar Harper won the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity Super Horse award for the highest money earned over four years. She is a 4-year-old mare by Starlights Boomernic, owned and shown by Scott and Becky Schumann.
Starlights Boomernic, also known as Ajax, is an AQHA Select Reserve World Champion Performance Halter Stallion. He has been successfully shown NRHA, earning $7,691, and AQHA, earning 103.5 points in Reining and Ranch Riding. His talent has garnered AQHA All Around Championships. He exhibits an excellent show horse disposition and is as beautiful as he is talented. Owned by an amateur since the age of three, handling, showing, and breeding him at owners' facilities. We are a small breeder, and Ajax has proven to pass his great qualities onto his offspring.
As of the 2024 IQHA Ranch Breeders Futurity, he is ranked 3rd place for All-Time sire offspring earnings of $26,621 and also ranked 3rd in high money earned with his offspring at this year's show. His offspring have successfully shown in AQHA, earning 164 AQHA points.

Ajax is proudly owned by Chris Ludlow and Rick Young of Silver City, IA. For breeding information, contact Rick at 712-326-6919. Thank you to everyone for showing your Boomerstars!

Get your great stallions enrolled in this exciting futurity!
https://www.cognitoforms.com/IowaQuarterHorseAssociation/_2025IQHARanchHorseFuturityStallionEnrollmentForm

01/10/2024

We are so proud of our boy Ajax, Starlights Boomernic! The accomplishments of his get is so cool! We thank the trainers and owners for their hard work and showing it off. Great job!👏

11/10/2023

Congratulations from Workhorse !

11/10/2023

Wow what an awesome accomplishment!

04/15/2023

We are proud of our boy!

04/24/2022

Excited about this breeders program!

The IQHA Ranch Futurity would like to welcome back Starlights Boomernic or Ajax. He is an AQHA Sel Reserve World Champion Performance Halter Stallion. He has been shown successfully in NRHA and AQHA Reining and Ranch Riding. His talent has captured AQHA All Around Championships. He exhibits a wonderful show horse disposi)on and is as beau)ful as he is talented! With a limited number of offspring showing, his get have earned him the top 4th ranking sire in the IQHA Ranch Breeders Program by money won, $5,644. Starlights Boomernic is by NRHA Million Dollar Sire Starlights Wrangler by Grays Starlight. His Dam Boomernic Bewitched is by Boomernic NRHA Million Dollar Sire and in the NRHA Hall of Fame. News! Boomerstar Gentry a three-year-old gelding by Ajax, at his second show ever just won the 2022 NE AQHA Show circuit champion in the level 1 Ranch Riding! Ajax is owned by Chris Ludlow and Rick Young of Silver City, IA. Thanks for your support of the futurity, Chris and Rick! Owner information and pedigree in the comments.

02/12/2022

Workhorse congratulates Teresa Benes on her purchase of Boomerstar Gentry! She plans to show him in the Ranch and Reining classes. Gentry won $834. In the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity. He is a 3 yr old gelding by Starlights Boomernic out of Docs Smooth Shadow. See you in the show pen!😀

01/07/2022

Way to go Ajax, Starlights Boomernic! Keep stamping them out!

2022 will be the 4th year of the IQHA Ranch Futurity. People are making plans on what stallion to breed to, or what eligible offspring they want to purchase. Here's a list of the top 5 sires from the previous 3 years, and how much money their offspring has won.

5th $4,802 Cat Smart Boonsmal, owned by West Fork Ranch,
Sheffield, IA.

4th $5,644 Starlights Boomernic, owned by Rick Young & Chris
Ludlow, Silver City, IA

3rd $6,080 CT Show Me Your Guns, owned by Hockenson
Quarter Horses, Nichols, IA

2nd $7,886.50 Haidas Lil Gun, owned by Haseleu Quarter Horses,
Litchville, ND

1st $9,523.83 CD Dyna Cee, owned by Hockenson, Quarter
Horses, Nichols, IA

Information on these on the other stallions can be found on the website, www.ranchiq.com. Stallions are just now enrolling for this year, if the stallion of your choice isn't listed, please have the owners contact us about how they can be a part of the program as well. Keep in mind, all money won by offspring shows up on the sires permanent record.

10/25/2021

At the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity Boomerstar Harper Yearling Filly locked in a 7th place tie in both the Conformation Class (62 head shown) and the In Hand Trail Class (57 Head Shown)! Outstanding Job by Becky Schumann!! The Get of Sire Class posted Starlights Boomernic Get a 3 way tie for 3rd place with Harper, Gentry 2yr and GH Lil Bit of Starlite 2yr. Thanks for all the hard work showing Ajax's get! We appreciate our customers Breeding, Buying and Showing. My heart is full. ☺️

10/25/2021

Rockin the trail class with a 4 place showing in both the Open and Non Pro classes at the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity! Great Job Alicia Heinz!

10/25/2021

A great show for Boomerstar Gentry at the IQHA Ranch Horse Futurity. He was Reserve Champion 2 Yr Old Trail Non Pro and placed in both Ideal Ranch classes! My sweet, good boy!🥰

10/25/2021

Exited to have another successful showing of Starlights Boomernic offspring at the Iowa Quarter Horse Ranch Horse Futurity 2021. Boomerstar Eddie a Champion and Reserve Champion in Ranch Riding plus money won in all his classes! Congrats to Kaylyn Dixon and Emily Cummins-Owner.

09/23/2021

Congratulations to Seth Camberlain on winning the Green Horse and the Circuit Award on Boomerstar Eddie owned by Emily Cummins at the Kansas Reining Horse Association. Score 71!😀

09/23/2021

2021 update

07/14/2021

We are excited about this 2 yr old buckskin gelding Boomerstar Gentry by Starlights Boomernic out of Docs Smooth Shadow. He is really making a cool ranch/reining prospect in training with Seth Chamberlin. We have prospects for sale contact Rick Young 712-326-6919

06/02/2021

Workhorse welcomes Boomerstar Iliza by Starlights Boomernic out if Hot Doc Janett. Springtime brings foals and flowers! Pictured two days old.

06/02/2021

Boomerstar Catelyn and Chris won the PT Non Pro. Seth Chamberlain scored a 72 on her to grab 2nd place in the Limited Open. She is by Starlights Boomernic out of Hot Doc Janett. So much try! Love this mare!❤️

12/30/2020

🐴Monday morning bro-time! 😎 These two are full brothers sired by Starlights Boomernic. Both getting the holiday fresh off this morning. Starlights Boomernic really stamps his off spring! They are all solid athletes, you can take them to the show pen in any performance discipline. Not to mention they are made right and great minded! Love these two!