JJ Dusty Jo Bonanza

10/06/2022

One of Buckys gorgeous daughters living her best life 💕🤩

05/10/2018

12/25/2017

Merry Christmas

12/12/2017

Such a character ☺️

11/10/2017

Here is another awesome quarter horse that is on JJ Dusty Jo Bonanzas papers ❤️

Flashback Friday! Who has Poco Tivio bred horses?

Bred by E. Paul Waggoner’s Three D Stock Farm, Poco Tivio was foaled in 1947, and was the first foal out of a then 4-year-old mare named Sheilwin. His sire, Poco Bueno, was also owned by Three D.

When “Tivio” was 3 and already started in cutting training under Pine Johnson, he sold to Fort Worth car dealer Cliff Magers for $5,000. Milt Bennett took over the horse’s training for a year until Don Dodge bought the stallion for $15,000, reportedly the highest price ever paid for a cutting horse at the time.

Immediately, the pair started winning. In 1951 and 1952, they placed fifth in the National Cutting Horse Association year-end top 10. In 1952, Dodge showed Tivio to his AQHA Champion title, consistently winning in both cutting and halter.

Soon Dodge retired Tivio and stood him to outside mares for $300. But it wasn’t long before the trainer had Poco Lena, Tivio’s full sister, in his barn. So, Dodge sold Tivio to California horseman Charley Araujo.

As a stallion, Poco Tivio was known for passing on his low-key temperament and flashy working style. His offspring showed as well in halter as in cutting.

Tivio received the NCHA Certificate of Ability Bronze Award, had $11,000 in NCHA earnings and is a member of the Working Cow Horse Hall of Fame. He sired 308 registered foals in 25 crops. Of those, 81 were AQHA point earners, 10 AQHA Champions, 26 ROM earners, and six Superior award winners that won 10 Superior performance awards in five events.

Tivio’s daughters have produced the winners of more than $2.2 million in AQHA, NCHA, National Reining Horse Association and National Reined Cow Horse Association competition. The foals of those mares have earned 6,641 AQHA points in halter and performance, 10 open and youth world championships and two open reserve world championships.

Araujo stood Poco Tivio for several years and then just before his death gave the stallion to his farrier, Floyd Boss, in 1971.

Poco Tivio died in 1976. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2013.

11/01/2017

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2004 AQHA Stallion
This Stallion was recently acquired By the Mcknights from the late Jelmer Johnson of Wheatland Wyoming. Jelmer Johnson is an AQHA legacy breeder and has been inducted into the AQHA hall of fame for 50 years of consecutive breeding.

10/31/2017

This is his granddaddy 😁❤

The story goes that when breeder Bill Coy first saw the foal out of his mare Sparky Joann, he ran to the house shouting to his wife, “Charlene, we’ve struck a bonanza!”

The l959 sorrel stallion was by Jaguar, a AAA-rated racehorse owned by Ed Honnen of Aurora, Colorado.

Bill Moomey tried to buy Coy’s Bonanza as a yearling, but Coy had given the c**t to his daughter and couldn’t sell him. But there were bills to be paid and a year later, Coy’s Bonanza was listed in the Rocky Mountain Quarter Horse Sale and was purchased by Ed Coppola of Des Moines, Iowa.

Coppola sent the young stallion to trainer Dean Landers, who put him on the race track as a 3-year-old. Unfortunately, the horse shin-bucked and was limited to the show ring. He was shown 53 times, earning 40 grand championships and 13 reserves, which positioned him as the l963 AQHA national high-point halter stallion.

Coppola was ready to sell Coy’s Bonanza, and Moomey was first in line to buy him.

Moomey conditioned the horse slowly, then put him back on the track. He gave the horse to D. Wayne Lukas, a former basketball coach from Wisconsin who was making a name for himself in Quarter Horse circles as a premiere racehorse trainer. After the horse earned a AAA rating, Moomey retired him to stud.

Moomey studied the breeding records of the most popular studs of that period and noted that out of the 50 to 100 foals that resulted each year, only a small percentage went on to become real big-time winners.

Taking a risk, Moomey chose to close Coy’s Bonanza’s book and breed only to his own mares. Moomey limited his first band to 20 mares selected by prior production, bloodlines, logic and crossed fingers.

The plan seemed to work. Coy’s Bonanza’s foals became high-point horses in nearly every category: halter, reining, working cow horse, western pleasure and roping.

From 16 foal crops, Coy’s Bonanza sired 228 foals. Of those, 26 were AQHA Champions, five were youth champions, 112 earned 4,633 halter points, 23 had Superiors in halter, 117 earned 4,248 performance points, 73 had performance Registers of Merit and 24 had Superiors in performance. He also sired five race starters.

When Coy’s Bonanza died in l976, he still looked like he could win the big ones, and he left a legacy of foals who did just that.

Coy’s Bonanza was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2015.