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Ascending Legacies
Meet the top five hottest young sires in the barrel racing industry.
JAY GEORGE PHOTO COURTESY FULTON RANCH
Leading Junior Sire A Streak Of Fling.
BY
TANYA RANDALL
T
he barrel racing breeding industry is going through a changing of
the guard as some of the hottest young stallions in the industry
begin to make a strong mark.
“Young” is a relative term for a stallion, since many are in their teens
before their first foals come of performance age in the barrel pen, which
is typically 4 years of age even though they can compete as 3-year-olds in
December or be held until they’re 5. Bottom line, the opportunity is there
to start their careers coming into their fourth year.
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To determine the top five leading junior
sires, Barrel Horse News looked at last year’s
leading sires with less than five crops of
performance-age foals. The oldest of these
foals would be just 8 years old, only one year
removed from aged-event competition.
Surprisingly, only one of the five stallions
wasn’t a barrel horse himself. That’s a striking
change from just a few years ago when racehorses dominated the Leading Sires’ lists.
With no further ado, here are the hottest
young sires based upon Equi-Stat data from
Jan. 1, 2008 through Nov. 25, 2013. The
leading sires chart appearing on pages 56
and 58 shows where the young sires stack up
against all top-ranked sires regardless of the
number of performance-age foals. The chart
is also interesting in that is shows the dam
and maternal grandsire of each sire’s top five
performers.
weren’t tracked by Equi-Stat at that time.
The extremely agile barrel-bred 1999 stallion, by Lenas Sugar Daddy out of proven
barrel mare Blazin Jennie Jet, by Jet Of
Honor, won seven futurities as a 4-year-old:
the Beth Cooper Memorial, American West
Southwest Regional, Arizona Gold, WBRA,
XBA, American West Finals and Super
Barrel Weekend. He was a multiple 1D winner and was the Open 1D Champion at the
American West Finals in 2005. Although not
included in his Equi-Stat earnings, Blazin
Jetolena won professional rodeos in Heber
City, Utah; Idaho Falls, Idaho; Othello,
Wash.; and Liberty, Texas.
As a sire, Blazin Jetolena has 147 performance-age foals from five crops with 61
(42 percent) accounting for $415,690 in
Equi-Stat.
No. 1 A Streak Of Fling
Two-time AQHA World Show Top 10 finalist in Junior Barrel Racing, Streakin Again is
the highest-ranked stallion with the fewest
number of foals.
The first of Streakin Again’s 21 performance-age foals hit the ground in 2006. Of
those, an impressive 11 head (52 percent)
have contributed to his Equi-Stat progeny
earnings total of $225,150.
Streakin Again was bred to be a barrel
horse. He is one of five Equi-Stat barrel money earners out of his dam, Cody
Streakin Again, a Six Fortunes mare who
produced earners of $113,349.
The powerfully-made 1998 son of Hutt
Six earned $34,745 in the arena. He’s a
Lazy E Derby Champion, multiple 1D winner and finalist at such aged events as the
Harlequin Farms Futurity and Derby, Silver
Cup Futurity and Derby and Gold Cup
Futurity.
A Grade 1 stakes qualifier on the track, A
Streak Of Fling is the highest-ranked of the
junior stallions.
The dark bay roan son of two-time
Women’s Professional Rodeo Association
World Champion sire Streakin Six out of the
Fast Fling mare, Moon Fling, a half-sister to
National Finals Rodeo qualifier Jet A Beam,
by Jet Of Honor, ran out $27,645 on the
track with three wins and four seconds in
14 starts. The 1999 stallion earned a speed
index of 98 and finished sixth in the Grade
3 Blue Ribbon Derby.
As a sire of barrel horses, A Streak Of
Fling has five performance-age foal crops on
the ground. His first crop hit the ground in
2005.
From those five crops, A Streak Of Fling
has sired 440 performance-age foals with
102 (23 percent) contributing to Equi-Stat
earnings of $715,127.
No. 2 Blazin Jetolena
National Finals Rodeo qualifier Blazin
Jetolena was Equi-Stat’s 2003 Leading
Futurity Horse as a 4-year-old. In his career,
he amassed Equi-Stat earnings of $95,201,
not including his rodeo earnings, which
No. 3 Streakin Again
No. 4 Firewaterontherocks
Firewaterontherocks is Fire Water Flit’s richest son with Equi-Stat earnings of $197,650.
Out of the Ronas Ryon mare, Rock N Roll
Rona, the 2002 bronze palomino narrowly
missed qualifying for the Wrangler National
Finals Rodeo in 2012 and 2011.
He’s scored professional rodeo victories
at such lucrative rodeos as the Reno Rodeo
in Reno, Nev.; Jackson, Miss.; and Spanish
Fork, Utah, and placed at countless others in
between. He was a finalist at such prominent
aged events as the San Antonio Futurity, Bar
Nothin Barrel Bash and Barrel Futurities of
America World Championships and a multiple 1D winner.
With just two performance-age foal crops,
Firewaterontherocks has 66 performance-age
foals with 16 (24 percent) collecting EquiStat earnings of $205,718.
No. 5 Chasin Firewater
United Professional Rodeo Association Finals
Champion Chasin Firewater was bred to be
a barrel horse. Sired by one of the all-time
leading sires, Fire Water Flit, the 2001 flashy
palomino is out of proven barrel mare Has
The Touch, by Bugs Alive In 75.
In the arena, Chasin Firewater earned
$34,369 and was a multiple 1D winner
at events such as D&G Productions, Elite
Barrel Racing and The Mega. Before running at the 2011 Wrangler National Finals
Rodeo with Jill Moody, Chasin Firewater
picked up checks at Rodeo Houston with
Kassie Mowry.
Chasin had his first test crop of just three
foals hit the ground in 2007. From his three
crops, he has 63 performance-age foals with
15 (25 percent) earning $194,312.
The Future
With late season 2013 events still in the process of being recorded in Equi-Stat, five new
sires are on pace to make their first appearance on the Leading Sires’ list. Freshman
sires—those with their very first crop of
performance-age foals—Eddie Stinson and
Ivory James will likely make the list. The
barrel-bred half-brothers Bug In My Frosty
and Bugemforcash, out of the Bugs Alive
In 75 mare, Flyin Hi Babe, have standout performers from their first four crops
of performance-age foals. Outcross stallion
Bucks Hancock Dude, with just three performance-age crops, should also appear on
the Leading Sires’ list.
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