Broken Spur Quarter Horses

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Dbl Deuce Driftwood, AKA "Popeye" Earns his keep working under the W4 Brand on the Wahl Ranch, Loomis Washington. https:...
07/03/2025

Dbl Deuce Driftwood, AKA "Popeye"
Earns his keep working under the W4 Brand on the Wahl Ranch, Loomis Washington. https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/dbl+deuce+driftwood
Huge bay roan 22.27% Driftwood that you don't see very often being that much Driftwood blood. Being out of Button and Dbl D there was no doubt he'd be an exceptional ranch/rope horse when he hit the ground.
Sandi Velke-Wahl has had him from a weanling and made on heck of a go-to mount out of him. She has always kept us updated with his progress over the years. As a breeder there's nothing better than knowing that the horses you create are fulfilling their breeding purpose and have earned fulltime jobs working the difficult Big Country mountainous ranches here out west while still being more than capable of winning in arena performance events.
Thank You Sandi for all you've put into making Deuce such a great working ranch horse that he was bred to be.

*Duece's full sister, Speedy Blued Bayonet went to the Berger Ranch in Saratoga Wyoming as a weanling as well.

-Breeding for the true All-Around Using Quarter Horse-Unstoppable Team & just getting started!Emma Patten & BlueWoodLena...
06/28/2025

-Breeding for the true All-Around Using Quarter Horse-
Unstoppable Team & just getting started!
Emma Patten & BlueWoodLena PepyJack, AKA: "SUPER FRICO"
These two just keep on accomplishing everything you can imagine with a quarter horse. Besides running barrels, poles, cutting, roping, ranch trail, English and HS Drill Team back up horse for the team Emma coaches now; with just a few days of practice on reining patterns they go into the Rouge Reining Horse Association and bring home 2nd place in the Novice, 5th in the Ranch Riding Non-Pro. They were competing against accomplished Reiners and Horses that are bred specifically for reigning. If you judged this horse by his breeding and stature, you'd say he couldn't compete in reining events let alone go into a show for the first time with limited exposure and beat out high end Reining bred horses and professional trainers. Emma was pulled aside and praised by top trainers that couldn't believe how smooth and effortlessly he moved through collected lead changes. Super Frico is a 16.1 hand, Sledgehammer of a horse that's bred and built to yard on full grown stock day in-day out for a living yet be flexible in all aspects of performance and a using mindset/demeanor youth to professional. If this breeding program focused strictly on papers and the latest fad to keep up with the Jones's our horses would not be truly multi-faceted all around working quarter's; they'd be event specific with an isolated window of performance and a limited build type structure.
The following weekend they entered into a cattle sorting that they never practiced and won the jackpot.
Not bad for the first solo test foal by Worthy Ofa Driftwood and proves the point that the general current practice of breeding strictly by papers matching an event (barrels, roping, reigning, etc.) is not the answer; it's the destruction of what used to be the All-Around Quarter Horse.
Emma, your work ethic and enthusiasm is bringing out everything Super Frico was bred for and more. Soo proud of you!!

Thats a wrap for 2025 Foaling Season
06/25/2025

Thats a wrap for 2025 Foaling Season

Update!! She had a big healthy stud c**t, looks to be bay. We got really lucky on catching the red bag starting day 220 ...
06/18/2025

Update!! She had a big healthy stud c**t, looks to be bay. We got really lucky on catching the red bag starting day 220 and hitting her with a round of Exceed I keep on hand, with twice a day SMZ's until foaling at 341. Lady did a great job and delt with all hands-on deck in case she or the foal needed help.
Waiting on Ladies Lucky Blanton a 15.3 hand '09 Red Mark Daughter in foal to my son's (Mark Letteriello) stud Be Rowdy Blanton to wrap up foaling season.
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ladies+lucky+blanton
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/be+rowdy+blanton
Had a possible red bag situation starting to show a couple weeks ago on the 220-day with some bloody discharge. Seem to have it under control keeping fingers crossed and meds twice a day. Passed the 330-day safe mark so no more banamine just antibiotics twice a day. There is the possibility this could still become a red bag so when she gets really close it's a 2hr on and off someone right there in case the foal needs cut out of the placenta. This is the first time we've run into this, and I hope this will be the last.

Another: Broken Spur Full Sister Set by Dbl D x PurdyLeft: Timber Stand, 3yrs old, Classic-Buckskin RoanRight: Big Prair...
06/16/2025

Another: Broken Spur Full Sister Set by Dbl D x Purdy
Left: Timber Stand, 3yrs old, Classic-Buckskin Roan
Right: Big Prairie, 2yrs old, Buttermilk-Buckskin Roan
I let a full sister go to these 2, first foal by Purdy taking for granted that she would be producing foals for us another decade easily. Keeper went down to a rancher in Burns Oregon and his 13yr old daughter was roping calves in a pen on her ride #5; have the video) Tragically we lost Purdy to a hind gut impaction with a full brother she was carrying 2 yrs ago to these fillies. The loss of Purdy still rips all of our guts out and I am thankful I held onto Timber and Prairie. I have the full sister to Purdy in Liberty. Sundance Blanton in these filly's future when ready to breed.

Congratulations & Thank You! Emma Patten, on your recent acquisition of BrknSpr Misty Peak, 2024 Blue Roan Filly and you...
06/15/2025

Congratulations & Thank You! Emma Patten, on your recent acquisition of BrknSpr Misty Peak, 2024 Blue Roan Filly and your 2nd horse by Worthy Ofa Driftwood. After watching everythying you accomplished with Bluwoodlena PeppyJack (Aka Super Frico) we're super excited to watch you bring this filly along to even greater things.
Your hard work, dedication and focus on improving your horsemanship skills has not gone unnoticed. We would like to show our appreciation by Sponsoring You with all fees associated with membership and entrees into the Oregon Quarter Horse Association to include the Oregon Bred Program if you would like to accept. Very proud of you Emma. The sky is the limit for your equestrian future.

-2024 yearling Driftwood Fillys-Misty Peak-Blue Roan, Spin Drift-Bay Roan, Shady Peak-Black
06/15/2025

-2024 yearling Driftwood Fillys-
Misty Peak-Blue Roan, Spin Drift-Bay Roan, Shady Peak-Black

-Broken Spur Quarter Horses-"Red Iron Blanton", AKA "Brick"2025 Chestnut, Roan? Stud C**tWorthy Ofa Driftwood X Blantons...
06/13/2025

-Broken Spur Quarter Horses-
"Red Iron Blanton", AKA "Brick"
2025 Chestnut, Roan? Stud C**t
Worthy Ofa Driftwood X Blantons Girl Luck
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/red+iron+blanton
*** Availability to be Determined at End of Weaning. ***
Well, here we go, another stud c**t "Brick" turning 1 week old, and another dilemma. If this was a filly it would be a no brainer she'd have to stay. The programs future depends on an outlook of a minimum of 10 years with the next genetic rotation introduced which require 2 similarly bred studs in case one goes down. This c**t is out of a paternal half-sister to Sundance Blanton being a Short Go Luck daughter and has Lucky Blanton on her papers as well (in a few more years this will no longer exists). His dam is 21 and needs a year off and at 22 no guarantee to get in foal or foal out at 23. The Lucky Blanton genetics up close is what the program needs now, and this c**t is going to be one of the last stud c**ts left that packs it one off the papers besides Red Savage Sam twice thru both tail female lines. He carries 3 different crosses to Lucky Blanton (Luckys Last, Blanton Wood, Dusky Ruth) which allows the ability to be ran back over certain Lucky Blanton bred mares in the future to keep the bloodline going without to many like crosses causing a debilitating in**ed effect. He's blended with a genetic formula that works for western big country ranching and pulling double duty in the arena on full size adult stock if asked.

2wk Update on Banshee LuckStrait, Stout & that Extra Muscle from Sundance coming out. Mare Power is the Physical Specime...
06/12/2025

2wk Update on Banshee Luck
Strait, Stout & that Extra Muscle from Sundance coming out.
Mare Power is the Physical Specimen herself not her Papers.

-Keeper Filly-Not for Sale-
BRKNSPR BANSHEE LUCK
2025 Bay Dun Filly by Sundance Blanton
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/brknspr+banshee+luck
"Banshee" is a few days old here and unfolding nicely. Star and strip only white with 4 solid black feet. She is the result of building a Brand of Horse thru breeding the Old In-House Way. Finding the few Specimen mares with the blood line and right build type that meet what you'd want in a horse if your life or livelihood depended on it; then finding the other blood line/build type Specimen of a stallion to build the first in-house generation of your "Brand of Horse". Then this repeats for another decade with the next blood line Specimen of a Stallion to bring your vision closer to what you find nearer to perfect. Meanwhile you're retaining some In-House stud c**ts and as many fillies possible to bring thru the process of proving themselves for the future as well. For us it takes on average 5-6 years for a filly born into the program to have her first foal hit the ground. The fillies have to prove themselves as saddle horses just like the stud c**ts to make the first cut. The In-House Studs are never opened to the public until after a few years of foal crop evaluations prove worthy of consistent uniformed quality. We're not the only breeders still doing things the Old Way but we're one of the few. Please show your support for All the Old School Breeders that take the decades of commitment to providing Quality Using Horse Stock for the future generations of horsemen and women.

"Big Iron Blanton"   2025 Bay Dun Roan, Stud C**t Sundance Blanton x Speedy Blue Buttonhttps://www.allbreedpedigree.com/...
06/09/2025

"Big Iron Blanton"
2025 Bay Dun Roan, Stud C**t
Sundance Blanton x Speedy Blue Button
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/big+iron+blanton
"Biggs" turned a month old and is unfolding nicely. Looking forward to watching him come into his own.

We breed for a levelheaded All-Around Rope Horse that can handle more than just the weekly full-time rigors of large-sca...
05/25/2025

We breed for a levelheaded All-Around Rope Horse that can handle more than just the weekly full-time rigors of large-scale "Big Country" western ranching; We breed them to still play on the weekends.
John Day, Oregon PRCA Rodeo, pulling double duty bulls & saddle bronc pickup on weekends while working the White Butte Ranch in Mittchell Oregon.
Drifter had just turned 4yrs Old.
https://www.allbreedpedigree.com/speedy+blue+drifter

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