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Julie Mankin
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Sporting the tried-and-true foundation bloodlines of Blondy’s Dude, Two Eyed Jack and Sugar Bars on his top side, combined with Hancock and a little Peppy San on the bottom, Buck’s Hancock Dude is special.
Bucks Hancock Dude | Lazy E Ranch
And it’s not just because the dark buckskin standing at Reliance Ranches has conformation that made him the high-point halter stallion in the entire AQHA. As a 6-year-old, he was also the AQHA’s reserve world champion in junior calf roping and earned a Superior in heeling.
“He’s a real quiet horse, a real easy horse to be around with an excellent disposition,” his trainer, Bobby Lewis, once said. “He hardly ever did anything to beat himself. He could have been at the rodeos and been just as successful.”
But when Buck’s Hancock Dude was crossed on some running-bred mares and those babies were started with old-fashioned ranch work, rodeo barrel racers across the country had their lights blown out. Offspring of Buck’s Hancock Dude have earned more than $1.7 million on the cloverleaf pattern.
Reliance Ranches’ trainer Laura Mote notes that she loves riding prospects by the pretty stud because they’re so big and strong.
“I think they make really good rodeo horses,” said Mote, a past winner of the American Semi-Finals, arena-record setter at Cowtown Coliseum and Women’s Rodeo World Championships victor. “Because they’re really good-minded and quiet. I haven’t ridden a single one that’s anxious. And they’re so sure-footed. We have one for sale that I hauled with me as a 3-year-old, around fireworks, and I ran him in strange arenas before they were worked for the rodeo, and he loved doing that.”
She points out a great trait in babies by “Dude” – durability that leads to longevity. You’ve probably heard of a couple offspring owned by a certain red-headed barrel racer that have had incredible longevity.
Emily Beisel’s career kicked off seven NFRs ago aboard Namgis D 35 (“Pipewrench”), on whom she was reserve national circuit champ in 2016 and won it outright in 2017, plus made her first NFR. Despite turning 16 years old, he’s still winning – she placed in the top five at Guymon on him in May and brought his earnings to almost a quarter-million dollars.
Emily Beisel and Namgis D 33, “Pipewrench” | Image by Kay Miller
Pipewrench is out of a mare named Central Station, by First Down Dash out of a daughter of Merridoc. Beisel also ran his full sister, Namgis D 56 (“Foxy”), at the 2019 NFR. She called the mare “just rock solid.” That same cross produced Kylie Weast’s Namgis D 15, that kept winning at 15 years old and has lifetime earnings of $137,760 after being a powerhouse at 2013 futurities. It also produced Namgis D 56, a 12-year-old mare winning this year for the Krahenbuhl family with lifetime earnings of $109,613.
And did we mention Chongo? Out of a winning racing mare named Track Goddess, Beisel’s beloved Namgis D 33 (“Chongo”) by Buck’s Hancock Dude came to her in January 2018 and he’s since handled literally every setup or ground condition thrown at him.
Emily Beisel and Namgis D CC “Chongo,” won over $16,000 at the 2023 Ponoka Stampede. Covy Moore Photography.
Eleven years after the powerful grey gelding had placed deep at big futurities, he broke Calgary’s arena record in July at 15 years old. And Beisel ran him in an NFR go-round again in December – he’s won a whopping seven go-rounds in Las Vegas including clocking a fifth-round 13.43 in 2021 that was the NFR fast-time. And can you imagine the amount of money they’d have added without all those barrels they just barely brushed down over the past seven years in Las Vegas? Chongo’s QData earnings are still nearly $934,000.
Track Goddess was by Eyesa Special – a stallion by Mr Eye Opener out of a mare by Special Effort out of a Rebel Cause/Jet Deck granddaughter. And she was out of a mare by Streakin Six out of an On A High daughter. Lisa Gray’s 11-year-old Namgis D 86 is a full sister that’s winning, too.
Namgis is actually the last name of breeder Stan Sigman, spelled backwards. The late Sigman, a past CEO and president of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Mobility, worked with his good friend and Apple CEO Steve Jobs to develop the iPhone after growing up in the Texas panhandle, where Spicer Gripp taught him to rope calves. He’d purchased Dude as a 2-year-old.
“He won the national rope horse futurity,” Sigman once said of the stud. “The horse showed so much athleticism, but beyond that, he’s the smartest, most intelligent, best-dispositioned horse I’ve ever been around – and I’ve been around a lot of horses. I wanted to pass that on.”
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And it’s not just because the dark buckskin standing at Reliance Ranches has conformation that made him the high-point halter stallion in the entire AQHA. As a 6-year-old, he was also the AQHA’s reserve world champion in junior calf roping and earned a Superior in heeling.
“He’s a real quiet horse, a real easy horse to be around with an excellent disposition,” his trainer, Bobby Lewis, once said. “He hardly ever did anything to beat himself. He could have been at the rodeos and been just as successful.”
But when Buck’s Hancock Dude was crossed on some running-bred mares and those babies were started with old-fashioned ranch work, rodeo barrel racers across the country had their lights blown out. Offspring of Buck’s Hancock Dude have earned more than $1.7 million on the cloverleaf pattern.
Reliance Ranches’ trainer Laura Mote notes that she loves riding prospects by the pretty stud because they’re so big and strong.
“I think they make really good rodeo horses,” said Mote, a past winner of the American Semi-Finals, arena-record setter at Cowtown Coliseum and Women’s Rodeo World Championships victor. “Because they’re really good-minded and quiet. I haven’t ridden a single one that’s anxious. And they’re so sure-footed. We have one for sale that I hauled with me as a 3-year-old, around fireworks, and I ran him in strange arenas before they were worked for the rodeo, and he loved doing that.”
She points out a great trait in babies by “Dude” – durability that leads to longevity. You’ve probably heard of a couple offspring owned by a certain red-headed barrel racer that have had incredible longevity.
Emily Beisel’s career kicked off seven NFRs ago aboard Namgis D 35 (“Pipewrench”), on whom she was reserve national circuit champ in 2016 and won it outright in 2017, plus made her first NFR. Despite turning 16 years old, he’s still winning – she placed in the top five at Guymon on him in May and brought his earnings to almost a quarter-million dollars.
Emily Beisel and Namgis D 33, “Pipewrench” | Image by Kay Miller
Pipewrench is out of a mare named Central Station, by First Down Dash out of a daughter of Merridoc. Beisel also ran his full sister, Namgis D 56 (“Foxy”), at the 2019 NFR. She called the mare “just rock solid.” That same cross produced Kylie Weast’s Namgis D 15, that kept winning at 15 years old and has lifetime earnings of $137,760 after being a powerhouse at 2013 futurities. It also produced Namgis D 56, a 12-year-old mare winning this year for the Krahenbuhl family with lifetime earnings of $109,613.
And did we mention Chongo? Out of a winning racing mare named Track Goddess, Beisel’s beloved Namgis D 33 (“Chongo”) by Buck’s Hancock Dude came to her in January 2018 and he’s since handled literally every setup or ground condition thrown at him.
Emily Beisel and Namgis D CC “Chongo,” won over $16,000 at the 2023 Ponoka Stampede. Covy Moore Photography.
Eleven years after the powerful grey gelding had placed deep at big futurities, he broke Calgary’s arena record in July at 15 years old. And Beisel ran him in an NFR go-round again in December – he’s won a whopping seven go-rounds in Las Vegas including clocking a fifth-round 13.43 in 2021 that was the NFR fast-time. And can you imagine the amount of money they’d have added without all those barrels they just barely brushed down over the past seven years in Las Vegas? Chongo’s QData earnings are still nearly $934,000.
Track Goddess was by Eyesa Special – a stallion by Mr Eye Opener out of a mare by Special Effort out of a Rebel Cause/Jet Deck granddaughter. And she was out of a mare by Streakin Six out of an On A High daughter. Lisa Gray’s 11-year-old Namgis D 86 is a full sister that’s winning, too.
Namgis is actually the last name of breeder Stan Sigman, spelled backwards. The late Sigman, a past CEO and president of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Mobility, worked with his good friend and Apple CEO Steve Jobs to develop the iPhone after growing up in the Texas panhandle, where Spicer Gripp taught him to rope calves. He’d purchased Dude as a 2-year-old.
“He won the national rope horse futurity,” Sigman once said of the stud. “The horse showed so much athleticism, but beyond that, he’s the smartest, most intelligent, best-dispositioned horse I’ve ever been around – and I’ve been around a lot of horses. I wanted to pass that on.”
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