Chei and Chei Livestock

03/01/2026

This years lambs are pretty big, there were twins born the other day. Hoping to keep breeding for brown wool. Helped haul water. Can’t go near alfalfa grass mix hay. It was a treat to be welcomed by the c**ts. They’ve put on some weight. I can’t wait to start working with the c**ts again.

01/25/2026

Your Data is a Human Right

12/31/2025

Colonel Freckles' life began in 1973 on a ranch in Midland, Texas. Bred by Marion Flynt, the blaze-faced stallion was the son of Jewel's Leo Bars and out of Christy Jay by Rey Jay.

He first received recognition at the 1976 NCHA Futurity. At the time, he was owned by Bob McLeod and ridden by Olan Hightower. Hightower knew the only way they were going to win the finals that year was to pick three feisty cows out of the herd. The tactic work, and Colonel Freckles won the championship, cementing him as a great athlete.

Lou and Wanda Waters watched him at the Futurity and fell in love with him. They bred 24 mares to him before purchasing him in 1983. He became the centerpiece of their breeding facility in Fulshear, Texas.

36 of Colonel Freckles' progeny entered the 1981 NCHA Futurity. Seven qualified for the semifinals, and four made it to the Finals, including Futurity champion Colonel Lil. Other notable offspring of Colonel Freckles included 1988 NCHA Futurity reserve champion Cols Lil Pepper, finalist Colonel Flip, and Super Stakes reserve champion Colonel Leo Bar.

Colonel Freckles' offspring also competed well in NRHA and NRCHA events. Freckles Top Brass, Freckle Kid, and King Badger's Colonel were champions in NRHA Futurity and Derby events. In 1987, one of Colonel Freckles' sons, Nu Cash, won the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity and went on to sire three other NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity winners.

The sorrel's 417 performing foals earned 2,719.5 AQHA points, 66 Registers of Merit, and several AQHA Champion titles.

Colonel Freckles died in 1986. He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004.

Credit: American Quarter Horse Foundation

12/31/2025

“Coolin’ Off” by Bill Owen

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12/31/2025

12/31/2025

A new strain of top cow horses came along with the introduction of Peppy San.

Peppy San was foaled in 1959. Bred by Gordon Howell of El Paso, Texas, he was the son of Leo San by Leo and out of the Pep Up mare Peppy Belle. The sorrel c**t was the only AQHA Champion ever produced by the pair.

Peppy San was a natural in the world of cutting. In 1962, he earned the reserve championship at the first National Cutting Horse Association cutting futurity ridden by Matlock Rose of Gainesville, Texas. After being purchased by the Douglas Lake Land and Cattle Company in 1963, Peppy San became the ranch’s senior stallion. Over the next two years, he only performed in the cutting arena three to four times a year, but placed well in each show, and was ranked fifth in the Canadian standings in 1965.

In 1967, Rose contracted to haul Peppy San for the NCHA World Championship. During that year, the duo competed in 52 shows, taking home 50 checks. They easily won the world title, and in doing so, set a record for the most money earned in one year - $20,112.65. All in all, Peppy San earned 180 cutting points and 26 halter points, his AQHA Championship as a 3-year-old, a Superior in cutting and the 1967 high-point cutting stallion title.

After earning the NCHA world championship in 1967, Peppy San was retired to stud on the Canadian ranch until 1975, when he was moved to stand at the Rose Ranch in Texas. While he stood at the Douglas Lake Land and Cattle Company, he was bred to a limited number of mares. It was not until he was moved south and was bred to a larger number of outside mares that Peppy San was recognized as a top sire in his field.

Peppy San sired 493 registered foals. Of those, 134 earned 2,279 points, 10 Superiors and 56 Registers of Merit. His foals nabbed 10 world champion titles, four NCHA world championships and one National Reined Cow Horse Association snaffle bit futurity world championship. Peppy San sired 1991 AQHA world champion and Hall of Fame member Royal Santana and five-time AQHA and NCHA Cutting World Champion Peponita.

Peppy San was euthanized April 26, 1989, due to complications from old age. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1999.

12/31/2025

HOLEY SOX - 1955 (LEO x OSAGE STAR LADY)

Sonja Searle holds a Trophy while sitting on the champion horse Holey Sox.

AQHA Race SI-85/AA/ROM
$615
4.0 AQHA halter points, 150.5 performance points
Superior Cutting
NCHA $12,748.10/COA-Bronze
1963 NCHA World-6th ($9,344)
Sire of: Reserve World Champion (2), Supf Perf. (2), AQHA Ch.(1), NCHA Money-earners of $140,669.18, Race Money-earners of $7,266,NCHA Hall of Fame Offspring.
Sire of Mr Holey Sox,Holey Cash & Holeys Daisy
DOB: 4-18-1955
NAT WEST CUT - Denver - 1963
sold 1957 to Woodey Searle - Vernal, UT;
NFQHA 94%
Breeder: Fred W Swalley-Ponca City, OK.

12/27/2025

12/27/2025

I have some broodmares with his line

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Foaled in 1942, Texas Dandy was sired by My Texas Dandy, a renowned sire of sprinters such as the “Iron Horse” Clabber, the first Quarter Horse racing world champion. His dam was Streak, sired by the unregistered stallion Lone Star. The sorrel stallion’s breeder, R. C. Tatum of Gatesville, Texas, regretted letting Texas Dandy get away.

Owner Tom Finley ran Texas Dandy in Tucson, where the 5-year-old won his first two starts. His racing career was rather short-lived; he earned his Register of Merit and was retired to stud duties at Finley’s farm in Gilbert, Arizona, where he covered about 30 Finley broodmares and a few outside mares a year.

Texas Dandy sired only 239 foals, with more than half of that number started in races, and half of those were winners. Of those 239 foals, 137 walked into show rings, and four earned AQHA Champion titles. He is better recognized as a broodmare sire and grandsire to horses that have earned more than $466,000. Twelve won stakes races, three have earned AQHA Champions titles, and 60 performers racked up 2,093.5 performance points.

Texas Dandy took a short break in the middle of his stud career when a Hollywood scout discovered the stallion for a 1950 film, “Boy From Indiana.” Although his racing career ended with three wins from 14 starts, Texas Dandy had no trouble outrunning the camera truck many times during the filming, even when the vehicle had a generous head start.

Texas Dandy died at age 28 in 1970. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1995.

12/27/2025

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