The Smith family has been raising top quality foundation Quarter Horses since the early 1900

The Smith family has been raising top quality foundation Quarter Horses since the early 1900's. My grandfather Bill Smith was living in Okemah, Oklahoma providing work teams to the booming oilfield industry, along with his father-in-law Claude Kendrick, out of a blacksmith shop and livery stable business that the family had operated for years. My father, Joe B. Smith, was raised here and the family had began to raise the newly recognized American Quarter Horses.

These horses were much more adapted to ranch and cattle use and provided top quality rodeo horses to our family. My dad, Joe B. Smith, moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma and met and married my mom, Lucille Huggins. This family union was the start, of what would be the beginning, of the great Foundation Quarter Horses we still raise today. My mother's uncles, Charlie Westmoreland and Norman Huggins, as well as her father, Harley Huggins, are still considered to be some of the best and most knowledgeable horsemen of their time. Charlie Westmoreland, Norman Huggins, and my grandfather Harley Huggins had all worked on the legendary Weimer Ranch that owned and bred "Bert P-227" the most famous rope horse sire of all time. Everyone from Willard and Benny Combs riding a Rodeo Hall of Fame daughter of "Bert P-227", "Baby Doll", to 18 time NFR qualifier Mike Johnson and three time NFR qualifier Gary Johnson riding a mare that I raised named "Docs Blue Bert Lady" to Fred Whitfield on "Starbert C Dean" raised by Roy Fisher in Eufaula, Oklahoma have taken these great bloodlines to the pay-window at the National Finals Rodeo.

Charlie Westmoreland, who became a legendary saddle maker, owned a great foundation stallion named "Little Jodie" that he crossed on a set of "Bert P-227" daughters. One of these mares was a great mare named "Trixie Blake P-1320" that Charlie later sold to Roy Fisher. That mare became the cornerstone of the Fisher Ranches breeding program. "Trixie Blake P-1320", had three offspring go on to be AQHA champions .

My dad traded Charlie out of a number of these mares, this anchored his breeding program firmly in these same proven genetics. In 1949 a son of "Bert P-227" was born, named "Scottie Bert", he belonged to Spencer Smith. My dad acquired this stallion from Spencer and this great stallion can be traced in every pedigree in our broodmare band. My uncle Hoot Huggins won a world championship riding a mare named "Rockin H Doll" in the OTRA in both calf roping and team roping. "Rockin H Doll" and "Docs Blue Bert Lady" are either full or half sisters to several of our mares. We purchased "Poco Doc De Oro" last year, from Weaver Quarter Horses in Big Sandy, Montana, to use on these "Oklahoma Star", "Bert", "Little Jodie", and "Leo" mares. "Poco Doc De Oro" himself was a four time qualifier to the High School National Finals rodeo under four different ropers in calf roping. I believe we are going to raise the greatest rope horses our family has

ever raised from this outcross. We will now introduce the bloodlines of "King", "Poco Bueno", and "Jessie James" to the proven genetics my family has carefully selected for well over 70 years. We have carefully chosen these bloodlines for disposition, bone, withers, feet, athletic ability, and natural cow sense.

This cross was first proven in 1961 when "Star Poco" was the AQHA Jr. Roping Champion. We did not just buy a set of mares 5 years ago and decide to go in the horse business. This is a program that has been going for generations and has proven itself time after time. Like my uncle Hoot always said "You don't take a German Shepherd quail hunting". Don't buy the wrong prospect to invest your training and valuable time in. Our foals are born broke, you just have to show them how you want it done. Come and see us in the spring and see if you are not as excited as Stacy and I are about this foal crop!