Badboonarising: Cutting Horse with Crossover Appeal
The second stallion with an offspring in the Open finals was National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Open Reserve Champion Badboonarising, who earned $367,101 during his cutting career with trainer Adan Banuelos. The stallion was well supported at stud with a large opening book of mares, and his 10 offspring in this year’s Snaffle Bit Futurity Open preliminaries were the most of any freshman sire. They are among 133 AQHA-registered foals he sired in his first crop, which was the largest first crop among Western performance horse freshman sires reviewed by Quarter Horse News.
Owner Elizabeth Quirk was quick to credit mare owners for her horse’s success so far as a stallion. Badboonarising has already sired a winner in the early cutting futurities when LBR Quite Bad, ridden by Banuelos, won the Pacific Coast Cutting Horse Association Super Futurity in September in Las Vegas.
“First and foremost, I think that we have to give a huge shout out to our mare owners that came alongside us in that first year — that said yes and said they wanted to breed to him,” she said. “I mean, as a mare owner [myself], they don’t get enough credit. People really talk, ‘Oh, your stud, your stud, your stud’ … I’m like, ‘Well, it takes two to tango.’”
Many of those mares were cutting mares — Badboonarising has dozens of offspring entered in this year’s NCHA Futurity — but he also bred a number of reined cow horse mares his first year at stud. Quirk chalks that up to Badboonarising’s physical attributes, which make him attractive in more than one discipline.
His 2024 Snaffle Bit Futurity Open finalist, The Midnight Train, is out of 2018 NRCHA Stallion Stakes Open Champion Metallic Train (by Metallic Cat). Owned by Beverly Servi and shown by Clayton Edsall, the mare started her finals strong with a 214.5 in the herd work.
“It just goes back to — speaking of the stallion — his confirmation, his ability [and] his size,” Quirk said. “I truly believe he’s going to cross well and be a sire for the performance horse, which is great.”
Quarter Horse News
by Molly Montag
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