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Im Countin Checks

2002 SORREL STALLION

FBgraphicNCHA Hall of Fame
LTE: $514,757

SIRE OF OFFSPRING WITH
EARNINGS UP TO $5.9 MILLION.

N/N ON ALL FIVE DISEASE PANEL TESTS

The Perfect Pedigree

He’s the perfect cross on all HIGH BROW CAT, SMOOTH AS A CAT, STARLIGHT,  PEPTOBOONSMAL, SMART LITTLE LENA, PLAYBOY, and most other bloodlines!

2021 Breeding Information
He is standing at WEATHERFORD EQUINE in the 2021 breeding season.

Breeding Fee: $1750 plus $650 chute plus $125 BI fee.

Special Breeding Fee: $1250 plus $650 plus $125 BI fee for High Brow Cat, Metallic Cat and Smooth As A Cat mares.

Inquiries or to request a contract: WEATHERFORD EQUINE, Adelita Bell 817.594.9181

 

Accomplishments
• NCHA Hall of Fame
• NCHA Open Futurity Finalist, 3rd
• 2008 NCHA Super Stakes Non-Pro Classic Co-Reserve Champion
• 2008 NCHA Super Stakes Open Classic Finalist, 3rd
• Breeders Invitational Open Derby Reserve Champion
• 2008 Abilene Spectacular Open Classic Champion
• 2008 Music City Open Classic Champion
• 2008 South Point Open Classic Co-Champion, Co-Reserve Champion in the Non-Pro
• Bonanza Open Classic Champion
• 2nd Place South Coast Futurity Aged Event for five and six year olds, Open, 2006.
• 1st Place Cotton Stakes & Classic, Open, 2007.
• 1st Place Abilene Spectacular Aged Event for five and six year olds, Open, 2007.
• 2008 PCCHA Open and Non-Pro Classics’ Champion
• PCCHA 5/6-Year-Old Open Stakes Champion
• 2008 Cotton Stakes Open Classic Finalist, 4th
• 2008 Brazos Bash Non-Pro Classic Finalist, 3rd
• South Point Winter Open Classic Reserve Champion
• Bonanza Open Derby Reserve Champion
• NCHA Open Super Stakes Finalist
• Western Horseman Cup Open Finalist, 3rd
• Breeders Invitational Open Classic Finalist
  • Leading the Open - Im Countin Checks

Quarter Horse News

April 2012

Circle Y Ranch Buys Im Countin Checks


After buying 2004 National Cutting Horse Association Horse of the Year Boon San Kitty and her full sister, RW Sally Cat, back in early March, Circle Y Ranch, Aubrey, Texas, picked up stallion standout Im Countin Checks a couple of weeks later.

The 2002 stallion (Smart Lil Ricochet x Autumn Boon x Dual Pep), a career cutting earner $514,757, including $196,319 and Championships with three riders – Matt Gaines, Tim Smith and Kyle Manion – as a 6-year-old, will change barns in July.

Im Countin Checks finished second in the 2008 NCHA Horse of the Year race.

Im Countin Checks, will stay through the breeding season at ESMS on the Brazos in Weatherford, Texas, according to Tommy Manion, father and business partner of the horse’s prior owner Kyle Manion, Aubrey, Texas.

In July, Im Countin Checks will join an increasingly prominent new cutting horse family. Circle Y Ranch, already recognized for its steady success in the reined cow horse world, recently bought 2000 mare Boon San Kitty (High Brow Cat x Boon San Sally x Boon Bar), a career cutting earner of $555,504, and her full sister RW Sallycat, another 2000 mare who earned $143,731 as a cutter. Alice Walton’s Rockin W Ranch, Mineral Wells, Texas, had owned both mares.

Circle Y Ranch owner Penny Youngblood and associate ranch manager Nancy Pearce visited their neighboring ranch in Aubrey, Texas, to look at several daughters sired by another highly successful Manion Ranch stallion, Smooth As A Cat (High Brow Cat x Shes Pretty Smooth x Wheeling Peppy). During the visit, they also observed several foals sired by Im Countin Checks.

“The buying or selling of Im Countin Checks never came up,” Manion recalled. “The next day, they called me, actually Jim Ware [a longtime horse sales expert and consultant] called me for them, and asked if I’d consider selling Im Countin Checks. They really liked the foals, and that got them to thinking about him.”

Pearce confirmed she and Youngblood’s game plan changed after the visit. “Penny and I both just went bonkers over those ‘Checkers’ [Im Countin Check’s nickname] babies out of those Smoooth As A Cat mares. They were just so special looking. The wheels started turning in our heads. All of the foals were very consistent in confirmation and the way they were marked. They were awesome.”

Im Countin Checks is the first high-profile cutting stallion the ranch has bought. “Checkers” first full foal crop features many 3-year-olds that will compete at this year’s NCHA Futurity and other late summer to mid-fall futurities, and “there are some outstanding ones out there,” Manion said. Circle Y Ranch, which owns a couple of young prospects in training, but currently no competing cutters, might consider buying a 3-year-old this year, Pearce said.

Since Boon San Kitty, mother of 2009 NCHA Futurity Open Champion Rockin W, and her full sister RW Sallycat are both High Brow Cat mares, Im Countin Checks provides an outstanding breeding cross, Manion said. He’s also glad to see one of he and Kyle’s favorite horses relocate to a home where he’ll have a shot to excel.

“He’s just been a really exciting horse for us,” Manion said. “They [Youngblood, Pearce and the Circle Y crew] are wonderful people. They are really excited about getting more involved in the cutting business than they had been.”

Youngblood, owner/manager of Circle Y Ranch, heads a program her late father, J. Lee Youngblood, started in 1979, and it had focused more on raising and training reined cow horses until recently. Youngblood, 69, and Pearce, 57, decided to invest more heavily in cutting horses largely because both want to compete as cutters. Both plan to compete at cutting events in the near future, Pearce said.