Circle M Farm
Good horses don't cost, - they pay!
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Circle M Farm Good horses don't cost, - they pay!
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The
only Paint stallion sired by
the
great stallion The Big Investment a 1998 NSBA Hall of Fame Inductee. His get have
earned 14 Superiors, and 46 ROMs with 2,118 Performance, 169 Halter and 945 OCAP
credits. Whata Investment is still living and is owned by: Dan & Carol McWhirter Dan McWhirter Quarter Horses
Stallion Show Record Halter Points: 6; Reserves: 2; Perf Points: 39; Perf Events: WP; Stallion Offspring Record AQHA Offspring Record APHA Offspring Record Halter Points Earned: 164; Halter Point Earners: 7; Halter ROMS: 4; Superior Halter Awards: 2; Performance Points Earned: 2,088; Performance Point Earners: 28; Performance ROMS: 40; Performance Events: 25 WP, 4 HUS, 4 W HORSMNSHP, 2 TR, 2 HSE, 2 SAH, 1 HH; Superior Performance Awards: 12; Performance Sup Events: 8 WP, 1 HUS, 1 HSE, 1 SAH, 1 W HRSEMANSP; Performance World Championships: 2; Performance World Champ Events: WP; Reserve Perf World Championships: 1; Reserve Perf World Champ Events: WP; Total Superior Awards: 14; Total ROM's: 44; World Championships: 2; Res World Championships: 1; Outstanding Offspring Stallion Specialties: Western Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Western Horsemanship, Hunt Seat Equitation
Extended Pedigree for Whata Investment:
SKIP HI - (Whata Investment's dam is Linebred to Skip Hi)
[ REPRINTED CHAPTER FROM THE BOOK "GREAT SIRES"]
Skip Hi, the first and most important Wiescamp-bred Paint Horse registered in the American Paint Horse Association, was foaled in 1959 at Alamosa, Colorado. He is a sorrel tobiano with the disposition, beautiful head, good wither, long hip, and deep muscle that characterize most Wiescamp horses. With few exceptions all the Paint Horses from the Wiescamp establishment are excellent in conformation and well marked with color and their breeding is tops. H.J. Wiescamp is very nearly a living legend in the Quarter Horse, Thoroughbred, and Paint Horse industries. He has bred, raised, traded, sold, and auctioned horses for over thirty-five years. Wiescamp knows horses. In the early 1930's he raised and sold polo ponies, hunters, jumpers, and cavalry horses that were a Quarter type out of Thoroughbred mares. Then he purchased Nick Shoemaker. By crossing his Thoroughbred mares on this new Quarter Horse sire, he was able to produce the qualities in his horses that fitted his requirements. Times have not changed too much today. His horses still have a lot of Thoroughbred blood and a good Quarter Horse conformation, but wisely he has maintained the integrity of the breed. Although Wiescamp breeds uniformity, he also breeds color. He has said many times, "I don't want a horse without color. An old man told me one time--who was very successful in the horse business--the first thing you have to do to sell a man a horse is to get him to stop and look. If he doesn't have anything to look at, he won't stop.... I like a yellow (palomino) horse, a buckskin or a sorrel horse with a lot of white on him. The last color I want is brown. I want a horse with refinement--but he has to have color." Skip Hi has the refinement, the color, and the blood. He was sired by a blaze-faced, stocking-legged, sorrel Quarter Horse, Skipper's Las (AQHA 36,881), by Skipper W. by Nick Shoemaker. His dam was Miss Helen by Plaudit (AQHA 1,657). Skipper's Lad is a horse of considerable merit who has many get and grand get that are AQHA champions. He is now gaining a reputation as an excellent Paint Horse sire. Wiescamp followed his outcrossing philosophy to good Thoroughbred blood when he bred Skip Hi's mother, Sky Hi, to Skipper's Lad. Sky Hi is a sorrel tobiano mare by Advantage, a tight-twisted kind of Thoroughbred with what would be considered a good Quarter Horse conformation. Skip Hi belonged to Larry Wiescamp, Alamosa, at the time he was registered in the old American Paint Stock Horse Association in 1962. As a colt on the ranch he was carefully handled, broken to ride, given some working education, and, when he grew older, used in the stud. About the time his second crop of colts were on the ground, the great upward surge in Paint Horse popularity was felt, and horse-conscious people from far and wide went to Alamosa for horses bearing the Sip Hi name. Somewhere down the line Skip Hi's reputation as an excellent sire reached the ears of Terry and Karen Overmyer, Elmore, Ohio. They did some horse-trading business and made themselves the owners of one of the best Paint Horses to come out of Colorado. While residing at the Ja-Le Stables, Skip Hi was used in the stud and with great success for the Overmyers, who reported 90 per cent colored colts out of sorrel mares. Sometime in late 1969, when Skip Hi was ten years old, he was sold to Jo-An Soso, Live Oak, California. She used him the following spring to service the Overo Acres mares, and, when her operations were dispersed, Skip Hi was purchased June, 1970, by his present owner, Lynn Henry, Montgomery Creek, California. Lynn Henry and his wife, Christine, live in northern California on a beautiful mountain ranch of 160 acres. He is president of a bank in nearby Burney by vocation but breeder of fine Paint Horses by avocation. Born and raised in Loup City, Nebraska, surrounded by livestock people, Henry has had close association with horses all his life. From the time he was seven years old, he has always owned a horse. He was riding bucking horses at fourteen and said, "I ode very few gentle ones until about 10 years ago when I quit as a result of back surgery." His surgery was quite serious, and he was told that he would never walk again. After proving the doctors wrong, he began riding horses once more and raising a few Quarter Horses. He says that he was never quite satisfied with the results and began looking at Paints. He was impressed by the stallion Skip Hi, which he considered to be the finest-looking horse he had ever seen. Skip Hi stands just over fifteen hands, weighs about eleven hundred pounds, is well muscled, and carries a fine, clean head. Henry has found Skip to be a perfect gentleman, although he had the reputation around Sacramento of being vicious. At the time he bought Skip, Henry was told not to try to ride him. Being a bronc rider who had bucked out many young colts in his earlier years, he saddled him right away. Henry said, "He acted a little silly for about two minutes but then he settled down and hasn't acted up again." To prove to the people around Sacramento that Skip Hi could be easily handled, Henry spent some time teaching him the leads and then entered him in a pleasure class at one of the shows. Skip went perfectly, but Henry confessed that he made a few mistakes. "He likes people," said Henry, "and will do anything asked of him, quietly and efficiently, but he prefers not to have any affection. If he thinks he is going to be petted he will take a step or two away if he can do it politely. If not he will tolerate it." Skip Hi does not have a performance record. Since formation of the APHA Performance Department he has been used in the stud. He had won a few points in halter and reining in Ohio, but they were won in the early days of the Association. The mark of any good stallion is his prepotency as a sire, and Skip Hi has shown through his get that he is indeed a sire. At the time Henry bought Skip, he had only one Paint mare and two Quarter-bred mares. During 1971 he added to his breeding stock and now owns daughters of Lucky Blanton (who foaled to Skip Hi in the spring of 1972), Texas Dandy, Legal Advice, Wilsons Yellow Dunn, and Topper. He also has a granddaughter of Rowdy, two double granddaughters of Sugar Bars and two daughters of Glennbarred, all registered Quarter Horses. Jo-An Soso bred twenty to twenty-five mares to Skip Hi in 1970, and so in 1971 a good number of extremely fine colts were foaled in central California. Some idea of Skip Hi's success as a sire can be gained by reviewing the history of one stallion he sired, Skippa Streak. The life story of this APHA and National Champion is told in Chapter 30. Other of Skip Hi's better-known sons are Skip's Lad, Skippa Rope, Skipover, Skip-A-Dollar, and Butch Cassidy Hi. Most folds in Colorado would say that Skip's Lad was as good a progenitor of Paint Horses as his sire. He was responsible for Skip's Dude, Skip's Wonder, Skippa Hank, Skip Cash, Skip's Pride, Skiparado, and Skip Mount. Skipolator, a 1967 sorrel tobiano mare owned by Kenneth Crull, Jr., Monticello, Indiana, was the second of Skip Hi's get to become an APHA Champion (Skippa Streak was the first). She was the High Point Reining, Western Pleasure, and Trail Horse in both Indiana and Michigan in 1970 and is a magnificent performer in all events. Skippa Rope, owned by Karl and Sandy Spielmann, Wray, Colorado, is a versatile 1968 stallion. After a couple of years of performance, which was of the highest level, in 1973 he became APHA Champion No. 267. Skip-A-Dollar, a palomino tobiano from Tacoma, Washington, was one of the Pacific Northwest's best stallions. He was the High Point Halter and All-around Champion Horse of the Washington Paint Horse Club in 1969. Skipover is one other high-point Paint Horse that earned a Register of Merit in western pleasure. In 1968 he received the High Point Performance Stallion award from the Rocky Mountain Paint Horse Club. Most of Skip Hi's daughters that are in the stud are wonderful breeders. The influence of these high-quality mares on Paint Horse pedigrees has been a continuous benefit. Some of his best producers are Skip Lady, Skip Along, Skip O'Gold, Skip After, Skip Away, Skip Shi, Skip's Flash, Skip Satin, and Skipity. Skip Lady's contributions as a broodmare cannot be ignored because of foals like Skiparado, Skip's Pride, and Skip Again, among others. Skip Again, her 1966 foal by Skip Hi, is a sorrel tobiano mare bred, raised, and shown by Larry Wiescamp. By 1971 she was Register of Merit in western pleasure, an APHA Champion, and a National Champion at halter. Judged in the light of his breeding, individuality, and sire record, Skip Hi is surely one of the greatest stallions of the Paint Horse breed. His get have made him a Leading Sire of Register of Merit Qualifiers., Halter Point Earners, and Performance Point Earners for seven straight years; and from all indications their performance will keep him high on the lists for many years to come. Unquestionably the Paint Horse is richer for his influence. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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