SBT Superior Bluesky
2017 Blue Roan Stallion AQHA #5849020
15.2h 5-panel N/N
Blue Valentine anyone?
“Joe” is a solid horse with a very kind disposition. If you are into Blue Valentine or Hancock bloodlines this stud is one to keep your eye on!
Joe is homozygous black (E/E) and roan (Rn/Rn), so lots of blue and bay roans are on order with his offspring.
Given his build, disposition and proven lineage he should produce excellent working horses with color and good minds.
SBT Superior Bluesky capably adds the popular Blue Valentine heritage to Linwood Ranch’s breeding program. SBT Superior Bluesky aka “Joe” goes back to Blue Valentine 6 times!
In 2007, Western Horseman listed Blue Valentine as their #7 Ranch Horse bloodline, describing his offspring as athletic, attentive, surefooted and smart. Many are sold as ranch and rodeo horses. Here’s what the Fence Post had to say about the Blue Valentines in 2012:
The foundation for the modern Quarter Horse is built on names like Joe Hancock, Blue Valentine, (and) Driftwood. Many Quarter Horses perform equally well in the performance arena and on the ranch. An outstanding example of this blend of arena and working horse was the legendary Blue Valentine.
Blue Valentine was a blue roan stallion foaled in 1956 by the legendary Red Man and out of Beautys Dream. Red Man was a well-known sire of top ranch mounts throughout the Arizona cattle country, and was a son of Joe Hancock. Like his sire and grand sire, Blue Valentine had speed, good bone, gentle disposition, longevity and cow sense. He also had strong genes and passed his favorable traits on to 210 AQHA registered foals. Blue Valentine richly deserves his place as one of the great foundation ranch and performance sires. In recognition of this remarkable horse the AQHA plans to induct Blue Valentine into its Hall of Fame.
As Chip Merritt of Merritt Quarter Horse Ranch outside Windsor, Colorado puts it, the Blue Valentines and Hancocks “are not only good rodeo horses, but you can do most anything on them: ranch work, ranch rodeo, trail riding, pleasure, barrel racing and speed events.”
Sam Shoultz of KeSa Quarter Horses adds, “You can almost be certain that if you have a Blue Valentine bred horse, he will have a lot of ability, but he won’t have a lot of attitude. You can breed him to mares of the same breeding or to mares of different lineages and you still get the same type of personality. He had a very strong genetic stamp that he passed on.”
The best-known horse on SBT Superior Bluesky’s papers is likely Rowdy Blue Man. Rowdy Blue Man was a line-bred blue roan son of Blue Valentine out of a Blue Valentine granddaughter. Used almost exclusively for pasture breeding, Rowdy Blue Man sired 267 registered foals in 22 foal crops, including 11 performing foals and many, many more working horses.
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