Fly Skip Fly, a chestnut tobiano stallion owned by APHA's past president, John and wife Anita Hertner, also out of an AQHA mare was another of Rope's get we were extremely proud of. He became a superior in halter and a superior All-Around and produced 115 get. "Fly" earned 316 total points with 52 in halter.
A local ranchhand from Last Chance, Colorado, (who's name now escapes me) wanted to breed his unregistered sorrel quarter type mare to Skippa Rope. We decided to go colt for colt, he would get the first colt and we would get the second. The mare had a sabino colt for him and the next year had a tobiano filly I named Roper's Calcutta, for us. I traded the filly to Dad, Arlin Messler, for a horse trailer he was letting us use. He in turn sold her. Roper's Calcutta became APHA's National Champion Working Cowhorse 2 years in a row. She produced, among others, Bonnie Smoke, the Number One National Reining Cowhorse Association's All Time Leading Producer. Five of her foals together have earned $130,097 along with numerous Cowhorse, Cutting, Hackamore and Reining Futurities and Championships.
Spicy Sullivan, AQHA Appendix mare at 2 years old. Dam of Roper's Sullivan. Roper's Sullivan APHA 24,800 at 3 years of age - APHA Champion. Wayne Schomaker and Heath Bar None, APHA Champion, Superior Halter (sire of Ropers Reflection) Ropes Impressor (dam of Ropers Reflection) Ropers Reflection and Sandy Messler
Photos of Silky Sullivan and Son Of Silky
A quarter horse and thoroughbred breeder in our area, the family of James "Sonny" and Carol Keen wanted to breed some mares to Rope. We made a trade of three stud fees for a pick of a young mare out of his band of AQHA and TB mares. I picked a 2 year old appendix AQHA mare, Spicy Sullivan. She was a well put together 15.2 hand bay mare with a blaze face. Bred to Skippa Rope she produced Roper's Sullivan which we later sold to Dean and Linda Norman of Lander,Wyoming. Roper's Sullivan was a sabino stallion that became an APHA Champion with a total of 133 points. He sired 43 registered APHA colts. One of these, Sullivans Heathen earned 91 halter and 426 performance points and has sired 134 registered colts.
Through the years I married and divorced twice and now have reclaimed my maiden name. It probably appeared that Skippa Rope sold several times but he never did. He was always mine. I learned to team rope because I wanted to put cattle points on him but did not want anyone else to ride him. Ok, so call me selfish - I can live with that where Rope is concerned.
I went to college a little later in life (hay was expensive - I needed a better job). I faded out of the horse business for some years but always kept Rope and a couple of others. When Rope was 24 he had an impaction and I lost him. That spring I took a tobiano granddaughter of his and bred her to a sabino great-grandson of his - Heath Bar None (by Sullivans Heathen) owned by Wayne and Nancy Schomaker. I had the same color combination going as the first time when we bred the sabino mare Baby Doll McCue to the tobiano Skip Hi that produced Skippa Rope - plus Spicy Sullivan was on both sides of the pedigree. With this combination Ropers Reflection was produced - the stallion I am now standing. "Flec" is marked almost like Baby Doll McCue - way back where it all started.
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