Billadeau Quarter Horses
Ryder, North Dakota &
Wickenburg, Arizona
701-898-1448
INCENTIVES: 5 States, Gold Buckle Breeders Incentive, Homegrown Classic, Nexus, Riata, Royal Crown
Billadeau Quarter Horses moves their entire program to Arizona each winter from North Dakota, including, for instance, mares boasting the bloodlines of Dash For Cash, Easy Jet, Freckles Playboy and Peptoboonsmal, plus a pair of stallions by $11 million reined cow horse Hall-of-Famer Shining Spark.
“We really love the Shining Spark horses,” Layne Billadeau said. “They are very trainable. They put substance and a good mind in our foals.”
The Billadeau family has spent two decades developing Billadeau Quarter Horses as a source for outstanding all-around prospects by crossing cow-bred studs on race-bred mares. They’ve combined powerful genetics in their palomino stud out of an own daughter of Doc O’Lena, plus their young buckskin stud out of athletic uber-producer Metallic Cat.
Shiners Suduko is a finished heel horse and money-winner on the reining pattern out of Doc’s Sulena, by Doc O’Lena out of a Rey Jay daughter. Suduko’s babies have already proven themselves in the roping pen, from Shiny Coyote to Shiney Little Rio, on which Wyatt Imus made the short round at the 2025 ARHFA World Heading Pre-Futurity.
That horse’s full brother, Shiny Lil Peso, was a 2024 Platinum Medal Heading Futurity reserve champ that Sterlin English rode last year to earn $11,370 at the USTRC Finals and $86,000 as the champion header at September’s Riata #12.5 Championships, plus $23,000 for placing in the 14.5. Just before December’s NFR, Shiny Lil Peso was 2025’s second-highest-earning horse in all of team roping.
“He was such a sensible horse,” said NFR header Britt Williams, who trains Billadeaus’ prospects. “He was good in the box and wanted to go to the cow with no cheat–just a good, honest kind of horse.”
This year, Williams will show Shiny Lil Ike in heading futurities (she won a heeling futurity last year as a 4-year-old), and he’s excited about his handful of other Shining Suduko futurity horses. Plus, he can’t say enough about the best colt he says he’s ever ridden–Billadeaus’ new 3-year-old stud Diceman.
“I feel lucky to get an opportunity to ride a horse like him,” said Williams, who turned steers for Bob Harris at the Hall-of-Famer’s final NFR in 2010. “He looks like a big-time futurity horse already—he’s more mature in body and mind than any 3-year-old I’ve ever started.”
Diceman is out of Carrera Cat—the Metallic Cat daughter that won an AQHA Superior in Heeling for Brad Lund. In 2023, a Carrera Cat yearling filly sold for $180,000 as a yearling at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sale.
“Ty Smith lined it up for us to get this young stallion, and he’s really something special,” said Billadeau. “He’s one of the prettiest buckskins you’ve ever seen and the most athletic. From the first steer he ran, he looked like he’d been doing it for years.”
