INCENTIVES: Riata, Royal Crown Roping, HPI (Pitzer Ranch Horse Invitational)

Probably A Shiner’s versatility is proven in the fact that he’s a world-champion switch-ender. 

Four years ago, the stud with the unique dapple buckskin coat won the Royal Crown heeling futurity with J.D. Yates at the reins—the same year he won both the AQHA Junior Heading and Junior Heeling at the World Show for $27,184. 

The stallion’s broodmare sire, With All Probability, nearly did the same thing in 2005, winning the heading and a reserve championship in heeling under Kory Koontz to become that year’s Superhorse—also the winningest performance stallion in AQHA history.

 Raised by Iowa’s Rolling V Performance Horses, the 15.1-hand Probably A Shiner is a third-generation rope horse, but also earned AQHA points in tie-down roping and working cow horse, plus halter. He’s by another AQHA World Champion Senior Heel Horse—Smart Nu Shiner, now standing in Brazil.

“He’s been so easy to show,” said owner Mike Van Egdom. “I owned his mother and his father, and he’s had a nice temperament from the day he hit the ground.” 

Probably A Shiner sired heeling futurity champion Probably Smart N Nu that Daniel Reed rode to win a go-round of last fall’s ARHFA World Championships with a score of 234.64.