Cheyenne Frontier Days team roping short round horses

Pedigrees

Horsepower of The Daddy 2023: Pedigrees of Every Horse in Rodeo’s Most Cowboy Setup’s Top 12

Yes, the draw is STACKED for the Cheyenne Frontier Days' Finals. But so is the horsepower.

The 2023 Cheyenne Frontier Days team roping short round is jam-packed with top head and heel horses, as well as some up-and-coming talent by top stallions in the industry.

The horses in the Cheyenne Frontier Days team roping short round range from 4 (the heel horse ridden by Edgar Villegas to 15 (the heel horse ridden by Ross Ashford), and as you may have guessed, there’s lots of run on the head-horse side of the game. Plus, there’s plenty of little-known or grade horses mixed in. Here’s a full, team-by-team pedigree breakdown in the order in which they’ll rope today.

Bubba Buckaloo and JR Gonzales

HEAD HORSE: Brooks Feature

Note: This horse has $5,250 won in AQHA racing, with one win and two seconds and a speed index of 88.

HEEL HORSE: ASAP

Note: 10-year-old grade gelding bought by JR’s dad as a $1,200 yearling in Laredo, Texas.

Matt Sherwood and Dylin Ahlstrom

HEAD HORSE: Rockets Rose

Note: This mare—who Sherwood calls “Bay Mare” is a maternal half-sister to his world-champion mount Nickolas, and Sherwood sold her to Kaleb Driggers in 2022. Sherwood bought her back after winning the Ariat World Series of Team Roping’s Title Fights as he decided to go back to the head side.

HEEL HORSE: Desert Jack Rabbit

Edgar Antonio Aguilar and Edgar Villegas

HEAD HORSE: Big Foot

NOTE: A palomino gelding, 11-year-old Big Foot is grade.

HEEL HORSE: Time To Smoke NB

Note: This is the youngest horse in the 2023 CFD Short-Round field, ridden by the youngest heeler in the Finals, too.

Corben Duane Culley and Blayne Horne

HEAD HORSE: JK Son Of Skippy

HEEL HORSE: Jaxs High Brow Cat

Jaxs High Brow Cat Blayne Horne Heel Horse

JR Dees and Ross Ashford

HEAD HORSE: Famous Dillon

HEEL HORSE: Mr JB 0839

Remix MR JB 0839 Ross Ashford Heel Horse

Mitch Barney and J.W. Nelson

HEAD HORSE: SeenMyShareOfFlit

Note: This is a paternal sibling to JR Dees Famous Dillon, who’s also in the CFD Finals. He’s the youngest head horse in the mix.

SeenMyShareOfFlit Mitch Barney Head Horse by Lions Share Of Fame

HEEL HORSE: MC HickoryWithStyle

MC HickoryWithStyle by Hickory Holly Time

Billy Bob Brown and Kirby Blankenship

HEAD HORSE: Going Where Its Hot

Note: This horse is a maternal sibling to the Relentless Remuda’s Uno Joe 017, who Kaleb Driggers bought after the horse won $14,000 in limited futurity appearances and is now under the ownership of Shane Boston and ridden by Billie Jack Saebens. He’s also the maternal sibling to Jackie Crawford’s Gypsy Roulette, who Crawford rodeoed on her in 2022, and who Blaine Cox shows in AQHA competition now.