The Red Roan Stallion Roanmeo is a well -known face in the final at the events of the Major National Rineed Cow Horse Association (NRCHA). And in Fort Worth, Texas, he achieved the greatest victory of his career in the Tres Osos Cow Horse Derby at the NRCHA Celebration of Champions.
With Equistat Elite 3 million US dollar driver Justin Wright on board, the stallion marked a winning composite of 664 (220.5 herd/218.5 pure/225 cow), if Rogers Memorial Center was completed on Wednesday, February 26.
The victory achieved a first check of $ 55,000 for the owner SC Ranch Co Inc. from Paauilo, Hawaii.
Roanmeo had a lot of competition in Fort Worth. The Derby Open Division had 218 horses in the draw and offered a total of 293,500 US dollars.
“To be able to run this kind of money is incredible for our sport,” said Wright. “And if you grow this derby over the years and what it has developed, it's really good.”
Roanmeo's composite of 664 was 3.5 points for the well -being of the Open Reserve Champions Venom Boonsmal and Sarah Dawson. The equistat elite 2 million US dollars and the 2024 NRCHA Hackamore Classic Champion (Peptoboonsmal XA Black Witow X High -Stadel cat) marked a composite from 662.5 (219 herd/220.5 pure/223 cow). They earned $ 41,000 for the owner break Aaron Ranch.
Make noises in cow horse -derbies
Roanmeo won as a 3-year money and earned the Open Co Reserve Championship at the Futurity of the California Rined Cow Horse Association (CRCA) and in this year's Futurity of the National Stock Horse Association. He took part in the NRCHA -Snaffle -Bit -Futurity, but things didn't go in his way and he did not reach the open finale.
“I can't even remember what happened. I think I had a cow on the fence or something,” said Wright. “[He] I was just unlucky, but he always wanted to be a show horse. “
The best success of the horse came in his derby years.
As a 4-year-old in 2023, Roanmeo won the Derby Open at the Paso Robles Spring Classic and finished third in the class of the NSHA Futurity Show. He also fifth in the Derby Open at Crcha Futurity and Reno Snaffle Bit Futurity.
This year, of course, he started his 5-year derby year with a victory in the TRESOS OSOS Cow Horse Derby.
Over the years, Roanmeo Wright showed that he has a lot of grit. Of the three events in the Rinded Cow Horse, the sporty stallion has always emerged in its fence.
“I recently said to someone there that it is something special to have this confidence in the fence because they know that they can mark a enormous number of points for you,” he said. “He has a lot of run, he is really robust and he just doesn't have the feeling that a cow comes away from you.”
From an elite cutting family of horse cuts
Although he is characterized in a rusty cow horse, Roanmeo comes from a family of tailors. His father Hottish is an equistat elite of 19 million US dollars and national Summer Spectacular Derby Open Champion Hottish. His dam also has deep cuts.
Roanmeo, bred by Katherine Goodfriend, is one of two money earners with his dam, which has mare trouble n Roan (from Metallic Cat) on her equistat product record. Your other earner is Roanmeo's full siblings Kats Comin N Scorching, a mare 2020 that has won more than 19,011 US dollars when cutting.
His second dam, Dainty Playgirl (from Freckles Playboy), won the National Cuth Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity Open in 1998 and is the dam of the winner of more than 740,718 US dollars.
Roanmeo's future
Wright said the future of the Roanmeo was with his owners Charles and Vanessa Stevens. The couple even competes on pure cow horses and also breed horses.
“We will go with him all year round and just play it after ear. I know that you have a petite brood tape last year, and you will be bred for a few mares and will continue this year,” said Wright, noticing that the horse is robust, fit, fit and hopefully a bridal horse one day. “And we will just see how it is characterized and how far they want to go, but I think he's a horse that will be there for a while.”
