The ranch for Lazy M Horses, is located in Willcox, Arizona, where our horses live and grow, in the near perfect climate, of southern Arizona.
We raise Hancock, Hancock-Driftwood, and Skipper W horses, with a Leo bred homozygous paint and a Dash for Cash running quarter stallion, added to the mix.
Our breeding program is based on the principles that horses must have good conformation, be athletic, even tempered, and whenever possible, have color. Living on the range, as they do, they learn to adapt to variables of terrain, find various locations for water, socialize with an entire herd, as well as be good in the round pen and arena.
It was very sad this year, when we lost our lead stallion, Hancocks War Chief, as he had actually been born and bred in our program, back in 1996. He was like part of the family. Thankfully, we have several of his daughters and sons still on the ranch. Junior (his nickname) also successfully settled about ten mares in the spring of 2011, and we will be able to raise some of them.
Our next stallion, Sierra Nike QT, is a homozygous, tobiano paint, and goes back to Leo six times. We got a full foal crop from him this year, and are very happy with the results. He crosses very well on our Hancock and Hancock-Driftwood mares. Nick is also very gentle, easy to be around and provides Vicki with a dependable ride. He is 15.1 and weighs 1100 lbs
To oblige the can chasers, and match racers, we stand Number One Jaimie, who is a grandson of Dash for Cash, and by, the now deceased, One Slick One, who was bred by the Allreds of Mesa, AZ. His dam was Jaimie Jay, the world champion running mare of 1982. When bred to our stout and strong Hancock mares, he produces some very fast colts and fillies. Jaimie stands 16 hands at the withers, and weighs 1200 lbs.
Vicki has a penchant for Skipper W horses, and also has a line bred Skipper W stallion, named Skip N Staints, who she breeds to her numerous, palomino, Skipper W mares, and gets gorgeous foals. Uno, as we call him, has shown to be an excellent breeder, and although seal brown himself, seems to put color on most of his get.
We added two very nice, 2010, stallion prospects this year.
The first, is a homozygous blue roan, (EEaa), from the Broken Bones ranch in Lander, Wyoming. This colt goes back to Hancocks Blue Boy and Rowdy Blue Man twice each, as well as having Leo Hancock Hayes and the performance horse, Pede Boy Hancock for grand sires.
The second is a bay roan, we got from Tony and Kathy Monnens, from Hazel, SD. This little guy is heavily bred Driftwood and Hancock, his conformation is near perfect, and he is extremely athletic. “Drifty”, as we call him, should fit perfectly into our program.
Our plan is to ride both of these colts, starting this year, as two year olds. Lots of hope for how they will develop and improve our program!!!!
We always have horses for sale, ranging from this years weanlings, two year olds, to several 3 year old geldings and a few mares.