IMA Firefighter Homepage



2010 fee: $950 ~ Early Booking: $750 Proven/Multiple Mare Discount	We are so excited to be offering you a chance to breed to this outstanding young stallion. He is a barrel money winner in the 1D and a Mid-States Rodeo Finals qualifier. He is very smooth and collected around the barrels yet he has phenomenal speed and quickness too. He is powerful out of his turns and truly loves running barrels. It is bred into him and will be passed along to his offspring. "Backdraft" is finished in the healing and has been started in the calf-roping. He is amazingly "cowy". He runs hard to cattle, has natural rate when he gets to them, and has a deep stop. Besides arena work, he has been used for calving, dragging calves at brandings and other ranch work and he loves it! He never quits, he just keeps going even after working all day. (see photos and videos) Intelligence, Speed, Quickness, Conformation and "Cow" wrapped up in a Calm, Even-Tempered Stud. If you are looking for an athletic, even tempered, hard working, structurally correct, willing to please stallion, you need to breed to IMA FIREFIGHTER!
	~A DYNAMIC, CHARISMATIC STALLION~

SIRE

FIRE WATER FLIT, si 86

A Proven Barrel Horse and

Sire of:

w NFR Qualifiers,

w World Champions

w 2X WPRA Horse of the Year

w Superior Head Horses

w Progeny Earnings: $3 Million

FLIT BAR

w by Sugar Bars x Flit (Leo Daughter)

w World Champion Barrel Horse

w Sire of WPRA World Champion & Multiple NFR Qualifiers

w World Champion Roping Sire

SLASH J HARLETTA

w World Champion Barrel Horse & NFR Qualifier

w Producer of Futurity/Derby Champions & 3 NFR Qualifiers

w Foals Total Earnings over $500,000

----------------

DAM:

IMA COPPER BUG TOO, si 95

wAAA, Racing Register of Merit

w$100,000+ Running Barrels

wARENA RECORDS in Canada & USA

w3 Canadian Finals Rodeo

Qualifications w/ Rayel Robinson

*Photo is from the '98 Canadian Finals Rodeo

"Ima could flat fly! She was the "terror of the carrot patch" when Rayel had her on the trail. She was known for TREMENDOUS heart and try and would give it all, every time you asked. She was as good a mare running barrels as there ever was! Take care... Grant"

"Ima" is owned by Grant Little www.blueneonranch.com

----------------------

COPPER BUGS si 109

w All American Futurity: 3rd

w LTE $204,000

w By BUGS ALIVE IN 75:

w World Champion

w Top Maternal Barrel

Grandsire!

-JETLARKS JACKIE, si 91

w Granddaughter of EASY JET,

Click Here for pictures/info of Copper Bugs,

Ima Copper Bug Too, and Bugs Alive in 75

Promotional Video: Done as a 4 yr old

Please have volume up for this video!

BARREL VIDEOS: 2008 FUTURITY YEAR and 2009 RUNS

Limited futurity runs due to my pregnancy

WORKING CATTLE VIDEOS

Left Video: Fall 2008 Sorting, Weighing, and Loading Out The Calves. Plus a clip of Kieley on Shortcake & Dad working cattle

Right Video: Spring 2009 Ima Firefighter working during calving. Photos of him moving pairs out and of him pulling a cow out of a big mud hole.

FUTURITY NOMINATIONS

*FUTURE FORTUNES (new for 2010!), Cornhusker, Valley Girls, Bold Heart, Hawki, JJ Classic,

*5-States, WPRA Pro Elite Sires, Triple Crown 100 (Will be paid into when his first foals are closer to futurity age).

* We are also considering these programs: Northern Lights, Canadian Barrel Incentive, MN Lakes, MN Barrel Assoc, Alberta Barrel Assoc... Please let us know which ones you want to see his foals eligible for!

PHOTO GALLERY

Please click on any of the photos below to view them full size! Once they open, just click the back button to return to this page.

PEDIGREE INFORMATION

IMA FIREFIGHTER*	FIRE WATER FLIT (info at top of page)	FLIT BAR*	SUGAR BARS*	THREE BARS* by Percentage

				FRONTERA SUGAR*

			FLIT*	LEO* By Joe Reed II

				JULIE W by Joe Hancock

		SLASH J HARLETTA	HARLAN*	HANK H* by KING

				DIXIE BEACH*

			FROGS ANNETTE	FROG W

				MISS CHEYENNE W

	IMA COPPER BUG TOO (info at top of page)	COPPER BUGS	BUGS ALIVE IN 75 (See info below)	TOP MOON SI 100 Sire of 2 All American Fut. Winners & 4 World Champ By Moon Deck
				RALPHS LADY BUG *Leo bloodlines

			ASSISTOR	TINY CHARGER* by Depth Charge

				JOLLY COPPER

		JETLARKS JACKIE	STACK O JACK tb	JACKSTRAW*

				FLOWING RHYTHM

			JET LARK	EASY JET* by Jet Deck

				JOSIE LARK

Give your foals a powerful hip like this!

Bugs Alive In 75

Bugs Alive In 75 was a World Champion and All American Futurity Winner who also earned his Superior Performance.

He also established himself a a leading broodmare sire: He has been #1 on Maternal Grandsires List numerous times!

He sired World Champion Offspring, Superior Performance Offspring, AQHA Champion Offspring, ROM Performance Offspring, Race ROM Offspring, Race Money-earners, Barrel Racing Money-earners, Halter Point Earners, Performance Point Earners.

Today, Bugs Alive is making the greatest impression with his maternal offspring. His own daughters are older now, and growing scarce, but they are still producing horses of rare quality. Equistat has continually listed Bugs Alive In 75 as the number one leading maternal grandsire of barrel horses over the last 10 years, and there is no other horse even close. And by the way, when you look at the statistics, pay attention to the number of horses reported. If only one or two horses contribute to a high rating, then that winning horse could be a fluke. But Bugs Alive In 75 has hundreds of money winning horses contributing to his rating! That suggests this blood wins when crossed with many different types of mares, and when the horses are ridden by many different riders. Year after year, Bugs Alive In 75 continues to be the leading maternal sire of money winning barrel horses.

Bugs Alive died following colic surgery on December 15, 1985 at the age of 12. He was owned by the late Ralph Shebester, and Tommy Wells of Harrah, Oklahoma, stood him. In an interview with Barrel Horse News, Wells was asked about the traits the stallion passed on to his progeny. "Stamina and willpower," he said. "They're not quitters. Bugs wasn't a quitter. Pain's no problem, they just keep going."

In the barrel arena, Bugs Alive has sired some top money earners, and two (2) were out of the great mare, Slash J Harletta, the dam of Fire Water Flit. One of these was Smakabug, a 1980 model that took Celie Ray and Jimmie Munroe to the WPRA pay window. The other was I Got Bugs, a 1982 gelding that Celie Ray rode all the way to the NFR in 1987 and 1989.

Web Header and Footers designed by Katie Ennis of PaintedPonyDesign.net