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Douglas, Wyoming, May 22, 2024 — Wagonhound Land & Livestock (Wagonhound) announced today that their junior stallion, Fiddle And Steel is fully booked for the 2024 breeding season.

Fiddle And Steel boasts an impressive career as a performer with lifetime earnings of $203,508, having earned titles such as NCHA Non-Pro Horse of the Year, NCHA Non-Pro Futurity Champion, NCHA Super Stakes Non-Pro Derby Champion, Breeders Invitational Non-Pro Derby Champion, and Cattlemens Non-Pro Derby Champion. As his career as a sire is just beginning, his foals are already proving to be exceptional, and great things are expected from this young stallion.

General Manager Dustin Ewing commented that Wagonhound extends their sincere thanks to all the breeders who have chosen Fiddle And Steel for their breeding programs, “We are thrilled that his pedigree, performance and conformation have captured the attention of breeders nationwide over the past two years.”

Not wanting anyone to miss the opportunity to breed to Fiddle And Steel Ewing added, “For those who missed out on a breeding slot for 2024, we have an exciting opportunity for breeders. They can call the Four Sixes Ranch at (806) 596-4424 to get on the list for 2025 before June 30th, securing a breeding locked in at the 2024 breeding fee.”

Wagonhound is fully invested in Fiddle And Steel’s future and has made his foals eligible for more than ten lucrative incentives, providing them with numerous opportunities to excel and compete when they come of age. These incentives include:

  • Breeders Invitational
  • NCHA Super Stakes
  • NRCHA Stallion Stakes
  • PCCHA Stallion Stakes
  • Ruby Buckle
  • Future Fortunes
  • South Dakota RCHA Stakes
  • Royal Crown Roping
  • Gold Buckle Futurities
  • Riata Buckle

Thank you once again to all the breeders for your support and trust in Fiddle And Steel. We look forward to seeing the extraordinary foals that will come from this outstanding stallion.

More about Fiddle And Steel

Fiddle And Steel is a 2017 red roan stallion. His first foals are now yearlings. Sired by HIGH BROW CAT’s #1 Money Earner METALLIC CAT ($637,711), an NCHA and NRCHA Leading Sire whose foals have earned more than $69,700,000. His dam is AQHA Reserve World Champion Senior Cutting Horse LIL BIT RECKLESS, the earner of $231,124, a 2021 NCHA Top 15 Dam of Cutting Money-Earners and South Point Open Derby Co-Reserve Champion. She is a full or half-sister to the earners of more than $780,000, including JUST AS RECKLESS ($188,399: Breeders Invitational Non-Pro Derby Reserve Champion, PCCHA Spring Open Derby Champion, El Rancho Open Derby Reserve Champion; the dam of I RECKON SO $125,305: NCHA Non-Pro Futurity Co-Champion). Fiddle And Steel is a half-brother to SUGARLESSS ($162,124: 2022 PCCHA Non-Pro Classic Champion; NCHA Super Stakes 5-Year-Old Special Open Reserve Champion; NCHA Super Stakes 5-Year-Old Special Intermediate Non-Pro Reserve Champion; NCHA Open Futurity semi-finalist).

More about Wagonhound Land & Livestock

Wagonhound Land and Livestock is a working ranch spanning 300,000 acres, raising some of the country’s top American Quarter Horses and Red Angus cattle. Headquartered 20 miles south of Douglas, Wyoming, the ranch is mostly contiguous to the Laramie Range of the Rocky Mountains in east-central Wyoming.

An American Quarter Horse Remuda Award Winner, Wagonhound is home to Catherine and Art Nicholas. The strong, well-proven quarter horse pedigrees within their breeding program routinely produce ranch and performance horses with the ability and talent to compete successfully in the most prestigious cutting, reining, reined cow horse and ranch competitions. Their senior stallion is WR This Cats Smart, a leading sire of cutting and reined cow horses with performers earning more than $18,500,000.

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For more information, please contact:

Wagonhound Land & Livestock
Dustin Ewing
(307) 358-7020

Four Sixes Ranch
Dr. Nathan Canaday
(806) 596-4424