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| s: Poplar Lanes Sampson |
Buckskin |
| d: Johnstons Vanilla |
1978 - 2011 |
| AMHA registered foals per January 1, 2011: 384 |
h: 30.5" - 77.5 cm |
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Early April 2008, 2 months before his 30th birthday, I visited his home at Little King Farm and met him in person: Boones Little Buckeroo. I wanted to experience the special attraction this living legend seemed to have.
I can tell you: He was one of a kind, even at 30 years old. I took some pictures, while he was shown to me by Robin Mingione-Eberth, but I decided not to publish them, as the official pictures will do him more justice.
Boones Little Buckeroo was a maternal grandson of Gold Melody Boy. Being a member of this most wanted bloodline in the miniature horse world alone, would have developed a demand for him as a herd sire. However, the fact that he created his own dynasty is due to his unique personality and presence. And most of all: his ability to pass this on to his offspring, generation after generation!
Boones Little Buckeroo passed away on May 10, 2011, just a few days before turning 33 years of age.
Most of Buckeroo's offspring retains the beautiful head, large eyes, the upright neck, level top line and the "look at me" attitude. Buckeroo 's get and grand-get won innumerable World Grands, Reserve World Grands, World Champions and Top Ten Awards in halter and performance over the years in AMHA and AMHR Nationals.
Buckeroo and most of his sons have been very successful sires in crosses with Gold Melody, Komokos Little King Supreme and Komokos Little Hussler descendants. Other successful crosses were with FWF Blue Boy- and Rowdy-daughters and daughters of some of the Bond stallions.
There is no question about it: He is the most well-known miniature stallion in the world today. It is due to both his prepotency and his exposure to a large number of quality broodmares that made Boones Little Buckeroo an icon of the American Miniature horse world.
Although Boones Little Buckeroo would have made it big time anyway, it is fair to say that the expertise of Marianne Eberth, both in breeding and in marketing, strongly has contributed to his stardom.
Boones Little Buckeroo has 384 foals registered with AMHA of which 50.3% stallions and 49.2% mares. 0.5% of the horses went into the records as geldings. Buckeroo measuring 30.5" (77.5 cm) produced adult AMHA-registered offspring averaging 31.7" (80.3 cm). Even in the last year of his life Buckeroo-babies have been born!
Boone Little Buckeroo produced 30 different colors of the AMHA 80-color range. As a solid buckskin, he produced 26.63% buckskins (either solid or pinto). Of all the colors he threw 81.5% were solid and 7.8% pintos .
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