Was about to suggest him! A friend of mine bought a mare by him and she is a salty barrel horse. I have saw others by him as well that look pretty darn promising.

I am really in love with my Hired Gun yearling stud colt.  Hired Gun is about 15hh, our mare is 14.3, and we expect our colt to be right about that size range.  He's a spit fire though.

I also really like Sixes Sixgun as a stud I've personally been around.  I've never met a quieter, nicer stallion.  My friend's 11 year old daughter was riding him around at a team roping the first time I saw him.  He was at Crofoot Ranch and was sucessfully campaigned...he's now in Kansas--currently being stood at Kansas State University.  Stud fee is a very reasonable $1000.  BUT...he is NOT tall. 

Does he qualify as a junior stallion? ;)

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't consider Third Cutting a junior stallion either .... but wth do I know. 

That and his stud fee is like 15K soooo LOL 

2019 fee is 10K.

Metallic Malice all day long!

Wounder why they all went down. Even third cutting was early booking of 1000 for a while I saw.

I don't check this year's prior to posting. It was posted 15 last year. At any rate its still quote a bit above the ops budget lol. 

Vegas Resort

He has a new owner as of about a week ago I believe.  

I'll admit Mamas Duel N at Boon (Dual Rey x  Mh Bodees Starlena, by Bodee Boonsmal, earner of $343k) has caught me eye and kept it lol I drool any time they post videos of him on FB. They've been doing tie-down on him and he's pretty quiet from what I've seen posted. I believe this year is his first foal crop. 2019 fee is $1000 including 1st chute/shipment. GBED carrier. I also really like the breeding on Shining Cat (Shining Spark x High Brow Cat), $500 fee plus chute. Herda Carrier. He has a full brother that I really liked, but he was exported to Brazil lol If you haven't tested your mare for the 5 panel yet, I'd do so before breeding. My mare is n/n so thats why these boys made it to my list. Also love Metallic Malice, but he's moved out of the price range.

I like Sixes Pick, and his son Guthrie City Limits looks a lot like him. The Four Sixes also has Wagon Stake who looks like a nice older stallion. Try the stallion registry directory, they have a wonderful variety to choose from. Some I saved for the future included CR Highlight (High Brow Cat x Grays Starlight), Lenas Sugar Prince (Lenas Sugarman x Smart Chic Olena), This Guns for Nic (Nic It in the Bud x Katie Gun by John Gun), Hes Wright On (Lenas Wright On x Reminic), Roosters Wrangler (Gallo Del Cielo x Freckles Hustler), Steppin on Sparks (Jacs Electric Spark x Wimpys Little Step), and Gotta Gold Chain (Jacs Electric Spark x Nu Chex to Cash). I don't mind the cross of reining on cow. I'm a sucker for a horse that can handle reined cowhorse, so that might be why lol. My mare I have in foal right now is very quiet but can get a little hot and I usually refer to her as cowhorse bred because her sire produced more reined cowhorse than anything else, and her bottom half is ranching with a sprinkle of racing lol She's in foal to a foundation bred stallion. I have a Playgun granddaughter who is "cutting bred" and she's on the hot side. Most the studs I mentioned probably won't have a lot of progeny owned by the forum here, so it might take a little more research to find out traits. I will say I've seen some exceptional horses out of the Shining Spark, High Brow Cat and Nic It in the Bud bloodlines in the barrel pen if that's what you're leaning towards.

Smokin N Vegas is a beautiful, well-bred (out of Pearl), tiedown stallion. See attached video link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIXCDTy79k

For sure, and I thought it was higher as well (until I checked). I thought also that his fee was going to increase due to him being purchased at a record price by his current owner. 

If I were going to cross on a cowhorse stud.  I'd make sure that it is one that is already a proven crossover option.  Paddys Irish Whiskey and Sixes pick are probably the only 2 I'd dare try.  

Yes he does! Shane Wells. He’s a good guy and he raises really nice horses. 

Vegas Resort, Bay roan Stallion. Stud fee 1,000 including Chute and first shipment.. 

Here he is with his new owners, Shane and Monica Wells..

I am breeding my running mate to TR Dual Rey this year. Third cutting was on my top 4 list (I was bidding on a scholarship auction)...I got my breeding at a good price, but the chute chutes fee is pretty high.

Look at Thomas e. Hughes, he is my plan for my next one!

Lots of great recomendations already. I will add my friend has a couple coming from Davis Ranch studs this spring including this one- http://www.davisranch-d.com/html/stallions/magneticat.html

She said they were super easy to work with which really matters when shipping. She said they gave her a dscount too.

I have a daughter of Nemolena (Peptoboonsmall X Marcellena) https://www.dlrranch.com/stallions.html He stands for just their farm fee. She's pretty short but solid and she is an absolute machine. Lots of feel and speed. I'd take ten more of her if I could.

A lot of the Cat Ichi's have more size and bone to them than most cowhorses and the daughters I have been around have plenty of speed.

I mention this horse pretty much every time cowbred studs come up, but I really like Ranger Cookie. He's a son of Playgun, has earned a boatload of AQHA performance points himself, and is out of a mare that also has a ton of AQHA points. My boyfriend's rope horse is a Ranger Cookie son, and we have been incredibly impressed with him.

Ranger Cookie Facebook Page

PG Dry Fire, Hired Gun, and Metallic Malice are all very nice too!

This is Ranger Cookie:

Ohhh yeaaaahhhh!!!!!!, nice nice nice and the bloodlines hes got are awesome...

I bred my very fast, very race bred mare to Fiestas Gotta Gun.