No accolade is more prestigious for a team roping horse than a win at the Bob Feist Invitational. And the defending BFI champion head horse perfectly exemplifies the Myers program of combining cow horse and racing blood.
Last fall, Kaleb Driggers, 35, was smart to borrow the Myers-bred Cowboy Sangria, on which he won his second-straight BFI. The sorrel is by Cowboys Cartel out of Smooth Red Wine by A Smooth Guy—Myers’ late sire boasting progeny earnings of $5 million.
The Myers family began producing standout roping and barrel racing horses in 1987 when they picked up Frenchmans Guy as a weanling. Nearly 40 years later, Dakota Kirchenschlager won the silver at the Platinum Medal Futurity and placed fifth at the Riata Pro Futurity on 5-year-old Guyz Magic by Frenchmans Guy. Last fall, Bill Myers earned a $6,900 check on him in the Riata 9.5 Championships.
The Hall-of-Fame stallion’s genetics—along with that of the late A Smooth Guy—are still available to the public thanks to ICSI technology, available through Royal Vista Ranches in Wayne, Oklahoma.
Defending world champion header Tyler Wade, too, rode in the box at the 2025 BFI on SBD Sugar Me Sweet, out of the Frenchmans Guy daughter Frenchmans Red Rose. The horse helped Wade get to his eighth NFR for a chance at a third-straight gold buckle.
“In our horses, you get that speed but don’t lose that good common sense and cow,” Myers said. “They leave the box flat and can fly. Plus, they’re cowy and know how to rate, so they’re real easy to train as rope horses. Mentally, they can handle the pressure.”
Last fall, Jacob Lewis won the Riata 10.5 Championship on Hez Got Cowboy Cash by Cowboys Cartel out of a Frenchmans Guy daughter to rake in $80,000 a man—two years after he won the same roping on the same horse for a $47,080 check. Plus, Preston Burr earned $21,450 on Heza Cowboy Guys while, a year earlier, Logan Loiselle split $60,340 at the Riata on Cowboy’s Guns N Cash. And in 2024, 16-year-old Hogan Kelley won the Riata 10.5 Junior on Wicked Smooth Guy, out of a daughter of A Smooth Guy, to bank $19,600.
Myers horses are showing out in tie-down roping, too, with Nebraska’s J.T. Adamson winning back-to-back Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeos aboard his A Smooth Guy daughter while the defending year-end Badlands champ, Myles Kenzy, rode A Smooth Guy son.
And ropers have been paying even more attention to progeny of Myers’ Mr Sassy Frenchman, out of a fast Mr Jess Perry daughter. In 2024, his daughter Yes I’m Sassy earned $158,182 at roping futurities including big wins under world champion headers Kaleb Driggers and Colby Lovell.
Mr Sassy Frenchman
“She’s good in the box, she runs right to the cow, finishes good, is strong to the horn, really doesn’t make any mistakes,” Lovell said. “She’s dependable.”
Last year, Yes I’m Sassy also carried Reed Boos to fifth in Intermediate Heeling at Royal Crown Guthrie and third in the Riata 14.5, which paid $29,850 a man and brought her lifetime earnings near $200,000. A month later, Ty Spickelmier was AQHA’s Level II World Champion in Senior Heading aboard the 6-year-old buckskin Colour Me Sassy, worth $6,598.
Plus, the program offers outstanding offspring by Myers’ outcross stallion Lucky Wonder Horse, the 2015 buckskin stallion by No. 1 all-time leading racehorse sire First Down Dash and out of NFR barrel racing mare Rosa’s Cantina CC, by Corona Cartel. Last fall, Corben Culley placed in the Riata Pro Futurity heading on Wonder Berry to split $31,264.
And the newest Myers stallion, 7-year-old CR Tuff Dual, is a promising roping sire with yearlings as his oldest offspring this year. He’s by $13 million cow horse sire Woody Be Tuff, and out of a daughter of Dual Pep.
“His mother is a $1 million producer and his second dam is a $2 million producer,” said Myers. “He’s a little bigger with more stride than you see on a lot of cow-bred horses, and is a super good-minded horse.”
CR Tuff Dual
Lucky Wonder Horse
At the latest Myers’ prospect sale in October, Frenchmans Guy broodmares averaged $31,625, while offspring of Lucky Wonder Horse sold for an average $45,260 and Mr Sassy Frenchman get averaged $33,250. PRCA Resistol Rookie Header of the Year Tyler Tryan—whose dad is the all-time money winner at the BFI—got the high bid on a yearling Frenchmans Guy grandson. After all, both Guy and the Tryans’ Hall-of-Fame head horse Walt were paternal grandsons of Doc’s Jack Frost.
