Born 7-19-26. Some years we do a fun theme for names. This year for Top Gun Whiskey we are continuing with Top Gun Call Signs from the original 1986 movie and the 2022 movie. Our other stallions will have the names of Rock Bands from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Styx is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1972, known for blending hard rock, progressive rock, and pop elements with theatrical influences. They created many power ballads and some of their most known and memorable songs are “Lady”, “Come Sail Away”, “Renegade”, “Too Much Time on my Hands”,” Mr Roboto”, “The Best of Times” and their only #1 hit of 1979 “Babe”.

‘Styx’ is a buckskin stallion with a snip that is slender off the right side. His legs are hard to see right now, if he has any white, it is minimal. Styx’s dam, Magnolia Whiskey, was our very first Paddys Irish Whiskey daughter. We acquired her from Wylie Gustafson of Cross 3 Quarter Horses. We have always owned several Paddys Irish Whiskey sons and Magnolia Whiskey is one of four daughters we now own. Magnolia Whiskey aka Rio is a point and money earner by Paddys Irish Whiskey. As per the 6666’s website, Paddys Irish Whiskey has earned the respect as a consistent sire of both class and high-end trainability for all walks of the reining and cowhorse worlds, siring champions in versatility ranch horse, reined cowhorse, cutting, reining, calf roping and team roping. He is also a great broodmare sire. Rio’s dam was never shown herself, but she is a producing daughter of High Brow Hickory out of a Doc Quixote daughter. Rio has earned 14 AQHA pts. in heading and heeling. She qualified her 1st year of roping for the 2018 AQHA World Finals in JR Heeling where she placed in the Top Fifteen. She is a stout built mare with the athletic ability to really shine. We have also shown her in reined cow horse a bit where she placed 1st in the North Central RCHA 5 YO open class earning her $60 but heeling seemed to be her “thing”! Rio stayed sound and showed us her ability, so we decided it was time for her to have a baby for us.  Rio is now a producer herself. We bred her to Bet Hesa Cat for 2020 and got a filly, Irish Whiskey Bet, who we have retained as a future broodmare and show prospect for ourselves. Irish was trained in reined cowhorse, cutting and is now a money earner as a breakaway rope horse and started heeling and heading as well. Rio’s 2021 foal, Maggie Bartender JW, went to TX as a roping and broodmare prospect for the 6666’s stallion manager(at the time) personal remuda. 2022 and 2023 full sibling, Coral Bartender JW and Citrine Bartender JW, is now with a repeat buyer in NE. Her 2024 filly, Bluestem Rohan JW, stayed in ND.

Styx’s is from the 2nd foal crop of our young, home raised stallion My Bluestem Drift JW. He is 91% NFQHA and eligible to register.  He does carry a copy of the cream gene which he will pass on 50% of the time. He is the result of a very good experiment we tried; breeding his dam to his sire, Walter O Rielly aka Radar. Radar was a foundation stallion we had purchased several years ago to get some fillies to retain back for our program. Within the first few years, we discovered we really liked his foals for ourselves as saddle horses. He became a great addition to our program and had 12 foal crops for us. He brought older foundation lines to cross back with our Paddy's get. Radar threw BIG foals that could cover a lot of ground with amazing laid-back dispositions. Most of his offspring have gone on to be ranch horses, with a few rope and barrel prospects too. We then decided to breed one of our favorite ranch mares we used, My Kittys Belle JW, and cross with Radar in hopes of getting some foals we just knew we would want to keep and ride. My Kittys Belle JW’s mother, My Little Kitty, was owned by Barbra Kennedy Johnson and was given to Ella. Belle’s sire was our late 96% NFQHA stallion, JK Jay Reed, who was a consistent producer. We really liked Bluestem and always thought of him as a stallion prospect and replacement for his sire. We were very picky and waited a long time for a Radar replacement and then we had Bluestem! We didn’t need him yet, so he was sent to training as a 2 year old, started under saddle, became quite well broke, did some ranching and was well into his roping training by spring of 2024 when his sire passed at the age of 24. It was time to bring him home to fulfill his place in our program. Bluestem is deeply rooted in our program with JK Jay Reed, Walter O Rielly, My Kittys Belle and My Little Kitty. 2026 is Bluestem’s second foal crop. As we do all our horses, we evaluate after a few foal crops. We like what we see so far.

Styx is the 2nd foal from this cross. He should have the athletic ability to be able to shine in or out of the arena. Don’t let his birthday hold you back.  By the time he is three it won’t matter.

“Don’t miss a chance to GET ON BOARD with a BLUESTEM BABY!”

$4000 (US)

Foal is eligible for the Iowa Quarter Horse Association Ranch Horse Futurity.

2026 PRICING INCLUDES: Halter/lead rope, negative coggins, health, brand inspection, initial and booster vaccinations of EWT-Flu-Rhino, 1 bag of his current feed, AQHA transfer fee paid and halter training. This is a $300+ value included in the price. Repeat and multiple horse buyers will be less.  If you are not already an AQHA member, you may get your own membership, or we will assess you an additional $65 one-year membership fee to do the $40 transfer for your new purchase.

Genetic Test Results-Pending