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Welcome to the
Skip N Scot Ranch website.
Skip N Scot specializes in preserving the exquisite family
of horses started by Hank Wiescamp of Alamosa,
2002 Buckskin Skipper W/Scottish Stallion Now Standing at Skip N Scot Ranch
Shown here at One Year Old While no one may ever unlock all the secrets of Hank’s breeding program, we’re working hard to learn from what he created. The name Hank Wiescamp is one of the most recognized in the horse world. Wiescamp is one of the all-time leading breeders of AQHA Champions and Register of Merit qualifiers. Hank built a huge breeding program with many stallions and his best mares who never left his ranch. He is the only man ever inducted into three breed association Halls of Fame: American Quarter Horse Association; Appaloosa Horse Club; and Palomino Breeders of America. We love this amazing line of Quarter Horses descended from “Skipper W”, and the foundation mares from the “Old Fred” Hank continually strived for excellence and what he believed was a perfect Quarter Horse. He looked for crosses to provide all-around athleticism, beauty, straight legs, muscled, perfect conformation, small heads, muzzles, and ears, beautiful eyes, high color (“chrome”) and speed.
The “look” of Hank’s Skipper W lineage of horses became known as the “Wiescamp
Look”. The following photograph illustrates his breeding
programs’ unmistakable stamp:
We believe all of these physical traits to be true, but what we believe is the most talked about quality of the Skipper lines is the Skipper temperament and willingness! Skippers are flat out, the kindest, calmest, most sensible, willing horses we have ever worked with. It’s just hard not to fall in love with these horses.
Skipper W was not the most head-turning, gasp-out-loud stallion upon first glance. He was chosen for the position of lead stallion by Hank due to the early death of his sire, Nick Shoemaker. At the time, Hank had three of Hank Shoemakers’ sons to choose from to carry on his name. Two were buckskins (“Nick W” and “Joker W”) which Hank did not want to put on his predominantly light colored mares. He also felt they were too lightly muscled. That left Skipper W who was a chestnut and Hank liked his muscled conformation, temperament and his dam’s pedigree.
Skipper W:
Like most breeders making
calculated guesses, with a lot of trial and error,
Skipper W became most
famous as a sire of both high producing sons and daughters, and
in completely out-producing himself, one foal after another.
Most stallions either cannot produce quality at all, or produce
only good sons or
daughters, but not both. Hank came to create one of the most
enduring Quarter Horse bloodlines in history. Skipper W lived
his entire life on Hank’s Many folks don’t realize that a large percentage of the top reining, cutting and halter horses in the world descend in part from Skipper W. That in itself speaks volumes for the enduring quality of this incredible line of horses. Bloodlines come, and bloodlines go in popularity, but few are still as pure, undiluted, and effective in improving other lines, as the horses by Hank Wiescamp . What we strive to do here at Skip N Scot Ranch is to bring back the popularity of the Skipper /Shoemaker horse in its purest form. We just hope to do Hank proud. We welcome you to
browse our website which will always be a work in progress. We
usually have horses for sale and we’re big on education,
training, equine resources, and we’re always striving to learn
more about our amazing equine friends. If you’re ever in our
very beautiful part of the world, Skip N Scot Ranch |
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