According to official National Cutting Horse Association show records linked to AQHA pedigree data, offspring of High Brow Cat earned a record $5,258,334 in 2006. To put that into prospective, Dual Rey ranked second among sires of 2006 money earners with offspring earnings of $1,983,643, followed by CD Olena with $1,707,421.90.

Even more telling is the fact that 12.5 percent (one out of every eight dollars) of the $42,125,473 awarded in NCHA-sanctioned shows during 2006, was claimed by High Brow Cat offspring. The 2006 figure aso represents 27 percent of High Brow Cat’s $18.2 million in total offspring earnings.

Nineteen-year-old High Brow Cat, owned by Jack and Susan Waggoner, Bridgeport, TX, has sired 11 crops of performers. Unlike his maternal grandsire and all-time earnings leader Smart Little Lena, who enjoyed instant success with his first crop, it was not until his seventh foal crop (in 1999), that High Brow Cat hit the radar with cutting horse breeders. Foals from all of his crops up to that time totaled less than the 118 born that year.

His largest crop of foals (205) came in 2003 and earned $1.5 million during the 2006 NCHA Futurity, including open and amateur champion Oh Cay Felix, as well as open reserve champion Hydrive Cat and limited non-pro champion EBR Lion Heart. In all, 46 percent (12 out of 26) of the Open Futurity finalists were High Brow Cat offspring.

High Brow Cat stands at DLR Stallion Station, Weatherford, TX, and although “booked full,” his 2007 fee is advertised as $22,500, quite a bargain, when compared to his lifetime offspring average of $37,780.