Three generations of a pedigree contain 14 forebears. Seven of 2010 NCHA Futurity champion One Time Royalty’s three-generation forbears are NCHA Futurity champions. Thumb through any recent cutting sale catalog and it would be hard to find another pedigree as rich in Futurity titles

In a previous post, we looked at Jazabell Quixote, One Time Royalty’s second dam; now we will investigate One Time Soon, the dam of One Time Royalty’s sire, One Time Pepto.

Uno Princess, 1968 NCHA Futurity Open champion under James Kenney, had changed hands four times before Dan Lufkin acquired her in 1986 for his famous Oxbow Ranch broodmare band. Up until then, she had produced six foals, with Lynx Princess as her biggest money earner ($11,252).

Lufkin bred the 21-year-old Jose Uno daughter to Oxbow stallion Makingyourmark and got a colt, which he gelded. Then in 1989, via embryo recipients, Uno Princess struck paydirt for Lufkin with Docs Miss N Dinero, by Oxbow stallion Miss N Cash, and One Time Soon, by Smart Little Lena.

Reidy Cattle Company purchased One Time Soon as a yearling for $80,000, at the NCHA Futurity Sale. Oxbow repurchased her three months later for the original price, when she wasn’t able to physically stand up to training.

“They figure this mare had EPM before we ever knew what EPM was,” said David Capps, who bought One Time Soon for $20,000 at the Oxbow Ranch Dispersal Sale in 1993, and paid $7,500 for Faith N Risk, her Miss N Cash weanling, who would go on to earn nearly $200,000.

Capps hit a niche with One Time Soon, when he bred her to 1992 NCHA Futurity Open champion Peptoboonsmal. The first result was Peptotime, a 2000 NCHA Futurity finalist under Russ Miller and NCHA lifetime earner of $124,506.

Four years later came One Time Pepto, who set a record when he sold as a yearling for $380,000. The red roan colt would earn NCHA payouts of over $256,000 under Matt Gaines, before he set another record in 2010, his freshman year, as the only horse to ever sire winners of both the NCHA Open and Non-Pro Futurities in the same year.

One Time Pepto and Peptotime aren’t the only highlights of One Time Soon’s broodmare career, but let’s digress to Uno Princess, somewhat of a wild card as the second-best money earner, with $41,223, by Jose Uno, the 1969 NCHA World Champion.

The story really begins with Jose Uno’s sire, Joe’s Last, sired by Joe Reed, and owned by James Kenney, a New Mexico rancher and former top PRCA roper, who took up cutting in 1957.

“Anybody that knew old Joe’s Last will tell you the same thing – he could really hold a bad cow and just keep doing it,” Kenney told me in 1993. “I liked to draw up last on him because you’d just go in there and cut the rankest cow you could and win yourself a cutting.”

Kenney bred Joe’s Last to all of D Ranch’s mares, including Shov Zan, by Zantanon Jr, who gave him Jose Uno in 1960.

“Jose Uno was a little classier looking and working horse than Joe’s Last,” said Kenney. “He could hold a pretty good cow, but he couldn’t do as much as his daddy could.”

Kenney and Jose Uno won both go-rounds of the 1963 NCHA Futurity, but placed third in the finals behind Chickasha Glo with Buster Welch, and Jim Gideon on Cutter’s First.

Since Kenney had dedicated his ranch mares to Joe’s Last, he lent Jose Uno to rancher Jess Koy, who bred all of his mares to the blazed-faced stud in 1964. One of the mares was Hanna’s Princess, sired by El Rey H, a full brother to King.

“Uno Princess’ mama was the prettiest mare you nearly ever saw,” said Kenney. “And Uno Princess was a pretty little mare. Jess sent her to me and I broke her and trained her. She was a natural and would really look at a cow.

“But I think maybe the best horse I ever rode was a horse called King Koy. Mr. Jess raised him out of Hanna’s Princess by a horse called King A.” King A, foaled in 1948, was by King and out of Annie B, by Joe Moore.

“King Koy was the first horse I remember that had a whole lot of style. He’d jump off out there and stick his head right in front of one and make her do what he wanted her to do. I wish he had lived another year or two so everybody had the chance to see what a good horse he was. That was in 1962.”

Today, One Time Soon is at home and still producing at Dave and Clare Capps’ Radio Ranch in Millsap, Texas. Dave showed one of her foals, Tiempo Azul, as champion of the 2010 NCHA Futurity Senior Ltd Non-Pro division, and Radio Ranch sold a full sister to One Time Pepto for $50,000 in the 2010 NCHA Futurity Sale.

In the meantime, One Time Soon is enjoying international acclaim through sons Peptotime at stud in Brazil; Acres Of Time, a European Futurity and aged event champion standing in Italy; and Big Time Rooster, standing in Germany.

The twelve NCHA money earners produced by One Time Soon have earned $650,672 for an average of $54,223, and One Time Soon’s half-sister, Docs Miss N Dinero, is also a solid producer, with five NCHA money earners that have earned an average of $32,622. Docs Miss N Dinero is owned by Double Dove Ranch, the breeder of One Time Royalty.