VQH Heart Stoppin earns 2025 Gold Breeders’ Futurity Leading Performance Sire Award
Success by progeny of VQH Heart Stoppin propelled their sire to earn the inaugural 2025 Gold Breeders’ Futurity Leading Performance Sire Award. The honor is based on total money earned by a sire’s progeny in Gold Breeders’ Futurity classes at the 2025 APHA World Championship Show.
The APHA Breeders’ Futurity is a prestigious annual competition with lucrative purses that showcases the offspring of Breeders’ Trust-subscribed stallions and the mares bred to them. Gold Breeders’ Futurity classes are split between the World Show (performance classes) and the APHA/WCHA Halter Million (halter classes). Previously, a single Gold Breeders’ Futurity Leading Sire Award was presented at the conclusion of the Halter Million competition. This year, results are tallied separately for each show, with a Gold Breeders’ Futurity Leading Sire award presented for each event.
2025 Leading Performance Sire
Leading sire VQH Heart Stoppin had seven foals earn $13,243.80 in Gold Breeders’ Futurity classes at the 2025 APHA World Show. Top performers included The Margarita Stop, winner of the 4- & 5-Year-Old Trail, Non-Pro 5 & Under Trail and Non-Pro 5 & Under Western Horsemanship Gold Breeders’ Futurity classes; Two Trick Pony, reserve champion in the Gold Hunter Yearling Longe Line Breeders’ Futurity; and Shez Heartbreakin, bronze champion in the Gold 2-Year-Old Longe Line Breeders’ Futurity.
A 2016 bay overo stallion, “Joey” is by RL Best Of Sudden (QH) and out of One Hot Mouse. He is owned and bred by Voge Quarter Horses of Whitesboro, Texas.
Learn more about the Breeders’ Futurity online at apha.com/breedersfuturity.
Photo by Impulse Photography, courtesy Voge Quarter Horses
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