Europe’s 2025 NSBA Working Western Highpoints: Bloodlines That Move a Continent

For our final stop in the 2025 NSBA Highpoints series, we head to Europe’s Working Western arenas, where every slide, turn, and cow chase tells a story older than the ride itself. These horses carry more than athleticism—they carry a legacy: carefully planned bloodlines, breeding programs, and human guidance that spans generations. From Ranch Riding to Reining, what you see in the arena is the tip of an iceberg built from vision, genetics, and dedication.

In this final chapter of our 2025 NSBA Highpoints series, we highlight the connections behind Europe’s top Working Western performers. By examining each horse’s sire, dam, damsire, owner, and breeder, we reveal the programs and bloodlines that turn potential into precision, power, and poise. These pedigrees aren’t just names—they are living stories shaping the champions of Europe’s Working Western divisions.

Top 10 NSBA European Highpoint Sires – Working Western (2025)

At the heart of every high-performing Working Western horse is a stallion whose genetics consistently produce quality offspring. These Top 10 sires demonstrate the influence of strong sire lines in Europe, with their progeny contributing significant year-end points across multiple disciplines. For each sire, we highlight their progeny along with the points each contributed to the sire’s total, key pedigree information, and ownership details, illustrating the full scope of their impact and the strategic role these stallions play in shaping Europe’s Working Western scene.

Gunnatrashya

Scoring Progeny	2
Base Points	156
NSBA Points	7
Year End Points	163

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Just Plain Trash	95	Lockyourgun	One Gun	Irene Leder	Hilldale Farm
Girlsgunnatrashya	68	Lenas Tommy Girl	Lenas Sugarman	Jeanette Sjostrand	Daniel L Whitney

Nics Peppy Train

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	112
NSBA Points	21
Year End Points	133

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
CM Chakalaka Train	133	Mis Boomeroak	Arc Genuine Oak	Kolinda Verhaagen	Dr Claudia Mamerow

Just Say Jose

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	100
NSBA Points	5
Year End Points	105

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Just The Rocking Soul	105	Rock N Evidence	Rock N Jetset	Misa Riiali	–

Bertas Wild Rag

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	92
NSBA Points	12
Year End Points	104

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Hustlersraymondrazor	104	Hustlers Peponita	Doc Peppys Leo	Asa Bergstroem	Asa Bergstroem

Smokeelan

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	52
NSBA Points	7
Year End Points	59

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
KH Smoke N Hailey	59	El Peppys Seniorita	El Peppys Hurt	Satu Kaarina Olkkonen	Franz Lechner

Peponitas Last Chex

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	44
NSBA Points	10
Year End Points	54

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Peponitas Happy End	54	Red Tiny Bunny	Frost San	Stefanie Druffel	Petra Feilen

Bad Like I Wanna Be

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	48
NSBA Points	4
Year End Points	52

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Mr Tough Guns	52	Smokys Sage Jabalina	Fiftys King Cutter	Petra Wingefors	–

Oshanee Heyoka

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	33
NSBA Points	6
Year End Points	39

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Eagles Yoka Magic Cat	39	Dirty Calico	Exotic Calico	Danielle Van Leeuwen	–

Absolute Option

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	36
NSBA Points	2
Year End Points	38

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Option In Blue	38	Ms Blue Diamond Jet	Red Glow Nicky	Angela Huschens	Eron Dampier

Hot Diamond Chex

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	24
NSBA Points	6
Year End Points	30

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Genuine Smokin Cash	30	Oaks Prescription	Arc Genuine Oak	Melissa Lokhorst	Shirley B Degroot

Top 10 NSBA European Highpoint Dams – Working Western (2025)

Equally important are the mares behind Europe’s champions. These Top 10 dams highlight how strong maternal lines directly impact performance. Their offspring consistently earn points across Ranch Riding, Ranch Pleasure, Ranch Trail, Ranch Rail, Cutting, Working Cow, and Reining, demonstrating that maternal influence is just as vital as the sire in producing top performers.

Rank	Dam	Progeny Count	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year End Points
1	Mis Boomeroak	1	112	21	133
2	Rock N Evidence	1	100	5	105
3	Hustlers Peponita	1	92	12	104
4	Lockyourgun	1	90	5	95
5	Lenas Tommy Girl	1	66	2	68
6	El Peppys Seniorita	1	52	7	59
7	Red Tiny Bunny	1	44	10	54
8	Smokys Sage Jabalina	1	48	4	52
9	Dirty Calico	1	33	6	39
10	Ms Blue Diamond Jet	1	36	2	38

Top 10 NSBA European Highpoint Damsires – Working Western (2025)

Damsires contribute traits like athleticism, trainability, and soundness through their daughters, playing a subtle but critical role in shaping future champions. The Top 10 damsires behind 2025’s Working Western leaders illustrate how influential these bloodlines are in producing horses that excel consistently across disciplines.

Rank	Damsire	Progeny Count	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year End Points
1	Arc Genuine Oak	2	136	27	163
2	Rock N Jetset	1	100	5	105
3	Doc Peppys Leo	1	92	12	104
4	One Gun	1	90	5	95
5	Lenas Sugarman	1	66	2	68
6	El Peppys Hurt	1	52	7	59
7	Frost San	1	44	10	54
8	Fiftys King Cutter	1	48	4	52
9	Exotic Calico	1	33	6	39
10	Red Glow Nicky	1	36	2	38

Top 10 NSBA European Highpoint Breeders – Working Western (2025)

Behind every champion is a breeder whose vision and program management make excellence possible. These Top 10 breeders represent the dedication and strategic planning that produced Europe’s leading Working Western horses. Through careful mating selections and program oversight, they ensured both high performance and consistent quality in their bloodlines, showing that breeding is as much about strategy as it is about genetics.

Rank	Breeder	Produce	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year End Points
1	Dr Claudia Mamerow	1	112	21	133
2	Asa Bergstroem	1	92	12	104
3	Hilldale Farm	1	90	5	95
4	Daniel L Whitney	1	66	2	68
5	Franz Lechner	1	52	7	59
6	Petra Feilen	1	44	10	54
7	Eron Dampier	1	36	2	38
8	Shirley B Degroot	1	24	6	30
9	Nicky Nietvelt-Vantendeloo	1	24	0	24
10	Dikkie Verduin-Demol	1	22	1	23

Wrapping Up the 2025 NSBA Highpoints

That brings our comprehensive review of the 2025 NSBA Highpoints to a close—covering Europe, the U.S.A., and Canada across Pleasure, Hunter Under Saddle, Working Western, and Sporthorse divisions. Throughout this series, we’ve highlighted the sire lines, maternal influence, damsires, and breeders that laid the foundation for the season’s top-performing horses.

But the story doesn’t end here. As the industry looks ahead to the 2026 show season, these same bloodlines, breeding programs, and competitors will continue shaping the next generation of champions. From major shows to emerging young horses and influential pedigrees, the momentum built in 2025 will carry forward into the year ahead.

The legacy of 2025 is just the beginning—many of these horses and breeding programs are already setting the stage for what promises to be an exciting 2026 season in the show pen. Keep an eye out for our ongoing coverage of shows, sales, horse spotlights, and the pedigrees influencing the future of the sport.

Natashya V.

Founder, StallionCompare.com | Creative Director

Natashya, the founder of StallionCompare.com, is a dynamic force in both the equine and creative industries. As a lifelong equestrian, Natashya’s journey with horses began with Quarter Horses in her hometown in British Columbia, Canada. During her college years she took a brief (and eye opening) hiatus from Quarter Horses to work in the Thoroughbred industry – returning to the AQHA circuit as a young adult. Natashya was also able to reconnect with the quarter horse industry through design. She worked with former owners of Pleasurehorse.com and Show Horse Today on their design needs prior to Robyn Duplisea purchasing the business. Natashya also worked at Horse Canada (HPG) as the Creative Director for many monthly, quarterly, and annual equine magazines. Her passion (read: obsession) for breeding, genetics, and equine pedigrees ran ever-increasingly deep, which lead her to create StallionCompare.com.

Beyond her equine pursuits, Natashya is the Creative Director & Co-Founder of a leading design agency known for its boutique, customer-focused approach. With her expertise, she blends creativity and technology to make a lasting impact in both horse breeding and design.