USA & Canada’s 2025 NSBA Sporthorse Highpoints: The Architects Behind the Champions

Sporthorse competitions reward movement, balance, and overall athletic ability, highlighting a growing segment of North America’s show horse industry. In this chapter of the 2025 NSBA Highpoints series, we examine the top-scoring USA & Canada Sporthorse horses and the pedigrees, owners, and breeders behind them.

By reviewing the official 2025 Highpoints standings horse by horse, we trace the influence of sires, dams, and damsires, and highlight breeders whose long-term programs consistently produce elite Sporthorse athletes. While champions shine in the arena, their foundation is built years earlier through carefully planned bloodlines and breeding vision.

Top 10 NSBA USA & Canada Highpoint Sires – Sporthorse (2025)

Some stallions are more than competitors – they are engineers of excellence. Their offspring dominate multiple divisions, translating raw genetics into measurable arena results.

Below, we detail the Top 10 sires in U.S.A. & Canada Sporthorse, listing their progeny, the points they contributed, and key pedigree and ownership information. These sires aren’t just names – they are the starting point of the story behind every high-score.

Allocate Your Assets

Scoring Progeny	7
Base Points	341
NSBA Points	34
Year End Points	375

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Al Be At The Bar	37	Hsh Princess Grace	Skys Blue Boy	Addison Mae Krause	Christopher A Gray
Al I Could Hope For	24.5	Art I Pretty	Art I Sweet	Brianna C Clark	Amy L Brosch
Aladdin	7	Sum Iron	Iron Enterprise	What A Ripper Llc	Iron Enterprise
Allocate In Green	113	Pocket Full Of Green	Green With Invy	Gary & Darcy Stricker	Cynthia Roth
Aloha Sky	13.5	Sienna Sky	Skys Blue Boy	Hannah Joy Dukes	Wen-Dee & Chad Cote
Armageddon	5	Fine Details	Last Detail	Michelle Mclean	Barbara Jo Mitchell
One Al Of An Amen	175	Sienna Sky	Skys Blue Boy	K Michaelis & S Smith	Wen-Dee & Chad Cote

DGS Replicated

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	272
NSBA Points	37
Year End Points	309

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
DGS Legacy	309	PR Real Quiet	Duplicated Deck	Robin Degraff	Robin Degraff

Extremely Hot Chips

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	226
NSBA Points	43
Year End Points	269

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Hot Dig It	269	Natural Artifact	Indian Artifacts	Rebecca Edward	Melissa Meeks

The Mile High Club

Scoring Progeny	2
Base Points	221
NSBA Points	19.5
Year End Points	240.5

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Al Be In First Class	120.5	Al Always Be Good	Good I Will Be	Addison Harr	Sandra Morgan
Hesa Frequent Flyer	120	DGS Indylacious	Indian Artifacts	Kate Upton	Todd D Yoder

Hot N Blazing

Scoring Progeny	3
Base Points	200
NSBA Points	17
Year End Points	217

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
All About That Blaze	10	All About It	Allocate Your Assets	Jill C Zeitler	Amy L Brosch
Hows That For Ya	54.5	Queen Of The Blues	Skys Blue Boy	Morgan Miller	Alice W Holmes
Sketchie Situations	152.5	Sentimental Detail	Last Detail	Linda M Keever	Mallory Menard

The Next Detail

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	126
NSBA Points	12
Year End Points	138

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
My Next Edition	138	My First Kiss 07	Luftikus 96	Hana Thomas	Ron Horn

Too Sleepy To Zip

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	103
NSBA Points	10.5
Year End Points	113.5

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Mr Goody Too Shoes	113.5	Skys Lady In Blue	These Irons Are Hot	Caroline French-Campbell	Caroline French-Campbell

Give Me The Goods

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	104
NSBA Points	4
Year End Points	108

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Playin With The Boyz	108	Betty Hoo	Hot Ones Only	Lauren Calhoun Smith	Lauren Calhoun Smith

Strutin On The Range

Scoring Progeny	1
Base Points	82
NSBA Points	23
Year End Points	105

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
Strutin To The Blues	105	Dance To The Blues	Skys Blue Boy	Rodger L Call	Olivia Hoecker

Good Better Best

Scoring Progeny	2
Base Points	80
NSBA Points	8.5
Year End Points	88.5

Progeny	Overall Points	Dam	Damsire	Owner	Breeder
RSF Aero Smith	21	Miss Glitter Girl 05	Double Honor 95	Leslie A Bacon	Leslie A Bacon
The Best Of Thymes	67.5	Ms Aloha	Allocate Your Assets	Rodger L Call	Jim R Searles

Top 10 NSBA USA & Canada Highpoint Dams – Sporthorse (2025)

Mares often fly under the radar, but their influence is undeniable. These dams consistently produce offspring that top the Sporthorse standings, proving that maternal lines are as decisive as sire lines.

This section lists the Top 10 dams, the number of scoring offspring they produced, and the points those horses contributed – a window into the genetic engines behind North America’s Sporthorse champions.

Rank	Dam	Scoring Progeny	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year-End Points
1	PR Real Quiet	1	272	37	309
2	Natural Artifact	1	226	43	269
3	Sienna Sky	2	173	15.5	188.5
4	Sentimental Detail	1	138	14.5	152.5
5	My First Kiss 07	1	126	12	138
6	Al Always Be Good	1	105	15.5	120.5
7	DGS Indylacious	1	116	4	120
8	Skys Lady In Blue	1	103	10.5	113.5
9	Pocket Full Of Green	1	100	13	113
10	Betty Hoo	1	104	4	108

Top 10 NSBA USA & Canada Highpoint Damsires – Sporthorse (2025)

Damsires are the invisible hand shaping performance traits. Through their daughters, they pass on soundness, athleticism, and mental aptitude that manifest in the arena. The damsires listed below demonstrate how generations of breeding strategy ripple through top-performing horses.

Rank	Damsire	Scoring Progeny	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year-End Points
1	Indian Artifacts	3	409	54	463
2	Skys Blue Boy	7	392	47	439
3	Duplicated Deck	1	272	37	309
4	Last Detail	2	143	14.5	157.5
5	Luftikus 96	1	126	12	138
6	These Irons Are Hot	3	125	12	137
7	Good I Will Be	2	108	16	124
8	Green With Invy	1	100	13	113
9	Hot Ones Only	1	104	4	108
10	Allocate Your Assets	2	70	7.5	77.5

Top 10 NSBA USA & Canada Highpoint Breeders – Sporthorse (2025)

Finally, the breeders. Their strategic decisions, long-term planning, and program management transform pedigrees into performance. These are the people and programs who craft the DNA of success, producing horses that consistently score at the top across Sporthorse divisions in the U.S.A. & Canada.

This list recognizes the breeders whose careful mating decisions and program management produced horses that excelled across multiple Sporthorse divisions throughout the season.

Rank	Breeder	Produce	Base Points	NSBA Points	Year-End Points
1	Robin DeGraff	2	339	44	383
2	Melissa Meeks	1	226	43	269
3	Wen-Dee & Chad Cote	2	173	15.5	188.5
4	Mallory Menard	1	138	14.5	152.5
5	Ron Horn	1	126	12	138
6	Sandra Morgan	1	105	15.5	120.5
7	Todd D Yoder	1	116	4	120
8	Caroline French-Campbell	1	103	10.5	113.5
9	Cynthia Roth	1	100	13	113
10	Lauren Calhoun Smith	1	104	4	108

The Bloodlines Behind the Movement: The 2025 Sporthorse Story

The 2025 Sporthorse Highpoints highlight the pedigrees and programs behind the season’s top performers. By connecting each horse’s performance with its sire, dam, damsire, owner, and breeder, we see the foundations that produced North America’s leading Sporthorse athletes.

With this, we conclude the USA & Canada coverage. Next, we cross the Atlantic to explore European Pleasure and Hunter Under Saddle, beginning our coverage of the continent’s top performers.

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.

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