VALENTINES HICKORY

Breed: American Paint Horse Association
Location: Sedalia, Colorado
Date Foaled: May 11, 2017
Color: Bay Roan Tobiano
Stallion

Valentine’s Hickory or Hickory, as we call him, is bright and curious and quite the character. His sire is Hickory Holly Time, AQHA, whose lifetime earnings are over$191,025. He was the 2015 Open Hackamore World Champion, the 2014 Open Derby Champion and 2015 Open Stallion Stakes Res. Champion and in 2013 he was the Intermediate Open Futurity Champion in the NRCHA.  In 2018 Hickory Holly Time won the World’s Greatest Horseman Challenge, with super scores in reining, the herd and down the fence!

As his son, our Hickory is eligible for the Breeder’s Invitational, NCHA Super Stakes, NRBC, NRCHA Stallion Stakes, and the NRHA Sire and Dam Program. Hickory’s sire and dam are both 5 panel N/N and he does not carry any genetic diseases. His dam, SMARTLITTLEVALENTINE, has earned over $20,000 in NRCHA monies and has scored a 74 down the fence. Valentine is a two-time APHA Reserve World Show Champion in Working Cow Horse.  She is an own daughter of the great JR Red Diablo, Super Stakes Champion and earner in excess of $168,847 in NCHA and APHA Reserve Champion in Cutting. He is the son of the great COLOR ME SMART. Valentine is the daughter of a double bred Doc’s Stinger producing mare. We are excited about the future of all of her foals. 

Hickory is in training with EJ Laubscher of Laubscher Performance in Wynnewood, OK.  Their highest reining score was a 222, with the highest herd work score a 220 and highest fence score of a 220. 

They are turning heads in the APHA World, as EJ and Hickory were featured at the APHA World Show 2025 with a full-size door wrap photo showing them circling a cow.  The Watt Arena entrance really looked special!!  EJ and Hickory have also starred in an ad showing them turning a cow down the fence in a photo by Primo Morales that has appeared in NRRCH magazine, advertising.  The Chrome Cash Award Ad has appeared online, in the Paint Horse Journal and in The Reined Cow Horse News.  Rock Star Models!!!   

In 2025, for breeding in 2026, Hickory has both cooled and frozen semen available in the U.S. Frozen semen will be available for Canada, the European Union and Mexico. 

Contact Paynter’s Paint Ranch at 303-688-3877 and leave message on the ranch phone or contact Peggy directly on her cell at 303-263-8048 for more information.