SIRE: Hesa Sonofa Dun
DAM: Paulena By Doc Olena
INCENTIVES: The Diamond Traditional, Riata Championship, Royal Crown Roping
WSR Hesa Dunofa Lena—raised by Wes Adams’ iconic Western States Ranches—is the winningest rope horse stallion within the historical past of ProRodeo.
The sturdy-boned dun stallion known as Rooster began his profession beneath World Champion Randon Adams because the backup to Adams’ four-time AQHA/PRCA Horse of the 12 months, Diesel. WSR Hesa Dunofa Lena carried Adams to the California Rodeo Salinas title in 2012—heeling for his paternal sibling, WSR Hesa Alive.
When Adams stepped away from rodeo in favor of working the household enterprise, Rooster stepped right into a pinch-hitter position for the who’s who of ProRodeo’s heelers.
He helped get Dakota Kirchenschlager to his first NFR, and Russell Cardoza rode him to position on the US Open. Cesar de la Cruz received a go-round examine on him on the Finals behind Derrick Begay, and Adams jumped again on him to win Logandale’s ProRodeo, too. Then, two-time World Champion Patrick Smith borrowed the stud for the summer time run, and he simply needed to have him—so Smith purchased, rodeoed on and stood the horse.
Within the spring of 2024, David and Miranda Zito of 1957 Quarter Horses purchased WSR Dunofa Lena from Smith to kickstart their very own horse program, they usually moved him to the Lazy E. However simply as Rooster received snug in Guthrie, Levi Lord known as on the stud to go again to Las Vegas for the 2024 NFR—placing the game’s pinch-hitter again within the recreation for an additional journey to the large present.
