It all got started for Bill and Deb Myers in the mid-1980’s. They purchased siblings of the great Frenchmans Guy that introduced them to a breeding line that they would grow to love and that would also grow their empire.
“We liked them so much just from riding them and finding out what kind of horses they were that we decided that we’d start a breeding program with this line of horses,” Bill said.
Frenchmans Guy was then born in 1987. A stall accident cost him his right eye and Bill looks back saying it was through fate, God’s plan or whatever that they wound up keeping the palomino. He would go on to become a $15 million sire while also leaving his own stamp in the arena.
Bill and Deb’s son, Brandon, looks at Frenchmans Guy and one word came to mind: confidence.
“I wrote something about Frenchmans Guy in the past. There was a phrase that I found, i don’t remember the writing exactly but it said something along the lines of because of his confidence, he feels no need to boast or brag because he has belief in himself’. Horses don’t care the way humans care, they just do their thing. But some carry themselves in a different way,” Brandon said.
Frenchmans Guy’s stud fee would grow to reach $6,000 at the end of his career. They would cap the number of breedings to Frenchmans Guy at 170 a year. Although Frenchmans Guy passed away in 2021, is progeny carry on his legacy as they continue to impress inside the arena or on the ranch.
“I couldn’t have drawn a movie deal that would’ve been any neater than what’s happened to our family. Our family has been blessed by that horse,” Bill said.