Stallion Showcase 2026 | Cowboy State Equine 

New stallion station brings opportunity to southern Wyoming and beyond 

After two decades of breeding horses using services in another state, Dave and Cindy DeLancey wanted their stallions close to home. As a result, they built Cowboy State Equine just outside their back door in Cheyenne, Wyoming.  

With a broad depth of equine production experience, they are now providing producers and breeders with more options in Wyoming and services that span worldwide.  

The founding 

DeLanceys proudly stand five performance horse stallions: Fiestas Dynasty, Heza Fiery Fling, This Fame is on Fire, Tresseis Royal Fame, and their junior stallion Stingin N Flashin.  

“Our stallions were at Colorado State University, which we’ve worked with for over 20 years doing our reproductive work. And we thought it was time to ask them to help us build our own stallion station on our ranch,” said Cindy DeLancey, owner and stallion contracts manager.  

“We have the Rodeo Ranch in Platte County south of Wheatland, and we were debating which location should go with the stallion station, but we just truly loved having the stallions at home. And as much as we appreciated and always valued the expertise from Colorado State University Equine Reproduction Lab, we just decided that we would enlist their help to design and build a facility for our stallions so that we would be able to keep them at home,” said DeLancey. 

Founded in 2024, Cowboy State Equine housed seven total stallions in the 2025 breeding season and has room for eight.  

“Last year was our first year with the stallion station, and it just far exceeded our expectations,” said DeLancey. 

The growth of Wyoming horse racing and with it the Wyoming Bred incentive program was another motivating factor in building Cowboy State Equine.  

“A lot of our stallions have race lines, and we thought that there might be some interest in those that are seeking to raise horses for the Wyoming Bred program. The horses need to be in Wyoming to be eligible for the program,” DeLancey said.   

In 2024, over $8.5 million was awarded to the Wyoming Breeder Awards Fund to eligible owners, breeders and stallion owners.  

DeLanceys strive to assist other stallion owners in their area and drive the horse industry forward. 

“The ability to either have them stay as a resident stallion with us at Cowboy State Equine or for them to be able to come be collected, have the semen process shipped and then they go home is quite nice for people as well to have that optionality. So it’s just been great to try to help other people get their studs out there and to try to help people build their program,” she said.  

Current services available at Cowboy State Equine include stallion collection, cooled and frozen shipping, and training stallions to collect safely. A resident Thoroughbred stallion, Dennis’ Moment, owned by CJ Thoroughbreds, also provides live cover services, as the Thoroughbred breed only registers live-cover foals in the Jockey Club Registry.  

“We’ve got our own lab where we process the semen, ship the semen, and receive the semen. It’s just far exceeded our expectations as far as how the business has taken off right here in Cheyenne, Wyoming.” 

Proximity to Denver International Airport and I-80 make the location ideal for shipping semen and standing stallions. Owners often visit their horses while passing by.  

After a successful first year, DeLanceys look forward to expanding their services.  

“We learned some things in 2025, as you always do, and we just think that we are going to continue to work on offering additional services. We’re going to be freezing semen and storing frozen semen onsite this year. 

“We’d like to bring an in-house veterinarian on board at some time maybe this year, maybe next year, and start working on doing some frozen embryos and doing recips and kind of building a herd of recips and really continuing to expand on the reproduction side.”  

DeLancey said she and her family are passionate about “continuing to help people build their dream horses and trying to support the agricultural economy in Wyoming.”  

“[This is] kind of our three-year plan, looking at continuing to expand and offer additional services for people. But while we are very growth-minded, we certainly want to grow at a pace that we feel isn’t too overwhelming for anybody on our team. [We want to] make sure that we remain highly focused on quality control and doing the best job we can, providing the best quality semen for our mare owners with exceptional customer service,” she said.  

“We have a great team,” DeLancey said. We are going to be opening up the breeding this year to bring some interns in so that way we’re able to share knowledge and give people hands-on expertise, not just learning from a textbook. We work really closely with the University of Wyoming College of Ag., Laramie County Community College and some other junior college equine programs.”   

“We understand the weather is a little different than some of the stallion stations in the south, and we’re really trying to build a business that caters to northern mare owners,” she said.  

A balancing act 

DeLanceys have a lot of proverbial irons in the fire, with pursuits in and out of the rodeo arena.  

Cindy is an attorney and is currently the Director of Government Affairs for Holland & Hart in Cheyenne. Dave serves as the stallion station manager and oversees all of their agricultural pursuits, which includes their home place called Rodeo Ranch, 15 broodmares and a herd of Corriente cows.  

Dave and Cindy’s story started with a horse.   

“I bought a horse from a cowboy by the name of Dave Delancey when my dad asked me what I wanted when I graduated from law school at the University of Wyoming,” she said. She bought a yearling from Dave, and said, “I still have the horse and still have the cowboy 24 years later. ‘Max’ lives like a king on our ranch.” 

Dave and Cindy have two children, Beau and Raegen.  

Together, the family operates numerous entities, such as Hell on Wheels Rodeo Company, which produces rodeos throughout the summer in Cheyenne. “That’s grown to be quite the event,” DeLancey said.  

Raegen attends the University of Wyoming on a rodeo scholarship and has competed on their stallions.  

DeLanceys hope to highlight their stallions’ progeny’s abilities by enrolling their stallions in various incentive programs. Fiestas Dynasty, an AQHA Reserve World Champion Head Horse, is eligible for all major programs, including the Royal Crown, Pink, Riata, and Ruby Buckle.  

A single offspring of his entered the Pink Buckle event in October 2025 and emerged the 2D Derby Average Champion.  

“We have the honor to participate be in the best incentives in the industry, whether it’s roping or barrels or breakaway… having that diversity for people that are looking to raise different types of performance horses in the industry is like a dream come true,” DeLancey said.  

 “Our hope is that we’ll get to see some of the babies that we had a hand in creating for folks going out there and continuing to win and do good.”  

DeLanceys started with little and built their dream together. They want to help others do the same. “Dave and I are very firmly committed to paying it forward, and there’s so many nice, wonderful people that helped us get going on that path. [We want ] to try to help people build their program.”