In the years since Tom Mattart’s 1936 Lucky Blanton and his get began dominating California’s famed arenas and local indoors alike, the written word has been largely devoted to the well-minded, hossy hindquartered AQHA stud, but the man atop the horse helped develop the rope horse we know today.
“Tom bought Lucky Blanton at a claimer’s race” Joyce Vieira said. “He took him to his 4,000-acre ranch in Monterey and he trained him to be a calf
