Macie Rae Warken raked in over $20,000 at the 2025 Royal Crown in Buckeye, Arizona, with Kid Outlaw highlighting the day with the 4 & Under win.
Warken, 17, and the 2021 gelding by Shiney Outlaw out of Dualin Darlene by Dual Pep picked up the average win and the 4 & Under Royal Crown Sidepot after a 304.56 over three rounds of competition.
In all, Warken and Kid Outlaw pocketed $9,200 in the 4 & Under with $420 going to the sire Shiney Outlaw’s owners at Cannon Quarter Horses and $180 going to the breeders 70 Ranch Performance Horses. Warken also won third in the average and 4 & Under Sidepot on SLR Annie Oakley, also sired by Shiney Outlaw.
“My yellow mare and him are both out of Shiney Outlaw, but they’re complete opposites,” Warken explained. “Him, you got to kind of wake up, and the yellow mare, you kind of got to make her quiet. He’s super quiet and he’s been really just easy to just bring up to this point. He’s going to get kicked out for a couple of weeks after this, both of them are. But he’s been super easy. He has always wanted to score, always wanted to stop; he wanted to do the hard stuff pretty easy, I think.”
Warken also won third in the All Ages and All Ages Sidepot on Gunna Mambo, the 2019 mare she won the inaugural Old West Rope Horse Futurity Ladies Only 6 & Under Breakaway on.
Not so outlaw after all
The Warken family has owned Kid Outlaw since his 2-year-old year after buying him from Dale Clearwater of Justabouta Ranch in Saskatchewan. Since then, he’s advanced easily in the breakaway, and he was her pick of the day out of her herd.
“I feel like his stopping has gotten a lot better, but I mean, he’s kind of just came along pretty easy,” Warken said. “We started out just doing the pen roping, running down the alley and roping them, and he took it honestly pretty good. And then we brought him over to the box. He kind of just took everything pretty easy. Then we just gradually added strong cattle, and I like to still bring him back on the slow ones and make sure that he’s rating off there, which I think that was a big benefit for today.”
Kid Outlaw is going to get some rest at home before starting back up on the futurity trail this summer.
“We’ll keep showing him, but he’ll get kicked out for a couple weeks,” Warken said with a laugh. “It’s big to bring him up here, and he’s pretty tired. Then hopefully we’ll take him to Royal Crown Canada and then probably Rock Springs, and I’m not really sure where else we’re going to go from there, but we’ll keep taking him to the futurities for sure.
