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“Dad was involved in racing for many years and my grandfather was on the sidelines doing his own thing,” she continued. “One year, grandpa came to my dad and said, ‘I want you to find me a race bred broodmare.’ His budget was $1,000. So, Dad looked. He always studied his catalogs, and he was always studying pedigrees. He wanted something in the Three Oh’s line. He was a fan of Three Oh’s and he found this mare that I think was cataloged in a sale, but I don’t know what year or the sale. He called the man in Texas and convinced him to sell the mare. He went there before the sale, picked her out and bought her for my grandpa. That mare was Scoopie Fein.
“He got her for the $1,000,” Leigh added. “Dad later told me that he could have bought her mama for $500, but she was in her twenties and he didn’t buy her.” Records show that he did later buy Legs La Scoop, the dam of Scoopie Fein.
“So, he brought her home and helped grandpa pick out who he should breed her to,” Leigh continued. “One year he picked Streakin La Jolla, and that foal was Mr Jess Perry.
“Mr Jess Perry was born here at this farm. Then, a year later, my grandpa passed away. Dad thought Mr Jess Perry was the nicest colt he had ever raised. So, he named him in honor of my grandfather Jesse Perry.”
Leigh was not sure why Leverne sold
Mr Jess Perry, but she felt that he did regret selling him. “You just never know,” Leigh recalled Leverne telling her. “I could have kept him, and he could have run into a brick wall. You just don’t know.”
The AQHA Hall of Fame biography for Mr Jess Perry gives us another reason Leverne may have sold Mr Jess Perry and that was
his position as the Executive Director of the LQHBA. Leverne had worked many years to develop the very successful racing programs for the Louisiana owners and especially the breeders. He felt it would be a conflict of interest to race the colt. So, Mr Jess Perry was sold in the 1993 LQHBA Sale for $15,500.
Elliot Clark Sr. was the buyer and then he was transferred to Cheryl Brasseaux, whose husband John was his trainer for his two- year-old campaign. In 1995, Mr Jess Perry was raced by Diedre Watson and trained
by Brasseaux and Kenneth Roberts Sr. He then raced for Elliot Clark under the name Ultimate Breed Inc. in California, and he was trained by Blane Schvanevelt in 1996.
Mr Jess Perry made 21 starts with 12 wins, including five stakes wins. He was second in two starts, one of which was a stakes event. His best year was his two-year- old season with seven wins from nine starts, including the Texas Classic Futurity-G1 at Sam Houston Race Course where he set
a new track record of :19.66 for the 400 yards; the Louisiana Quarter Horse Breeders Association Futurity at Delta Downs where he set a track record of :19.97 for the 400 yards; the Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans; and the Louisiana Breeder’s Laddie Futurity-RG3 at Delta Downs. His stakes placed second came in the Louisiana Breeder’s Futurity-RG3
at Delta Downs. He was named the 1994 AQHA Champion Two Year Old and the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
The race record for Mr Jess Perry at three and four included 12 starts with five wins and one stakes win in the 1995 Texas Classic Derby-G1 at Trinity Meadows. He raced in good company into his three- and four-year-
old years. He was fourth in the 1996 Louisiana Champions Day Classic and a finalist in the 1995 Remington Park Derby-G1, 1995 Sam Houston Derby-G1, 1996 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1, 1995 Z. Wayne Griffith Director’s Stakes-G3 and 1995 Champions Day Derby. He earned $687,184 in his race career.
The racing career of Mr Jess Perry, as a two year old, brought him to the attention
of Dr. Glenn Blodgett, the horse manager
of Burnett Ranches LLC in Guthrie, Texas. What brought the colt to his attention was his race record in Louisiana while setting a track record winning the Louisiana QHBA Futurity-G1 and then coming to Texas
to challenge the Texas horses in the Texas Classic Futurity-G1 at Sam Houston Race Course. Dr. Blodgett recently said that Mr Jess Perry didn’t have a lot of respect from the Texas connections. Then, he won with a new track record for the 400-yard race in a time of :19.231. This was Dr. Blodgett’s early impression of Mr Jess Perry.
Mr Jess Perry retired in 1996 and he entered stud with Rick and Brad Boutte
of Pleasure Time Farms in Alexandria, Louisiana. His first foals came in 1997. When these first foals made their first starts in 1999, Mr Jess Perry again drew the attention of Dr. Blodgett. What Dr. Blodgett saw was a foal crop that was making waves in Louisiana. By the time June came around, Mr Jess Perry had six stakes horses in the books. They included Hollywood Perry,
who won the Mardi Gras Futurity-G3 in March where he set a track record for the 330 yards in :17.090, with Jes A Lady by
Mr Jess Perry finishing second in the same race. Then came Windy Perry, who won
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