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the Louisiana Bred Lassie Futurity-G3 in April, and Jess Go Holm who was second
in the Louisiana Bred Laddie Futurity-G3, also in April. In June, Streakin Snowman won the Delta Downs Louisiana Breeders’ Futurity-G3, setting a track record of :17.082 for the 350-yard race. He was followed across the finish line by Mr Jess Perry son’s Hollywood Perry and Jess Special.
From this first crop, Mr Jess Perry sired nine stakes horses and seven stakes winners. With four of them setting six new track records. Streakin Snowman set three track records, including his win in the Louisiana Breeders’ Futurity; he set a track record in the 2000 Delta Downs Louisiana Bred Derby-G3 going the 400-yards in :19.924; and he set
a track record in the LQHBA Classic Colts
& Gelding Division going the 400-yards at Louisiana Downs in :19.820. Jess Special was third in the Delta Downs Louisiana Breeders’ Futurity-G3 behind Streakin Snowman and Hollywood Perry. He would set a track record in 1999 winning the LQHBA Juvenile Colts & Geldings Division in :17.510 for the 350- yard race at Louisiana Downs. Bugs By Yawl didn’t win a stakes in 1999, but he made up
for it winning three stakes races, with his big win coming in 2002 in the Remington Park Championship-G1. He raced from 1999 to 2008 and became a track record holder in 2001 in a claiming stakes at Retama Park, going 350-yards in :17.641. Tanner Rocket was the last stakes winner from this first crop, and he got his stakes win in October 1999 when he won the Louisiana QHBA Sale Futurity-G2.
The next crop sired by Mr Jess Perry came in 1998. This crop included 12 stakes horses and nine stakes winners. The highlight of this crop included Jess Louisiana Blue, the 2002 Champion Aged Horse; and Feature Mr Jess,
winner of the 2000 Rainbow Futurity-G1 and the 2001 Rainbow Derby-G1. Both of these stallions have become leading sires; with Feature Mr Jess siring foals with earnings
of over $24 million and Jess Louisiana Blue foals earning over $16 million - giving Mr Jess Perry an early start as a sire of sires.
The reason that Dr. Blodgett was interested in Mr Jess Perry was a need at the Burnett Ranches for a new outcross stallion. The Burnett Ranches were founded by Samuel “Burk” Burnett is 1868. Over the years, the ranch had grown and developed into a premier livestock supplier of cattle and horses. The history of the American Quarter Horse Association goes hand in hand with the Burnett Ranches. Anne Burnett Tandy, the granddaughter of Burk Burnett, hosted the famous meeting at her home in Fort Worth in 1940 that played a key role in the formation of the American Quarter Horse Association.
When we delve into the Quarter Horse program at the Burnett Ranches, we find that speed was always a factor in the selection of horses for the ranch breeding program. It is noted in history that one of the major buyers at the famed Will and Dow Shely Dispersal in the early 1900’s was the Burnett Ranches. This was the last home of the foundation sire Traveler, who had distinguished himself as a quarter running horse that became an important sire for the speed of the American Quarter Horse.
After the death of Burk Burnett, the ranch sold their stock horses and had formed a policy that they would buy horses needed for the ranch. But in the mid 1930’s under the direction of George Humphreys, the ranch started breeding their ranch horses again. One of the moves was to use a stallion that Tom Burnett, son of Burk Burnett, had found in Oklahoma named Scooter, or Tom as he
was sometimes known. Scooter was a racing Quarter Horse sired by Midnight, a grandson of the legendary Peter McCue, another great racing Quarter Horse and a foundation sire of the American Quarter Horse.
The next significant stallion move of Burnett Ranches was to use the Army Remount Stallions that were offered to ranchers as a way to improve the Army’s horses by making the foals available to the Army. These stallions also improved the ranch horses. The three primary remount Thoroughbred stallions used by the Burnett Ranch were Buggins, King O’Neil II and Besom. These three stallions, along with Tom (Scooter), were the foundation stallions of the rejuvenated Burnett Ranch horse breeding program.
The Burnett Ranch continued to bring in both race bred stallions and mares for their breeding program. These stallions were crossed on mares by Quarter Horse stallions like Hollywood Gold and Salty Chief. One of the mares was Letty Greenock, a Thoroughbred by Greenock. When she was bred to Hollywood Gold, they got Mr Gold 95, an NCHA Bronze Award winner with earnings of over $31,000.
One of the stallions they used was Joe Hancock, another grandson of Peter McCue. Joe Hancock, raced by his owner Joe Hancock, was “open to the world” up to a half-mile. He was virtually unbeatable. When Joe Hancock couldn’t be matched, he was bought by Tom Burnett and taken to his Triangle Ranch in Paducah, Texas, to be used as a breeding stallion. His foals were used by the Burnett Ranch.
The ranch used other stallion’s like Top Bracket, a AAA/ROM Quarter Horse son
of Top Deck. They stood Hijo The Bull, a Thoroughbred that sired Peggy Toro, the dam of the Burnett Ranch-bred Easy Six, the sire of Streakin Six, the grandsire of Mr Jess Perry.
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