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PYC Paint Your Wagon, the sire of Painted Turnpike World Champion Texas Hero is the sire of Turnpikes Texas Hero, a Paint horse out of Pevehouse’s Quarter Horse mare Turnpike Special.
Easy Jet and he booked Nuyaka Pat to Easy Jet. But Nuyaka Pat died while in foal to Easy Jet. So, he got a rebreed and he bred Turnpike Patty to Easy Jet and got Turnpike’s Jet.
When the Easy Jet foals proved successful, the stud fee on the horse went up. So, Pevehouse put a price of $25,000 on Turnpike’s Jet. One fellow kept dickering with him to get the price down, but he held firm and wouldn’t take less than $25,000.
“I broke Turnpike’s Jet and started here
at the home place riding her at the creek and river banks and whatever,” Pevehouse said. “I worked her at Sallisaw a time or two and she looked pretty descent. I had a two-year-old stud colt here at that time, I think he was
by Tiny Watch, and one weekend we were going to take them up to Tahlequah and just gate the two of them together. So I asked my son, ‘Well, you want to run that tractor and bush hog, or do you want to take these two to Tahlequah and gate them?’ He wanted to take them to Tahlequah and gate them.
“He gets up there and works the Tiny Watch colt, and then he lets some friends talk him into running Turnpike’s Jet against these two aged geldings. Well, he came home that evening about dark and told me I didn’t want to sell that filly, that she was a big time runner. I didn’t believe him and so I called the jockey and he said, ‘Nolan, that mare can run. She is a big runner.’ So I kept her.”
Turnpike’s Jet did turn out to be a big
time runner. She would win two stakes races
in the Sugarloaf Futurity and the Green County Futurity, as well as two seconds in the Firecracker Futurity and the Mistletoe Futurity. She had a third in the Cookson Hill Futurity,
all in 1974 at Blue Ribbon Downs. She would race through 1976 with 32 starts and twelve wins, ten seconds and three thirds, earning $49,661. She set a track record at Eureka Downs going 250 yards in 13.42 seconds.
Turnpike’s Jet would produce five ROM runners, with one stakes placed runner - Easy Moon Lark by Moon Lark and he was second in the Indian Nation Handicap. The other ROM’s included Go Easy Casey by Go Etta, Mutual Agreement by Hempen, Dats Risky Business by What’s Dat, and Turnpike Special by Special Effort.
Turnpike Special would take her modest race record with one win in 12 starts to
the broodmare band where she produced
six Quarter Horse foals with five ROM. The ROM’s included Turnpike Oh Three by Dashin Chico, Muskogee Turnpike by Dashin Chico, Turnpike Oh Seven by SF Royal Quick Flash, and Maximum Turnpike by Country Chicks Man.
The next move in our story comes with a new phase and the breeding of Paint horses. “I had about a 100 head of horses here at the house, and I cut a bunch of them out and sold them here at the house. By 1979,
I had about eight or nine horses left and
I was down to her (Turnpike Special) and some older mares I had kept. I came to the conclusion that this Quarter Horse business was too big for me. So, I started breeding to Paints like Texas Hero and Easy Jet Too.”
So, Turnpike Special started producing Paint horses. Her produce record shows eight APHA starters with six ROM and one stakes placed runner. Her APHA ROM’s include Turnpike Oh Seven by Royal Quick Flash,
Turnpike Express by Royal Quick Flash, Turnpikes N Texas by Texas Hero, Turnpikes Texas Hero by Texas Hero, and Texas Turnpike by Texas Hero. The stakes placed runner from this mare is Turnpikes N Texas, a third place finisher in the Spotted Dotted Stakes. Turnpike Oh Seven is cross registered AQHA/APHA as his sire Royal Quick Flash is registered in the AQHA as SF Royal Quick Flash.
The next mare in this line is Turnpikes Texas Hero, a race winning daughter of Texas Hero and Turnpike Special. Turnpikes Texas Hero was the winner of three races, with three seconds and three thirds in 15 starts. She earned $18,727 on the track. Her sire, Texas Hero, was a very successful racehorse with 18 wins in 22 starts and $100,402 in earnings. Texas Hero became the 1993 APHA World Champion Running Paint Horse,
the APHA Champion Running Two Year Old, and the APHA Champion Running Two-Year-Old Colt. He came back in 1994 to be the APHA World Champion Running Paint Horse, the APHA Champion Running Three Year Old, and the APHA Champion Running Paint Three-Year-Old Colt.
Texas Hero was sired by Raise A Jet, a stakes winner in races like the Texas Open Paint Futurity. He won four of his five starts with earnings of $5,993 and became a leading sire with his foals earning $985,576 on the track. He counts among his foals not only two- time World Champion Texas Hero, but his full brother APHA Champion Running Two Year Old Concho County and APHA Breeding Stock Running Champion Raise Cash.
Raise A Jet was sired by Easy Jet Too by Easy Jet. Easy Jet Too was a stakes
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