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Traveler.
Domino.
“Throughout my high school years, I hadn’t ridden at all. C. B. Reynolds called me, and he said, ‘You are Henry Arthur’s daughter.’ I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘Well I know you can ride a horse.’
Cebe Reed and Martha.
“He (Jim Bo) had not been used for probably eight years and I took my dad’s roping saddle, and I made a barrel horse out of him. That was my first barrel horse.”
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a Pal O Mine Mare. Pal O Mine was a full brother to Rialto P-2, the second stallion
to be listed in the AQHA Stud Book as a foundation sire. The dam of Thumper was Sally Poore by a horse known as Will Wright by Little Joe. Little Joe was sired by Traveler and out of Jenny, the full sister to Baby Ruth. The dam of the Will Wright horse was a daughter of Hickory Bill. Thumper developed colic and died before his full impact could be felt. Then sadly Mr. Arthur passed away when Martha was about 10. He was 43 years old.
Martha continued about her entry into barrel racing, “Dad had 36 mares and this stallion Jim Bo when he passed away. He passed away from a heart attack. So, my mother sold all the horses and kept one horse and that was Jim Bo. I believe he was a Joe Reed.”
She then told the following. “My mother kept Jim Bo, and I went through school doing other things like sports and everything else. When I was a senior in high school, I went to a rodeo and when I came home from that rodeo mother had that one horse. He had not been used for probably eight years and I took my dad’s roping saddle, and I made a barrel horse out of him. That was my first barrel horse.”
We saw with Thumper that he was a foundation bred horse and Jim Bo, who
was registered only in the NQHBA, was a combination of foundation Quarter Horse bloodlines and Thoroughbred bloodlines. This introduces us to the crossover connection between racing bloodlines and barrel racing. Jim Bo was sired by a horse name Joe Sunday
Joy in the NQHBA Stud Book. When you get an online pedigree of Jim Bo from the AQHA through his NQHBA number, it shows that his sire was Joe Sunday. When you look up Jim Bo in the NQHBA Stud Book you see that his sire was Joe Sunday Joy bred by E. C. Puryear and he owned him. When we look up the AQHA registered Joe Sunday, we see that he was bred by J. J. Slankard, the last owner of Joe Reed P-3. He was also owned by E. C. Puryear. The dam of Joe Sunday Joy was Bay Lady by Joy. The dam of Joe Sunday was Lady Cause by Joy. They were both born in 1941 and owned by the same man at that point. This is interesting but may indicate that Joe Sunday Joy and Joe Sunday were the same horse, or they were 3/4-brothers owned by the same man.
The dam of Jim Bo was a mare named Molly Marie by Red Hot, a Thoroughbred by Under Fire. Under Fire is best known as the sire of Peace Pipe, who was the broodmare sire of Moon Deck, the sire of such great horses as the prominent stallions Jet Deck and Top Moon. The dam of Red Hot was Vision by Helmet
by Disguise by Domino, the great source of speed. The dam of Vision is Dream Girl by Voter. Voter is the paternal great great grandsire of Three Bars. Voter and Disguise are in the pedigree of the legendary Three Bars.
CEBE REED (CEBE)
Cebe Reed is the horse that made Martha Josey a full-time barrel racer and the first of the Amazin’ Eight. She tells the story of how she got Cebe Reed. “Out of all those mares my mother sold, one went to a man named C. B. Reynolds of Longview. Her name was
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Bay Canary and he bred her to Frank’s Pal who was all Thoroughbred. That was how Cebe Reed came along.”
She continued, “Throughout my high school years, I hadn’t ridden at all. C. B. Reynolds called me, and he said, ‘You are Henry Arthur’s daughter.’ I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘Well I know you can ride a horse.’ I told him, “I really haven’t done that much riding.”
That statement didn’t seem to stop him. She continued her story. “He told me, ‘I have a horse named Cebe Reed and you need to come and try him,’ and I did. Since my dad was in the Quarter Horse association, I went mostly with the Quarter Horses shows and won everything. I went to my first National Finals on that horse. That was in ‘68.” A backstory on the purchase of Cebe Reed- Martha’s mother had leased her land for $2,500 and she gave the money to Martha to buy the horse.
Cebe Reed and Martha earned 89 AQHA performance points with an ROM earning
a Superior in barrel racing. They entered 34 AQHA barrel races and won 30 of them. They went on to be the Texas Barrel Racing Association Champions from 1964 to 1967. At one time, they won 52 barrel races in
a row. They won seven horse trailers. He carried Martha to her first National Finals Rodeo in 1968 and they went back in 1969.