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SPEEDLINES
Oklahoma Star with his dam Cutthroat.
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Jetonfer Pay’s sire Jets Pay Day.
Jet Dancing winning the 1984 Raton Derby-G3.
Harmon Baker was used as a racehorse when he wasn’t being used as a sire. History tells us that he was virtually unbeatable.
JETONFER PAY (JET)
The next runner we talked about was Jetonfer Pay, “He was another horse that I went to the NFR on. He was by a stud we had for a while named Jet’s Pay Day.” He was ridden in the Pro Tour Circuit, and she rode him in the 1985 NFR. She had actually qualified for the NFR on a horse named Royal Moon 2, but rode Jetonfer Pay. She indicated, “I like winning go rounds, but
I love to win the average, and he was one you could count on. Jetonfer Pay was one of many Jet’s Pay Day horses on which I rode and won.” Jetonfer Pay was another AQHA point earner with his ROM and 22 open performance points to go with his qualifying for the NFR.
Jet’s Pay Day was a stakes winner in the 1974 Ross Downs Poor Boy Futurity. His sire record shows that his foals earned $357,915 with 91 starters earning 42 racing ROM and six stakes’ winners. His leading money winner was Jet Dancing, who won five stakes including the Raton Derby-G3 and the Manor Downs Derby. Jet’s Pay Day sired horses that won 1004.5 AQHA performance points with 25 ROM and two Superior award winners with one World Champion. Peggys Payday was the
great producer FL Lady Bug, dam of several top racehorses including Lady Bug’s Moon. FL Lady Bug was sired by Sergeant by Billy McCue and out of Yeager’s Lady JA by Will Stead by Billy McCue.
The dam of Bit O’Both was V’s Louise, an unraced mare that had four starters with two ROM, and one stakes winner. The stakes winner was Louise Barnes, winning the Nebraska Derby in 1955. Her sire was Mortgage Barnes by Johnny Barnes making her a 3/4-sister to Bit O’Both. The sire of V’s Louise was Star McCue by Starway by Oklahoma Star P-6, another AQHA Stud Book foundation sire that was a noted racehorse. Oklahoma Star P-6 was sired by Dennis Reed and out of the great Oklahoma race mare Cutthroat by Bonnie Joe. Starway was out of Quarter Lady by Quarter Deck by Man O’War. V’s Lucy was the dam of V’s Louise, and she was sired by Little Jodie by Little Joe Springer by Old Joe by Harmon Baker. Little Joe Springer was out of Old English, a Thoroughbred mare by Ute Chief. Old English was the foundation of the C
S Ranch. Her sire, Ute Chief, was sired by Maximilian, and she was out of a brown Thoroughbred mare by Uhlan II by Uhlan.
The dam of Sonny Bit O’Both was My Vornia by Sunny Chief by Sundown by Red Buck by Buck Thomas and Sundown was
out of Flapper Gal by Buck Thomas. Buck Thomas was sired by Peter McCue. The dam of My Vornia was Bay Maud by Colonel P-8, another AQHA Stud Book foundation sire. Colonel P-8 was sired by Little Joe Springer by Old Joe and out of a mare by Old Joe. Old Joe, a son of Harmon Baker by Peter McCue, was used by Billy Anson, the man that Bob Denhardt relied on to start the formation of the American Quarter Horse Association.
Jetonfer Pay & Martha.
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