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Jack McReynolds with Walt Knorpp at Oklahoma Stud in 1974.
decided I wanted to branch it off. That’s when I started Knorpp Bloodstock Insurance in 1998.”
But Janice, his wife of 47 years — also a Clarendon native with no horse background — was the impetus behind the couple’s racehorse ownership endeavors. “She got involved by just going to the horse events: sales, shows, races, all of those things, with me,” Walt says. “She is an animal lover, and she thought we needed to have some horses.”
AND THEY’RE OFF!
In 1984, Walt and Janice partnered with Ferd Slocum on Budget Approval (Windy Ryon– Budget Balancer, Rocket Wrangler) just prior to the All American trials. “She qualified for the finals with the ninth fastest time, and ran ninth in the futurity,” Walt says. She went on to tally five wins from 12 starts, with one second and two thirds, earning $97,695 in two years on the track.
A few years later, Janice partnered with Judy Neumayer in her first stakes winner, Tempered Glass, a 1987 mare by Streakin Six and out of the Raise Your Glass daughter Chick Under Glass.
The mare earned graded-stakes-winner status, earning $103,777 in four years including winning the All American Futurity Consolation and the QHBC Sophomore Classic-G2 and placing fifth in the All American Derby. She won 10 of 25 races, finishing second once and third twice.
Janice also held an interest in Old Habits
as a member of The Girls, a partnership established by Bonnie and Scoop Vessels. Old Habits, by Apollo and out of First Femme by First Down Dash, ended his three-year race career as a multiple graded-stakes-winning gelding with $680,491 in earnings. In 1998,
he won the Governor’s Cup Futurity-G1 and placed second in the All American Futurity-G1, then went on the following year to win the Grade 1 All American and Los Alamitos derbies, place third in the Champion of Champions, and earn the 1999 AQHA Champion 3 Year Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding titles.
Their next exceptional starter was foaled in 1997: Natovas Princess, a First Down Dash mare out of Browns Dasher daughter Natovas
Walt and Janice partnered with Ferd Slocum on Budget Approval (below) just prior to the 1984 All American trials. She qualified and was a finalist in the Grade 1 futurity.
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