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AMONG JIM WALKER’S TOP PERFORMERS ARE:
TIME FOR JESSE LEE
— By Mr Jesse Lee and out of Time For Noble, by Mescallero Chick, the 2011
graded stakes placed gelding won 21 of 50 starts, with 12 seconds and four thirds. He earned $219,154, ranking fifth by wins in 2013 and 12th by wins in 2014. His 2013 wins included the Gem County Futurity in Emmett, Idaho, and the Les Bois Juvenile Challenge in Boise. He also placed sec-
ond that year in the Los Alamitos Juvenile Challenge, the Wild West Futurity and the AQHA Juvenile Challenge Championship G2, all at Los Alamitos. In 2014, he won the Uncas Handicap at Los Alamitos, qualified to the Sam Houston Derby Challenge at Sam Houston, and won the Bitterroot Derby — the Northwest’s version of the All American. In his 4-year-old year, he took second in the Les Bois Championship Challenge.
With sadness, Jim recently sold the talented gelding. “I just hated it,” he says. “He was one of my absolute best but at my age, I wanted
to sell him to some people I know really well, who would take good care of him. He made me somewhat famous in this area; he was also a World Champion Chariot Horse. In the end, tears are just tears.”
JESSES PERFECT ONE
— A half-brother to both Spudsie and Time For Jesse Lee, the 2011 gelding by Mr Jesse Lee and out of A Perfect Cocktail won four of seven starts, ranking 57th by wins and earn- ing $28,462 in 2013. In his lone year on the track, he won the Dutch Masters III Futurity at the Jerome Fairgrounds, then the Knight Transportation Futurity at Les Bois Park in Boise. He went on to place third in the Golden State Juvenile Invitational at Los Alamitos.
Jims’s current broodmare “band” consists of A Perfect Cocktail (dam of Zoomin For Spuds, Bux For Cocktail and Jesses Perfect One) and her daughter, stakes placed Doing Trix, by One Sweet Jess.
LOOKING AHEAD
Jim says that since retiring from his construction business, he just rides herd on his bird dog and his horses. He thinks this will be his last year to breed. “I’m outrunning the devil by a half step,” he jokes.
He depends on his hired man, Bruce Buchanan, to do the heavy lifting while he pursues hunting and fishing. “I’ve been a lucky guy in a lot of ways,” he concludes. “The horses I have here now are the best I’ve ever had.”
Bux For Cocktail wins the intermountain Futurity
2018 World Champion Chariot Horse Time For Jesse Lee wins the Uncas Handicap
Jesses Perfect One wins the Knight Trucking Futurity
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