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Bud Warren had plans to use Leo as a broodmare sire.
Leota W, by Leo, produced 1966 Bardella Stakes winner Stepping Star.
Citation Bars, out of Leota W, won the 1981 Trinity Meadows Texas Classic Futurity, pictured here winning his trial to the Los Alamitos Winter Futurity.
Goer, whose second dam is Leota W, won the 1966 La Pitahaya Winter Derby.
Leolita, by Leo and out of Swamp Angel, won the 1951 Kansas Futurity and 1952 Kansas Derby.
Jr. picked him up in Carlsbad, New Mexico. According to Strauss, Della Moore was on the verge of being returned to Louisiana, and he took the opportunity to have the aging Della Moore bred to Joe Blair thinking her race days were over. But fate stepped in and Della Moore was sold to Mrs. Moore and sent to Henry Lindsey. The new owner was unaware that Della Moore was carrying the legendary Joe Reed P-3.
As the story goes, Henry Lindsey had matched Della Moore with a horse named Dan Murphy for a race but her girth kept getting bigger. By race time they knew she was in foal. She didn’t race because they had a stipulation that if it rained, they could call it off. I guess according to the story it sprinkled and they called the race off. Della Moore foaled Joe Reed a couple of months later.
Lindsey kept the foal from the unplanned mating because he was Della Moore’s son. Lindsey registered Joe Reed
in the Thoroughbred Appendix Registry
to race him on Thoroughbred tracks. This was a common practice before we had a formal registration through the AQHA.
He was listed as sired by Joe Blair and out of an appendix registered mare named Myrtle Reed. Joe Reed went on to be a good racehorse and more importantly, a great sire. The great foundation sire Peter McCue was another one that was appendix registered as sired by Duke Of Highland, a Thoroughbred, when he was actually sired by Dan Tucker, a Quarter Horse. Flying Bob, another prominent Quarter Horse sire, was another one. He was registered as Royal Bob for racing purposes on recognized Thoroughbred tracks, which was the legal racing during this time period.
Joe Reed II and Little Fanny show outcross speed in their female families.
Joe Reed II was raced in Arizona, at the same time as his son Leo was running in Oklahoma. He started three times with three wins in 1942-43. Joe Reed II impressed his opponents so much that they made him
the 1942 Champion Stallion for the year. His title came when he defeated the likes
of former World Champion Clabber while running on three good feet. He had injured himself doing ranch work with a glass cut on his foot that never healed properly. He raced three times and didn’t come out of his stall between the three races.
Joe Reed II was out of Nellene, a Quarter Horse mare by the Thoroughbred Fleeting Time by High Time by Ultimus. High Time was a linebred Domino stallion. Ultimus
to Pancho, the sire of Brown Billy the sire of Little Red Nell. Red Nell was a race mare that tried to outrun the great Joe Hancock twice. She was beaten both times.
Little Fanny, the dam of Leo, was out of Fanny Ashwell by the Thoroughbred stallion Ashwell by Alloway by Springfield. Ashwell’s dam was Melton Mowbray by Melton.
The dam of Fanny Ashwell was Fanny Richardson, who was out of Sister Fanny
by an unknown stallion. I asked pedigree researcher Victoria Short about Sister Fanny and she found in the American Stud Book that she was bred by Milton Young and owned by Perry A. Shannon of Benonine, Texas. She was sired by Whistle Jacket and out of Reply by Enquirer, the sire of Mannie Gray the dam of Domino - giving us another blood affinity to Domino in the pedigree
of Leo. Volume 10 of the American Stud Book page 1095 shows that Sister Fanny foaled Dola Fern by Fernandino in 1905, and Hathaway by Skilful in 1906, with no foals in 1907 and 1908, and in 1909 she had a foal that died. Her 1910 foal is unnamed by Fernandino. Some believe that this foal could be Fannie Richardson. Volume 11 shows her foals to be Clarence Fox by Prairie King in 1911, Alford Pratt in 1912, and Silver Whistle in 1913. Both are sired by John A Scott. Her last foal found in Volume
was sired by Commando by Domino and his dam was Running Stream by Domino. The dam of High Time was Noonday by Domino. This gave High Time a breeding pattern of 3 x 3 x 2, a major source of speed in the pedigree of today’s sprinting Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse runners.
Fleeting Time was out of British Fleet
by Great Britain and out of Belle Nutter by Faraday. British Fleet is also the dam of Loose Foot, the dam of With Regards - the sire of Direct Win who is found in the pedigree of leading sires Dash For Cash and Streakin Six.
Nellene was out of the Quarter Horse mare Little Red Nell by Brown Billy by Pancho by Old Billy and Pancho was out of Pasiana by Bailes Brown Dick by Berkshire. The dam of Little Red Nell was Red Nell, and this is what Franklin Reynolds in “The History of Joe Reed P-3 Part 2” in the January 1960 issue of The American Quarter Horse Journal reported about Little Red Nell. “Mr. House described Little Red Nell as being an excellent individual of the quarter- type and a mare with a splendid disposition. She was by a well-known running horse, Brown Billy by Pancho and her dam was Old Red Nell by Texas Chief by Lock’s Rondo.” Lock’s Rondo was sired by Whalebone
by Old Billy and out of Paisana by Bailes Brown Dick Whalebone was a full brother
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