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Always one of the top consignors in the annual LQHBA Yearling Sale, Jumonville Farms continues to send a quality group of well-bred prospects to the August event in Kinder, Louisiana. Jumonville Farms has also been the high-seller and high-buyer at the Ruidoso Select Yearling Sale.
Dashingly and Justanold Love run 1-2 in the Grade 1 All American Gold Cup at Ruidoso Downs.
Jumonville Farms has won five Grade 1 races at Ruidoso including the 1982 All American Derby with Justanold Love, the 1983 All American Gold Cup with Dashingly (Justanold Love ran second), 1985 Rainbow Derby with Indigo Illusion and 2000 Rainbow Futurity and 2001 Rainbow Derby with Feature Mr Jess. Dashingly was named the 1983 AQHA Racing World Champion.
In the mid-eighties Jumonville Farms broodmare band included such mares as Champion Dashingly, Grade 1 winner Justanold Love, Champion Queen For Cash, Champion Leading Star, Champion Lady Juno, Champion Little Blue Sheep and multiple champion producer Marketina.
In 1982 J.E. bought Louisiana Slew, a son of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew, for $2.9 million at Keeneland July Select Yearling Sale in Lexington. Trained by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, Louisiana Slew captured the Sunny Slope Stakes at Santa Anita Park and was twice stakes-placed.
J.E. Jumonville purchased Louisiana Slew for the $2.9 million at the 1982 Keeneland
Louisiana Slew entered stud in 1987 and is the dam sire of Jumonville’s Champion stallion Jess Louisiana Blue.
Select July Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jumonville has always gone the extra mile in promot- ing Quarter Horse racing. With a longtime involvement in cutting horse competition, he persuaded Dave Brian, the director of shows for the National Cutting Horse As- sociation, to come to Ruidoso Downs to enjoy the races and attend the 2008 Ruidoso Select Sale. Dave Brian professed to have no interest in owning a racehorse, but studied the catalog and even bid $70,000 on Apollitical Jess. The consignors would not take less than $150,000, and the fine yearling turned into an incredible racing Champion and sire.
Feature Mr Jess, under jockey Jacky Martin, winning the 2000 $629,543 Rainbow Futurity(G1) at Ruidoso Downs.
Brian followed the career of Apollitical Jess with in- terest and asked J.E. if he had a mare they could breed as a partnership. Of course, he did; a homebred named The Louisiana Girl. The foal was named Dutcher, after his middle son, Dutch, who runs the family’s
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