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son, Mpshinning won the 2018 LQHBA Louisiana Million for breeder Grant Farms of Pineville. They became the first Louisi- ana breeder to be honored as AQHA Champion Breeder.
Mr Jess Perry winning the Grade 1 Texas Classic Futurity.
Mr Jess Perry has become a sire of sires and his daugh- ters are leading producers. The Mr Jess Perry son One Famous Eagle sired World Champion One Dashing Eagle from his first crop. He won three Grade 1 stakes including the $2.4 million All American Futurity on his way to earn-
ing $2,079,065 as a juvenile.
He is also the number-one broodmare sire of 2-year-old
money earners with those juveniles earning more than $4.86 million. The top 2014 money earner out of a Mr Jess Perry mare was World Champion
Heza Dasha Fire, who won nine Grade 1 stakes in California, earning $2.2 million in his il- lustrious racing career.
Mr Jess Perry stands third on the list of AQHA all-time leading sires, behind First Down Dash and Corona Cartel. He has sired at least 142 stakes winners, including 86 graded stakes winners, with earnings in excess of $54.8 million dollars.
The famed stallion was syndicated in 1999 and stood at Four Sixes Ranch in Guthrie, Texas, until his death in 2017 at the age of 25.
Leverne Perry, who passed away on March 27, 2016, always acknowledged how much he had learned from his father. One of Perry’s five daughters, Leigh Perry Lepinski, remains ac- tive in the industry and is pleased that Mr Jess Perry will be honored.
No less than five sons joined their sire Mr Jess Perry on AQHA Top 25 Leading Sires of Money Earners list in 2018.
#1 Apollitical Jess #3 One Famous Eagle #9 One Sweet Jess
#10 Jesse James Jr. #18 Jess Louisiana Blue #21 High Rate of Return LQHBA Membership Directory 33
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