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I Do One Two Three in the arena with rider Cami Cumper.
Emily Gethke Photography
I Do One Two Three
World Champion Paint Still Going Fast In New Career
The competitive career of I Do One Two Three has been defined by two edicts: run fast and stand out from the crowd.
Following those guidelines has taken the gelding to the top wherever he has planted his flag, from being named the American Paint Horse Association’s Running World Champion on the racetrack to topping leaderboards in barrel racing events across the Midwest.
Cami Cumper has been a part of I Do One Two Three’s story from the very beginning
– and equally as long as she’s been known as Cami Cumper.
Cumper, nee Cami Hall, married her husband Brad on Feb. 17, 2007. As they exchanged their vows, one of the employees from their Saginaw Valley Equine Clinic received a buzz from her foal alert, got up, and promptly left the ceremony.
by Joe Nevills
At the Saginaw, Michigan clinic, a striking brown and white Judy’s Lineage colt was in the process of being born, out of Hot Cash 123 by Takin On The Cash. The Quarter Horse mare Hot Cash 123 was owned by Walt and Carolyn Bay of Clare, Michigan, whose runners were started and trained by Cumper’s father, Jay
Hall. Hot Cash 123 also produced 2011 World Champion Quarter Horse runner Cold Cash 123.
Getting a splashy color pattern in a Paint foal is like pulling the handle on a genetic slot machine, but Carolyn Bay knew immediately she had hit the jackpot. Having just come back from watching the newly-minted Cumpers exchange vows, the Bays decided “I Do” was
a natural fit for his name, adding to their signature “123” tag to their runners.
“His white - I know it was no whiter than white - but that white just glistened. But, I’m sure it was only in my eye,” Bay said. “To me, it
was the brightest white I ever saw.”
Today, Cumper works tirelessly to keep
the horse’s color just as blinding on the barrel racing circuit.
“Everybody teases me everywhere I go,” Cumper said about her obsessive grooming. “Everything needs to be perfect. I am neurotic about my horse having to be white. Everything has to be clean. My friends tease me that as they’re going in the arena, they’re going to take paint and have it on their hands and rub it on him.”
What stands out the most about the horse when he enters the rodeo arena, though, is his long, flowing tail – just as white as the rest of him – that follows him around each turn like a streamer. That, too, is a product of Cumper’s meticulous grooming.
“He grows no mane and no forelock, but I have to cut his tail,” she said. “I try not to cut it
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