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J.E. grew up riding on the family ranch and farming operation, which included cutting horses.
THE WORTH OF A CHAROLAIS BULL
Around 1968, J.E. was making $146 a week
Turner’s Super, that J.E. traded a bull for, was his first race winner.
The horse Mr. Turner wanted to trade was “I love the horses,” she says, “and I love the Turner’s Super, out of Frey’s Pride, by Satchel people we get a chance to meet. We’ve met some
working for his dad and raising cattle on the side with Bunny. “We were in the Charolais business,” he says. “Back then, those bulls were pretty popular. I wanted $1,500 for the bull
a friend of mine picked out, and my friend told me that his dad, Mr. Arch Turner, said he wanted to trade a racehorse for that bull.
“Mr. Turner said, ‘When you bring the bull up, take a look at the horse and if you don’t like the horse, I’ll write you a check.’
“I delivered that bull and turned him out with Mr. Turner’s horse, who was a son of Super Charge,” says J.E. Super Charge was by Depth Charge TB and out of the King P234 daughter O’Quinn Midget.
“Super Charge was the first horse to be AAA at all seven AQHA distances,” J.E. says. “Mr Harvey Peltier had bought him for $100,000, which was like millions then.”
Britches. The horse had raced a few times without much success.
“My granddad had told me, ‘J.E., if you’ve got a horse or mule that can lay down and roll over easily, they’re pretty good,’ meaning athletic,” J.E. says. “The horse was so short-coupled, but then he stuck his nose in the ground and he rolled like a top. So, I took the horse.”
J.E. experienced a severe bout of buyer’s remorse on the way home. “My side of it is,” Bunny jokes, “I was once listening to an interview with Billy Graham’s wife where someone asked her if, with him gone months at a time and her alone with all those kids, she ever thought about divorce and she said, ‘Divorce, never. Murder, yes.’ But seriously, we had kids to feed.”
The fact is, Bunny was J.E.’s biggest cheerleader after she got over the horse-for-bull trade.
incredible, wonderful friends through this.” J.E. put Turner’s Super into training with
Billy Duhon, father of world champion bull dogger Steve Duhon, for a 60-day trial period. J.E. gave Billy a check for the first month’s training fully expecting to return after 60 days to pick up the horse and pay the final bill. But after three weeks, Billy called to tell J.E. that Turner’s Super was entered in a race at Evangeline Downs.
“The horse ran third,” says J.E., “and I collected three or four hundred dollars. Two weeks later he ran fourth and I got $150 or so. Three weeks later he ran again and won. Two weeks later he ran and won again, and he kept on winning. He won five in a row. I thought, This is fun!”
J.E., III (Tres), Dutcher (Dutch), Clayton, Claude, J.E., Jr. and Bunny Jumonville
“If you believe something in your gut, do it and see it through. God has given each person a talent and everyone’s talent is different, and I think the ability to feel that something is right is a trait that God gives to some people.” – J.E.
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