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BUILDING A HERD
Kaye says that at the outset, Dan knew nothing about who nicked with whom and who was who in the Quarter Horse industry, so he studied magazines, read books and followed the races. “He’s had tunnel vision since then,” she says. “He learned a lot from studying and from people in the industry, including the importance of mares in a runner’s ability.”
In the 1990s, Dan and Kaye were at a sale looking at a Game Plan mare by Easy Jet when the mare’s owner, Jerry Lawley, told Dan of another Game Plan mare he had with more
on her bottom side, so they bought the 1985 Appaloosa mare Pretty Perfect, by Quarter Horse sire Game Plan, and out of Appaloosa mare Perfect One by Quarter Horse sire Ichibon.
Perfect One was inducted into the Appaloosa Horse Club Hall of Fame in 2010. Pretty
Perfect produced 1990 mare Sail On Perfect, whose first foal was First Touch Down by First Down Dash son First Weapon. First Touch Down earned $7,594 with one win, two seconds and five thirds from 17 outs.
Matt Whitekiller talked them into buying their great Texas Hero Paint mare Elaina Go Go, their highest-priced mare at that time, as a yearling in 2005. She remains a part of their broodmare
band along with her daughter Go Go Maserati; their homebred mare PRP Sedona Sunset (dam
of 2018 World Champion, Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding and # 1 Honor Roll Gelding Live Moonshine);
Ze Southern Girl (dam of 2019 World Champion, Champion 2 Year Old, Champion 2 Year-Old Gelding and # 1 Honor Roll Gelding Southern Electric); Judys Apollo (dam of 2-time 2017 Champion, 2-time 2018
Champion, and 2-time 2019 Champion Bully Pulpit); and Lindys Sign and Shiny Sign, both
2015 daughters of Second Painted Sign.
2019: A VERY GOOD YEAR 2019 WAS GOOD TO DAN AND KAYE:
• After five previous years as APHA Leading
Owners/Breeders and having won the APHA’s Paul Harber Distinguished Service Award in 2018, the Joneses finished 2019 as Leading Paint Owners with $336,394.
• Southern Electric, by the Joneses’ sire CRM Livewire and out of Ze Southern Girl by Southern Cartel, earned the APHA 2019 World Champion Running Breeding Stock Horse, Champion 2 Year Old and Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding in his first year running, with four stakes wins including the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Futurity-G1, Speedhorse Paint
& Appaloosa Championship Futurity-G1, PSBA Futurity-G1, and Pot O’Gold Futurity-G1. At year’s end, his stats read 12-9-1-1 with earnings of $185,398. He was also named #1 Honor Roll Gelding.
• The Joneses’ Chuck Bowlan-bred 2015 gelding Bully Pulpit, by CRM Livewire and out of Judys Apollo by Apollo TB, was named APHA 2019 Champion Running Breeding Stock Aged Horse and Aged Gelding, 2018 Champion 3 Year Old and 3-Year-Old Gelding, and 2017 Champion 2 Year Old and 2-Year-Old Gelding. CRM Livewire also joined the ranks of $2 million sires in 2019, with get earning $958,722 that year ($2.13 million total as of Jan. 1, 2020), boosting him to fifth on the all-time list.
• Jones-bred Babe Wired, by CRM Livewire and out of Biker Babe by Awesome Chrome, was named #1 Honor Roll Mare.
• CRM Livewire’s 2016 foal Ima Real Livewire, out of Ima Stormy Valentine and owned by Carol Stacy, earned the 2019 APHA Champion 3 Year Old and 3-Year- Old Gelding titles.
• CRM Livewire’s 2016 filly RP Livewire Papasbaby, out of RP Eye N Colours by Eye Yin You and owned by Roy Perkins, earned the 2019 APHA Champion 3-Year-Old Filly title.
2020: ANOTHER GOOD YEAR SO FAR, 2020 HAS BEEN ANOTHER GOOD YEAR FOR DAN AND KAYE:
• They are the #1 APHA leading breeders of
2020 money earners, winners & races won • They are the #1 APHA leading owners of
2020 money earners, winners & races won
• Their CRM Livewire is the #1 leading sire of 2020
APHA money earners, winners & races won
FAMILY TIME
After they sold the Lewisville car dealership, Dan and Kaye moved to Kemp, Texas, where they keep some of their mares and babies and have run Sandy Shores RV Park and Marina for the past 20 years.
“We approached the RV park like we do most other things,” Kaye says, “— we’ve made it our family. We’ve got good people and we’ve enjoyed it; it’s been a lot of fun.”
Although they’ve moved most of their foaling operation to James Ranch in Wayne, Oklahoma, and Sallisaw, Oklahoma, where Matt Whitekiller trains their runners, Kaye
still does the morning feeding at their Texas operation. “It’s let me keep my eyes and my hands on them to make sure everything’s okay,” she says. “Having the horses has been great therapy for us. Each one knows their name and gets talked to and petted every day.”
In their “off time,” if there is such a thing
in their world, they go to the horse races at Remington Park, Fair Meadows and Will Rogers Downs. “That’s what we enjoy, and we love spending time with our families: my brothers and our kids, Kim, Brandi and Tammy; our sons-in-law and grandkids.”
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CRM Livewire is the #1 Leading Sire of 2020 APHA Money Earners, Winners and Stakes Winners. He is a 10-Time World Champion Sire of $2.7 Million with eight stakes winners with over $540,000 in 2020.