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Joe Reed II, sire of Leo.
Queen H, sired by Dan, dam of
Squaw H.
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Van Moon winning a race at Portland Meadows in 1963.
and Vanessa Dee. Both were ROM earners. Now that Dee Garrett had Vandy and
Garrettsmisspawhuska in place, the breeding program was off and, shall we say, running. The first foal from this cross was Vandy’s Betty, who ran AAA time and earned her ROM. She had 15 starts with four wins and one second earning $3,432. She became
the dam of eight starters with seven ROM, including the stakes placed Van Moon,
who was second in the 1962 Bay Meadows Juvenile Championship and the 1963 Portland Meadows Derby. Vandy’s Betty was the dam of It’s Tidy, and she was the dam
of nine ROM, including the stakes winner Barred’s Rocket, winner of the 1969 Bay Meadows Futurity.
Vanetta Dee, foaled in 1952, was
the next foal in this cross of Vandy and Garrettsmisspawhuska. She raced from
1954 to 1959 with 94 starts that included
12 stakes wins, 10 seconds and 12 thirds earning $81,626. Her stakes wins started
in 1954 with the Nebraska Futurity. Then she moved to California adding races like
the Clabbertown G Handicap in 1955, the same year she was named the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She had two more stakes wins in 1956, including the Johnny Dial Stakes, and she was named the Champion Mare. Then in 1957, she won
the Bright Eyes Stakes and earned her next title as the Champion Mare. In 1958, she won four stakes races, including the Bay Meadows Handicap and the Los Alamitos Invitational Handicap and secured her fourth championship as the Champion Mare. She won her last three stakes wins in 1959, including the Shue Fly Stakes and the Miss Princess Invitational Handicap.
Vanetta Dee produced only four foals with three starters that earned their ROM. They were Go Moore Go, who was third in the 1965 Colorado Laddie Stakes, and
Leo was sired by Joe Reed II, the 1942- 43 Champion Stallion. He had three wins
in three starts that allowed him to earn his championship title. The three races were what was known as the Tucson Speed Trials. The interesting part is that he ran these three races with a severe cut on his hoof from a broken bottle that caused a quarter crack that never completely healed. He won the first race on February 7 in a time of :23.2. He won the second race on February 14 in a time of :22.8 and it was the fastest time. He won the third race on February 21 beating the likes of the 1940-41 World Champion Clabber. He won his championship running three races in three weeks and didn’t leave his stall in between races.
The sire of Joe Reed II was Joe Reed P-3, the great son of Joe Blair and the Cajun-bred runner Della Moore by Old DJ. The dam of Joe Reed II was Nellene by Fleeting Time by High Time, the inbred Domino stallion. The dam of Leo was Little Fanny, a daughter of
Joe Reed P-3. Thus, Leo was inbred to Joe Reed P-3 with a breeding pattern of 2x2. This also gives Leo a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Joe Blair.
The dam of Garrettsmisspawhuska was Jenny Dee, a mare sired by Jimmie Allred, a son of Dan by Weatherford Joe Bailey. Dan is also the sire of the great mare Queen H that produced Squaw H by King P-234. Jimmie Allred was out of Alice McGill by Little Hickory by Hickory Bill. The dam of Jenny Dee was a mare know as Big Bay. She was reportedly sired by a Thoroughbred and her dam is just listed as a Quarter Mare.
The AQHA shows Jenny Dee as the
dam of four foals with four ROM. In addition to Garrettsmisspawhuska, she is
the dam of Mr Pawhuska, a full brother
to Garrettsmisspawhuska. He was a stakes finalist in the 1952 Kansas Futurity, the 1952 Oklahoma Futurity, and the 1953 New Mexico State Fair Derby. Jenny Dee was dam of two foals sired by Vandy in Miss Vandy
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