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J.E.’s first racehorse was 12-time winner Turner’s Super in 1966.
J. E. continued, “A year or two later, I had some Charolais cattle, a small herd, and a friend of mine whose dad rode cutting horses came to me and said his dad wanted to come look at my bulls. I had eight yearling bull calves. He came down and liked bull number such and such. I was getting $1,500 for a bull and that was when I was making $126 a week, which was a lot of money to me. He said, ‘I want to trade you a racehorse for that bull.’ I told Mr. Turner, ‘I don’t know about a racehorse.’ Well, to make a long story short, that is how I got Turner’s Super from Arch Turner.
“He was a stallion. We raced him. He wasn’t a stakes horse, but I didn’t know the difference then. He got me interested some more and I bred some mares to him. Didn’t do anything but raise ranch horses out of him. Then we went to Ruidoso and bought Go Far Wonder, and he did well as my first futurity winner in the Frem Boustany Futurity. I later sold him.”
J.E.’s first stakes winner was Go Far Wonder, winner of the 1971 Frem Boustany Futurity at Evangeline Downs.
J. E.’s introduction to racing was just the beginning of what was to come. J. E. and Bunny had started out farming and he was working for his dad on the side to make a living. This included enlarging their farm by adding land. Then fate stepped in, and they found natural gas on their land. This opened a new phase in their life and a plan to breed and develop racehorses.
J. E. and Bunny went to the 1982 Phillips Ranch Sale in Frisco, Texas, and the purchase of two mares gave Jumonville Farms a boost in the racing world. We will let J. E. tell us how it came about. “We went to the Phillips Ranch the day before the sale. I drove in that driveway and saw the 2,500 acres of white pipe fence and it took your breath away. I had researched it and he was selling Queen For Cash and Justanold Love. I was laying on the bed the night before the sale and I told Bunny, ‘This is a chance of a lifetime. Here is a man that has spent his life doing this and you get to come here, and if you have the ability and courage to do it you get a chance.’ She looked at me and said, ‘If you feel like you can make it work do it.’ That was the start of our move to the upper level.”
A meeting with B. F. Phillips on sale day resulted in their being able to purchase the mares on terms that allowed them to pay for
2-time Champion Leading Star winning the 1982 Los Alamitos Derby.
J.E. Jumonville Jr. with Justanold Love and Champion Queen For Cash, purchased from the 1982 Phillips Ranch Sale.
them over four years. He was able to depreciate the sale price on them out in three years for tax purposes. Queen For Cash, bought for $1,125,00, was the 1981 Champion Three- Year-Old Filly. She made several starts after the purchase with only one allowance win.
But Justanold Love, who was bought for $875,000, continued to race, starting with a win in the All American Derby, outrunning 1981 AQHA Racing World Champion Special Effort. She continued racing in 1983 to win four of six starts, including the Champion of Champions-G1, with winnings of $391,034. She was never named an AQHA Champion. The success of these two mares led to more mares, including Dashingly in December of that year under the same payment plan he
had with Phillips for the other two mares. He bought her from Windi Phillips. Dashingly was named the 1983 AQHA World Champion for Jumonville. Ironically, Dashingly
finished fourth behind Justanold Love in
the 1983 Champion of Champions-G1,
but she won $916,877 while winning three Grade 1 races, including the All American Gold Cup-G1, Vessels Maturity-G1 and Go Man Go Handicap-G1 to secure the World Championship title. Bubba Cascio had continued training Dashingly and Justanold Love. Two-time Champion Leading Star was the fourth mare that became known as the “million-dollar mares.”
Justanold Love was the only one of
the four to make a major impact on the Jumonville Farm breeding program. She made history as the first American Quarter Horse mare to produce a foal by embryo transfer with Together At Last by Streakin Six. They bred Together At Last to Call Me Dash, a 3/4-brother to Justanold Love, to
get Call Me Together, a stakes winner in the Louisiana QHBA Sale Futurity. He was the sire
Dashingly earned J.E. Jumonville the 1983 World Championship title.
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