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Grade 3 stakes winner Call Me Together, the sire of over $3.2 million.
of horses that won over $3.2 million, including Chicks Call Me, winner of the Remington Park Futurity and Blue Ribbon Futurity as well as a second in the All American Futurity.
The Jumonville story continued in somewhat of a different direction with the purchase of
two mares and a Thoroughbred colt. Our conversation continued this way. “I asked
Bubba Cascio one time what is wrong with Thoroughbred blood in Quarter Horses, and
he said, ‘J. E., there is one thing wrong with
it - if you don’t have enough of it.’ So, I went to Kentucky and the November Thoroughbred sales, and I bought some quality Thoroughbred mares that were older. One wasn’t in foal, and one was a Northern Dancer mare, and I bought a Cornish Prince mare and one other mare. They were all stakes winners and/or stakes producers. Some of them had produced sprinting horses.”
The Cornish Prince mare was Brenda Beauty and she was out of Lyvett by To Market. She was a two-time stakes winner in the Astoria Stakes and Polly Drummond Stakes. Brenda Beauty was bred to Truckle Feature to get the mare Brenda Feature, who became a Jumonville Farms broodmare.
J. E. then brought the colt into the conversation, “Before I bought the Thoroughbred mares, I went to Kentucky and bought Louisiana Slew as a yearling in 1983 and gave $2.9 million for him. The industry was looking for a Thoroughbred to cross on Quarter Horse mares. I was looking for one that would go both ways. He was by Seattle Slew and out of Wisp O’Will that had produced Gallant Bob, who was a Sprint Champion, and Wisp O’Will was sired by New Policy, the sire of Reb’s Policy who was
Chicks Call Me, by Call Me Together, winning the 1999 Remington Park Futurity.
producing Quarter Horse running Champions. We syndicated him. He won the Sunny Slope Stakes, outrunning Snow Chief - favorite
for the Kentucky Derby and winner of the Preakness. Slew chipped a knee and ankle,
and his career was over.”
The next mare to come to Jumonville
Farms was Little Blue Sheep, one of the all- time great race mares. J. E. wanted Little Blue Sheep for a long time and he recalled what he saw in the mare the first time he saw her. “We had sent an Easy Jet horse to Wayne Lukas for training. Bunny and I went to San Luis Rey, a training track to see our horse and Lukas had them bring out Little Blue Sheep. That was when she was in her prime.
I have never seen a horse, before or since, that walked down the shed row any stronger than that mare. When she walked, she popped dirt out of her feet two foot high. She did that just walking. She grabbed the ground like she was going to tear it apart when she walked. I told Bunny right then that someday I was going
to own that mare. It took me 10 years before
I could get her bought.” He bought her from Brown Badgett.
Thoroughbred Louisiana Slew, the broodmare sire of Jess Louisiana Blue.
The last foal for Little Blue Sheep was The Louisiana Girl by Louisiana Slew. The Louisiana Girl was a stakes placed runner in the Miss Princess Handicap. She was the dam of 15 starters with 12 ROM and one of the few mares to produce six stakes winners. Her stakes winners include Louisiana Eye Opener, The Louisiana Cartel and Jessthelouisianagirl. She produced two stakes winners by Call Me Together in Fed Ex Together and Call Me Fed Ex.
In 1997, Jumonville bred eight mares to an up-and-coming stallion named Mr Jess Perry, now the #3 All-Time Leading Sire of Money Winners. J. E. told me the following about breeding to Mr Jess Perry. “When I saw those first Mr Jess Perry babies I really liked them. I had 10 mares and I bred eight of them to Mr Jess Perry. When his first two year olds ran, he had six stakes winners from 36 starters. We bred to him when we saw those runners as babies.
“We had a storm go through here one night and four of the mares were killed by lightning when it struck,” he continued. “So, we got two fillies and two colts from the four mares. Those colts were Feature Mr Jess and Jess Louisiana Blue.”
2-time Champion Little Blue Sheep after winning the 1977 Go Man Go Handicap.
The Louisiana Girl, the dam of Jess Louisiana Blue.
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