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SPEEDLINES
LIGHTNING BAR
MISS ARIES
THREE BARS TB
LENAS SUGAR DADDY
DOC O’LENA
DOC BAR
DANDY DOLL
SHEILWIN
DELLA P
TEXAS DANDY
BAR MAID
POCO LENA
POCO BUENO
KING
MISS TAYLOR
PRETTY BOY
MARE BY BLACKBURN
BIT OF SUGAR
WAR CHIC
WAR BAM TB
CHICADO V
WAR GLORY
BAMBOULA
CHICARO BILL
DO GOOD
SUGAR MAMA
SUGAR BARS
THREE BARS
FRONTERA SUGAR
BROWN WASP
RAMONA MISS ROCKET
TOP DECK TB
BLAZIN JENNIE JET
JET DECK
MOON DECK
MISS NIGHT BAR
MOONLIGHT NIGHT
BARRED
JET OF HONOR
LIGHTNING BAR
BELLE OF MIDNIGHT
QUINCY LIZ
THREE BARS TB
DELLA P
LEO LIZ
LEO
JEEPS REGRET
BLAZING DUCHESS TB
BLAZE
ALIBHAI
OFFENSIVE
HYPERION
TERESINA
SIR GALLAHAD
BUCKUP
DUCHESS DELIGHT
BARRISTER
BADRUDDIN
BLUE DUCHESS
MULGA
BENAGI
DUCHESS ARDA
Blazin Jetolena by Larry Thornton
When we start out on life’s journey, we never know where life will lead us, or should we say, take us, because we never know what events in our lives will determine our path. That statement not only covers human lives but also the lives of our horses. We see thousands of foals born every year and each has a path in life. Some will succeed on their path and some will not. Some will be consid- ered royalty as they are bred to influence the breed, and they will do that. Some will come out of nowhere to make their presence known because of the path life takes them down. That seems to be the theme for the life of a horse named Blazin Jetolena, an Equi-Stat $4 million barrel racing sire.
Blazin Jetolena was bred by Randy and Sue Rist, who lived in Oregon when the colt was born. The path that Randy and Sue Rist took with Blazin Jetolena is an unusual one, but as we will see, his path to destiny as a barrel racer and as a sire of barrel horses is an interesting one.
Sue tells us how it all got started. “We were just small potatoes,” she said. “We were gymkhana people. That is what we did - playdays. We were young and Randy had a daughter who rode a pony in the playdays, and we would go watch her and I said, ‘You know that looks like fun.’
“So, we each went out and bought a horse and Jet’s mother, Blazin Jennie Jet, was the horse he found. She was a three year old when we bought her, and she was an own daughter of Jet Of Honor. We found her in the “Little Nickel” want ads. We paid $1,500 for her. She was kind of rank, kind of spooky and out of a Thoroughbred mare. We didn’t know what we were doing, and we had to be patient with her, and she turned out to be a pretty darn good gymkhana horse.
“Randy was a fisherman in Alaska,
and he was gone a lot. Several months at a time,” she added. “So, when he was gone, I decided I’d keep her in shape, and I liked her. Then, I went to the state finals, and I
won the barrels at the Washington/Oregon Interstate that was a competition between Oregon and Washington. Then, I decided I was going on and to do the Washington Barrel Racing Association. I was going to be a barrel racer. So, I took her and the next couple years we went to amateur rodeos and to a couple professional rodeos. We did pretty good, but I wasn’t cut out
Blazin Jennie Jet, the dam of Blazin Jetolena, ridden by Sue Rist.
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