Rey Jay and Tom Lee were a top team. Then Tom was injured in an accident and he was unable to continue his horse activities. Tom Lee is the breeder of Jay Moss and Rey Jay's Pete. Photo courtesy the Peters Family then decided to enter him in the fledgling NCHA Futurity. Rey Jay’s Pete was bred by Tom Lee. In Sally Harrison’s history of the NCHA Futurity,” Cutting Horse Gold,” Kenneth Peters remembers the dam of Rey Jay’s Pete to be a “big buckskin grade mare.” Harrison indicates that he was a full sister to Miss Rey Jay. Miss Rey Jay is registered in the AQHA Stud Book as out of an unregistered mare named Honey. She is now listed in the AQHA Computer Records as Tom’s Honey. Harrison reports that she was sired by a son of Raffles. Miss Rey Jay was an ROM performer with 46 performance points and 10 halter points. She was an NCHA Certificate of Ability winner with earnings of $2,737.72. She was the dam of two foals with
one performer in Miss Rey Lena who earned $3,342.22. Gala Nettles in her book, “Fame And Glory,” on the first decade of the NCHA Futurity, reports through Kenneth Peters that Miss Rey Jay was a very
"... they were like a bird dog going to the bird on a point, that’s the way those Rey Jay’s work cattle.” Cliff Peters
good looking mare while her brother was not going to be a halter horse. When Peters entered his horse in the NCHA Futurity it was late and
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thus he had to find out how to make the late entry and pay the appropriate fee. This lead to a conversation with Marion Flynt, the then President of the National Cutting Horse Association. It was through this conversation that Buster Welch, a friend and trainer for Flynt, would ask to ride Rey Jay’s Pete in the Futurity. And if he liked the colt he would buy him after the Futurity. Well as it turned out Rey Jay’s Pete and Buster Welch won the 1966 NCHA Futurity. Welch bought the horse and then sold him to S. J. Agnew. Rey Jay’s Pete went on to be an NCHA Silver Award winner and a top ten qualifier in the open and nonpro divisions of the NCHA. “After we won the futurity with Rey Jay’s Pete, we came home and we bought Jay Moss as a yearling.,”
WORKING HORSE MAGAZINE • June/July 2015