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FEATURED ARTICLES Jumonville Farms............................... Cover Retired Racehorse Project.................................................. Cover T. B. Porter.......................................... Cover LSU/Validation of a Colic Surgery..............................................18 Southeast Junior/High School Rodeo Results...............................22 Louisiana Derby........................................41 Guns, Horses, and Balloon......................45 Immigration and the Horse Industry...........................................49 NBHA State Results.................................55 Stallion Spotlight Open Me A Corona...................................59 LQHBA Insider Orland Orozco...........................................60 Update with Orlando Orozco..................61
Jumonville Farms: Taking Quarter Horse Breeding into the Future by Barbara Newtown
J. E. Jumonville, Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder, lives with his wife Bunny on their farm in Ventress, Louisiana, 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Jumonville Farms covers over 1,000 acres; about 200 acres are dedicated to horses and hay, and the rest is leased out for sugar cane cultivation. The land is lush and flat and located between the False River and the Mississippi. The land is safe from flooding—as long as the Mississippi levee never gives way. J. E. learned about horses from his uncle, who showed in cutting competitions and used horses in his cattle operation. J. E. says, “I traded a bull for my first racehorse, Go Far Wonder, when I was in my 20s. I was blessed from the get-go. That horse ran 3rd in his first race, two weeks later ran 4th, and then he won 5 races in a row. I got excited about racing and started reading books and learning about it. He was just a claiming horse!” Continued on page 12...
Introducing the Retired Racehorse Project by Emily McAtee
Two years ago, a colt called American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown: the first horse to do so since Affirmed took away the title in 1978. The horse world stirred when his owner continued to race him, and we wondered why he didn’t quit while he was ahead. When American Pharaoh took 2nd at Saratoga two races later, we criticized the owner for continuing to American Pharaoh: photo from The race him instead of enjoying his winning Daily Maila streak. Then American Pharaoh came back and won the Breeder’s Cup Classic in Keeneland, and we all forgave his owner for continuing to race him. American Pharaoh is now residing at Coolmore Ashford Stud, where his stud fee is a cool $200,000 per live foal. It’s the happy ending that reminds us of all of the racing movies we grew up with, like National Velvet and Seabiscuit. Continued on page 30...
T. B. Porter
A Living Legend
by Barbara Newtown
T. B. “Teaberry” Porter, age 90, of Leesville, Louisiana, is a longtime national rodeo star and tough as nails and leather. He had his arm amputated in March, 2012 after a wrestling match with a bulldozer. By June, 2012 Porter was back at work on his 600 acre ranch, rising at 5 a.m. every morning, repairing equipment, baling hay, bush hogging pastures, and checking his 500 cows and calves. T. B. comes by his cowboy toughness naturally. His father raised stock for local rodeos, traded horses and cattle, and provided mules for working on the railroad. T. B. roped, rode, and trained animals not for sport or fun but because he was a real cowboy. By 1938 his father had acquired the big Leesville ranch, and T. B. was working right alongside him. Continued on page 15...
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