First Annual JB Sale & Futurity Sale

Inaugural JB Quarter Horses Creating Legends Sale nets $401,550

(full results will be posted today)

The first JB Quarter Horses Creating Legends Sale was one for the record books. Of the 62 head that walked through the ring, 52 sold for $401,500. They averaged $7,722 and the median price, which is determined by dropping the highest and lowest sellers, was an impressive $5,750 in a recessed market.

Dee Braman of JB Quarter Horses was overwhelmed by the support of the consigners and buyers.

“I cannot thank you enough for supporting JB Quarter Horses and our guest consignors,” she said. “We appreciate our guest consignors for putting their trust in our first sale. We’ve said all along that, this was not just about JB Quarter Horses; it’s about the industry. All of you here are supporting the industry and helping it grow.”

The 3-year-old golden palomino stallion Mr JB Fire Fame, consigned by JB Quarter Horses, commanded the highest price of the sale, bringing $50,000 from Gerald Williams, Daingerfield, Texas. Williams is well versed in the futurity industry, having owned 2006 leading futurity horse VF Sporty Design.

Bred by the Bramans, Mr JB Fire Fame is by the late great Fire Water Flit out of the 1D producing Dash Ta Fame daughter Shorease Famous. Fire Fame was expertly trained and demonstrated by Kenna Squires, who put Dash Ta Fame on the map as a broodmare sire with her talented gelding Rambling For Fame.

When multiple National Finals Rodeo qualifying calf roper Brent Lewis dropped the bridle on the 2-year-old gelding Ima Famous Warrior in the demonstrations, buyers took notice. The Bruce Robinson consignment by Dash Ta Fame out of the Canadian National Finals qualifying mare, Ima Copper Bug Too, by Copper Bugs, brought a bid of $30,000 from Louise Davis.

Lewis and Robinson later partnered up again to purchase the royally bred 2-year-old stallion Fiesta Royale for $22,000. Consigned by Booger Barter, the gray stallion is by noted racehorse sire and up-and-coming barrel horse sire Royal Shake Em out of the multiple NFR qualifying mare Firewater Fiesta, by Fire Water Flit. In her first foal crop, Firewater Fiesta has produced two barrel horses with earnings in excess of $60,000 half-way through the year.

The high-selling 2-year-old mare went home with Tom O’Neal, who bid $12,000 for French Fortunes. Sired by leading barrel horse sire Frenchmans Guy, the Randy and Sharon Browder consignment is out of the nice mare Stick To My Demands, by Explode On Demand. Stick To My Demands is a half-sister to stakes winner and 1D barrel horse Tastefully, owned by the Southern Rose Ranch.

The same maternal line produced the high-selling yearling filly Sweet Little Fame, who brought $11,500 for the Browders. The daughter of Dash Ta Fame out of Sweetlittle Dasher, by Some Dasher, went to Joseph Gernentz and his multiple NFR qualifying wife, Terra Bynum.

Bringing a $6,000 bid from Scott Sherwood, Chasin Easy Money, a flashy Chasin Firewater out of barrel horse producer WCR Miss Precocious, by Easy Dinero, was the high-selling yearling gelding. Chasin Easy Money was consigned by Doug and Donna Hanover, who managed many of the horses in the sale.

Justa Famous Blurr (listed as One Famous Blurr in the catalog) was the pick of the weanlings, bringing a bid of $10,800 from T&T Barrel Horses. Consigned by Renee Spiller, the filly is a product of the magic cross between Dash Ta Fame and Murrtheblurr (TB). Her dam, Blurr For Cash was a race winner and barrel money earner herself.

Nicely demonstrated by her trainer Kassie Mowrey, Miss JB 0614 was the high-selling 3-year-old mare. The JB Quarter Horses consignment brought $10,000 from Timothy Novak. Miss JB 0614 is by AQHA Champion and PRCA rope horse One Hot Jose and out of barrel money earner Miss Dallas Fuel, by Oklahoma Fuel. Miss Dallas Fuel is a sister to JB Quarter Horses stallion Dallas Fuel.

The Angela Rice consignment NZ Frenchmans Dance brought $5,750 from Robin Kuhnhein to be the high-selling 3-year-old gelding. Although paid in full to the BFA Juvenile Futurity, Kuhnhein plans to hold the Frenchmans Kirk gelding out of WR Featured Dance for 5-year-old futurities.

With a bid of $10,000 from Flaming Jet fan Lynn Hinds, Streakintouhfortune was the high selling futurity-eligible 4-year-old. Consigned by her breeder and trainer, Andrea Cline Herron, the daughter of Honorable Fortune, a Jet Of Honor-Flaming Jet stallion, is out of BFA Derby finalist Janes Un Streakin, by Streakin Go Go.

The sale also raised $8,700 for the Can Chaser Cancer Crisis Foundation, or C4 Fund. This new non-profit organization will help barrel racers defray the costs of cancer treatments. JB Quarter Horses donated Miss JB 0830, a yearling daughter of Chasin Firewater out of Sugar Pan Jr, by Sugar Pan. The filly sold to Dan Kinsel, who got a $4,700 tax-deduction for his contribution to this new charity. Joe Braman and his brothers also donated a 3-day, 4-night hunt from Mellon Creek Outfitters, which sold for $4,000.