Jeff Hooper, executive director of the National Cutting Horse Association, was one of four members of the Jalapeno Racing Team II, which pooled $16,000 in 1987 to purchase a Quarter racehorse yearling and provide expenses for its training. The yearling turned out to be Okeydokey Baby, a filly that Hooper purchased at auction for $9,000 and who would go on to win the 1988 Kansas Futurity for Jalapeno Racing Team and place third in two more important stakes races at two.<\/p>\n
During her two-year race career, Okeydokey Baby earned $230,000. Jalapeno Racing Team sold the mare at the end of her three-year-old season; she is currently owned by Jim and Marilyn Helzer\u2019s JEH Stallion Station, which sold her yearling filly, Hustled, for $70,000 at the Eclipse Sale at Lone Star Park on August 8.<\/p>\n
Hooper has been involved in other racing partnerships as recently as this year, but that\u2019s another story\u2026\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeff Hooper, executive director of the National Cutting Horse Association, was one of four members…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-people","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}