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Johnell Bryant Ray Sponsored Rider on Team Kaeco!!!
Kaeco Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that Johnell Bryant Ray will again be sponsored by Kaeco in 2010. Johnell is a veteran Professional Barrel Racer, Trainer and Horse Breeder. Johnell is a fierce competitor who is a highly respected professional in the arena. She is also a very responsible and respected horse breeder and trainer.
After winning state titles in speed event competitions as a teenager Johnell qualified for her first AQHA World Championship Finals competition in 1980 while in college. She continued to qualify for the AQHA World Championships on one or more horses she has trained every year from 1982-1988, and then 1991-1995. She placed on numerous occasions in the AQHA Finals and won a World Championship in the American Buckskin Horse Association in 1988.
In 2003 Johnell placed in the Open at the ABRA National Finals, American West National Finals, and the IBRA National Finals on a mare named Smooth Your Jets. In 2004 she qualified for the ABRA National Finals and the IBRA National Finals on this mare while in foal. In 2005 Johnell qualified for the IBRA National Finals and placed just two weeks after weaning Smoothie’s foal. In 2006 while six months in foal to Frenchmans Fabulous Smoothie placed in the NBHA World Championship Show and qualified for the IBRA National Finals this same year.
In 2007 Smoothie and Johnell qualified for the NBHA World Championship Show by virtue of a wild card win, the IBRA National Finals, and the WBRP Barrelnanza Finals and Big Bucks Race while Smoothie was six months in foal to Firewaterontherocks.
Running against her first foal this year a three year old mare named Peppy San Smooth, Smoothie placed 3rd in the 2-D at the 2008 IBRA National Finals while in foal to Sherry Cervi’s Dinero (PC Frenchmans Hay Day). Smoothie also placed 18th in the Sweepstakes Run at the 2008 NBHA World Championship Show this year.
2009 year was a busy one for Running J Quarter Horses. Johnell qualified three mares in foal to Chasin Firewater and Flaming Fire Water for the 2009 IBRA National Finals in Open and Masters Barrel racing classes. Smoothie placed in one long go-round of the Open at the finals. Peppy San Smooth and Smooth Your Jets both won year end high point saddles in the newly organized Tri State Barrel Racing Association of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Johnell was busy conducting four clinics down south in Mexico for the Mexican Pro Rodeo Federation and National Barrel Horse Association of Mexico during the summer.
The Running J raises high quality barrel racing prospects out of exceptional barrel racing mares that have proven themselves in national and World level competitions and by some of the industries best barrel racing stallions such as Firewaterontherocks, PC Frenchmans Hayday (Dinero), Chasin Firewater, and Frenchmans Fabulous.
Running J Quarter Horses located in central Alabama between Montgomery and Troy is owned and managed by Johnell Bryant Ray and her husband Jamie Ray. They specialize in breeding, training and showing AQHA barrel racing horses in National Barrel Racing Association (NBHA) and International Barrel Racing Association (IBRA) competitions throughout the Southeastern United States. They also conduct private training clinics for beginner and intermediate barrel racers at their home.
