[1] Joe Cody was registered with number 42,543 in the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA).
He was a 1952 sorrel colt, bred by Tom W. Cochran of Buckholts, Texas.
[2] His sire was a product of the King Ranch linebreeding program, as he was a son of Wimpy P-1 out of a daughter of Old Sorrel.
[6] After retiring to stud in 1961, Joe Cody was invited to Bermuda by the government of Bermuda to show both reining and cutting at the Agricultural Fair put on by the government.
His owner at the time, Mrs. Virginia Harper of Long Island, New York, took him and had him perform a reining pattern and also a cutting exhibition.