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runners earned $1,282,336. His 261 starters earned 174 ROM with 20 stakes winners. His stakes horses include Top Moon and Jet Deck.
Top Moon and Jet Deck were foaled in 1960 and were almost like full brothers. They were by Moon Deck and out of daughters
of Barred by Three Bars. The dam of Top Moon was Rica Bar and her dam is Caprica by Nassak TB and Caprica is out of Puzzle
by Pankey’s Lucky, who is out of a mare by Scott. The dam of Jet Deck is Miss Night
Bar whose dam is Belle Of Midnight by Midnight Jr. The dam of Belle Of Midnight is Myrna Loy by Pankey’s Lucky and Myrna Loy is out of a mare by Scott. They would be considered 7/8-brothers in blood because of their pedigree pattern.
Top Moon raced 40 times with 15 wins, including four stakes wins and earnings of $40,636. His stakes wins include the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association Futurity and the Bardella Handicap.
Top Moon is a million dollar sire with
his foals earning $7,705,505 with 804 racing ROM and 74 stakes winners. His stakes winners include All American Futurity winners Bugs Alive In 75 and Moon Lark. He also sired stakes winner Lady Bug’s Moon, who was a runner up in the All American Futurity and who is a million dollar sire. Lady Bug’s Moon is the sire of Shawne Bug, who is also a million dollar sire. Moon Spot It is another son of Moon Deck that is a million dollar sire. Moon Lark, Casady Casanova, and Bugs Alive In 75 are sons of Top Moon in the top 100 million dollar sires list.
Jet Deck is the first Quarter Horse
to earn over $200,000 in his race career earnings with $200,625. He is the 1962 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and Champion Stallion. In 1963, he was the World Champion, Champion Three-Year- Old Colt and Champion Stallion. He started 31 times winning 22 of his races, including the Kindergarten Futurity, Los Alamitos Championship, and Ruidoso Championship.
Jet Deck became a million dollar sire of $6,804,246 with 486 starters that earned 383 racing ROM. This includes 67 stakes winners. He sired nine horses that won 12 racing Champion titles, including World Champions Easy Jet and Mr Jet Moore. Jet Deck sired a number of million dollar sires, including Easy Jet, Fast Jet, Pine’s Easter Jet, Jet Smooth (full brother to Easy Jet) and Flaming Jet. Easy Jet is the only one to make the top 100 million dollar sires. The sad part of Jet Deck’s story
is that his life was cut short in 1971 from an overdose of barbiturates. The culprits have never been found.
The dominant branch of the Top Deck sire line is through his son Moon Deck (shown above) sire of multiple Champions including World Champion Jet Deck.
Moon Deck became a million dollar sire with 20 stakes winners, including leading sire Top Moon, (shown above).
Top Moon is a million dollar sire with 74 stakes winners and 4 Champions, including World Champion Moon Lark & Champion Bugs Alive In 75
(shown above).
Jet Deck sired Easy Jet in 1967 and this
is the next step in the line of stallions that make up this branch of the Top Deck sire line. Easy Jet became the 1969 World Champion, Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and Champion Stallion by winning 22 of 26 races at the age of two. He won nine stakes races in 1969 with his biggest in the All American Futurity. He came back at three after the breeding season, winning three more stakes to be named Champion Three Year Old and Champion Stallion. He won $445,723 in his race career.
Easy Jet left the track for good after his three-year-old campaign to work his way up to become the all time leading sire of money winners and racing ROM. He is still the #9 all-time leading sire of money earners 25
years after his death in 1992. His foals have earned $26,237,832 with 1,563 ROM, 145 stakes winners and nine foals that have won 15 racing Champion titles. His Champions include the All American Futurity winners Easy Date, Pie In The Sky, and Mr Trucka Jet.
The influence of Easy Jet in the pedigrees of top runners today appears as both a sire and as a broodmare sire. He is the sire of many sons that have sired foals that have earnings of over $1 million, including horses like Game Plan, Easy Dozen, Shoot Yeah, Last Hurrah, Easy Saint, Dr Kirk, Mr Big Wheel, Real Easy, Easy Crimson, and Easy Approach. His sons Easily Smashed, Pie In the Sky, and Real Easy Jet are found on the top 100 million dollar sires list.
Easy Six is a million dollar siring son of Easy Jet that had 25 starts with 10 wins. He is a stakes winner in the Sun Country Futurity and the Kansas Derby. He earned $198,740. Easy Six is one of those horses that had a short life, siring only 180 foals with 146 starters. His runners earned 122 racing ROM with 14 stakes winners and they made him a million dollar sire with earnings of $2,628,286.
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