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Tres Seis is a leading broodmare sire of over $6.3 million, including these recent runners . . .
Multiple Champion sire Top Deck TB
Top Deck has a big impact on racing/ barrel racing crossover through racing/barrel sires such as . . .
Champion Bugs Alive In 75, who is by Top Moon by Moon Deck by Top Deck.
Shawne Bug, who is by Lady Bug’s Moon.
Champion sire Lady Bug’s Moon, the sire of Shawne Bug and who is by Top Moon by Moon Deck by Top Deck.
Kiss My Hocks wins the 2014 Ruidoso Futurity-G1.
BV Midnite Express wins the 2015 Heritage Place Futurity-G1.
Nellie Delaney wins the 2014 Los Alamitos Winter Championship
Teller Baja wins the Remington Park Futurity-RG2 on 4/23/16.
of the 1994 Remington Park Futurity-G1 and second in that year’s All American Futurity-G1 and Heritage Place Futurity-G1. Darlin Sixarun was the 1994 AQHA Racing Champion Two- Year-Old Gelding.
The sire of Sixarun was Streakin Six, the 1979 Rainbow Futurity-G1 winner. Streakin Six was second in the All American Futurity
as well. He also won the New Mexico State Fair Handicap at three. He was first, second or third in 17 of his 19 starts, earning $473,937.
Streakin Six is the sire of runners that have earned $17,349,990 with 663 racing ROM, and 75 stakes winners. His stakes winners include his five racing Champions
- Sixy Chick, a full sister to Sixarun; Six Fortunes, the horse that finished third (ahead of Sixarun’s fourth) in the 1985 All American Futurity; Sir Alibi; Sterling Sport; and of course Dean Miracle.
Streakin Six was sired by Easy Six by Easy Jet. The dam of Easy Six was Peggy Toro by Hijo The Bull TB. Peggy Toro’s dam was Prescott Peggy Joe by Double King H. The dam of Streakin Six was Miss Assured by
Little Request TB. The dam of Miss Assured was Assured by Direct Win TB. Assured was out of Sally Rand V by Joe Reed P-3.
Chickarun was the dam of Sixarun. She was a stakes winner in the Raton Futurity and Trinity QHA Futurity. She earned $43,446 in her race career. She was the dam of 14 foals with 13 starters, 12 ROM, and two stakes winners. Her stakes winners were Sixarun and Sixy Chick. Sixy Chick was
the 1984 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. Chickarun produced foals with $1,135,166 in earnings on the racetrack. Chickarun
was sired by Chicks Deck by Three Chicks. Chickarun’s dam was Ida Run by Top Conference TB, and she was out of Peppy Clabber by Clabber II.
When we look at the Crossover Connection of the racing American Quarter Horse on barrel racing, we find that the sire line founded by Top Deck has had a big impact on this event. The Top Deck sire line has some familiar names that have crossed over to barrel racing. We see this influence in such barrel racing sires like Bugs Alive In 75, Shawne Bug and their
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