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Delta Rose also earned three AQHA halter points when she won the 3-Year-Old Mare class at the 1967 Dallas State Fair.
Delta Rose produced five foals, including three ROM and one stakes winner. Her stakes winner was Byou Bird by Good Bird, a Thoroughbred that Merrick stood. Byou Bird earned title of the 1972 Champion 2-Year- Old Filly, winning four stakes races in 1972 including the Kansas Futurity. She earned $309,965 from 26 starts, winning 13 races with six seconds and three thirds.
Byou Bird is the dam of only two foals
that were starters/ROM; 1972 Raton Futurity winner I Get By, and Coe Linda who was third in the 1977 Sunland Park Sun Country Futurity. I Get By and Coe Linda were by Easy Jet, a son of Lena’s Bar, making them double bred to Lena’s Bar with a 2x3 breeding pattern.
Jet Smooth was the next foal out of Lena’s Bar and he was by Jet Deck. Lena’s Bar was the first mare bred to Jet Deck. Bud Warren was standing Jet Deck, and this is what Merrick told Holmes in WIRE TO WIRE, “I hauled Lena’s Bar to Bud’s place in the spring of 1964. I arrived there in the late afternoon. The mare was in heat, so Bud and I bred her to Jet Deck. I stayed overnight and the next morning we bred the two of them again. Then, I hauled her home. And Jet Smooth was born at Crawford the following spring.”
Jet Smooth went to the track and became a three-time stakes winner. He won the
1967 Ruidoso Kansas Futurity, the 1968
All American Congress Derby and the 1969 World’s Championship Classic. He was stakes placed with thirds in the 1968 New Mexico State Fair Handicap, the 1969 Three Bars Handicap and the 1969 C. L. Maddon’s Bright Eyes Handicap. Jet Smooth set a New Track Record at Beulah Park for 400 yards in :20.400 in the All American Congress Derby.
The good looks and conformation of Jet Smooth sent him to the halter arena to earn 26 halter points. He took home 10 firsts in 13 shows with three Grand Championships and three Reserve Grand Championships.
Jet Smooth accumulated many of his halter points while he was racing. He was shown at the All American Quarter Horse Congress when he won the All American Congress Derby. He took home a second in the 3-Year- Old Stallions Division with 15 in the class.
Hank Wiescamp tried twice to buy
Jet Smooth. “I bought Jet Smooth twice
from Walt and never got him either time,” Weiscamp said. “The first time, I had George Tyler buy him for $100,000 and Walt backed out. The next time, he sold the horse to a Thoroughbred outfit in California and he had to take him back. He was asking $500,000
Walter Merrick (below right) receives trophy after his horse Jet Smooth, a full brother to Easy Jet, won the first running of the World’s Championship Quarter Horse Classic in 1969.
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