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Cup Derby-RG3, Golden State Derby-G1, and PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby. He came back at four to win five more stakes, including the Spencer Childers California Breeders’ Championship-G1, Go Man Go Handicap-G1, and Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1. At five, he won the 2016 Los Alamitos Winter Championship-G1 before he died after complications from colic.
Moonist earned $878,468 while receiving four Championship titles: 2014 Champion Three Year Old, 2014 Champion Three-Year- Old Gelding, 2015 Champion Aged Horse, and 2015 Champion Aged Gelding.
The next stakes winner out of Your First Moon is Moonin The Eagle by One Famous Eagle. This 2012 stallion is the winner of the South Florida Derby at three; and the Hialeah Maturity, Sam Abbey Memorial Invitational, and Remington Park Invitational Championship-G1 in 2016. Moonin The Eagle set three New Track Records: at Hialeah for 440 yards in :21.201 and then he broke his record with
a time of :21.192, and at Remington Park for 440 yards in :20.808. His earnings total $556,100.
Another stakes winner out of Your First Moon is Jess My Moon by Mr Jess Perry. He won the New Mexico Derby Challenge-G3 and earned $78,150 placing first, second
or third in 8 of his 15 starts. Jess My Moon is the sire of 45 foals with 15 starters that have earned 13 ROM, including two stakes winners. His leading money earner is My Tuff Moon, winner of the Bucking Horse Sale Futurity.
The fourth stakes winner out of Your First Moon is Stray Cat, the only Quarter Horse foal out of the leading Thoroughbred sire Storm Cat. Stray Cat won the 2013 Remington Park Distance Challenge-G3. He entered stud duty in 2015 with a unique con- tribution of the genetics to offer the breeder.
Also out of Your First Moon is stakes placed The Marfa Lights by One Famous Eagle, thus making him a full brother to Moonin The Eagle. The Marfa Lights earned $455,860 and was second in the 2016 All American Futurity-G1.
Your First Moon traces her tail female line to Do Good, a foundation mare for the Vessels Stallion Farm. Do Good is our taproot mare here and she is found in the fifth generation of Your First Moon.
Jim Harkey, the breeder of Do Good, was a successful horseman and rancher but, just like many in the 1930’s depression era, he fell on hard times. It was about this time that Harkey went to ranch in Fort Stockton in Pecos County, Texas. Then, he was forced to move to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where Frank Vessels, Sr. comes into the
picture. Vessels became involved in Quarter Horse racing and by the mid 1940’s, he was buying horses and he purchased Do Good. Do Good has produced 13 foals with
12 starters, nine winners, eight ROM, and three stakes placed runners. Her ROM’s include: Senor Bill (AAA), second in the Silver City Championship; Clabber II (AAA), third in the Christensen’s Tack Shop Handicap; Clabber Shu V (AA); Charro Bill V (AA); and Chicado V (AAA), the 1952 Co-Champion 2-Year-Old Filly.
Chicado V was the 1950 foal out of Do Good and Chicaro Bill. Chicado V is the dam of the important sires Triple Chick, Three Chicks, and The Ole Man. The blood of Do Good through Chicado V is a very important as a part of the pedigree of Mr Jess Perry. The dam of Mr Jess Perry has a breeding pattern of 3 X 3 to the full broth- ers Three Chicks and Triple Chick.
Do Good Bam is an AA/ROM daughter of Do Good sired by War Bam TB. The big runner out of Do Good Bam was Alamitos Bar. This 1959 son of Three Bars was a multiple stakes winner of such races as the PCQHRA California Bred Futurity, Los Ninos Handicap, and Shue Fly Stakes.
A leading female producing line from the Do Good Bam branch of the Do Good family has to be her daughter, Ought To Go by Go Man Go. Ought To Go is in the AQHA Hall of Fame. She is the dam of nine racing ROM foals, including Bedawee, Fishers Favorite, Garland Stephens, Going Platinum, Behold A Beduino, Ought to Think, and Ought to Be First.
The racing Champions out of the powerful Ought To Go branch of the Do Good family include Champion 3 Year Old/ Champion 3-Year-Old Gelding Old Habits, Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding Solvency, World Champion/Champion Aged Stallion Special Leader, Champion Distance Horse Hateful Hanna, and Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Hardly Hateful.
Ought To Go is the dam of the race winning mare Goin Dash by Dash For Cash. She is the dam of four foals with four winners and three ROM, including Totally Done Gone, a stakes winner in races like the Prescott Downs Futurity-G3.
A winning daughter of Goin Dash is Moon Arisen by Beduino TB. This mare is the dam of 24 foals with 23 starters, 14 winners, 17 ROM and two stakes winners. Her stakes winners include Not A Full Moon, winner of the El Primero Del Ano Derby-G1, and Moonlight Corona, winner of the Go Josie Go Handicap and the Your First Moon Handicap.
Moon Arisen is the dam of Your First
#2 all-time leading/World Champion sire Mr Jess Perry traces to full brothers Three Chicks and Triple Chick, who are out of 1950 Do Good daughter Chicado V.
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