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SPEEDLINES
Garvan Kelly & Nancy Yearsley, breeders of Triple L Xpress.
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TRIPLE L XPRESS
CRM LIVEWIRE
SI 103
Bred by: Dan Jones Raced to 4 • $100,708 22-8(4)-5(3)-2(1)
254 foals, 34 SW Progeny Earnings: $6,780,655
CARTEL SUCCESS QH SI 109 Bred by: Bill Price 16-5(1)-5(2)-1(1)
265 foals, 13 SW
Progeny Earnings: $3,215,899
CORONA CARTEL SI 97 Bred by: Robert D. Etchandy Raced to 3 • $557,142 14-6(3)-3-0
2,185 f, 195 SW • $69,885,865
HOLLAND EASE SI 109
FIRST DOWN DASH SI 105
EASY HENRYETTA SI 90
CORONA CHICK SI 113
CHICKS BEDUINO SI 104
SIZZLING LIL SI 91
DASHING MARIAH SI 94 Bred by: Dorothy Boothe
Raced to 3 • $22,807
15-2-3-1
33 f, 4 SW • $799,093
FIRST DOWN DASH SI 105
DASH FOR CASH SI 114
FIRST PRIZE ROSE SI 98
KELLYS COFFER SI 105
ALLSTAR SI 101
THE WIND MARIAH TB
ELAINA GO GO si 93 Bred by: Susan Rice 18-3-2-5
8 foals, 2 SW
Progeny Earnings: $386,026
TEXAS HERO si 101 Bred by: Herbert Graham Raced to 3 • $100,402 22-18(7)-3(2)-1(1)
401 f, 30 SW • $3,375,442
RAISE A JET
EASY JET TOO
KALLISTA QH
BREAKAWAY BABY
DASH FOR CASH QH
LARKING KIT QH
ELAINA SWEETNESS QH SI 88 Bred by: Doyle Rice
Raced to 3 • $100
8 f, 0 SW • $81,492
ON A HIGH SI 113
DASH FOR CASH SI 114
YANKEE DOLL TB
ELAINA RAE SI 95
ZEVI TB
DESIRAE SI 95
MAGGIE REDMOND QH
Bred by: Kelly/Yearsley Equine LLC
Raced to 3 • $6,807
9-1-0-0
15 foals, 1 SW
Progeny Earnings: $221,695
WAVE CARVER SI 104
Bred by: Lucas Racing Inc. Raced to 3 • $1,005,946 18-11(4)-5(3)-0
275 foals, 4 SW
Progeny Earnings: $404,287
FIRST DOWN DASH SI 105 Bred by: A. F. Stanley Jr./B.F. Phillips Jr. Raced to 3 • $857,256 15-13(8)-1(1)-0
2,548 f, 260 SW • $90,332,291
DASH FOR CASH SI 114
ROCKET WRANGLER SI 97
FIND A BUYER TB
FIRST PRIZE ROSE SI 98
GALLANT JET SI 102
ROSE BUG SI 96
RUNAWAY WAVE SI 105 Bred by: Melville H. Haskell Unraced
10 f, 0 SW • $22,351
RUNAWAY WINNER SI 104
BEDUINO TB
MISS FAST CHIC SI 99
IN THE CURL TB
SHELTER HALF
OCEAN GIRL
RULE THE SKIES SI 102
Bred by: J. Garvan Kelly/Nancy Yearsley
Raced to 4 • $29,242 13-2(1)-3(1)-1(1)
7 foals, 1 SW
Progeny Earnings: $375,064
RARE FORM SI 120
Bred by: Vessles Stallion Farm LLC Rcaed to 4 • $278,191 27-17(8)-2(2)-2(1)
894 f, 41 SW • $11,605,410
THE SIGNATURE SI 107
NOHOLMEE II TB
MABLE CHICK TOO SI 95
ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
DASH FOR CASH SI 114
TINY BE MINE SI 95
SKY CHICKS SI 92
Bred by: Patrick Ford & Connie Hall Raced to 3 • $47,912
16-4-3(1)-2
30 f, 5 SW • $1,988,598
CHICKS BEDUINO SI 104
BEDUINO TB
A CLASSY CHICK SI 89
STAR CRAFTED SI 94
PIE IN THE SKY SI 101
THE PEARL SI 90
racetrack and watching a friend’s horse named Viking King in the Los Alamitos Derby. That was in the late 1970’s. It wasn’t long and he had his own racehorse in a horse named Hurry On Now, an Easy Six mare. This horse, after some wins, sparked his interest and after a hiatus
for business interests, he got back into it in the 1990’s and, as they say, the rest is history. When he got back into racing, he had Curtis Keener training horses for him and when Keener moved to Oklahoma, he asked him to find some land as he wanted to raise some horses. This was the
beginning of a formal breeding program m
.
Kelly continued about how it came abou
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and the partners he has worked with, “I had
t
d some ThThoroughbreds I had been selling at
u
t
the Del Mar sales with Nancy Yearsley as a partner. But I was moving more and more
toward the Quarter Horses, and we had wo
a lot of stakes. Almost every year we were lucky enough to have a stakes horse. So anyway, that was how we progressed.”
He continued, “I also had another partnership in a minor way with Lloyd
o
n
n
Yother. We weren’t doing much together but eventually he came on board more and in 2019 Lloyd came in as a partner on my farm. He also bought Nancy’s interest in a lot of the mares that I owned with her. She was not as interested in the breeding aspects and
to go forward with the added expense, Lloyd came into it so we could expand the program.”
The foundation of the broodmare band comes from three mares. The first was Sheeza Lil Val, a mare that was bought
for $5,000 in 1995. She made 19 starts with two wins, five seconds and two thirds earning $19,413 and she was third in the
Mocha coming in second. His next start came in the trials to the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Championship Futurity-G1 at Will Rogers and this time he finished fifth, but still qualified for the finals. When we look at the finals, we see in
the video of the race that it is indicated in the call that he “veered out” and “had a flatfooted start,” still finishing fourth despite the poor start. His two thirds and a fourth earned him the Speedhorse Paint & Appaloosa Triple Crown High Point Championship.
The partnership of Nancy Yearsley and J. Garvan Kelly are the breeders of Triple L Xpress. He is sired by CRM Livewire and out of Maggie Redmond QH by Wave Carver. The J. Garvan Kelly and Nancy Yearsley partnership has proven successful over the years in that they have bred the winners of over $6.1 million in Quarter Horse racing. They are the Paint Horse breeders of horses that have won over $350,000. Kelly is the person behind the breeding aspect of the partnership. He immigrated from Ireland and became interested in racing after visiting the
Susan Bachelor, Speedhorse