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Lady Bugs Moon.
Equi-Stat million-dollar barrel racing sire Shawne Bug Leo.
Shawne Bug winning the 1994 Oklahoma Futurity.
Top Moon.
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Sugar Moon Express.
Leading barrel horse sire Marthas Six Moons.
Mulberry Canyon Moon at the 2010 NFR.
Moon Fling winning the 1985 Vespero Express Stakes at Blue Ribbon Downs.
about the horses we have been talking about - they could run indoors, outdoors, big pens, and little pens.”
Mainstreet the sire of Swen Sir Bug and was an ROM racehorse with an 82 speed index. He had only three starts with one win and one third. He sired 29 foals with six performers with two race starters with neither earning an ROM. He sired four arena performers with two-point earners. They were Swen Sir Bug with 75 points and his ROM with a Superior in barrel racing. The other performer was Ladybug Cash with one AQHA point but 128 PHBA performance points.
The sire of Main Street was Lady
Bug’s Moon, winner of the 1968 Kansas Futurity and the 1969 Rainbow Derby. He is the sire of horses that have won $4,031,691 with 770 starters, 502 ROM with 40 stakes winners. His leading money earner is Shawne Bug with $277,023
in earnings. He won the Blue Ribbon Futurity and the Rocky Mountain QHA Derby. Shawne Bug is an important sire in
barrel racing with horses like his son Shawne Bug Leo, an Equi-Stat million-dollar barrel racing sire.
The blood of Lady Bug’s Moon is prominent in today’s pedigrees through horses like his daughter Lady Bugs Martha, the dam of Baby Blue Jeans, the dam of Sugar Moon Express (Martha), the WPRA World Champion in 2008 and the AQHA/ PRCA Barrel Racing Horse of the Year. Lady Bugs Martha is a full sister to leading barrel horse sire Marthas Six Moons. Marthas Six Moons is the sire of horses like Mulberry Canyon Moon, winner of $335,624. Lady Bug’s Moon is the broodmare sire of Moon Fling, the dam A Streak Of Fling,
Lady Bug’s Moon was sired by Top Moon by Moon Deck and Top Moon is out of Rica Bar by Barred, giving us another cross to Joe Reed P-3 through
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