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Miss Mighty Casady is the dam of nine foals with five starters and four ROM, including 2012 Banyan Tree Stakes winner Jess Phenomenal and stakes placed Mighty Classy Lassy.
Casady Casanova, sire of Miss Mighty Casady, won three stakes races, including the 1979 Los Ninos Handicap, the 1979 Juvenile Invitational Handicap and the 1979 Cypress Handicap. He earned $157,173 and won six of his 12 starts. Casady Casanova is the sire of foals that won over $6.7 million. His leading earner is Champion Easy Austin with $693,850.
Casady Casanova is by Top Moon and out of Twayna by Rebel Cause. Twayna is out of Yeager’s Lady JA, the dam of FL Lady Bug, who is the dam of Lady Bug’s Moon by Top Moon, making Casady Casanova a 3/4-brother to Lady Bug’s Moon.
The dam of Miss Mighty Casady is Miss Mighty Mary. This mare raced from 1984
to 1988, starting in 42 races with 13 wins,
9 seconds, 3 thirds and earning $331,749. She ran in 14 stakes races, winning five
of them. Four of her stakes wins came
in 1986 when she won the Ed Burke Memorial Futurity-G1, Sunland Park Fall Futurity-G2, La Ninas Handicap and the Pacific Handicap. She got her fifth stakes win in 1986 in the Redondo Beach Handicap. Miss Mighty Mary was second in three more stakes, including the 1987 Miss California Handicap, and she was third in the 1987 Anne Burnett Invitational Handicap-G1.
Miss Mighty Mary had a productive life as a runner, but her produce record was limited with only five foals and just two starters, Miss Mighty Casady and ROM runner Foreordained, who had just four starts and 1 win.
Miss Mighty Mary is by Ashment, who had two second place finishes in the 1978 Pomona Futurity and 1978 Moon Deck Stakes. Ashment raced 10 times at two, with five wins, two seconds and one third earning $43,808. He had a short breeding career, siring only 182 foals with 92 starters, 62 ROM and three stakes winners. Miss Mighty Mary is his leading earner.
Ashment is by Ettabo, winner of the 1968 Chicado V Handicap and Vandy’s Flash Handicap. Ettabo started 37 times with thirteen wins, four seconds and eight thirds earning $49,601. Ettabo is by Deep Sun TB, a son of Depth Charge. The dam of Ettabo is Etta Leo by Leo. Etta Leo is the dam of 1964 World Champion Goetta, winner of the 1963 All American Futurity.
The dam of Ashment is Blondy Rockette, who was bred by Jack and Lou Ann Starlin in California. Blondy Rockette earned her ROM in 1971, won the Miss Princess Invitational Handicap that year and was second in the
Jess A Classy Lassy earned her 2017 Broodmare of the Year title due to her 2016 and 2017 World
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Jessies First Down has earned over $1.1 million on the track.
Nancy and Ted Abrams home-bred Co-Broodmare of the Year Jess A Classy Lassy, who won two races and was a finalist in the Rainbow Futurity.
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