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Can Dream is out of Tiny Lou Etta. Barbs Beduino is also the dam of Shadaisy 123, win- ner of the 2009 Blue Bonnet Stakes.
The dam of Tiny Lou Etta is Lou Etta Deck, the mare that is credited with founding this line for Dr. Conley. She was bred by Gail Holzendorf of Edmond, Oklahoma, and was a stakes winner of the 1977 Michigan Futurity. She won five of her eight starts with a 93 speed index. Lou Etta Deck produced 10 foals with 10 starters earning nine ROM with three stakes winners and three stakes-placed runners. Her stakes winners in addition to Tiny Lou Etta were Love A Lucy and Very Striking.
Very Striking is a key player in the entrance of Walter and Carolyn Bay into this family of horses. Very Striking was purchased by the Bays and raced to a win in the 1994 Great Lakes Quarter Horse Association Stallion Service Auction Futurity-RG3. She was also second in the 1994 Michigan Bred Futurity-RG3 and the Michigan Futurity. She has been a successful producer as well with foals like stakes
winners Docs Effi, Apollo Babe 123 and
Very Dashin 123.
Lou Etta Deck is sired by Chick’s Etta Deck. Chick’s Etta Deck is an unraced son of Three Chicks out of
the All American Futurity-G1 winner Decketta, by Top Deck. Three Chicks is sired by Three Bars and out of Chicado V, by Chicaro Bill, by Chicaro. Chick’s Etta Deck is a full brother to Kansas Futurity winner Chick’s Deck.
Lou Etta Deck is out of Lou Deck. Lou Deck was bred by Oscar Dodson, of Chillicothe, Texas. Dodson was highly involved in Quarter Horses in the 1950s and ‘60s. He owned such noted horses as the good race mare Chain Lay. Lou Deck produced only two ROM runners—Lou Etta Deck and Kentucky Darby.
the son Louis A. Kirk. In his early years, Louis A. Kirk was a jockey for the family racehorses. The Kirks were New Mexico ranchers with a deep interest in Quarter Running Horses. The wife of Louis A. Kirk was Vivian Kirk. Mrs. Kirk was a frequent contributor to Speedhorse as a pedigree and bloodline person in the early years of this magazine.
The senior Lou Kirk is credited with start- ing the breeding program. He bought horses we know today as Little Pet, Daylight and Tex. Then he added a stallion named Jack Dempsey to the mix, which became their foundation stallion. Jack Dempsey is sired by Big Boy,
by Dominus Arvi-TB. His dam is Oklahoma Queen, by A.D. Reed. A.D. Reed is a son of Peter McCue.
Kirk bought Jack Dempsey while on a visit to the ranch of Chester A. Cooper. Cooper was not the breeder of Jack Dempsey but he was the founding breeder of another famous female family. One of the foundation mares
Dandy is the dam of Miss Louton, by Tonto Bars Gill. Miss Louton was the 1958 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, the 1959 AQHA Co-Champion Racing Three- Year-Old Filly and the 1959 Co-Champion Mare. Her co-champion was the famous Vessels’ mare Triple Lady. Bred by Gill Cattle Company, Tonto Bars Gill is sired by Three Bars and out of Tonta Gal. Tonta Gal was a great race mare out of Peggy Cooper.
The leading performer out of Lue Kirk was Iron Maiden, by Iron Bars, by Three Bars. Iron Maiden was bred by Oscar Dodson. She was
a Top AAA rated runner and stakes winner
in the La Mesa Handicap. She was an AQHA Champion with 23 halter points.
The pedigree of Lue Kirk is an interesting situation. She was registered in the American Quarter Horse Association, American Quarter Racing Association and the National Quarter Horse Breeders Association, and each associa- tion has a different pedigree for this mare.
The AQHA shows that Lue Kirk
is sired by a horse named Jack D. Jack D is listed as sired by Kentucky Cardinal, a Thoroughbred. The dam of Lue Kirk in this version is Babe Lux by Bubbling Over. According
to AQHA records, Bubbling Over is sired by Rainy Day, by Lone Star. The dam of Babe Lux is Red Wing, by Billy and out of Chicken.
The AQRA version of her pedigree shows that she is sired by Bubbling Over and out of Lady Luck, by Jack Dempsey. Lady Luck was a mare bred by the Kirk family.
The NQHBA pedigree is the most interesting of the three pedigrees. She is listed as sired by Jack Dee, by Kentucky Cardinal the thoroughbred. Her dam is listed as Baby Luck, by Jack Dempsey. What makes this so interesting is that
Lou Deck is sired by Top Deck. This makes Lou Etta Deck double bred to Top Deck with
a breeding pattern of 4x2. Top Deck is sired by Equestrian and out of River Boat by Chicaro. When we add the blood of Chicaro from Three Chicks we get a breeding pattern of 5x5x4 to Chicaro in Lou Etta Deck.
Lou Deck is out of Lady Lou Bar, by Three Bars. Lady Lou Bar was bred by Sid Vail then of Victorville, California. Vail was the owner of Three Bars. Lady Lou Bar was an A rated race mare that placed second two times in 12 starts.
The dam of Lady Lou Bar is a mare named Lue Kirk. Lue Kirk takes us to the foundation of this tail female line. She was foaled in 1943 and earned her ROM in 1947. She officially has one win, two seconds and two thirds in 10 starts.
The introduction of Lue Kirk brings in a father and son team that forms an interesting branch of the Quarter Running Horse blood- lines. Father and son were both known as Lou Kirk, so we will call the father Lou Kirk and
for Cooper was Silver. When he bred Silver to Doc, by Possum, he got Peggy Cooper. Peggy Cooper in turn produced Peggy N, and she was the dam of Prescott Peggy Joe. Prescott Peggy Joe was the dam of Peggy Toro, the dam of Easy Six who is found in the pedigree of many champions today including Cold Cash 123.
Kirk gave his son (Louis A.) a mare named Headlight. She is sired by Daylight, one of Kirk’s foundation horses. When Headlight was bred to Tex they got Red Cloud. When Red Cloud was bred to Jack Dempsey they got the mare Mame Taylor. Mame Taylor became the dam of Hard Twist, an AQHA Racing Champion Stallion, and Jaguar and Ricky Taylor, both racehorses and AAA/AQHA Champion in the show ring.
The mare Lue Kirk eventually found herself in the hands of the famous Gill Cattle Company of Arizona. She was a broodmare for them, producing a mare named Miss Lou Dandy, by My Texas Dandy Jr. Miss Lou
beside her name in the NQHBA Stud Book she is designated as a Celebrated American Quarter Running Mare with the abbreviation CAQRM beside her name. She was registered in the NQHBA by the Gill Cattle Company. They also owned the racing mare Chain Lay who was listed in the NQHBA Stud Book just above Lue Kirk and carried the CAQRM by her name as well. Finding the CAQRM by her name stands the test of time as an indicator of Lue Kirk as
a good runner, and is an indicator of how deep this family runs in Quarter Horse history.
The 2011 racing season saw the rise of a new star in the industry in Cold Cash 123. We have seen that Cold Cash 123 is a 440-yard specialist that was the product of a linebreed- ing pattern with emphasis on the female side of the pedigree in the production of runners. His status as a successful “classic” quarter running horse brought to the surface his roots in the tail female line that indicated the lasting strength of this female family.
All American Futurity-G1 finalist Mr Ease 123 was another successful homebred the Bays raced in 2011.
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