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the first five generations of Top Deck’s pedigree. Top Deck’s ability to be a prepotent sire is evident in the design of his pedigree.
Casady Casanova and several of his foals take the linebreeding to Top Deck one step further. Easy Austin, Casanova Kate and Sure Casady are sired by Casady Casanova and out of Top Deck line mares. Easy Austin is out of Easy Inclination by Easy Six; Casanova Kate is out of Jet Maid by Jet Deck; and Sure Casady is out of Sure Jet by Jet Deck.
“If I had a daughter of Jet Deck there wouldn’t be any other horse I’d cross her with,” related Frank Merrill while discussing the success of Casady Casanova on Jet Deck line mares. Merrill continued that this cross indicates “a definite nick in the first crop of colts.” He feels that the early identification of this nick is an important aspect of Casady Casanova’s success, one that isn’t found very often in a freshman sire.
“He’s had good runners out of other mares but consistently the best ones have been out of Easy Jet, Jet Deck and Easy Six mares,” com- mented Merrill on Casady Casanova’s total sire record. To date, Casady Casanova reinforces that thought as the sire of 23 ROM from 36 starters. His foals have earned nearly $812,000 with four stakes winners in his first crop. Besides Easy Austin and Casanova Kate, his other stakes winners are Nosip, winner of the 1984 Spring Classic and Bonneville Futurities and Lady Taurine, winner of the 1984 San Juan Futurity.
Casady Casanova is linebred to Top Deck through two good representatives of the Top Deck line. Top Moon is the second leading sire of ROM in the AQHA and is known as a sire
of sires. When asked about Top Moon, Merrill replied, “Had Top Moon had the opportunity to be bred to the same mares as Jet Deck and some of these other horses, he would have been the leading sire of the Quarter Horse industry.”
Casady Casanova’s maternal grandsire is Rebel Cause, a champion son of Top Deck. Rebel Cause was the 1961 Co-Champion 3-Year-Old Stallion and the 1962 Champion Aged Stallion. Rebel Cause won or placed in no less than 17 stakes races in three years of rac- ing. His stakes victories included the Juvenile Championship, the Los Ninos, the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Racing Association Derby and the Pomona Championship.
The dam of Rebel Cause was Bankette by Worryman and she was out of the great runner, Miss Bank. Miss Bank was a consistent per- former that won 27 starts in 70 official starts. Rebel Cause is the broodmare sire of the great runner Denim N Diamonds.
Casady Casanova not only provides line- breeding to Top Deck but his female family is very solid. “Greatest bottom side in the Quarter Horse business,” stated Merrill while describing Casady’s female family. Yeager’s Lady J A is the foundation of that family. Twayna is an own daughter of Yeager’s Lady J A.
Sure Casady.
Yeager’s Lady J A is the dam of Marvin Barnes’ great mare FL Lady Bug. FL Lady Bug
is the dam of her own super family of runners. FL Lady Bug was a producing machine when it came to getting runners. She is the dam of 10 ROM from 14 starters by 12 different sires. In turn those runners have carried on the tradition of good producers through horses like Bugs Alive In 75, Mr Master Bug and Miss Squaw Hand.
Yeager’s Lady J A is the dam of eighteen foals. Seven of her foals had official starts on the track with all seven running ROM, six AAA/AAAT and one AA. Among her run- ners we find Lady Bird Leo, AAAT; King Bee Leo, AAA and Leo’s Queen Bee, AAA, all by Leo. Her son, F L Kingbee a AAA runner by Kingwood had 76 official starts with 14 firsts, 17 seconds and 12 thirds. He was foaled in 1946 and raced through 1959. Her other ROM runners are Sugar Drop Mays, AAA by Sugar Bars and Sailing Girl, AA by Vandy II.
Twayna was Yeager’s Lady J A’s last ROM foal. She ran AAA despite a severe wire cut that
was supposed to keep her off the track. She started four times and won two of her starts. In 1968, Twayna became a successful broodmare when she foaled a filly by Three Bars named, Carlotta 2. Carlotta 2 became a stakes winner in the 1970 Sunland Spring Quarter Horse Futurity and the winner of $67,685 in her racing career. Carlotta 2 is the proven producer of Sold Short si 97; Go Carlotta si 84 and Countin The Cash si 92.
Sold Short and Go Carlotta are sired by Go Man Go making them 2x3 linebred to Top Deck. Countin The Cash is also linebred to Top Deck, because his sire Dash For Cash is sired by Rocket Wrangler. Rocket Wrangler is out of a daughter of Go Man Go.
Twayna’s 1976 foal is Easy Sage si 94, by Easy Jet. Easy Sage is the sire of stakes winners Easy Conversation and Easy Accent and stands at the Viking Ranch of Apple Valley, California. Easy Sage has a 1984 foal named Easy Kojak that is out of Blue Canoe by Top Moon. The mother
of Blue Canoe is Sweet Juliana 3 by Quincy A
FL Lady Bug leads one of her foals across the pasture.
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