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SPEEDLINES
Caprideck was the first stakes winner sired by Moon Deck.
Night Bid, out of Miss Night Bar, after winning a race at the Missouri State Fair in 1973
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Three Jets, out of Miss Night Bar, winning a race at Bay Meadows in 1966.
Peace Pipe was sired by Underfire by Swynford and Peace Pipe was out of Loving Cup by His Majesty. The pedigree of Mae has several versions. The book Cajun-Bred Running Horses by F. S. LeBlanc shows that her sire was The Dun by Dewey by Sain. The dam of The Dun was Mais, pedigree unlisted. The dam of Mae was the La Bergeron by Doc Horn and La Bergeron was out of a mare by Old DJ. A second versions shows that Mae was sired by a horse named Henry by St Henry by The Finn.
Moon Deck sired foals that earned $1,282,336 with 174 ROM, 20 stakes winners and 20 stakes placed runners. His first foals gave him a great start as a sire in that his 1957 foal crop produced three stakes winners and two stakes placed runners. All of them were Carter-bred in one form or another. Caprideck is the first stakes winner sired by Moon Deck. He was a stakes finalist in 21 stakes races with six stakes wins and five of them coming in 1962 including the Go Man Go Handicap and the Arizona Championship. He was the 1962 Champion Three-Year-Old Gelding. His dam was none other than Caprica, the mare they had a hard time finding. Caprica also produced May Moon by Moon Deck, winner of the 1960 Northwestern Futurity.
Miss Cue Deck was the second stakes winner in the LSRVQHA Derby, and she was out of Miss Cue Bar by Barred and her dam was Mary Ann McCue by Chief McCue and Mary Ann McCue’s dam was Hay by Pankeys Lucky and Hay was out of Homebody by Pankeys Lucky. Mary Ann McCue was another one of the purchases from the New Mexico trip. Bea Deck was a stakes placed runner with a third in the
1959 LSRVQHA Futurity and a second in the 1960 LSRVQHA Derby. He was out of Bea Bar by Barred and Bea Bar’s dam was Beauty Belle by Bugler Boy.
The dam of Beauty Belle was Lula Belle by Saladin and owned by the Carters
with William as the breeder of Bea Deck. JVAC was the second stakes placed winner by Moon Deck with a second in the LSRVQHA Futurity. His dam was Miss Night Star by Roan McCue and out of Cartersmidnightstar by Midnight Jr. Roan McCue was Bissel bred and was probably the yearling colt they bought on the trip
to New Mexico. Cartersmidnightstar was probably the buddy of Belle Of Midnight in New Mexico.
The third stakes winner from Moon Deck’s 1957 foal crop was Miss Jet Deck,
a full sister to Jet Deck. She was the older sister to Jet Deck that Chambers owned and a big reason he bought Jet Deck. The mating of Moon Deck with their dam Miss Night Bar was a phenomenal nick. Miss Night Bar produced 14 foals, 13 starters/ ROM and 10 AAA or AAAT runners. Moon Deck sired ten foals with Miss Night Bar with eight of them earning a AAA
or better rating on the track. During this time in Quarter Horse racing, the ratings
of AAAT, AAA, AA were important as was the Register of Merit award. All 13 of her starters earned a racing ROM. These key ratings were how breeders measured the success of their breeding program looking to improve speed. Mares that produced AAA rated foals were highly valued. Speed being the key to the ability of the American Quarter Horse to perform not only on the track but in the arena, both show and rodeo
of Ben Brush, a noted source of speed that often accompanies Domino in the pedigree. We see that combination in the dam of Three Bars, Myrtle Dee as her sire Luke McLuke was a son of Ultimus and he had a 2x2 breeding pattern to Domino. The second dam of Three Bars was Civil Maid by Patriot by Ben Brush, the sire of Broomstick.
Moonlight Night, or Moonlight as
she was known during much of her race career, is the dam of Moon Deck, the sire of Jet Deck, and she was bred by David Colligan of Church Point, Louisiana.
Jim Scarbrough in his story “Moon
Deck” that appeared in the April 1970 issue of The Quarter Horse Journal tells us that Colligan wanted a good runner out of his mare Mae, and he bred her
to the Thoroughbred Peace Pipe to get Moonlight Night. Scarbrough goes on
to quote an AQHA inspector that, “This mare was a great race mare prior to the American Quarter Racing Association and won at least one race against Shue Fly.” Ferguson bought Moonlight Night and bred her to Top Deck to get Moon Deck.
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