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Jet Deck
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Racing
Sire Moon Deck
Grandsire Top Deck (TB)
Dam Miss Night Bar
Maternal grandsire Barred
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1960
Country United States
Color Bay
Breeder William and James Carter
Honors
Racing record
31 starts: 22-4-2
AAAT speed rating
Race earnings
$200,625.00
Major racing wins
  • Los Alamitos Futurity
  • PCQHRA Futurity
  • Los Alamitos Championship
  • PCQHRA Derby
Racing awards
1963 World Champion Quarter Running Horse
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Jet Deck (1960–1971) was a Quarter Horse racehorse and sire.

Life

Foaled April 19, 1960 in California, Jet Deck was the offspring of Moon Deck and a daughter of Barred named Miss Night Bar. Miss Night Bar was a granddaughter of Three Bars (TB).

Racing career

Jet Deck was a multiple stakes winner and was named by the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) the 1962 Champion Quarter Running Two Year Old Colt and Stallion, as well as the 1963 World Champion Quarter Running Horse. He raced for two years, with thirty-one starts. He won twenty-two of his starts, four times coming in second and placing third twice. He earned forty-two AQHA racing points to go with his money earnings of $200,625.00. His highest speed rating was AAAT.

Breeding record and death

After Jet Deck's racing career, he was retired to stud duties, but died on August 26, 1971 from an injection of barbiturates into his bloodstream. The identity of the person who injected him has never been determined. Before his death, he sired 383 race Register of Merit earning horses, several world champion Quarter running horses, two AQHA High Point horses, and five AQHA Champions. Among his offspring are Easy Jet, Jet Smooth, Jet Threat, and Mr Jet West.

Honors

Jet Deck was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1991.

Pedigree

Equipoise (TB)
Equestrian (TB)
Frilette (TB)
Top Deck (TB)
Chicaro (TB)
River Boat (TB)
Last Boat (TB)
Moon Deck
*Under Fire (TB)
Peace Pipe (TB)
Loving Cup (TB)
Moonlight Night
The Dun Horse
Mae
La Bergeron
Jet Deck
Percentage (TB)
Three Bars (TB)
Myrtle Dee (TB)
Barred
Red Joe Of Arizona
Ready
Ruby by Red Cloud
Miss Night Bar
Midnight
Midnight Jr
Salty
Belle of Midnight
Pankey's Lucky
Myrna Loy
Pankey mare
  • All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Jet Deck retrieved on June 23, 2007
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