Life
Easy Date was a 1972 bay daughter of American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Hall of Fame member Easy Jet out of a Thoroughbred mare named Spot Cash. Spot Cash was a descendant of Teddy and Man o' War.
Easy Date won the 1974 All American Futurity as well as the 1975 Rainbow Derby and the 1975 Golden State Derby. She was named AQHA World Champion Quarter Running Horse in 1975, and the 1974 AQHA Champion Quarter Running Two-Year-Old Filly. During her race career, she won 22 races and $849,710.00 in earnings along with an AQHA Superior Race Horse award.
After the end of Easy Date's racing career, she was the mother of eleven foals, eight of whom earned their Race Register of Merit with the AQHA. Three of her foals won stakes races and one was a Superior Race Horse award winner. Her offspring earned a total of $101,931.00 on the racetrack.
Easy Date was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.
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