RC Gay Bar Star Dust is a big 15.3 hand cremello quarter horse stallion. He has a big hip, good bone, a pretty head and is a color producer. He is a good mover, cinches deep and has a good set of withers.RC Gay Bar Star Dust is a big 15.3 hand cremello quarter horse stallion. He has a big hip, good bone, a pretty head and is a color producer. He is a good mover, cinches deep and has a good set of withers.

Career Earnings of $908,837 - Reference Great Grandsire of RC Gay Bar Star Dust

1980 Sorrel Quarter Horse Stallion

Bunny Bid x Miss Myrna Mix

Sail On Bunny

The Story of Sail On Bunny

It's a cool, overcast August morning at Los Alamitos (Calif.) Race Course. Trainer Jake Cascio is sitting on a folding chair outside his tack room administering laser therapy to his 75-year-old left knee. A few feet away, in Stall 44, veterinarian Jeff Palmer runs a vibrator over the legs and body of a handsome chestnut quarter h...orse colt named Sail On Bunny. Horse owners have been known to resort to some far-out remedies, but the goings-on around Barn 21 are over the horizon.

What can you say about a 2-year-old colt who has been X-rayed, laser-beamed, acupunctured and "psychoanalyzed"? Well, you can say that he has won $908,837 in 10 lifetime starts. If he races again later this year, as expected, he could become—literally—a million-dollar baby. As it is, Bunny probably has 2-year-old quarter horse colt-of-the-year honors locked up. He has also been syndicated for more than $6 million. Not bad for a broken-down cripple, which is what Jake's son, Bubba, calls Sail On Bunny. Charles William (Bubba) Cascio, now 50, is also a trainer, and in August had his horses stabled on the other side of Barn 21. Invariably, before any race that both he and his father had horses in, Bubba walked by the old man and said, "Good luck, Daddy, I hope you run second." And invariably Jake replied, "Good luck to you, Son. I hope you get third."

A quarter horse race can be summed up as breaking well from the gate, running hell-for-leather down a straightaway and may the fastest horse win. Because the horses explode out of the gate, it isn't unusual for them to slam into each other at the start, which is what happened to Bunny last April in the Sun Country Futurity Trials at Sunland Park in New Mexico. Though bumped and injured, he finished second. When Cascio shipped Bunny the 800 miles to Los Alamitos, the colt was favoring his right foreleg and limping like an arthritic old man. And he had to get ready for the Kindergarten Stakes in June. Bunny was X-rayed fore to aft and top to bottom: Three track vets diagnosed his ailment as a primary shoulder injury.

Doc Palmer, however, was convinced the injury was a bone splint in the colt's right leg and proceeded to treat Bunny for that. Every morning Palmer would haul his Dynatron 820 Laser machine out to the barn, hook a ground wire to the colt's left leg and point a laser beam at the spot where he believed Bunny was injured. Palmer says the machine is an experimental tool. However, he says, "It seems to give immediate localized relief and reduce healing time by half." Palmer admits that when he first heard about the machine, he thought it was a bunch of hocus-pocus. In fact, he was about to send it back to the manufacturer when he sprained his wrist. So Palmer decided to try it out on himself. In no time the wrist was cured, he says.

Palmer, the colt's main vet, continued to minister to his charge every morning, and in addition to laser therapy, he devised an oxygen mask that fits over the horse's nose and mouth to combat the Southern California smog: "When it gets smoggy out here and I can't breathe, I figure the horse can't either," he says. He also injected the colt's knees with "rooster juice," otherwise known as hyaluronic acid, which is derived from rooster combs, among other sources. This concentrate adds hydrogen to the cartilage, Palmer claims, and increases the natural cushion for the knee joint.

What Palmer didn't know was that Cascio had also called in another vet, Ed Hill, to treat Bunny's shoulder with acupuncture in the afternoons. Acupuncture isn't unknown around racetracks. "I'd seen it work on other horses," Cascio said, "so I thought I'd give it a try." Well, the morning after his first treatment, the very sore Sail On Bunny was able to go for a light gallop. Hill practices what he calls auricular acupuncture, meaning the needles are placed in the ear. "That dilates the blood vessels," he says, "and releases the plugged-up qi, or life energy." Hill even seemed to have cleared up a skin rash on Bunny by sticking a few extra needles in the horse's ear.

The various treatments paid off. On June 19 Bunny won the $715,000 Kindergarten by a neck, covering the 350 yards in 17.74 seconds. The two vets, by now aware of each other, continued their treatments, pointing the colt toward the $1,075,000 Skoal Dash For Cash Futurity in mid-July. But was this enough protection for Cascio? Of course not. He called in a psychic, Beatrice Lydecker, 43, to commune with his horse. "She said he did have a sore shoulder," says Cascio, "and some leg problems, but that he would get better."

That was good news both for Cascio and for Jake Box, a 43-year-old wheat farmer from Portales, N. Mex. who's responsible for having brought Bunny into this world. In 1978, Box bought Bunny's dam, Miss Myrna Mix, for $500 plus a broodmare and a colt of hers and a yearling filly. Box bred Myrna Mix to Bunny Bid, who was standing in Vernon, Texas. Stud fee: $1,500. Result: Sail On Bunny. Then came the yearling sales at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. in September of last year. Box paid the $500 fee to auction Bunny off. "I figured he was worth around $14,000," says Box. Cascio, who was also at the sale, advised Box, an old friend, not to take less than $10,000. He thought Bunny's breeding, though not conventionally promising, was good. So when the bidding on the colt went to only $9,500, Box bid $10,000 and got his own horse back. Then he turned around and sold a half interest in the colt to a boyhood friend and fellow wheat farmer, Ray Starbuck.

No sooner did Sail On Bunny win the Skoal Dash For Cash than Oklahoma bloodstock agent and all-around mogul Don Tyner bought Bunny from the two wheat farmers for $4.5 million. It was Tyner who took charge of syndicating 150 breeding shares in Sail On Bunny, with Box and Starbuck retaining five shares each and Cascio getting two shares as a bonus. What this means in effect is that Casio will receive $45,000 a year for the next five years and to hell with Social Security.
But in the week leading up to August's $1,183,000 Fabergé Special Effort Futurity, Sail On Bunny was still sore. Palmer took to swigging Pepto Bismol, and nobody involved was getting any sleep. "You'd go to bed thinking about it," says Cascio. And then, on the Wednesday before the race, while being walked around outside the barn, Sail On Bunny started playing. On Thursday, Palmer declared the colt 80% sound. On Friday, Bunny was on the muscle. Cascio called out to his son, "You better get your dogs ready to catch the Bunny tomorrow."

Saturday night, before the race, Cascio was one of the first to get to the paddock, and here came Bunny, all full of himself and dancing.

At 11:13 p.m. the gates blew open and Bunny broke so hard he stumbled badly, going down on his right knee. His jockey, Gary Sumpter, quickly gathered the colt and they raced for the wire, making up so much ground that when they passed the halfway mark of the 440-yard race, Bunny was in second and gaining. When the leaders crossed the finish line 21.86 seconds after the start, what the photo finish showed was Bunny second to a 19-1 filly named Make Mine Cash. Although the official race chart reads that Bunny was beat a head, the margin was more like a couple of inches.

Cascio was a little depressed, but everyone went back to the barn and drank champagne anyway. Palmer said, "We feel the horse really did win. He showed everyone he's a true champion." Bubba's two horses, by the way, finished seventh and ninth in the 10-horse field.

On the beam, on the needles
If medical wonders don't cease, Sail On Bunny will become a millionaire
By Demmie Stathoplos

Sports Illustrated
Nov. 01, 1982

Sail On Bunny is a Million Dollar Quarter Horse Sire. He is sire # 156 on the AQHA Stats through 02/11/2015 with get earning $4,024,378.00 He was ranked #11 on 1998 Leading Broodmare Sires of 2-Year Old Money Earners. Daughter Fly Little Bunny SI 107, earner of $73,136 - Daughter Sail On Pigeon SI 95, earner of $9,382 - Son Pockey Pigeon SI 98, earner of $28,630

SAIL ON BUNNY PROGENY

A TRUE BUNNY                  M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x TRUE SCOUT - QUARTER HORSE

ALIVE WONDER BUNNY    M 1996 SAIL ON BUNNY x ALIVE WONDER - QUARTER HORSE
AM HARD TO COME BY     M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x JEANIE JEAN - QUARTER HORSE

BB SAIL ON MISSY             M 1992 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS TIME MASTER - QH
BCR SAILING CINDERS      M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x BCR CINDERS KEY - QUARTER HORSE

BLUE RIBBON BUNNY        M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x GO GO MARGIE - QUARTER HORSE

BOLEROS SAILON BUNNY M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x BOLEROS LADY - QUARTER HORSE
BRB PRIME TIME BUNNY    G 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS ROYALEASE - QUARTER HORSE

BUBBLES BUNNY                M 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x A SMOOTH BUBBLE - QH
BUNNY BE LADY                  M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x DUSTY BE LADY - QUARTER HORSE
BUNNY BEAUTY                   M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x ROCKET ELAINE - QUARTER HORSE

BUNNY LE FLEUR                M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASY LE FLEUR - QUARTER HORSE

BUNNYS MOONBUG            M 1992 SAIL ON BUNNY x MOONBUGS FOLLY - QH

CHICK A BUNNY                   H 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x HASTA GO BY JET - QUARTER HORSE

CHICKS WINDUINO              M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x WINDUINO - QUARTER HORSE
COOL SHARK2                     G 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x SHARK FISH - QUARTER HORSE
DAYTIME SUPRISE              G 1993 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASY ALL RIGHTA - QUARTER HORSE

DECKEM BUNNY                  C 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x BUTTONS N BOWS7 - QH

DELTA BUNNY                      M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x PROUD DELTA - QUARTER HORSE

DESARIO                               G 1990 SAIL ON BUNNY x BE SURE TO CHARGE - QH

DIAMONDS FOR SAIL          M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x DIAMOND PRETENDER - QH

DIMPLES IN TOPAZ              M 1979 SAIL ON BUNNY x LESLEYS DIMPLE - QUARTER HORSE

ELTON BUNNY GIRL            M 1984 SAIL ON BUNNY x GUSSY3 - QUARTER HORSE

EXPLODING BUNNY             M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x EXPLOSION MISS - QUARTER HORSE

FANCYDONTLETMEDOWN  M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x FANCY HEN - QUARTER HORSE

FLY LIL BUNNY                     M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x FLY LIL PIGEON - QUARTER HORSE

FLY LITTLE BUNNY              M 1973 SAIL ON BUNNY x FLY LIL PIGEON - QUARTER HORSE

HES STEPPIN EASY             H 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x STEPPIN EASY - QUARTER HORSE

IM STEPPIN EASY                M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x STEPPIN EASY - QUARTER HORSE

IN ALL WAYS WILLING        M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x ALWAYS ELEGANT - QH

JAKES LAST BUNNY           M 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x ANGELINA SIX - QUARTER HORSE

JEOPARDYS BUNNY           C 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x JEOPARDYS FANNY - QH

JJ DESIGN                            M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x ZOANNIE - QUARTER HORSE

JOR JOR                               G 1993 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISSY MASTER - QUARTER HORSE

JUDYS BUNNY                     M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x JUDYS WONDER - QUARTER HORSE

JUST ANOTHER ACE          H 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x ACES RULE - QUARTER HORSE

KAKI BUNNY                        M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x ROYALE KAKI - QUARTER HORSE

KAN SAIL                              M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS BOBBIE PAC - QUARTER HORSE

KAPPA KUTIE GAL              M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x BEAUTY ROCKETTE - QH

KIPA SAILING                       M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x KIP NIP - QUARTER HORSE

KRISSY BUNNY                    M 1976 SAIL ON BUNNY x KRISTENS ROCKET - QH

KUCHEN SONG                    M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x MARGLAD - QUARTER HORSE

LACEYS FLASH BACK        F 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x AS SMOOTH AS GLASS - QH

LADY NEWPORT                  M 1984 SAIL ON BUNNY x SWEET GAME - QUARTER HORSE

LITTLE ROYAL BUNNY        M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x LITTLE ROYAL CHICK - QH

LUCK O THE BUNNY            M 1996 SAIL ON BUNNY x FIESTAS DARK ANGEL - QH

LUCKY GRAY FLASH           M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x LUCKY MS BRISK - QUARTER HORSE

MAIL CALLS BUNNY            M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x MAIL CALL - QUARTER HORSE

MAIL THE CASH                   M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x CASHED ON DELIVERY - QH

MAY SAIL ON                        M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASY SUPERSTITION - QH

MAYRA BUNNY                     M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x COOL GOIN - QUARTER HORSE

MISS BUNNY VIEW JC         M 1993 SAIL ON BUNNY x EVENING VIEW - QUARTER HORSE

MISS CHOCTAW BUNNY     M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x CHOCTAW MISS - QUARTER HORSE

MISS ELLENDALE                M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS CEDAR OAK - QUARTER HORSE

MISS SAIL ON                       M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASY SUPERSTITION - QH

MISS SMOOTH SAILIN         M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x SMOOTH FIRST FLIGHT - QH

MONITAS BUNNY                 M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x RAGATTA - QUARTER HORSE

MOONLIGHT IN PARIS         M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x TRES CASH - QUARTER HORSE

MS DOUBLE BUNNY            M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x DECKABUNNY - QUARTER HORSE

MS ROCKET BUNNY            M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x WRANGLERS CHICGAY - QH

MY DÉJÀ VU                          G 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x MY REFLECTIONS - QUARTER HORSE

MY QUICK BUNNY                G 1996 SAIL ON BUNNY x QUIK BUX - QUARTER HORSE

MY SPECIAL BUNNY            M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x CHARGING JANE - QUARTER HORSE

OOH BUNNY LALA               M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x OOH LALA LALA - QUARTER HORSE

OROS DE LITE                      M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x BUENA CAPRI - QUARTER HORSE

RED HOT GOSSIP                 M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x SIP OGOLD - QUARTER HORSE

ROCKA BUNNY WRANGLER M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x BEAUTY ROCKETTE - QH

RULE THE BUNNY                M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x ACES RULE - QUARTER HORSE

S W GRAHAM                        C 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x NATIVES IMPRINT - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL AT THREE                     H 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x DECKA BO DEREK - QH

SAIL LIKE A BUNNY             G 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS MOON LIKE - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON BONNY                   M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x SIZZLIN CHRIS - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON BYE BUNNY           M 1984 SAIL ON BUNNY x REBEL S QUEEN - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON DARLING                M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x SUPER SOUND DARLING - QH

SAIL ON DEVIL WOMAN      M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x MY DEVIL WOMAN - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON DUCHESS              M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x SINFUL BUG - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON EASTER JET          M 1984 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASENESS - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON FAITH                      H 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x CHEROKEE FAITH - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON GLASS                    M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x POLISHED GLASS - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON GOTEBO                 M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISSY GOTEBO - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON HEATHER               M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x BARBIS WAGER - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON MAC                        G 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x MAGGIE MAC - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON MITEE                     M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x MITEE PAINT - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON MOON BABY          M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS MOON LIKE - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON MYRNA                   M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x MYRNAS FANCYPANTS - QH

SAIL ON OVER                      M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x NO PUSHOVER3 - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON PIGEON                  M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x FLY LIL PIGEON - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON RAMBLE                M 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x GO GALA RAMBLE - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON RITA                       M 1990 SAIL ON BUNNY x RITA BAR BET - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ON SHAWNEE             M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x SHAWNEE HIGH - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL ONS SUGAR                M 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x CASSON EASY - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL RUN                              M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x RUNNING REBA - QUARTER HORSE

SAIL TO GLORY                   M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x ME CHAMP TWO - QUARTER HORSE

SAILIN STAR                        M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x STAR OF THE GAME - QH

SAILING FOR FUN               G 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS MIGHTY WONDER - QH

SAILING ON N ON                G 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x THE MARCH HARE - QUARTER HORSE

SAILING ON TOP                 M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS TOP TRIPLE - QUARTER HORSE

SAILING TEE                        M 1992 SAIL ON BUNNY x PACIFIC GLOW - QUARTER HORSE

SETTA SAIL BUNNY            M 1997 SAIL ON BUNNY x PYROSETTA - QUARTER HORSE

SHADES BUNNY                  H 1992 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS HOPEFUL SHADE - QH

SHE SAILS ON                     M 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x WONDERIFSHEGOES - QH

SHESA FUNNY BUNNY       M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x MISS PARR NONE - QUARTER HORSE

SKIPALONG BUNNY            M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x GLAD LASS - QUARTER HORSE

SMOOTH DANCIN BUNNY   M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x DANCIN JOHNNIE - QUARTER HORSE

SOME BUNNY TO LUV         M 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x OTOE LEDA - QUARTER HORSE

SOMPIN LIKE A BUNNY       M 1988 SAIL ON BUNNY x SOMPIN ROYAL - QUARTER HORSE

SOUTHASOFIA                      M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x JOLE BLON - QUARTER HORSE

SOUTHERN BUNNY              M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x ALL AMERICAN CHICK - QH

SPECIAL SAILING                 M 1990 SAIL ON BUNNY x WARDS SPECIAL TOUCH - QH

STAR SAILIN                          M 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x SECRET WISH3 - QUARTER HORSE

STRIDING BUNNY                 M 1995 SAIL ON BUNNY x EMIES JET - QUARTER HORSE

STRIKING BUNNY                 H 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x DIAMONDS N LACE - QH

SW GRAHAM                         H 1989 SAIL ON BUNNY x NATIVES IMPRINT - QUARTER HORSE

SWEET BUNNY JET              H 1986 SAIL ON BUNNY x SWEET SOLUTION - QH

SWEET MAGENTA                M 1985 SAIL ON BUNNY x SWEET FEAST - QUARTER HORSE

TEN KARAT BUNNY             M 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x EASY SUPERSTITION - QH

THE POWERS WITHIN          G 1996 SAIL ON BUNNY x WINDUINO - QUARTER HORSE

THISLADYSAMERCEDES     M 1984 SAIL ON BUNNY x LELA BARNES BUG - QH

THUNDER BUNNY ROLLS    G 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x AS SMOOTH AS GLASS - QH

WEE BUNNY                           M 1994 SAIL ON BUNNY x KEEN TIMES - QUARTER HORSE

WEST COAST BUNNY           M 1990 SAIL ON BUNNY x MS RAMBLER - QUARTER HORSE

WHOS DAT BUNNY                C 1991 SAIL ON BUNNY x SOMA MISSILE - QUARTER HORSE
WIND N SAIL                           G 1987 SAIL ON BUNNY x LA FETE - QUARTER HORSE