[3] He was sold as a yearling at the 2012 Los Alamitos Equine Sale for $21,500[4] to Ron Hartley of Canyon Lake, California and trained by John Cooper.
[2] His nine wins were the most of any Quarter Horse in 2014 and led to Moonist being named the AQHA champion three-year-old.
[5] Favored in the actual Los Alamitos Winter Championship on February 15, he was upset by Matabari, who had been the champion three-year-old filly of 2013 before losing her next five starts.
"[8] Moonist earned his tenth stakes victory and third G1 win in the Go Man Go Handicap on September 25, beating Separate Interest by 1+1⁄4 lengths.
[9] He followed up with a wire-to-wire victory in the G1 Robert L. Boniface Los Alamitos Invitational Championship on October 17, defeating Far Niente by half a length.
[11] Heza Dasha Fire took the lead shortly after the break and held off Moonist to win by 1+1⁄4 lengths.
"[12] Moonist finished the year with seven wins, two seconds and a third from ten starts and was named the AQHA champion aged horse of 2015.
[13] Moonist started the year by winning the Los Alamitos Winter Trial on January 24, 2016, defeating Heza Dasha Fire, who had just been named the 2015 World Champion Quarter Horse.
[14] In the Los Alamitos Winter Championship on February 14, he faced off once again with Heza Dasha Fire and again triumphed in a time of 19.49 seconds for 400 yards.
[15] Moonist was given a brief layoff, then returned with a "decisive" win in an allowance race on May 20, posting a time :17.466 seconds for 350 yards.
[16] On June 12, Moonist was the fastest qualifier in the Vessels Maturity Trials, completing the 400 yard race in :19.486.
"[17] Moonist started to feel unwell on the afternoon of June 21 and quickly deteriorated from what turned out to be a bout of colic.
"My grandson was telling me about all the messages he was getting and seeing on social media about Moonist and it's quite overwhelming and touching to see how much this horse was liked and enjoyed by so many people," said Hartley.