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five starts, with one win and
two seconds. He began with an unplaced finish in a race won
by Silent Ariel, then came back with a second in the Barbra B Handicap that was also won by Silent Ariel. Three Chicks’ next start came in a 400-yard race where he went unplaced. All three of these races were run in April.
Three Chicks took the summer off and made his next start in September, running second to Straw Flight in an allowance. Straw Flight became the 1963 Champion Aged Mare. The last start for Three Chicks didn’t come until December in the Go Man Go Handicap where he won and defeated Anna Dial, the 1963 Champion Mare and Champion 3-Year-Old Filly.
Three Chicks retired with three wins, two seconds and one third in 10 starts and total earnings of $22,624. His earnings of $14,169 for the fifth place in the All American shows how significant the purse for the All American Futurity had become by 1961,
the third year of its existence. The win in the Josie’s Bar netted him $2,750 and he earned $1,125 for second in the Barbra B. His win in the Go Man Go netted him $2,750, a race that is currently a Grade 1 with a purse of $100,000.
The life of Three Chicks changed in 1967 when he was purchased by Paul and Doris Travis when they bought the Golden Valley Ranch in Norman, Oklahoma, from C. F. Boyington. The deal included Three Chicks and 1965/1966 Champion Aged
Stallion Tiny Watch, another Vessels bred runner. This was the start of the Travis Ranch, the place that Three Chicks called home for pretty much the rest of his life.
Travis Farm was alive and well in Michigan before they made the decision to move to Oklahoma and get really serious about breeding racehorses. They had first become interested in breeding racehorses in Michigan where they stood Pana Bar. He was a Top AAA/Champion son of Lightning Bar, and the great race mare Miss Panama by Ace of Diamonds. Pana Bar joined the stallion roster at Travis Ranch in Oklahoma.
The Travis’ built a good broodmare band to go with their
new sires. They were all AAA or Top AAA race mares, and many were stakes winners. One of the things Travis set out to do was
to see that some of these mares became Champions if they weren’t already. The mares were shown
at halter and, along with their racing points, earned performance points to earn their title. This band of mares included AAAT/ AQHA Champion Fantacia, AAA/ AQHA Champion Pal’s Tamak, AAA/AQHA Champion Three Deep, AAA/AQHA Champion Bar Repetition and AAAT/AQHA Champion Decketta.
Three Chicks earned his Champion title by being shown eight times, earning five class wins
Champion sire/Champion broodmare sire Three Chicks has progeny earnings of $1,975,692.
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