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Chick Called Sue, shown with her foal Rose Bud Sue by Bugs Alive In 75, is the leading money earner by Three Chicks.
halter arena. He won 21 Grand Champion Stallion titles and earned the Superior Award. He was also Grand Champion at the Chicago International Quarter Horse Show and the Fort Worth Stock Show.
Scooper Chick went down
with colic and then he foundered, which is when Three Chicks came to the front to stand as the lead sire for Golden Valley Ranch.
Tiny Watch joined him and then in 1967 they became a part of
the new Travis Ranch. Boyington reestablished the Golden Valley Ranch at a new location. Boyington put forth every effort to save Scooper Chick, but in April of 1969 they had to put him down.
Three Chicks sired 614 foals with 392 starters that took home 219 Register of Merit Awards. He had 39 stakes winners
and 30 stakes placed runners with combined earnings of $1,975,692. His leading money earner is 1975 Rainbow Futurity winner Chick Called Sue, who was second to Bugs Alive In
75 in the 1975 All American Futurity and had cumulative earnings of $257,713.
1969 Rainbow Futurity winner Miss Three Wars, by Three Chicks, was another stakes winner and a very special mare that was owned and raced by Paul and Doris Travis. She was second in the 1969 All American Futurity and Kansas Futurity, won the 1970 Rainbow Derby and earned $182,391 on the track.
This brings us to two important sons of Three Chicks in Three Oh’s and Chick’s Deck. Three Oh’s won
and five Grand Championships, accumulating 23 points. He
was shown one time in western pleasure and earned two points. His good conformation earned him Grand Champion Stallion at the Chicago International Quarter Horse Show, the second largest Quarter Horse show in 1966.
This is where the plot thickens. C. F. Boyington had purchased Scooper Chick by Triple Chick
in 1964. Scooper Chick and Three Chicks were stable mates in 1963. Both raced in the colors of the Vessels Stallion Farm’s Western Stables. Scooper Chick was at the top of his game as a runner, setting what was then called a World Record and now
a track record running 400 yards in :19.88. He had set other track records, including 350 yards
at Pomona in :17.77 and at
Bay Meadows for 350 yards in :17.88. He won or placed in
16 stakes races, winning five of them. His stakes wins include the King City Stake, Southern California Stakes, the Memorial Day Handicap and the Josie’s Bar Handicap to go with his Autumn Championship win. Scooper Chick raced in good company just like Three Chicks. He won over such Champions as Jet Deck, Anna Dial, Dariman and The Haymaker.
Boyington brought Scooper Chick to Oklahoma to stand at stud and then enter the
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