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Gay Chic, winner of $39,949;
and Wranglers Chicgay, winner of $38,188. Her stakes placed runners were Lucks Chic Gay, winner of $21,333; and Jet Image Chicgay, winner of $20,565.
Chick’s Delight won the 1972 Sugar Loaf Futurity and earned $9,214. Chick’s Delight is the dam of two stakes horses in What Lucks Delight winner of the 1986 Barbra B Handicap-G3, 1987 Pap Handicap and 1985 Ross Meadows Winter Derby with $93,485; and stakes placed Luckgay Chicdelite with earnings of $24,768. He was second in the Bandera Poor Boy Derby.
THE BROTHER’S PEDIGREE
The circumstances that brought Three Bars and Chicado V together goes back to the Vessels’ foundation mare Do Good. This 1938 mare was bred by Jim Harkey, who was originally from Texas and then moved to the Carlsbad, New
He sold Senor Bill to Franklin Cox, with Do Good and Flossie going to California and the Vessels Stallion Farm. Senor Bill ran 44 official races, winning nine with fourteen seconds and fourteen thirds to earn his AAA/ROM. Senor Bill equaled a track record for 300 yards in :16.400 and was stakes placed with a second in the 1949 Silver City Championship Stakes.
Do Good and her dam Flossie went to the Vessels Stallion Farm and became major players as part of the foundation of the program. Clabber’s Flossie V, another daughter of Flossie, is an AQHA Dam of Distinction. Her produce record includes 1956 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly Clab Win and 1957 Champion 3-Year-Old Colt Clabber’s Win.
The first foals bred by Vessels that were out of Do Good were AAA/ROM runner Clabber II and AA/ROM runner Clabber Shu
V. Clabber II became a successful
Mexico area. Do Good was one of the mares he had in his herd.
The article “Chicado V” that appeared in the June 1983 issue
of SPEEDHORSE, tells us two versions of how Do Good made
her way to the Vessels Stallion Farm. The first version comes from Henry Grandi, who helped Harkey move his mares. He reported that he got Do Good as part payment for helping. According to Grandi, he gave Do Good to Jim Doublin when he went off to fight in WWII.
This is where the story changes. Jim Doublin’s grandson, Lawrence Cauley, said that Do Good and her dam Flossie were payment
for grazing rights on the ranch.
At any rate, we have come to the point that a man named Welch persuaded Doublin to breed Do Good to Chicaro Bill. They got the very good runner named Senor Bill.
Welch was later able to buy Senor Bill, Do Good and Flossie.
Three Chicks is the broodmare sire of 2-time Champion Azure Three, shown after his win in the 1978 Shue Fly Handicap.
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