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Triple Chick became the broodmare
sire of 773 starters, 402 ROM, 24 stakes winners and 35 stakes placed runners.
These foals earned $2,999,357. His leading money earner is Triple Champion, who
had six wins in 24 starts and $273,131. He was first, second or third in six stakes races and won the 1983 Laddie Handicap. Some of Triple Chick’s other stakes winners as a broodmare sire include: Island Ruler, who has earned $123,666 and won four stakes races, including the 1980 Pap Handicap and the 1980 War Chic Handicap; and Andy Go, earner of $111,054 with two stakes victories, including the 1973 Horseman’s QHRA Championship.
Three Chicks was foaled in 1959 and raced for Vessels Stallion Farm through their Western States Stable. His race record at
two is an interesting one. Three Chicks won $14,464 as a freshman with one third place finish in three starts. His first race was an unplaced finish in an allowance to Pokey Bar on Aug. 5. His next start was in a trial for the All American Futurity on Aug. 26, where he garnered third place behind Bunny’s Bar Maid and Leona Dee and qualified for the All American Futurity.
The 1961 All American Futurity consisted of a showcase field of horses that included Pokey Bar, Bunny’s Bar Maid, Golden Note, Mr Three Bars, Savanah Gates, Magnolia Bar, Leona Dee, Art Bar and David Cox. Pokey Bar came in first, with Bunny’s Bar Maid second and Golden Note third. Three Chicks finished fifth behind Mr Three Bars. The first three finishers earned year
end awards, with Pokey Bar being named
the Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and Bunny’s Bar Maid and Golden Note sharing the Champion 2-Year-Old Filly title for 1961.
Three Chicks made only two starts in 1962, winning both races. He broke his maiden in a 350-yard race at the Fairplex
at Pomona. He then won the Josie Bar Handicap over the 1961 Champion 3-Year- Old Colt Rebel Cause, who was later named the 1962 Champion Aged Stallion.
In 1963, Three Chicks made 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
Champion sire/Champion broodmare sire Three Chicks has progeny earnings of $1,975,692.
Chick Called Sue, shown with her foal Rose Bud Sue by Bugs Alive In 75, is the leading money earner by Three Chicks.
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