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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 the 1968 All American Futurity, the 1969 South Texas Derby and the Open To The World Stakes at Sunland Park. He earned $201,715 on the track. Chick’s Deck raced only as a two year old, winning six of nine starts with a win in the 1975 Kansas Futurity and a third in the Rainbow Futurity, earning $198,267. Both of these stallions play a key role in our look at the “Brothers.”
Three Chicks was the broodmare sire of 817 starters, 470 ROM, 36 stakes winners and 47 stakes placed runners. His grandget earned $4,513,840, with his leading money earner being Azure Three, the winner of the 1977 Los Alamitos Derby and the 1978 Vessels Maturity and Shue Fly Handicap. Azure Three was the 1978 Champion Aged Horse and Champion Aged Stallion. His full sister, Stoa Minga, earned $189,639 as a stakes placed runner in the 1979 Miss Princess Invitational Handicap and the 1980 Horseman’s QHRA Championship.
One of the interesting crosses for Three Chicks is with the mare Gay’s Delight.
This cross produced Chick’s Gay and Chick’s Delight and these sisters account for a number of stakes horses. 1973 Twin Sister Futurity winner Chick’s Gay earned $34,114 and produced four stakes winners and two stakes placed runners. Her leading money earner is 1982 Champion Aged Stallion Lucks Gay Chic, winner of the 1981 Devils River Derby and earner of $154,388. Her other stakes winners were What Lucks Gay Chic, winner of $79,389; Hempens 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.
Three Chicks when bred to Gay’s Delight, shown after winning the 1967 Juvenile Championship at Los Alamitos, produced multiple stakes winners.
Gay’s Delight is the dam of...
Gay’s Delight is the dam of...
1973 Twin Sister Futurity winner Chick’s Gay (Three Chicks-Gay’s Delight), shown with foal, produced four stakes winners.
Chick’s Gay is the dam of...
1972 Sugar Loaf Futurity winner Chick’s Delight (Three Chicks-Gay’s Delight) produced two stakes runners
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1982 Champion Aged Stallion Lucks Gay Chick (What Luck TB-Chick’s Gay).
3-time stakes winner What Lucks Delight (What Luck-Chick’s Delight)
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