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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 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. 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 sire for Vessels and sired mares like Clabber Tiny, the dam of Tiny Charger and Tiny Watch. Clabber Shu
V is the dam of six ROM, including 1957 California Bred Futurity winner Winning Shot.
The success of Senor Bill brought Do Good back to Arizona to be bred to Chicaro Bill. This time, they got a colt named Charro Bill V, an AA/ROM runner that had 78 starts with 11 wins, 11 seconds, 12 thirds and earnings of $7,240.
Do Good made one more trip to Arizona and the court of Chicaro Bill to produce Chicado V, who had a short tenure on
the track, but it netted her the 1952 Co-
Champion 2-Year-Old title. She had six starts in total, with 3 wins, 1 second and 1 third, earning $5,212.
Chicado V produced nine foals with seven starters, four stakes winners, six winners and seven ROM. Her 1956 colt War Chic was born the year after Triple Chick and earned
a Top AAA, winning races like the 1958 Bay Shore Juvenile Stakes. War Chic, by War Bam TB, earned $36,578 and was the 1958 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt.
Table Tennis, by Spotted Bull, was Chicado V’s next foal. The stakes winner and Champion Table Tennis won 10 of her 35 starts with five seconds and five thirds. She won the 1959 PCQHRA Futurity and the 1960 Pomona Championship and earned $35,197 and was named the 1960 Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. She is the dam of 1965 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Rapid Volley, who is by Three Bars, making her a 3/4-sister to Three Chicks and Triple Chick.
The 1960 foal out of Chicado V was Chicado Chick, a full brother to Triple Chick and Three Chicks. He was an AAA/ ROM runner and was an AQHA Champion with 42 halter points and 24.5 performance points. Anchor Chic, by Anchor Watch, was another AAA/ROM runner out Chicado V. He won three races in 16 starts.
AQHA Performance Champion Chicado Chick is a full brother to Three Chicks and Triple Chick.
Multiple stakes winner The Ole Man, who was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2018, is also a full brother to Three Chicks and Triple Chick.
Three Chicks & Triple Chick are by Three Bars TB (pictured), the sire of 14 Champions and broodmare sire of 4 Champions.
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