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match race with him and I went out to watch it and I just liked the classy look of him. I didn’t know anything about the breeding. I just liked the look of the horse. A classy lookin’ little sucker. He was a really nice looking horse.”
Tinky Poo was a “classy lookin’” horse that earned 25 halter points with four performance points. He was an AQHA Champion and an ROM racehorse with the old AA rating. He started in 22 races with four wins, three seconds and one third. He earned $2,445.
Tinky Poo was bred by Glen Chipperfield in Arizona. He was sired
by Wayward Irving, by a Thoroughbred stallion named Scorcher by *Frizzle. The dam of Wayward Irving was Fair Play, a mare with some controversy about her pedigree. One of the popular names
in the early years was Barney Lucus.
Fair Play is reportedly sired by Barney Lucus. Some pedigrees will show that the spelling of Barney Lucus was Barney Lucas. One version of the pedigree for Barney Lucus was that he was sired by Traveler, or by a son of Traveler. The son of Traveler is known as Cunningham’s Traveler. Jack Cunningham of Comanche, Texas, once owned Traveler.
The Thoroughbred version of
the Barney Lucus pedigree shows Dr Curtis by Magnificus as his sire. His dam in this version of the pedigree
is Massacre by Requital. The Equine Online computer pedigree for Barney Lucus shows that no breeder is listed and there is no race record. Pedigree Query for Thoroughbreds shows that Barney Lucus was a buckskin horse, which is a rather rare occurrence for
a Thoroughbred and suggests some Quarter Horse in this pedigree.
A similar situation exists with the dam of Fair Play. Her name is Overknight. She is listed as a Thoroughbred, but in the article “The Band Play Story” in
the Quarter Horse Magazine from the old National Quarter Horse Breeders Association indicates that she carried some Quarter Horse blood. Her sire
is listed as a Thoroughbred named Beknighted by Free Knight. Her dam in this pedigree is listed as a Thoroughbred mare named Kitty Bailie by Cynosure. The dam of Tinky Poo is Little
Peach, who was bred by Ronald Mason. Little Peach is sired by Beggar Boy by Black Toney and out of Useeit. Beggar Boy is a full brother to Black Gold, who
won the Kentucky Derby. Useeit was sired by Bonnie Joe, who is the sire of Joe Blair, the sire of Joe Reed P-3, the double grandsire of Leo.
The dam of Little Peach is Peaches by Oklahoma Star P-6, who was sired by the Thoroughbred Dennis Reed. Oklahoma Star P-6 was out of Cutthroat, who like many of her day was credited with several names and pedigrees mostly because
of her race career. The official AQHA pedigree for this mare shows her sire
to be Gulliver by Missouri Rondo. Her dam in the official pedigree is Big Em by Rocky Mountain Tom.
Ronald Mason, who owned Oklahoma Star P-6 when they registered him believed that the sire of Cutthroat was Bonnie Joe the sire of Useeit. This would make Little Peaches double bred to Bonnie Joe with a breeding pattern of 3 X 4.
The dam of Peaches was a mare known as J 4, by Old Red Buck P-9. He was sired by Red Man and out of Belle Starr by Big Danger. The dam of Old Red Buck P-9 is Pet Dawson by Jeff by Printer II and out of Old Babe by Little Earl.
The breeding of Annahi to Tinky Poo brought the filly Tinky Ann in 1953. Charlton would take Tinky Ann to the racetrack where she would earn a racing ROM in 1955. She would have two starts with one win that year. She came back at three to run five races, with only one second to show for it. Her record
in 1957 at the age of four would be 10 starts with two wins and two thirds.
It is at this point that Tinky Ann
took 1958 off to enter the broodmare band to produce her first foal. This foal was born in 1959 and named Charlie’s Pride. This foal was sired by Booger
H. Charlie’s Pride was an AA rated runner with 67 starts with eight wins, 11 seconds and six thirds. The highlight of Charlie’s Pride’s race career was a third in the 1961 Intermountain Futurity.
Tinky Ann, who put her produce record on hold after her first foal was born, ran eight more times with one win in 1959. She came back to the track a final time in 1960 at the age of seven to run in 10 more races with one third. She earned $3,464 in her official race career.
Charlton summed up Tinky Ann’s race career this way, “When she was a baby, she ran into a fence and cut her forearms pretty bad. So she didn’t really move right in the front end, but she had a lot of heart. A lot of try. She won
High Time may best be known to the Quarter Horse industry as the dam sire of Joe Reed II (shown here), sire of the great Leo.
The next step in Charlton’s breeding program was to bred Annahi to Tinky Poo (shown here after winning in 1956 at Los Alamitos), who traces to Joe Reed P-3, the
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