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Tiny Charger was out of Clabber Tiny by World Champion Clabber. Depth Charge is another one of those great progenitors that has ties to Domino and his sister Correction. His sire was the Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture, who was out of Possible by Ultimus, the double grandson of Domino. The dam of Depth Charge was Quickly by Haste, who was out of Miss Malapropos who was out of Correction, the full sister to Domino.
Charger Bar raced from 1970 to 1975 with 43 starts with a record of 28 wins, three seconds and six thirds. She won a phenomenal 21 stakes races, including the 1971 Champion of Champions.
She was the 1971 AQHA Racing World Champion, 1971 Champion Three-Year- Old Filly and the 1971 AQHA Racing Champion Mare. She went on from there to win the Champion Mare title three additional times as well as the Champion Aged Mare title three times.
Charlton recalled this great mare
and what made her special, “She was
one of those once in a lifetime horses.
She had a lot of heart. She was always good in the gate and she would run her heart out to be in front. She had a lot of determination, but she had speed, too. She had enough speed in that you didn’t use all of it, and that is why she won so many races. She took good care of herself. She would put out when she really had to and, in most of her races, she didn’t win by a long ways, but she beat horses that had set track records and all that.”
He continued, “I ran her one time on a bad track in Denver to make her eligible for the Champion of Champions and I told the rider, ‘Dr. Allred said to make her run.’ But I said, ‘if you win by over a neck, you’re in trouble.’ That’s the way she was and the way I was. She won by a neck.”
He concluded with the following, “A lot of horses would be running their heart out, but she would be just loping along. That’s why she was one in a million. It was the determination she had.”
Charlton found that when you have a good product, you can make some money and Charger Bar was sold. He explained, “The reason I sold Charger Bar and the others is that the money got so big. I got quite a bit of money out of them.”
He continued, “When I sold Charger Bar, I was living in the tack room. I got to keep her to train. Dr. Allred liked to breed them and he liked quite a few of them. He gave me $200,000 for Pacific Dream, who was out of a full sister to Charger Bar.
She had chips in her knees and was about done running and he gave me that for her. I told him that before he bought her, and he still bought her.” Charger Bar was purchased and raced by Dr. Ed Allred and Kenneth Wright in 1971.
Charger Bar would conclude her race career to enter the broodmare band. She would produce 14 foals with 10 ROM and five stakes horses and three stakes winners, including 1996 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 winner Blushing By. Her stakes winning daughter Go Proudly is the dam of stakes winning runners Creston Goer and Uncle Ed.
Another runner out of La Ree Bar was Anna Hi. This mare by Hempaces was the winner of three stakes, including the Dash For Cash Derby. Anna Hi would produce Jazzing Hi, the 1990 AQHA Racing Champion Aged Stallion. He was the winner of five stakes, including the Vessels Maturity-G1 twice. Jazzing Hi would become a noted sire with horses such as AQHA Racing Champion Two- Year-Old Gelding Uncas, and Bono Jazz, who sired the AQHA Racing World Champion Be A Bono.
The next foal out of Tinky Ann and sired by Rocket Bar was Shadow Rocket. This stallion was stakes placed with a third in the Oklahoma Derby and a third in the Rocky Mountain QHA Derby.
He had eight starts with three wins, two seconds and two thirds.
The third and last foal by Rocket Bar and out of Tinky Ann is La Ree’s Rocket, born in 1965. She earned four wins from 24 starts with two seconds and two thirds. She earned her racing ROM and an AAA rating on the track.
Charlton talked about the circumstances behind the sale of La
Ree’s Rocket. “She was a full sister to the mother of Charger Bar,” he said. “I sold her at Los Alamitos. When she was in a trailer, she would go so far and then she would throw a tizzy. I didn’t want to haul her anymore, so I sold her. I ran a few races with her, but that is why I sold her.”
Champion/Champion sire Jazzing Hi is the sire of Bono Jazz, sire of 2004 World Champion Be A Bono (below).
The sale of La Ree’s Rocket forms the start of another branch of this family. She would produce her first foal in 1971 for Robert and Frank Wagner. That foal was La Ree’s Charge by Royal Charge. This gelding would run a 97 Speed Index with nine wins in 24 starts.
La Ree’s Rocket would become the property of the AQHA Hall of Fame member Ivan Ashment in 1973, and
in 1978 she would produce the next important link in our look at this family with Oh La Ree. Oh La Ree was bred by Ashment and she became a stakes winner with wins in the Peninsula Handicap and the Independence Day Handicap. She won 9 races in 19 starts, including the two stakes wins.
Oh La Ree is the dam of 12 ROM runners with seven stakes horses and three stakes winners, including Cypress 870 Handicap and the Gold Rush 870 Handicap winner Oh Le Bo, and All Canadian Futurity of Alberta winner Cambrian.
In 1984 Oh La Ree would be bought and transferred to Dr. Ed Allred, who bred her to Shirley’s Champion and got Oh La Proud in 1986. Oh La Proud is the other stakes winner for Oh La Ree. Oh La
Look Her Over is a great member of the Allred breeding program as a representative of an important mare line formed when Wayne Charlton bred Rocket Bar to Tinky Ann.
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