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SPEEDLINES
These two Champions trace back to their fourth dam Peggy N by Clabber.
1977 Champion 2-Year-Old Filly Hot Idea, winner of the 1977 All American Futurity.
CLABBER, THE SIRE
The AQHA shows that Clabber has 116 foals listed in the registry. This includes
34 that are either not registered or were registered in the National Quarter Horse Breeders Association, and they were not transferred to the AQHA when the two organizations came together. He sired 52 official race starters with 27 official ROM, four stakes winners and four stakes placed foals. His stakes winners include: Flicka L, winner of the 1946 Arizona Derby; Tess
S, winner of the 1950 Speed Handicap; and Sight Unseen, winner of the 1951 Bay Meadows Invitational Handicap.
When we look at the sire record for Clabber, two breeders stand out and they are Chester Cooper of Roosevelt, Arizona, and of course Frank Vessels and his Vessels Stallion Farm. We find Cooper in the early years of Clabber’s sire record and when we look at the produce record of his mares, we see that he not only liked breeding
to Clabber, but also to his full brother Captain White Socks and his paternal half-brother Colonel Clyde. You will recall that Prissy was sired by Colonel Clyde, and she was out of Dutchess by Doc. She was bred by Cooper.
The next horse we will look at is Buster Boy, bred by Cooper and that follows this pattern. This Clabber colt ran 45 official races with 16 wins, 11 seconds and 8 thirds. He was stakes placed in the 1950 Big Hat Purse Stakes. The part of his AQHA record that stands out was his setting four track records at distances from 220 yards to 440 yards. The dam of Buster Boy was Phoebe C by Doc and out of Silver by Blue Eyes.
Twilight C is a daughter of Clabber out of Phoebe C and bred by Cooper. She is the dam of Little Orphan Annie, dam of several
ROM runners including the stakes placed Stormy Streak, second in the AQRA Laddie Stakes, and Clabber’s Orphan, second in the Gila County Futurity. Clabber’s Orphan is sired by Clabber Charge, who was out of Sugar Hill by Clabber II by Clabber. This gives Clabber’s Orphan a breeding pattern of 4 X 3 to Clabber.
Cooper bred and owned the mare Peggy Cooper, a full sister to Phoebe C. Peggy
N by Clabber was the first registered foal out of Peggy Cooper. The produce record for Peggy N shows that she was the dam
of 12 foals with nine starters, eight ROM, four stakes winners and one AQHA Racing Champion. The stakes winners include: Clabber Bar, winner of the Gold Bar Handicap; No Comment, winner of the Thunderbird Holiday Championship; and Missle Bar, stakes winner of six stakes races including the 1958 Arizona QHBA Futurity and the 1959 Bay Meadows Championship. Missle Bar was the 1958 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and the 1959 AQHA Racing Champion Three-Year- Old Colt.
The fourth stakes winner was Miss Hijo Peggy, winner of the 1963 Bar None Stakes. She is the dam of the stake’s winner Hijo The Man, winner of the 1977 Presidential Futurity, and the race winning mare Peggy Pueblo, dam of Tall Cotton. Tall Cotton is the dam of 1984 All American Futurity-G1 winner Eastex, a racing Champion gelding at two and three.
Be Sure Peggy, a daughter of Peggy N, produced the mare Coquette, and she was the dam of Hot Idea the winner of the 1977 All American Futurity-G1. Prescott Peggy Joe is another daughter of Peggy N, and
she is the dam of Peg Be Sure, dam of Sure Blaze the dam of Farmington, winner of the
1984 Champion 2 Year Old & Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding Eastex, winner of the 1984 All American Futurity.
Texas Dandy is one of the more prominent sons of My Texas Dandy. He was AAA on the track, and he became
the senior sire for the Finley Ranches of Arizona. He sired foals like Little Egypt, the first AAA/AQHA Champion and a stakes winner. She was the 1952 AQHA Honor Roll Racehorse. He also sired Dandy Doll, an AA rated mare that was the dam of Doc Bar, the legendary performance horse sire. The daughters of My Texas Dandy include Nancy Hance, dam of Enhanced an AQHA Supreme Champion.
Blondie S, one of the Frank Smith’s mares, was bred to My Texas Dandy to produce Clabber. She was sired by Lone
Star by Gold Enamel. Her dam was Emory Goldman by Captain Joe. This pedigree
is the official pedigree. But there are other versions of the pedigree. The volume one of the AQHA Stud Book says that the dam of Clabber was a mare named Golden Wheel by Uncle Jimmy Gray. This was later corrected to Golden Girl. The AQRA listed the dam of Clabber to be Golden Girl, a granddaughter of Possum, the full brother to Little Joe. Possum and Little Joe were sired by Traveler.
How Clabber got his name is an interesting part of the story. His full brother Captain White Socks liked soured milk or ‘clabber’ as it is called. The making of clabber was common at one time and Clabber may have liked it, too. He got the name while AB Nichols owned him, and it was Nichols who registered him.
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