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was Toots by a Thoroughbred named Wave Of Eire by Greenback.
Another Clabber son, Jeep B, was a ROM earner with 13 starts, five wins, two seconds and five thirds. He was bred by Dell Mercer of Tucson, Arizona. Jeep B raced with the best. He was third in the 1945 World’s Championship Quarter Mile Stakes behind the World Champion Queenie and the legendary Squaw H. Jeep B was the sire of 17 starters with nine ROM and one stakes placed runner. His ROM earners were Johnnie M Jingle, Gyp E, Betsy Gay, Millie Joe, Red Jeep, Little Pokey, Ariel Jeep and Jeepers A. Jeepers A was his stakes placed runner, and he was a multiple stakes finalist in seven stakes with a second in the 1949 Southwestern Futurity and thirds in the 1949 Baby Stakes and 1949 Silver Park Futurity.
Jeep B was out of Red Clouds V by Red Cloud by Possum, a successful racehorse
in Texas where he was known as King. He then went to Arizona, where he became Possum. His most famous race was with the great sire Yellow Jacket. Possum
won that race and reportedly $100,000 changed hands that day. Possum became an important sire with horses like Guinea Pig and Baby King along with Red Cloud. We have seen some of this blood in others we have looked at that were sired by Clabber. This includes Chester C, and if we look back at the pedigree of Peggy Cooper, the dam of Peggy N and Tonta Gal from Part I, we see that she was double bred to Possum. Rita Del by Bulger was the dam of Red Cloud. Bulger was sired by Traveler. This gives Red Cloud a 2x3 breeding pattern to Traveler.
Dotty Kay was born in 1945 and comes from the last crop of Clabber to
be bred and born in Arizona. She was an ROM runner that had 27 starts with two wins, five seconds and five thirds. She
is the dam of the mare I’ll Do It Dot, the dam of I’ll Be Merry who had 39 starts with 13 wins, six seconds and three thirds earning $13,785. She is a four-time stakes winner in the 1966 Holbrook Futurity, 1966 Graham County Futurity, 1967 Prescott Downs Championship and the Holbrook Derby. I’ll Be Merry is the dam of Merry Mayor with 30 starts, 17 wins, seven seconds and one third earning $31,819. She won four stake races in the Gila County Futurity, Arizona Breeders’ Futurity, AQRA Prince Stakes and Prescott Downs Derby. Merry Mayor is the dam
of Merry For Cash, a winner of $27,097 with nine starts earning five firsts and one second. She was a two-time stakes winner in the 1983 Navajo County Futurity and the 1984 Prescott Downs Derby. Merry For Cash is the dam of runners like
A Streak Of Cash, winner of the 1994 Rainbow Derby-G1; and Lots of Flare, winner of the 1988 Kevin Burns Memorial Futurity, Hualapai Downs Futurity and Joe Bassett Futurity. Her third stakes winner was Be So Merry, winner of $26,317 with wins in the 1990 AQRA Lassie Stakes and the Joe Bassett Futurity. Be So Merry is the next mare in this line of mares and she is the dam of AB What A Runner, winner of the 2002 All American Futurity. She was the 2002 Champion Two Year Old, Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and the 2003 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She earned $1,342,389 with 15 starts and 11 wins with one second.
Clabber was purchased by Frank Vessels in 1944 and moved to California, making him a part of the legacy of Vessels Stallion Farm. He sired just two foal crops for Vessels before he met a premature death in 1947. Vessels had travelled the country buying horses. It was about this time that Vessels and Channing Peake were interested in buying Poco Bueno. Poco Bueno was bred by Jess Hankins, the owner of King P-234, and Hankins had put a price on Poco Bueno of $1,250. They declined and the next year E. P. “Paul” Waggoner of
the famous Waggoner Ranch bought him for $5,700. Poco Bueno went on to be
a successful show horse and one of the first AQHA Champions and now a famous performance horse sire and foundation
CLABBER GOES TO CALIFORNIA
Lucky (shown) is the sire of Lady Luck, the dam of Wagon N by Clabber.
earning stakes winner as a broodmare sire is Another Flick Bug, winner of the 1979 Early Bird Derby, 1979 Indiana State Fair Derby and 1979 Michigan Derby. The second leading money earner was Mile Bar, winner of the 1969 Gateway Downs Maturity. The rest of his stakes winners include: Feature That, winner of the 1965 Sunland Park QH Derby; The Last Straw, winner of the 1969 New Mexico Breeders’ Derby; Mile Deck, winner of the Navajo Trail Futurity; Blosssom Gal, winner of the 1973 Rupert Chamber of Commerce Futurity and 1973 Oneida County Fair Futurity; Wiggy Play, winner of the 1965 Plains QHA Futurity; and Mitzie Porter, winner of the Four Corners Derby.
The dam of Wagon N was an unregistered mare named Lady Luck. Her sire was Lucky, a son of My Texas Dandy. This gives Wagon N a breeding pattern of 2x3 to My Texas Dandy, the sire of Clabber. The dam of Lady Luck
A Streak Of Cash, shown winning the Rainbow Derby, is out of Merry For Cash and traces back to his fifth dam
Dotty Kay by Clabber.
AB What A Runner, shown winning the Charger Bar Handicap at Los Alamitos, is out of Be So Merry out of Merry For Cash and traces back to her 6th dam Dotty Kay by Clabber.
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