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Clabber II replaced his sire at the Vessels Stallion Farm, siring 112 starters with 52 ROM and two stakes placed runners showing up in AQHA records. His first stakes placed runner was Clabber Pat, who was second in the 1956 Pacific Coast QHRA California Bred Stakes. She had 77 starts with 16 wins, five seconds and seven thirds. Lumpjaw was the other stakes placed runner with seconds in
the Central Coast Counties QHA Stakes, Central California QHA Stakes and the California Horse Racing Association Stakes, with all these races run in 1967. He was also third in the 1967 Miss Princess Invitational Handicap and the 1968 Shue Fly Stakes. He had 98 starts with 17 wins, 26 seconds and 17 thirds. He was the 1966 Champion Aged Gelding.
Tiny Iny was a Thoroughbred mare that came to the Vessels Stallion Farm.
She appears to be a next step that
Vessels took to breed fast horses by introducing Thoroughbred blood into his breeding program. He introduced other Thoroughbreds such as War Bam and Direct Win into his breeding program. Tiny Iny only had two starts, going unplaced.
The produce record shows that Tiny Iny was the dam of seven Quarter Horse foals. They include the ROM runners Tiny Clabber, Tiny Chick and Tiny Rebbal. Her fourth ROM runner was Clabber Tiny, a race winning mare in six of her 19 starts with one second and two thirds. She, in turn, is the dam of six foals with six ROM with two stakes winners and one stakes placed runner. Her first foal was Triple Tiny, and she was stakes placed in the 1962 Freeway Stakes. Triple Tiny was the dam of horses like Go A Mite, winner of the 1967 PCQHRA Futurity and the 1967 Yakima Futurity; Tiny Be Mine, winner
The role of Clabber and his influence on the Vessels Stallion Farm was solidified through Do Good and her dam Flossie. The history of how Do Good and Flossie came to be owned by Frank Vessels is told in the article “Chicado V” that appeared in the June 1983 issue of Speedhorse. Chicado
V was a daughter of Do Good. This article tells two versions of how Do Good made her way to the Vessels Stallion Farm. The first version comes from Henry Grandi, who helped Jim 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. The two foals bred by Vessels that were out of Do Good were the AAA/ROM runner Clabber II and AA/ROM runner Clabber Shu V. Clabber II made 28 starts with seven wins, seven second and three thirds. He was third in the Christensen’s Tack Shop Handicap and fifth in the Pacific Coast QHRA Handicap. He also showed speed for his day with setting and equaling two track records. He set a New Track Record at Fresno for 400 yards in :20.5 and then he set a New Track Record for 220 yards and then equaled that record in a time of :12.7.
Champion Chicado V is out of Do Good out of Flossie, two mares that influenced
the role Clabber had on the Vessels Stallion Farm.
Chicaro Bill, who was bred to Do Good to get Chivado V, pictured at Hepler Ranch with Ronald Mason.
These three horses are out of Triple Tiny out of Clabber Tiny by Clabber II
Go A Mite, winner of the 1967 PCQHRA Futurity and Yakima Futurity.
Tiny Be Mine winning the 1973 Juvenile Invitational at Los Alamitos.
Kowton after winning the 1972 Yakima Meadow Maturity.
3-time Champion Rare Form traces back to his third dam Triple Tiny out of Clabber Tiny by Clabber.
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