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Tiny Watch made 38 starts from 1963 to 1966 and won 16 races, including 8 stakes races with total earnings of $106,990. The colt is also stakes placed at two, with three seconds and a third in the All American Fu- turity. He won his first stakes race at three, winning the Clabbertown G Handicap.
The 1965 and 1966 racing seasons for Tiny Watch were his championship years. He won or placed in 13 stakes races in those two years, including wins in the Pomona Cham- pionship, Miss Princess Invitational, Go Man Go Handicap and the Washoe County Fair Stakes in 1965. Tiny Watch was named the 1965 Champion Stallion and Aged Horse.
After the 1966 breeding season, Tiny Watch returned to the racetrack. He won the Clabbertown G, Hard Twist Stakes and the Josie’s Bar Handicap to be named the 1966 Co-Champion Aged Stallion and the Co- Champion Aged Horse. He was Co-Champi- on with Duplicate Copy, a Vessels owned and bred horse.
THE PEDIGREE
The Vessels owned stallion Anchor Watch is the sire of Tiny Watch. Anchor Watch was bred in Texas by J.W. Dial of Goliad, Texas. This is the John W. Dial that sold Chicaro, the broodmare sire of Top Deck, to the King Ranch. John W. Dial, a well-known horse- man of this era, was a part of the selection team when Bob Kleberg Jr. of the King Ranch went to Kentucky to buy horses for their Thoroughbred breeding program.
Anchor Watch was foaled in 1953. A “Stud News” report in the Dec. 19, 1953 BloodHorse magazine tells that Dial sold Anchor Watch as a weanling to a syndicate headed by Bud Bur- meister of Fort Worth, Texas. The syndicate bought 15 horses including seven mares, seven weanlings and one stallion.
Anchor Watch had 65 starts racing from 1955 to 1959 with 12 wins, 7 seconds and 10 thirds with earnings of $43,550. He won the 1956 Oceanside Handicap and was third in the 1956 Albany Stakes. Anchor Watch was raced by Agoura Stock Farm when he won the Oceanside Handicap and he equaled the track record at Turf Paradise for six fur- longs in 1:09.40.
The sire of Anchor Watch is Degage. Foaled in 1943, the dark brown stallion had 36 starts with 8 wins, 10 seconds and 4 thirds and total earnings of $43,875. His race re- cord shows that he won the Tremont Stakes, with seconds in the Great American Handi- cap, Toboggan Handicap and a third in the Easy View Stakes.
Degage sired 173 foals with 148 starters and 11 stakes horses with combined earnings
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over $2.7 million on the track. His stakes hors- es include Vital Force ($256,158), Umbrella Fella ($239,926), Foreign Comet ($196,619) and Big Pete ($100,096). The sire of Degage
is Bull Lea by Bull Dog by Teddy. The dam of Degage is Ministress by Wise Counsellor by Mentor. Wise Counsellor is the sire of Very Wise, the broodmare sire of Go Man Go.
L’Admiralte is the dam of Anchor Watch. She was a 1948 brown mare that had nine starts with three wins, two seconds and one show. She earned $3,230. L’Admiralte was a part of the Burmeister syndicate package that included Anchor Watch.
L’Admiralte is the dam of 7 foals/winners with one stakes winner and one stakes placed
runner. Anchor Watch, her stakes winner, was her second foal. Her first foal was Dee Mee Dee, a full brother to Anchor Watch who had 10 wins and earnings of $13,775. Winner Swift Admiralte was L’Admiralte’s 1957 foal who had four starts and $10,000 in earnings. This colt was bred by Agoura Stock Farm,
the owner of Anchor Watch when he won the Oceanside Handicap.
Mystifier and L’Delight were L’Admiralte’s next foals and they were bred by Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Johnston of the Old English Ran- chero in California. Mystifier was a winner on the track with earnings of $3,030, while L’Delight was her stakes placed runner who ran second in the Junior Miss Stakes.
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