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One of the first mares Lowell and Don Brooks bought, for $9,500, was Miss Hijo Peggy, who produced 10 starters from 12 foals, including:
IVORY CROCKETT,
who earned stakes placed status with $27,098 in earnings and whom they sold for $70,000.
by Double Joe H, foaled Easy Six, the sire of Streakin Six, in 1972.
Miss Hijo Peggy produced 10 starters from 12 registered foals, including Ivory Crockett in 1978 and Jets Star War in 1979, both by Easy Jet. The mare’s foals earned nine Registers of Merit and three Superior Race Awards.
Ivory Crockett earned stakes placed status with $27,098 in earnings. His stakes-winning full brother, Jets Star War, won his trial and the final for the Trinity Meadows Spring Futurity, and placed second in his only other race.
“We gave $9,500 for Miss Hijo Peggy, and we sold Ivory Crockett for $70,000 and Jets Star War for $153,000,” Lowell says. “ — and that was in the old days!”
They also bought a Moon Deck mare
that had only one racehorse in her pedigree. “She was a beautiful mare,” Lowell says. “We gave $2,500 for her, bred her to Easy Six and the colt brought $50,000 at the sale. Then we bred her back to Easy Six and sold her for $45,000.” Another of the partners’ first mare purchases was Ida Run, a 1968 stakes- winning mare by Top Conference and out
JETS STAR WAR
is a stakes-winning full brother who won his trial and the final for the Trinity Meadows Spring Futurity and whom they sold for $153,000.
of Peppy Clabber by Clabber II. They paid $4,200 for Ida Run and she paid them back many times over by producing a racing
line beginning with the Chick’s Deck mare Chickarun, foaled in 1977.
“They took that one small investment and turned it into one of the greatest broodmare lines in the business,” says Lowell’s sales assistant Walt Wiggins Jr.
Five of Ida Run’s foals earned racing Registers of Merit: Chickarun, Miss Ida Rey, Our Perfection, Domineering and Miss Easy Fantasy.
As Ida Run’s leading money earner, Chickarun won five of nine starts, earning $43,445 in just one multiple-stakes-winning season on the track. The blue-hen mare’s wins included the Trinity Quarter Horse Association Futurity at Trinity Meadows and the Raton Futurity at LaMesa Park.
Chickarun produced 14 registered foals, 13 of whom went on as starters and 12 of whom earned racing ROMs. Three earned Superior Race Awards.
Chickarun’s second foal, multiple graded stakes-winning mare Sixy Chick, by Streakin
Six, tops Chickarun’s highest-earner ranking with $751,284. Sixy Chick won 11 of 15 starts, placing second in three. Her wins include the Sun Country Futurity-G1
at Sunland Park and the Dash For Cash Derby-G1. She also ran second in the Dash For Cash Futurity-G1, the Los Alamitos Derby-G1 and the Lassie Handicap-G2 and ran fourth in the All American Derby-G1. She earned the AQHA Racing Champion 2-Year-Old Filly title in 1984 and AQHA Supreme Race Horse and Superior Race Horse titles in 1985.
Chickarun’s third foal, Sixy Chick’s
graded stakes-winning full brother Sixarun, earned $291,228 with a 26-7-7-5 record.
In his freshman year, Sixarun won the Texas Quarter Horse Association Futurity-G3, ran fourth in the Kansas Futurity-G1, third in the Rainbow Futurity-G1, and fourth in the All American Futurity-G1. In his second year, he ran third in the Pilgrim Handicap at Los Alamitos, sixth in the Budweiser Derby-G1
at Turf Paradise and second in the Doc Severinsen Handicap-G3 at Los Alamitos.
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