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SPEEDLINES
We saw last month when Jay Pumphrey and Ted Wells Jr. went looking for an outcross stallion to put on racing Quarter Horse mares, they found the Thoroughbred Azure Te and formed the Azure Te Syndicate that consisted of the Estate of S. B. Burnett with the primary shareholders including Ted Wells, the Burnett Ranch, Jay Pumphrey and Anne Burnett Tandy.
The Azure Te Syndicate had definitely found the stallion with the right credentials to be a sire of running Quarter Horses. Azure Te had speed as a sprinting Thoroughbred with wins in the Debonair Stakes and
the Hollywood Express Handicap. He showed race consistency with 26 starts, 10 wins, seven seconds and one third to earn $119,022. He had the conformation of a sprinting Thoroughbred in that he stood 15.2 hands and weighed 1,100 pounds.
This gave him the solid build the Quarter Horse breeders looked for in their search
for the right Thoroughbred for their mares. Azure Te had the pedigree of a sprinting Thoroughbred with such sources of speed
as Nashville his sire, Nasrullah his paternal grandsire, Quickly, the dam of his broodmare sire, the Triple Crown winner Count Fleet
and his half-brother Depth Charge, an AQHA Hall of Fame member. Then there was his maternal grandsire Eight Thirty, the sire of his second dam One Bell and who was another source of speed.
Now the question was - what kind
of sire would Azure Te make on Quarter Horse mares? The record shows he did
his job as the sire of 842 starters, 623 racing Register of Merit earners, 48 stakes winners, two AQHA Racing Champions with six championship titles and 537 race winners. They earned $6,999,062. His daughters produced 1,754 starters with
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