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SPEEDLINES
The key that enhanced Azure Te as a sire came from his second crop when he sired two 1971 All American Futurity finalists including
4-time Champion Come Six, shown setting a New 440-yard World Record, is from the second crop sired by Azure Te.
THE PEGGY COOPER EFFECT
The key that enhanced Azure Te as a sire came from this second crop when he sired two 1971 All American Futurity finalists
in Come Six and Try, both bred by the S.
B. Burnett Estate. Come Six became the richest Azure Te runner with $345,323 in earnings. He won nine stakes races from 1971 to 1974 with 39 starts, 17 wins, 10 seconds and four thirds. His stakes wins came in such races as the 1971 Juvenile Handicap, 1972 World’s Championship Classic, 1972 Rocky Mountain QHA Derby, 1973 Peninsula Stakes, 1973 Winner Take All Stakes and 1973 Los Alamitos Invitational Championship. He was a four- time AQHA Racing Champion. He was the 1971 Champion Two-Year-Old Gelding; the 1972 Champion Three-Year-Old Gelding, and the 1973 Champion Gelding and 1973 Champion Aged Gelding.
Despite his great race record, Come Six
is often most remembered for two races
he didn’t win. He came in second in the 1971 All American Futurity-G1 to Mr Kid Charge. The other race was his match race with the great Mexican runner Beduino, who won the race and earned a ticket to stand at stud at the Vessels Stallion Farm. And as they say, the rest is history.
Come Six and his dam Flicka Six were bred by the S. B. Burnett Estate. Flicka Six has no official race record. She was sired by Tonto Bars Hank, a son of Tonto Bars Gill by Three Bars. The dam of Tonto Bars Gill was Tonta Gal by
Hyloah is a full sister to Black Easter Bunny, the foundation mare for Spencer Childers’ great breeding program that produced such noted runners as the AQHA Racing World Champion Be A Bono.
Try was the second finalist for Azure Te in the 1971 All American Futurity-G1 and he finished seventh. He was second in the
Black Easter Bunny (right), who is
out of Come Six’s third dam Flicka,
is the foundation mare for Spencer Childers’ great breeding program that produced such noted runners as:
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Clabber, and she was out of Peggy Cooper by Doc by Possum by Traveler. Peggy Cooper was out of Silver by Blue Eyes by Possum by Traveler.
The dam of Flicka Six was Flicka Hyloah by Hystition who was sired by Hygro, a noted source of speed in Texas. The dam
of Flicka Hyloah was Flicka by Chicaro
Bill and she is out of Kitty Wells. Flicka
2004 World Champion Be A Bono