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1977 All American Futurity-G1 winner and 1977 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Hot Idea.
Rainbow Futurity Consolation that year as well. He only ran at two with four wins in seven starts earning $30,065. He was the second foal for Peggy Toro, the Burnett Ranch race mare that won the Sunland Park Fall Futurity. She had a record of 13 starts with three wins and two seconds earning $24,646. She was second in the Thanksgiving Stakes and the Las Ninas Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Peggy Toro was bred in Arizona by K. M. Chafin and purchased by the Burnett Ranches. She was sired by Hijo The Bull, a Thoroughbred stallion that stood for a time at the Four Sixes. Hijo The Bull was sired by Spotted Bull, and he was out of Hijo Lanty by Hijo Manso. The dam of Peggy Toro was Prescott Peggy Joe by Double Joe H by Little Joe Jr, who was sired by Joe Bailey P-4. The dam of Prescott Peggy Joe was Peggy N by Clabber, and she was out of Peggy Cooper sired by Doc. Peggy Cooper was out of Silver by Blue Eyes by Possum by Traveler. This makes Peggy N a full sister to
Tonta Gal, the dam of Tonto Bars Gill. Coquette is a Tom L. Burnett Cattle
Company bred daughter of Azure Te from his second crop. She earned her racing ROM with three wins in 20 starts and earned a modest $1,731. Her dam was Be Sure Peggy by Be Sure Now, and Be Sure Peggy was out of Peggy N by Clabber, and Peggy N was out of Peggy Cooper by Doc. Coquette is the dam of Hot Idea, the 1977 All American Futurity-G1 winner and the 1977 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Filly.
Sweet Six was a stakes winner foaled in 1974 and bred by the S. B. Burnett Estate. She was a multiple stakes finalist that won the 1977 Lassie Handicap at Los Alamitos. Her dam was Queens Reward by Big Reward, another stallion that stood at the Burnett Ranch. Queens Reward was out of Missile Princess. The sire of Missile Princess was Missle Bar, the 1958 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and the 1959 AQHA Racing Champion Three-Year-Old Colt. Missle Bar is by Three Bars and out
Sweet Six and Three Two Yankee are from the second crop sired by Azure Te.
The Thoroughbred Hijo The Bull (below) is the sire of Peggy Toro, the dam of
Try – one of Azure Te’s All American Futurity finalists from his second crop.
Sweet Six shown after winning the 1977 Lassie Handicap at Los Alamitos.
Three Two Yankee shown winning his 1978 Oklahoma Futurity trial.
1958 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and 1959 Champion Three-Year-Old Colt Missle Bar, who is the sire of Missile Princess, the dam of Three Two Yankee and the second dam of Sweet Six.
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Coquette, who is from the second crop sired by Azure Te, is the dam of: