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SPEEDLINES
Kiss earned $28,637 on the track and was a finalist in the 1973 Ruidoso Derby-G1. Her dam was Be Sure Peggy by Be Sure Now. Be Sure Peggy was out of Peggy N by Clabber and out of Peggy Cooper. This gives Try Six a breeding pattern of 4x3 to Peggy N, and
is another great example of the breeding practice of Inbreeding to Superior Females.
Ted Wells Jr. is the breeder or co-breeder of the third and fourth stakes winners from the second crop of Azure Te in the runners Arete and Te’ A Te.’ They both show how Azure Te could cross with variety of bloodlines. Arete was co-bred by Ted Wells Jr. and Lee McLean. This gelding was a finalist in 24 stakes races running from 1971 to 1976. He was first in one stakes and second or third in 8 more.
His stakes win came in the 1973 Hillsdale Handicap at 870 yards. He had 78 starts with 21 wins, 14 seconds and 10 thirds earning $78,634. He was out of Dalhart Princess by King McCue by Happy Jack McCue by Jack McCue by Peter McCue. His grandam was Black Princess C by Prince Vic.
The Wells’ bred mare Te’ A Te’ was the winner of the El Norteno Derby and a stakes finalist in the South Texas Derby. She had three wins in nine starts with earnings of $1,669. Her dam was Dalfa Lite by Double Bid, and she was out of Moco Light by Moco and out of Montgomery’s Headlight by Clint Higgins.
THE QUICKLY EFFECT
Quickly is one of the most interesting mares as she had a long race career and then she produced two sons that certainly took different paths, but both made their mark on the racing industry. Her official race record shows that she was a professional racehorse with 85 starts from 1932 to 1937. She won 32 with 14 seconds and 13 thirds earning $21,530. There is no evidence that she ever won or placed in a stakes race.
Quickly became a broodmare for John Hertz and his wife and it appears that it didn’t look good at first. She foaled Reigh Grey in 1938 by Reigh Count, the Hertz’s Kentucky Derby winner. This mare went unplaced in seven starts. Quickly failed to produce a foal in 1939 but came back in 1940 to give the world Count Fleet by Reigh Count to win the 1943 Thoroughbred Triple Crown. Count Fleet earned several championships, including the 1943 Horse of the Year title. He went on to be a leading sire, as well as the broodmare sire of Azure Te.
Hertz took a different direction with Quickly to get her son Depth Charge born in 1941. Depth Charge was sired by the Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture.
Dillard took her mare Missy Te, by Azure Te, to Easy Six (shown) to produce Rita Seis.
Rita Seis was bred to All American Futurity winner On A High (shown) to produce See Me Do It.
1989 World Champion See Me Do It.
Jean Dillard, the breeder of 2-time Champion Howdy Jones and
1989 World Champion See Me Do It, also bred her mares to Azure Te.
Depth Charge did not follow in his half- brother’s path as he became the winner
of five of his 16 starts with earnings of $5,943. He was stakes placed in the Myles Standish Stakes. He became a good sire
of Thoroughbreds and an important sire of Quarter Horses and that earned him a membership in the AQHA Hall of Fame with his induction in 1991.
Quickly followed her pattern by not producing a foal in 1942. She came back in 1943 to produce a full brother to Count Fleet. His name was Count Speed and he won nine of his 22 starts earning $31,530. Some report that he won the Midway Handicap. Sadly, Quickly broke her pattern of skipping a year when in 1942 she produced her last foal in Reigh Fleet, a full sister to Count Fleet. This mare won one of her 11 starts with earnings of $4,050. Her best runner was Fleet Charge by Depth Charge. This horse won $115,192 winning 43 of his 226 starts. His wins include the Playfair Mile and the Governor’s Handicap. Fleet Charge had a breeding pattern of 2x2 to Quickly.
Our review of Quickly will lead us into the next group of foals sired by Azure Te and we will start back with that second foal crop of 1969 and a mare named Missy Te. This mare was bred by Jean Dillard. Her race record shows that she had 26 starts with three wins, four seconds and six thirds earning $8,394. She was sired by Azure Te and out of Miss Breeze Bar by Breeze Bar. The dam of Miss Breeze Bar was Clampitt by Depth Charge, the son of Quickly. This gives Missy Te a breeding pattern of 4x4 to Quickly and another example of Inbreeding to Superior Females.
Jean Dillard took Missy Te to be bred to Easy Six and that mating resulted in Rita Seis. We see that Easy Six brings the influence of Peggy N back into the picture. Rita Seis was unraced, and she became a broodmare. She went to the court of All American Futurity winner On A High. This mating resulted in See Me Do It, the 1988 AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Filly after finishing second to Merganser in the All American Futurity. She came back at three to win the 1989 AQHA
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