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of the Year in 1997, the year her son Corona Cartel was the winner of the Los Alamitos Million Futurity-G1. Corona Cartel is now the #2 all-time leading sire of money winners with earnings of over $65 million.
Comingforth was another major stakes winner for Azure Te. She won the 1976 Golden State Futurity and the 1977 El Primero Del Ano Derby. She was out of Forthcoming by Jet Deck and out of Sooner Lady. She was a full sister in bloodtoSizzleTe. AzureTeenbyAzureTewas the winner of the 1973 Oklahoma Futurity and the 1974 Rainbow Derby. She was bred by Bud Warren and out of Routine by Jet Deck and
out of Rainack by Joak by Joe Reed II. Rainack is one of the few mares in Warren’s broodmare band that didn’t have a direct link to Leo, a son of Joe Reed II.
A horse named Six Te will bring us full circle as he was bred by the Tom L. Burnett Estate. This gelded son of Azure Te made 62 starts with 19 wins, seven seconds and seven thirds earning $275,104 and winning the 1978 Golden State Futurity, 1979 Ruidoso 550 Championship and 1980 Endurance Handicap. His dam Que Linda will be our representative of a Top Deck line mare as she was sired by Go Man Go by Top Deck. She was out of Miss Wonder Bar by Three Bars.
When it comes to great stallions like Azure Te, we never can cover all his foals.
But during this look at this great stallion’s sire record, we profiled some interesting pedigree patterns that had an effect on his sire record. It certainly shows that mares like Peggy Cooper and Quickly were particularly important to that sire record. We also
saw how he outcrossed on the prominent bloodlines of Three Bars, Top Deck, Leo, and a combination of those bloodlines to make his mark as a true outcross for the breed.
Warren bred to Three Bars when he wanted to stretch his Leo mares out in distance.
Warren also bred to Sugar Bars, a son of Three Bars, for more competitiveness at longer distances.
Bud Warren, one of
the great breeders who brought the
blood of Three Bars, Top Deck and Leo together is shown with Jet Deck, by Moon Deck by Top Deck and out of Miss Night Bar by Barred by Three Bars.
in Sugar Bars by Three Bars. His next move came to bring in Jet Deck into his breeding process to produce runners that could go 400 or 440 yards that the industry wanted to see.
The Warren broodmare band was full
of daughters and granddaughters of Leo and Sugar Bars. One of those mares was Sooner Lady, a daughter of Leo and Betty Warren by King P-234. Jet’s Fair Lady was the 1970 daughter of Sooner Lady, and
she was sired by Jet Deck. Jet’s Fair Lady became a broodmare for Speed Farms – the partnership of Ted Wells, Jay Pumphrey and Lee McLean. They bred Jet’s Fair Lady to Azure Te to get Sizzle Te in 1976.
Sizzle Te ran 50 races with 10 wins, 11 seconds and four thirds earning $226,665.
He won such stakes as the 1979 Golden
State Derby and New Mexico State Fair Handicap. Sizzle Te went on to sire a mare named Sizzling Lil, a stakes placed runner with a second in the 1986 Moon Deck Stakes. She produced Corona Chick, the great race mare that won such races as the Ed Burke Futurity-G1 and Kindergarten Futurity-G1. She was the 1991 AQHA Champion Racing Two Year Old and Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and then in 1992 she was the AQHA Champion Three Year Old and the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. She was the Broodmare
Stakes winner Sizzle Te, by Azure Te, was bred by Speed Farms, the partnership of Ted Wells, Jay Pumphrey and
Lee McLean.
1997 Broodmare of the
Year and 3-Time Champion Corona Chick is out of Sizzling Lil by Sizzle Te by Azure Te.
Bred by the Tom L. Burnett Cattle Company, multiple stakes winner Six Te (shown) by Azure Te traces to Top Deck and Three Bars on the bottom side.
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