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Reprinted from Quarter Racing World, September 1974:
Spotted Bull
As I Recall Him
By Art Pollard as told to Jane Pattie
Spotted Bull’s story is an interesting one, I think. Unquestionable, he was, probably to this day, the finest
sprinting Thoroughbred stud to ever come into Arizona. The noted horseman, Dink
Parker and Ed Echols, who was sheriff
in Tucson for many years, went back to Lexington, Kentucky, to look at Spotted Bull in about 1950. I don’t recall who owned him at the time, but Mel Haskell, Rukin
Jelks, the Finley boys, and others I cannot remember, were interested in the horse. They wanted to syndicate him, and in those days, syndication in Arizona was almost unheard of. Prior to that, Three Bars and Piggin
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Spotted Bull, trainer Chas. Hall,
jockey Billy Brite at Rillito Park,
Dec. 31, 1950
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