- Colonel Freckles
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Colonel Freckles 
Breed Quarter Horse Discipline Cutting Sire Jewel's Leo Bars Grandsire Sugar Bars Dam Christy Jay Maternal grandsire Rey Jay Sex Stallion Foaled 1973 Country United States Color Sorrel Breeder Marion Flynt Honors Other awards 1976 NCHA Futurity Champion Honors American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Colonel Freckles, a Quarter Horse stallion, was a cutting horse who earned $46,305.00 in National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) contests before retiring to a career at stud.[1] He died in October 1986 from complications of eating blister beetles.[1] Among his offspring are Nu Cash, Doc Jewl Bar, Reveille Bar, Just Plain Colonel, Master Jay, Colonel Hotrodder, Colonel Flip, and Colonel Barrachone.[1]
Colonel Freckles was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[2]
Pedigree
Percentage (TB) Three Bars (TB) Myrtle Dee (TB) Sugar Bars Rey Frontera Sugar Palomino DO Jewel's Leo Bars Joe Reed II Leo Little Fanny Leo Pan Handy Shot (TB) Panchita Mule Shoe mare Colonel Freckles Ranchero Rey del Rancho Panda de la Tordia Rey Jay Tino Calandria K Tordia de Garcia Christy Jay Leo Leo Bob 89'er Christy Carol Mike Troutman Mike's Dilly Gypsy Diamond Notes
- ^ a b c Holmes Legends 6 pp. 114–125
- ^ American Quarter Horse Association "AQHA Hall of Fame"
References
- All Breed Pedigree Pedigree of Colonel Freckles retrieved on August 9, 2007
- American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "AQHA Hall of Fame". American Quarter Horse Association. Archived from the original on December 15, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071215210702/http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- Holmes, Frank (editor) (2004). Legends 6: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-73-2.
External links
Categories:- Cutting horses
- Influential Quarter horse sires
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