Colonel Freckles

Colonel Freckles
BreedQuarter Horse
DisciplineCutting
SireJewel's Leo Bars
GrandsireSugar Bars
DamChristy Jay
Maternal grandsireRey Jay
SexStallion
Foaled1973
CountryUnited States
ColorSorrel
BreederMarion Flynt
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 in 2004.[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

  1. ^ a b c Holmes Legends 6 pp. 114–125
  2. ^ American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Colonel Freckles". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved August 30, 2017.

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