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as of ) | raceawards= Co-Champion Quarter Running 2-Yr-Old Filly (1952) | honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |updated= May 19, 2009 }} Chicado V (1950 – ) was a Champion Quarter Horse race horse foaled (born) in 1950, and considered one of the outstanding broodmares of her breed.〔Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' pp. 218–227〕 She was bred by Frank Vessels of Los Alamitos, California, and trained by Earl Holmes. Chicado V started only six times because knee problems cut short her racing career. However, she won her first two starts while breaking or equaling track records, and was given the title of co-Champion Quarter Running Two-Year-Old Filly by the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) in 1952. The next year she ran her last four races, winning once and setting one more speed record. After her last race, in , she was retired from the track to become a broodmare, and had nine foals. Two of her offspring were named Champion Quarter Running Horses, and all her foals had a total of seven stakes race wins. One of her daughters, Table Tennis, went on to become a noted broodmare herself, as did Table Tennis' daughter Rapid Volley and granddaughter Perks. However, three of Chicado V's sons—Triple Chick, Three Chicks, and The Ole Man—were her best known offspring; all three became leading sires and are the main cause of her fame. She was inducted into the AQHA's American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2006. ==Early life== Chicado V was bred by Frank Vessels of Los Alamitos, California and foaled in 1950. She was a member of the Quarter Horse breed,〔Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' pp. 218–219〕 and the AQHA registered her in their stud book as number 29,689.〔 She was a daughter of Chicaro Bill out of the broodmare Do Good,〔Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' p. 219〕 herself a member of the AQHA Hall of Fame.〔 Chicado V was a full sister to Senor Bill, an outstanding racehorse and breeding stallion, as well as a half-sister to Clabber II and Do Win, two other outstanding racehorses.〔Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' p. 223〕 Chicaro Bill's dam, or mother, was a mare named Verna Grace, who was known as Fair Chance when she raced. Through Chicaro Bill, Chicado V was a descendent of the AQHA Hall of Fame member Traveler as well as the Thoroughbred Hall of Fame member Peter Pan.〔Close, et al. (editors) ''Legends'' p. 78〕 On her dam's side, she traced to Louisiana Quarter Horse bloodlines as well as to the AQHA Hall of Famer Peter McCue.〔〔LeBlanc ''Cajun-Bred Running Horses'' p. 20〕 When mature, Chicado V stood tall. She was a brown mare, with a connected star, stripe, and snip on her face as her only markings, or identifying marks. Earl Holmes, a longtime trainer who started his racing career as a groom for Vessels, had the care of Chicado V after she was born, and said of her that she "was gentle, real gentle—in everything. She was born broke()."〔Quoted in Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' p. 219〕 When she stood in a starting gate for a race, Holmes said she looked like a rabbit, because "she had big ears and that's all you could see, she was so little".〔 She also had a body defect, or conformation fault, in that she had calf-knees.〔Wyant "Chicado V" ''Legends 5'' p. 220〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chicado V」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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