Te To Be

Te N' Te

Performance Record: 

22 AQHA open halter points

Production Record: 

551 registered Quarter Horses with 239 performers (43%), among them AQHA champions and offspring with performance ROMs.

World Champion Offspring
Reserve World Champion Offspring
Superior Halter Offspring
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
ROM Halter Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
ROM Race ROM Offspring 
Race Money–earners

Azure Te

Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2015

The American Quarter Horse owes a lot to the Thoroughbred. Azure Te, in the vernacular of old-school horsemen, was the “right kind” of Thoroughbred. His blood improved the Quarter Horse.

With his first crop of Quarter Horses, Azure Te placed two finalists in the 1971 All American Futurity, including fastest qualifier Come Six, who ended the season as champion freshman gelding. From that first crop, only one starter wasn’t a winner, and all that had more than one start ran a speed index of 80 or better.

By the time of his death in 1983, Azure Te was the all-time leading Thoroughbred sire of racing Quarter Horses, a title he had held for nearly a decade, and sons and daughters already were carrying his abilities to further generations.

Bred by Mr. and Mrs. L.K. Shapiro of California, Azure Te was foaled in 1962, a bay son of Nashville out of Blue One by Count Fleet. Racing in 1964-66, the colt started 26 races on the Thoroughbred tracks Hollywood Park and Del Mar at ages 2, 3 and 4, when he bowed a tendon and was retired. Earning $119,022 and winning 10 of those races, all at distances of 5 1/2 to 6 furlongs.

The stallion had the conformation to match his speed. At more than 1,100 pounds compacted into 15.2 hands of athletic power, Azure Te possessed the body and heavy musculature so sought after in Quarter Horses.

Azure Te passed both conformation and ability to offspring such as Come Six, Twelve Five, A Zure Request, Band Of Azure, Comingforth and many others.

In 1968, Azure Te was purchased by a syndicate managed by Jay Pumphrey of Fort Worth, Texas. Pumphrey was the general manager of Burnett Ranches, which also was a syndicate member, as was Ted Wells Jr.

Azure Te sired 842 starters from 1,085 foals in 18 crops of Quarter Horses, including six champions, 42 other stakes winners, 537 other winners and the earners of $6,999,062.

Azure Te’s ultimate influence on the breed has been on the dam’s side, through daughters, granddaughters and further generations.

After lung tumors led to congestive heart failure and a rapid decline in health at age 21, Azure Te was euthanized November 19, 1983. The stallion was buried in a marked grave on the Wells Ranch.

Azure Te (TB) was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2015.

Count's Della Bar

Reserve Champion Halter

2 Halter Points

Dam of:

Alberta Hi Point Am Western Pleasure

ROM Western Pleasure

Hi Point Junior Western Pleasure

Count Kilobar

Reserve Champion Halter

Producing Offspring

King Leo Bar

AAA, AQHA Champion

ROM Cutting

Points in Halter, Reining, Western Pleasure, Cutting, Cow Horse, Western Riding and Trail

Sire of: ROM Race, AQHA Champions, Superior Perfs, ROM Arenas.

Sire of 9 AQHA Champions, 30 Show ROM, 4 AQHA Superior Performance, 4 Race ROM

Producing Offspring

Star/L.Hind Sock
AQHA Race SI-95/AAA/ROM
AQHA Show H-27/P-28.5
AQHA Champion
Sire Of 177 Foals, 9 AQHA Champions, 2,405 AQHA Points, $11,000 In Race Earnings.
KING LEO BAR was the 1st Canadian owned horse to become a AAA AQHA Champion
King Leo Bar Daughters were great producers. 89 Mares produced 758 foals, 163 were Performers.
On the track King Leo Bar Daughters Foals earned over $30,000 and 14 ROMS while
breaking 7 track records. In the cutting pen is where these foals had their greatest success.
41 foals earned an astonishing $473,573.98 in earnings, such foals as
FREDDYS LITTLE HANK $98,078.00
MONKEYS FORMULA $162,125.00

Leo Bar

AAA, AQHA Champion

Sire of: AQHA Champions, ROM Race, ROM Arena, Superior Performance

Producing Offspring

Totsey H

Dam of: ROM Race, AQHA Champions, ROM Arenas,

Producing Offspring

Princess Page

Dam of Producing Offspring

Page Lee

Sire of:

AQHA Champions

Superior Halter, ROM Race, ROM Arena

Producing Offspring

Winner of Get of Sire Classes

Sire of: 4 AQHA Champions, 11 show ROM, 1 AQHA Superior Halter, 1 AAA

Moon's Miss

Dam of:

Chocolate Page - ROM Arena

Juanita Dell

Dam of:

Poco Speedy - ROM Arena,

Poco Acres - ROM Arena

Count's Della Bar - Reserve Champion Halter

Poco Dell

AQHA Champion

Leading Sire of AQHA Champions

Leading Sire of Register of Merit

Sire of: Honor Roll Performance, High Point Performance, Superior Performance, Superior Halter, AQHA Champions, ROM Arena

Producing Offspring

Poco Bueno

AQHA Champion

Champion Cutting Horse

Leading Sire of AQHA Champions

Leading Maternal Grandsire of AQHA Champions

Sire of: Honor Roll Performance, AQHA Champions, Superior Performance, Superior Halter, 

Shady Dell

Leading Dam of AQHA Champions, ROM Arena

Producer of 5 AQHA Champions

Ojos Grandes

Dam of: Producing Offspring

Peppy

Sire of:

AQHA Champions, ROM Arena

Producing Offspring

Compania

Producing Offspring