“Walk Thru Fire” syndicated for $10 million
Previously owned by a partnership that included trainer Jaime Gomez, Walk Thru Fire has been one of the most talked about stallions in Quarter Horse racing, thanks to a first crop featuring Kindergarten Futurity winner Gold Nugget Rd and Ed Burke Million winner Higher Fire. Prior to the purchase and syndicated for $10 million.
while Walk Thru Fire, who was syndicated for $10 million a couple of years ago, won the Three Bars Award for Outstanding Stallion.
“My good friend Spencer Childers had never bought a share on a stallion in his life,” Allred added. “When he was 95-years-old he paid the money to be in this syndicate. I could have bought Walk Thru Fire, once for a couple of $100,000 dollars. Mike Abraham and I eventually ended up paying $8 million for him, but we are glad that we did.”
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RIP SPENCER CHILDERS
Spencer L. Childers, who owned Quarter Horses before the American Quarter Horse Association was founded in 1940 and has bred American Quarter Horses every year since 1949, died July 9 at age 97.
A longtime resident of Fresno, California, where he and deceased wife Florence maintained their breeding farm, Childers is the fifth-all-time leading breeder of racing Quarter Horses. Childers began breeding racehorses with his purchase in 1957 of champion Black Easter Bunny. In his own name, Childers bred 899 Quarter Horses, including 654 starters, of which 469 are winners. Among them are 45 stakes winners, 36 stakes placers and the earners to date of $11,767,903. Childers bred and raced 2004 world champion Be A Bono ($1,313,347, a gelding by Childers’ homebred stallion Bono Jazz), and other champions Black Sable, Blobby Charger, Bunny’s Bar Maid, Jet View and Uncas.
Childers was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2002.