11/15/2023 0 Comments My friend flicka![]() ![]() She was never officially declared deceased with the Arabian Horse Association registry, so as of December 29, 1990, she was listed as “presumed deceased.” Flicka apparently lived at the Saueressig ranch until her death. Her offspring were Hanabu (AHR 20389), an Arabian stallion foaled Maand Ross Flicka (HAHR 1A26719), a half-Arabian mare foaled March 16 the following year. Flicka had foaled twice during the 1960s. ![]() Official historical records of the American Arabian Association show that ownership of Flicka was transferred to a Frances Saueressig on July 6, 1967, and Flicka was taken to live on the Saueressig’s ranch at 1071 Governor Dempsey, Santa Fe, New Mexico. John Washbrook had been told that the father or uncle of a young girl had purchased Flicka from Twentieth-Century Fox the girl on her birthday sometime after the Flicka series ended. Some shots of Johnny Washbrook astride the fabulous FlickaĪ screenshot of Johnny roping astride Flicka at a full gallop But in the mid-1950’s, when $100 per week was a decent wage, it was quite a hefty sum. ![]() Johnny Washbrook remembers, “Les had done such a good job of training Flicka that I virtually had only to think of what I wanted Flicka to do and she sensed it and responded.” She was worth more than $7,000 then, which is not relatively much by today’s standards. Flicka was a gentle, intelligent and adaptable horse who responded instinctively to the signals of her talented and experienced trainer. ![]() Like her human counterparts, Flicka-the star-got the love scenes while her stunt double got to take the falls. Johnny Washbrook dutifully brushes his beautiful friend Flicka She was brought by trailer down to the 20th Century-Fox Studios in Hollywood or out to the Fox Movie Ranch in Malibu Canyon for each day’s shoot. During the whole time of filming the My Friend Flicka series, Flicka was kept at Clarence “Fat” Jones’ movie horse stables on Sherman Way in North Hollywood, says Johnny Washbrook. from Spain with her sister, and she reportedly had thirteen other foals besides Flicka in her lifetime.Īt the time she was chosen to star in her own television show, Flicka stood fifteen hands (sixty inches) high. Meca had been foaled by Ursus, a Polish stallion that had been brought to Spain in 1908 and sold for one million dollars. The majority of them were chestnut like their father and many-like Flicka-also had white markings.įlicka’s Sire(father)-Abu Farwa-at age ten in 1950įlicka’s dam (mother) was Mehana (AHR 1297), one of two purebred Spanish Arabian mares foaled by Meca (AHR 1219), a chestnut mare. Abu Farwa himself sired a total of 277 purebred foals during his lifetime. Abu’s dam (mother) was Rissletta, who had been foaled in 1930 at the Crabbet Arabian Stud in Sussex, England and brought over to the Kellogg ranch in 1936. Abu Farwa’s own sire was Kellogg’s famous stallion Rabiyas (later exported to South Africa)-one of the all-time greats in American horse breeding. Her father was Abu Farwa (AHR 1960), a famed chestnut Arabian who had been born on the Kellogg Arabian Ranch in Pomoma, Calfornia. We know for certain, though, that she was trained by famous horse trainer Les Hilton. Although it is generally accepted as fact that Twentieth-Century Fox was her owner during the My Friend Flicka TV series, it is not known at present exactly when she was purchased, and if it was directly from Eaves. The horse's Arabian Horse Association registration number was AHR 6513. She was a beautiful shade of chestnut with distinctive white markings on her face and ankles, Purchased by Patricia Ann Eaves, of Route 2, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Arabian Horse Association shows Eaves as her first recorded owner. She had been foaled (born) on Jat the Newhall, California ranch of W. Says Johnny Washbrook, “I refer to my friend as Flicka, not Wahana, since with the filming of the series her name was changed in the sense that everyone always called her Flicka.” “And” he adds, “I really did love her-she was a great horse!” She was sorrel (a copper-red shade of chestnut), and had originally been called Wahana. FLICKA was a 900-pound pure Arabian mare. ![]()
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