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Jen Breigel, Katie's daughter, on Amala Beau Lelait,great-great-granddaughter of Wahana, TV's Flicka
FLICKA was a 900-pound pure Arabian mare. She was sorrel (a copper-red shade of chestnut), and had originally been called Wahana. 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 had been foaled (born) on June 13, 1950 at the Newhall, California ranch of W. P. and Josephine Hawley. 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. The horse's Arabian Horse Association registration number was AHR 6513. 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. We know for certain, though, that
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