Sonny Dee Bar
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Halter |
| Sire | Win Or Lose |
| Grandsire | Mr Bar None |
| Dam | Chigger's Baby |
| Maternal grandsire | Chigger |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1965 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Sorrel |
| Breeder | E. V. Roberts |
| Other awards | |
|
AQHA Performance Register of Merit AQHA Superior Halter Horse | |
| Honors | |
| American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
Sonny Dee Bar (1965–1994) was a Quarter Horse stallion and famous sire of show horses, not only Quarter Horses but Paint Horses and Appaloosas as well.[1]
Life
Sonny Dee Bar was a registered Quarter Horse who was foaled in 1965. His sire was Win Or Lose, a descendant of Three Bars (TB) and Leo. His dam was linebred to Midnight Jr, as both her sire and her dam were by Midnight Jr.[2] He died on August 20, 1994.[1]
Sonny Dee Bar earned a Superior Halter Horse award from the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA), along with a Performance Register of Merit.[3]
Sonny Dee Bar sired, among others, such famous horses as Red Sonny Dee, Lucky Machine, Sonny Go Lucky, Sonny Deluxe, Dirty Larry, Sonny Go Royal, James Caan,and Scotch Bar Time.[4] He sired 1070 Quarter Horse foals in his breeding career, with thirty-one of them AQHA Champions, one AQHA Supreme Champion, and five AQHA World Champions.[1] Scotch Bar Time was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame in 2002.[5]
Sonny Dee Bar was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2003.[6]
Pedigree
| Percentage (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Three Bars (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Myrtle Dee (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mr Bar None | |||||||||||||||||||
| Moco Burnett | |||||||||||||||||||
| Murl L | |||||||||||||||||||
| Day Break I | |||||||||||||||||||
| Win Or Lose | |||||||||||||||||||
| Joe Reed II | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leo | |||||||||||||||||||
| Little Fanny | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lady Leo | |||||||||||||||||||
| David Thomas | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lady Thomas Wilson | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bonny | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sonny Dee Bar | |||||||||||||||||||
| Midnight | |||||||||||||||||||
| Midnight Jr | |||||||||||||||||||
| Salty | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chigger | |||||||||||||||||||
| Waggoner's Rainy Day P-13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Denver | |||||||||||||||||||
| Singleston mare | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chigger's Baby | |||||||||||||||||||
| Midnight | |||||||||||||||||||
| Midnight Jr | |||||||||||||||||||
| Salty | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sugar Foot M | |||||||||||||||||||
| unknown | |||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- 1 2 3 Martindale and Swan (ed.) Legends 7 p. 156-167
- ↑ All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar
- ↑ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 660
- ↑ Pitzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 119–120
- ↑ National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame
- ↑ American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Sonny Dee Bar". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
References
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar retrieved on June 27, 2007
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on September 2, 2017
- Martindale, Cathy; Swan, Kathy, eds. (2006). Legends 7: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-79-1.
- National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame retrieved July 5, 2007
- Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
- Wagoner, Dan (1974). Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research.
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