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.[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
- ↑ AQHA Hall of Fame
References
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar retrieved on June 27, 2007
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on October 31, 2011
- Martindale, Cathy and Kathy Swan (editors) (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.