Sonny Dee Bar

Horse infobox
horsename = Sonny Dee Bar


caption = - Sonny Dee Bar -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Halter
sire = Win Or Lose
grandsire = Mr Bar None
dam = Chigger's Baby
damsire = Chigger
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1965
country = United States
color = Sorrel
breeder = E. V. Roberts
otherawards= AQHA Performance Register of Merit, AQHA Superior Halter Horse
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 12 2008

Sonny Dee Bar was a Quarter horse stallion and famous sire of show horses, not only Quarter Horses but Paint horses and Appaloosas as well.Martindale "Legends 7" p. 156-167]

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. [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sonny+dee+bar All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar] retrieved on June 27, 2007] He died on August 20 1994.

Sonny Dee Bar earned a Superior Halter Horse award from the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA), along with a Performance Register of Merit.Wagoner "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" p. 660]

He sired, among others, such famous horses as Maid of Luck, Red Sonny Dee, Lucky Machine, Sonny Go Lucky, Sonny Deluxe, Dirty Larry, Sonny Go Royal, James Caan, and Scotch Bar Time.Pitzer "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" p. 119-120] 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. Scotch Bar Time was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame in 2002. [ [http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame] retrieved on July 5, 2007]

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008]

Pedigree

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1 = Sonny Dee Bar
2 = Win Or Lose
3 = Chigger's Baby
4 = Mr Bar None
5 = Lady Leo
6 = Chigger
7 = Sugar Foot M
8 = Three Bars (TB)
9 = Murl L
10 = Leo
11 = Lady Thomas Wilson
12 = Midnight Jr
13 = Denver
14 = Midnight Jr
15 = unknown
16 = Percentage (TB)
17 = Myrtle Dee (TB)
18 = Moco Burnett
19 = Day Break I
20 = Joe Reed II
21 = Little Fanny
22 = David Thomas
23 = Bonny
24 = Midnight
25 = Salty
26 = Waggoner's Rainy Day P-13
27 = Singleston mare
28 = Midnight
29 = Salty

Notes

References

* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sonny+dee+bar All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar] retrieved on June 27, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Martindale, Cathy and Kathy Swan ed. "Legends 7: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Fort Worth: Western Horseman 2006 ISBN 0-911647-79-1
* [http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame] retrieved July 5, 2007
* Pitzer, Andrea Laycock "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2643 Sonny Dee Bar at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home422222222322 Sonny Dee Bar at Quarter Horse Legends]