Lena's Bar

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Lena's Bar


caption = - Lena's Bar -
sire = Three Bars
grandsire = Percentage
dam = Lena Valenti
damsire = Gray Dream
sex = Mare
foaled = 1954
country = United States
colour =
breeder = Walter Merrick
owner = Walter Merrick
trainer =
record = 76-24-28-10
earnings = $28,311.00
race = Bright Eyes Stakes, Buttons and Bows Handicap, Bright Eyes Handicap
awards= AQHA Racing Register of Merit
honours = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= June 27 2007

A registered Thoroughbred mare, Lena's Bar raced on the Quarter Tracks and was the dam of Jet Smooth, Double Dancer and Jet Deck, three outstanding Quarter Horse stallions.

Life

A Thoroughbred daughter of the stallion Three Bars, Lena's Bar was out of Lena Valenti, a granddaughter of Percentage. [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/lenas+bar Lena's Bar Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved on June 26, 2007] Thus, Lena's Bar had Percentage, Three Bar's sire, on both sides of her pedigree. Lena Valenti raced on the Quarter tracks, ending with a record of two starts, one win, one third with an AA speed rating.Wagoner "Quarter Racing Digest" p. 631]

Lena's Bar raced mainly in Quarter horse races.Close "Legends 2 p. 170-177] She started seventy-six times, winning twenty-four races. She placed second eighteen times and was third ten times. Her total earnings were $28,308.00 with 67 racing points with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA). She rated an AAA speed rating in those races, and was a stakes race winner. She once outran Go Man Go, Double Bid, Tidy Too, Miss Louton, Vandy's Flash and Vanetta Dee in one race. Her sister Little Lena's Bar set four world records at four different distances.Wiggins "Great American Speedhorse" p. 93]

After she retired from racing, she produced the Quarter horse stallions Double Dancer, Jet Smooth, and Easy Jet, along with two Quarter horse mares - Delta Ann and Mayflower Ann. Her offspring earned $557,199.00 on the track, with all five being winners and Register of Merit earners."MMIII Hall of Fame" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2001 p. 48]

She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's American Quarter Horse 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 = Lena's Bar
2= Three Bars
3 = Lena Valenti
4 = Percentage
5 = Myrtle Dee
6 = Gray Dream
7 = Perhobo
8 = Midway
9 = Gossip Avenue
10 = Luke McLuke
11 = Civil Maid
12 = *Gino
13 = Dark Love
14 = Percentage
15 = Homebody
16 = Ballot
17 = Thirty-third
18 = Bulse
19 = Rosewood
20 = Ultimus
21 = Midge
22 = Patriot
23 = Civil Rule
24 = =Tetratema
25 = =Teresina
26 = Traumer
27 = Sunny Love
28 = Midway
29 = Gossip Avenue
30 = General Thatcher
31 = Scramble

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/lenas+bar All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Lena's Bar] " retrieved on June 26, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Close, Pat ed. "Legends 2: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs: Western Horseman 1994 ISBN 0-911647-30-9
* "MMIII Hall of Fame" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2003 p. 41-51
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1976
* Wiggins, Walt "The Great American Speedhorse: A Guide to Quarter Racing" New York: Sovereign Books 1978 ISBN 0-671-18340-0

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=23302&sex=mare Lena's Bar at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4222223 Lena's Bar at Quarter Horse Legends]