Charger Bar

Charger Bar

Breed	Quarter Horse
Discipline	Racing
Sire	Tiny Charger
Grandsire	Depth Charge (TB)
Dam	La Ree Bar
Maternal grandsire	Rocket Bar (TB)
Sex	Mare
Foaled	1968
Country	United States
Color	Bay
Breeder	Wayne Charlton
Owner	Dr. Edward Allred
Honors
Racing record
43 starts: 28-3-6
Race earnings
$495,437.00
Major racing wins
Los Alamitos Championship Champion of Champions Los Alamitos Derby Go Man Go Handicap (twice) Vessel Maturity
Racing awards
1971 World Champion Quarter Running Horse 1972 Champion Quarter Running Mare 1973 Champion Quarter Running Mare 1974 Champion Quarter Running Mare Superior Race Horse
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

An outstanding Quarter Horse racehorse, Charger Bar (1968–1997) was the 1971 World Champion Quarter Running Horse and an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Superior Race Horse.

Life

Charger Bar was foaled in 1968, a bay filly sired by Tiny Charger and out of a daughter of Rocket Bar (TB) named La Ree Bar.^[1] Her sire was a son of Depth Charge (TB) out of a descendant of Clabber.^[2]

Charger Bar's racing record was forty-three starts in six years. She won twenty-eight of her races, and placed second in three and third in six. She earned a total of $495,437.00 in purse money.^[1] Charger Bar beat Kaweah Bar three times in her racing career.^[3] She was undefeated in 1971, and was named World Champion Quarter Running Horse.^[4] Other honors included being named Champion Quarter Running Mare in 1972, 1973 and 1974. She also earned 144 AQHA racing points, which earned her the title of Superior Race Horse from the AQHA.^[1]

Charger Bar went on to produce fourteen foals. Of those foals, twelve started races, and ten earned Register of Merits and ten won races. Among her foals were Proud Heritage, Go Proudly, and Blushing By. Her offspring earned a total of $626,076.00 on the racetrack.^[4] She died November 26, 1997 and her ashes were scattered over the infield at the Los Alamitos racetrack.^[4]

In 2001 Charger Bar was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.^[5][6]

Pedigree

* St. Germans (TB)

Bold Venture

Possible (TB)

Depth Charge (TB)

Haste (TB)

Quickly (TB)

Stephanie (TB)

Tiny Charger

Clabber

Clabber II

Do Good

Clabber Tiny

Perifox (TB)

Tiny Iny (TB)

Tiny Rose (TB)

Charger Bar

Percentage (TB)

Three Bars (TB)

Myrtle Dee (TB)

Rocket Bar (TB)

Cartago (TB)

Golden Rocket (TB)

Morshion (TB)

La Ree Bar

Wayward Irving (TB)

Tinky Poo

Little Peach

Tinky Ann

High Step (TB)

Annahi (TB)

Verda Ann (TB)

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Wagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 199
2. ^ All Breed Pedigree of Charger Bar retrieved on June 30, 2007
3. ^ Nye Great Moments in Quarter Racing History pp. 270–272
4. ^ ^{a b c} Staff "Forever Famous" Quarter Horse Journal p. 49
5. ^ American Quarter Horse Association "AQHA Hall of Fame"
6. ^ American Quarter Horse Foundation "Charger Bar"

References

• All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Charger Bar retrieved on June 30, 2007
• American Quarter Horse Foundation. "Charger Bar" (pdf). American Quarter Horse Foundation. http://www.aqha.com/en/Foundation/Content-Pages/Hall-of-Fame/~/media/Files/Foundation/Hall%20of%20Fame/Inductees/Horses/Charger%20Bar.ashx. Retrieved November 10, 2010. 
• American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "AQHA Hall of Fame". American Quarter Horse Association. http://www.aqha.com/en/Foundation/Content-Pages/Hall-of-Fame/Hall-of-Fame-Inductees.aspx. Retrieved November 10, 2010. 
• Nye, Nelson C. (1983). Great Moments in Quarter Racing History. New York: Arco Publishing. ISBN 0-668-05304-6. 
• Staff (March 2001). "Forever Famous". Quarter Horse Journal: 40–49. 
• Wagoner, Dan (1976). Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research. 

External links

• Charger Bar at Quarter Horse Directory
• Charger Bar at Quarter Horse Legends