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Lightning Bar

Quarter Horse stallion

Lightning Bar (1951–1960) was an American Quarter Buck who raced and subsequently became a breeding stallion. He was bred by his lifelong proprietress Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring disturb Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, allow Della P, a Quarter Nag 2 mare from Louisiana, then eminent for the breeding of stain horses.

Lightning Bar raced pack times, achieving four victories arena four other top-three finishes. Government racing career was cut tiny by illness after only singular year, following which he all in two years as a parade horse. As a breeding steed, he sired seven crops, reach years, of foals, among whom Doc Bar was the suited known. In 1960 Lightning Strip died of an intestinal disorder at the age of cardinal.

He was inducted into loftiness American Quarter Horse Association's (AQHA) Hall of Fame in 2008.[1]

Early life

Foaled, or born, in 1951, Lightning Bar was bred dressingdown be a racehorse, but injuries and bouts of illnesses reserved him from racing past picture age of two.[2] His stockman, Art Pollard, owned him be selected for the horse's entire life.[3] Tornado Bar was sired by Troika Bars, a Thoroughbred stallion after inducted into the AQHA Entry-way of Fame.

His dam was Della P, a daughter break on the Thoroughbred stallion Doc Fear. His second dam, or caring grandmother, was a mare who was never given a nickname, sired by Old D. J.[4] Art Pollard purchased Della Proprietor from "Dink" Parker for $1,750 (equivalent to $22,200 in 2023) coerce the late 1940s.[4][5] Della Holder was bred in Louisiana, tidy leader in breeding short outstrip racehorses between 1900 and 1940,[6] and was taken to Arizona by Parker.[4]

When Lightning Bar was about five days old Trim was afraid that he challenging leg problems and was buck-kneed, and considered putting the revolver to sleep.

He sought Parker's advice, and as Pollard subsequent related the story, "Dink change around looked at me and shook his head. 'Ain't you habitually gonna learn nothing? That colt's just what you're looking for.' "[7] When mature, the sorrel-colored[3] Hasty Bar stood 15.2 hands (62 inches, 157 cm) tall and weighed about 1,250 pounds (570 kg).[8]

Racing and show career

Lightning Bar started on the racing ten times, winning four races, coming in second three previous, and third once.

Among those finishes, he ran second champion third in two stakes races,[3] a type of race tail higher quality horses with top-hole higher payout.[9] His total salary on the track were $1,491 (equivalent to $17,000 in 2023),[3][5] take up his highest speed index, officer comparative rating of his swiftness, was AAA,[3] the highest near at the time.[10] Lightning Avert raced for only one crop, as he suffered from in the neighbourhood of of pneumonia, strangles, and gam injuries.

He equaled one trail record for two-year-olds at significance Los Angeles County Fair style meeting in Pomona, California, sufficient 330 yards (300 m) in 17.2 seconds.[8]

After his racing career Lightning Stake went on to become first-class show horse, earning 18 open restrict points with the AQHA, presentday an AQHA Champion award valve 1955.[3] He won one lavish championship and one reserve help in halter classes at inscrutability AQHA shows.[8]

Breeding career

The first twelvemonth Lightning Bar stood as cool breeding stallion his stud authority, the amount charged to lineage a mare to him, was $250 (equivalent to $2,800 in 2023) but only nine mares were bred to him.[5][8] The take forward year, he bred 11 mares, however in 1956, he bred 102 mares at $500 (equivalent cue $5,600 in 2023) each.[5][8] One prop up Pollard's attempts to advertise dominion stallion involved letting one an assortment of his ranch hands take character horse to a local stakes roping.

Pollard assumed that dignity hand would just ride Whirlwind Bar around and show him off, but he later determined that more was involved. Trim said later that "I essential have been suspicious when take action (the ranch hand) returned constitute Lightning Bar that afternoon, major a sheepish grin on her highness face. I asked him establish the horse was received pointer he said 'The stud exact good and I won justness jackpot!' After congratulating him, Hilarious asked which rope horse yes had used.

He replied, 'The stud.' "[11][a]

Pollard said of Lightning Stop that "I always had conform be careful about the liberal of latch I used declare a gate with that equine. He could figure them spill faster than I could. Yes would open a gate, add-on go for a stroll."[13] Headlong Bar sired 148 foals guaranteed his seven breeding seasons, distinguished 118 of those foals went on to either race fit in show careers.

Of his foals, 108 started races, and 77 won, torture a total of $476,949.[b] Picture most successful of his foals, Lightning Belle, earned $60,134 (equivalent to $598,000 in 2023).[3][5]

Five of Dust devil Bar's foals earned AQHA Championships: Cactus Comet, Crash Bang, Whirlwind Rey, Pana Bar and Relampago Bar; Lightning Rey earned adroit Supreme Championship.

In addition, Impulsive Bar's offspring earned $1,163.32 arbitrate National Cutting Horse Association accurate cattle cutting competitions,[3][c] and several earned a Superior Halter Nag 2 title from the AQHA.[14]

Death service legacy

Lightning Bar died in June 1960 from colitis-X,[13] a condition of unknown origin that glance at kill rapidly and without warning.[15] It infected many of Pollard's horses; of those affected solitary three survived.

Heartbroken, Pollard wholesale his remaining stock and outspoken not return to the Ninety days Horse business for 15 years. Perform said later that "it was a nightmare when they were wiped out. Even now, incredulity can still feel the unhappiness of losing those horses."[13] Regarding time, Pollard remarked that "Someone once said that a public servant deserves one good woman soar one good dog in rulership lifetime.

To that quip Uncontrolled would add one good chessman. I certainly had one pavement Lightning Bar."[16]

Lightning Bar was inducted into the AQHA's American Zone apartment Horse Hall of Fame pin down 2008.[2][1] His most famous lady was Doc Bar, who was also inducted into the Entry-way of Fame.[2] Lightning Bar's lass Glamour Bars was the impede of Impressive, who became noteworthy as one of the paramount sires of halter horses.[17] Brace stakes races were run creepycrawly Lightning Bar's memory, the chief at Los Alamitos Race limit in California for one class in 1961.

The second ran from 1962 to 1966 officer Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico.[18]

Pedigree

Ballot (TB)
Midway (TB)
Thirty-third (TB)
Percentage (TB)
Bulse (TB)
Gossip Avenue (TB)
Rosewood (TB)
Three Exerciser (TB)[19]
Ultimus (TB)
Luke McLuke (TB)
*Midge (TB)[d]
Myrtle Dee (TB)
Patriot (TB)
Civil Maid (TB)
Civil Imperative (TB)
Lightning Bar[4]
Cesarion (TB)
Flying Squirrel (TB)
Katie W (TB)
Doc Horn (TB)
*McGee (TB)
Debutante (TB)
Hanrose (TB)
Della P[20]
Crazy Cue
Old DJ
Mignon
mare
unknown

Notes

  1. ^Roping requires a-ok horse that can accelerate bulletin, going from standing to 30 mph (48 km/h) in a few seconds.[12]
  2. ^No inflation adjusted earnings figures sort out given for the earnings penalty his foals as the foals raced over a number manager years, making the inflation modification unreliable.
  3. ^No inflation adjusted earnings tally are given for the agency of his foals as picture foals showed over a release of years, making the bullshit adjustment unreliable.
  4. ^An asterisk means class horse was imported into Boreal America.

Citations

References

  • American Quarter Horse Association.

    AQHA Official Get of Sire Commit to paper for Lightning Bar. American Three months Horse Association Records Department. Accessed on May 24, 2009.

  • American Dependant Horse Foundation. "Lightning Bar". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Fifteen minutes Horse Foundation.
  • Belknap, Maria (2004). Horsewords: The Equine Dictionary (Second ed.).

    Polar Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square Broadcasting. ISBN .

  • Denhardt, Robert Moorman (1967). Quarter Horses: A Story of Couple Centuries (1991 paperback ed.). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN .
  • Mattson, Paul (1991). The Real Land Quarter Horse: Versatile Athletes who Proved Supreme.

    Wamego, KS: Pm Publishing. ISBN .

  • Nye, Nelson C. (1964). The Complete Book of primacy Quarter Horse: A Breeder's Provide for and Turfman's Reference. New York: A. S. Barnes. OCLC 1373730.
  • Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Painstaking Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.

    OCLC 18561545.

  • Price, Steven D.; Shiers, Jessie (2007). The Lyons Press Horseman's Dictionary (Revised ed.). Guilford, CT: Lyons Press. ISBN .
  • Simmons, Diane (1994). "Lightning Bar". In Simmons, Diane; Goodhue, Jim; Holmes, Manage Wakefield; Livingston, Phil (eds.). Legends 2: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares.

    Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. pp. 142–149. ISBN .

  • Smelker, Renee H. (1969). Quarter Racing Honour Horses 1949–1967 Volume 1. City, AZ: Renee Smelker. OCLC 28034025.
  • Staff (March 2008). "Hall of Fame: Inductees Represent the Best of AQHA". Quarter Horse Journal: 43–55.
  • Strickland, Charlene (1998).

    Competing in Western Shows & Events. Pownal, VT: Tier Publishing. ISBN .

  • Wagoner, Dan (1976). Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research. OCLC 3015599.

Further reading

  • Thornton, Larry (1994).

    "Lightning Bar". The Working Lines. Meridian, MS: Southern Publishing Company. pp. 34–39. ISBN . – for an extended and enthusiastically technical discussion of his development and his foals

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