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T Th h e e S S t t o o r r y y o o f f ROCKET BAR
AND THE MILLION DOLLAR SIRES, PART 2
(See November 2019 issue for Part 1) by Larry Thornton
The stallions Three Bars and Top Deck founded the two sire lines that battle it out each year to dominate the leading sire lists. When we look at the top 25 leading money earning sires for 2019,
we see that 22 of them come from these
two sire lines. Then we see that 14 of the
22 come from the Three Bars sire line. The interesting part of this observation is that
the Three Bars sire line is predominantly carried on through his son Rocket Bar to his son Rocket Wrangler and to his son Dash For Cash. Then the list shows that the Dash For Cash sire line branches out through his son First Down Dash; and then through his sons Tempting Dash, FDD Dynasty, Valiant Hero, Walk Thru Fire, Sir Runaway Dash; and his grandsons First Moonflash, Kiss
My Hocks and Corona Cartel; with five of Corona Cartel’s sons and a grandson also appearing on this list.
When we look at the sire influence of Three Bars, we see that he had many sons that were successful sires of runners. They include Mr Bar None, Tonto Bars Gill, Bob’s Folly, Lightning Bar, Magnolia Bar, Royal Bar, St Bar, Sugar Bars, Triple Chick, Three Chicks and The Ole Man. All of these sons of Three Bars were out of Quarter Horse
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