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out of Little Peach, the dam of Tinky Poo. Stakes winner Rocket Vandy is out of Susan Vandusen by Vandy. Susan Vandusen is out of Sue Wood, the dam of Suleo by Leo.
Mr Tinky Bar has to be the leader of
the pack in the 1961 Rocket Bar foal crop, winning the 1963 Kansas Futurity and running second in the All American Futurity. His 1963 record gave him the Champion Two-Year-Old Colt title. The dam of Mr Tinky Bar is Tinky’s Lady by Tinky Poo. Tinky’s Lady is also the dam of the Rocket Bar stakes winner Mr Rocket Bar.
Rocket Mist is the fifth stakes winner in the 1961 Rocket Bar foal crop with a victory in the 1963 Intermountain Futurity. His dam is Tinky Berry by Tinky Poo. Rocket Mist is a full sister to Fire Rocket, the second AQHA Supreme Champion by Rocket Bar.
Some other stakes winners from the Rocket Bar/Tinky Poo cross include: Inky’s Rocket and Bombin Rocket, both out of Tiny’s Inky; Sky Way Rocket out of Tinky Chumina; Kitty Rocket out of Susie Poo, who is by Tinky Poo and out of Suleo by Leo; and La Ree Bar out of Tinky Ann. It is through Tinky Ann and her mating to Rocket Bar that have come runners such as 1971 World Champion Charger Bar and Look Her Over, dam of the 2019 World Champion He Looks Hot, to name just a few.
Here is what makes the Tinky Poo cross
so interesting. The dam of Tinky Poo is Little Peach by Beggar Boy TB by Black Toney. Beggar Boy is out of Useeit by Bonnie Joe. The dam of Little Peach is Peaches by Oklahoma Star P-6. The dam of Oklahoma Star P-6 is Cutthroat by Gulliver. Ronald Mason, the longtime owner of Oklahoma Star, professed that Cutthroat was not by Gulliver, but actually by Bonnie Joe, and if this is the case, then Little Peach would have a breeding pattern of 3x4 to Bonnie Joe. Now what makes this interesting
is Bonnie Joe is the sire of Joe Blair, the sire of Joe Reed P-3, who is the sire of Leo - with the Rocket Bar/Leo cross a very prominent nick with Joe Reed-P3 bred mares.
Voo Doo Rocket, Pitti Rockette and Red Alert are the last three stakes horses from the 1961 Rocket Bar crop. Voo Doo Rocket, third in the 1963 Los Ninos Handicap, is out of Tets Baby by My Tet Rambler by Tetros by Porte Drapeau. Pitti Rockette, third in the Portland Meadows Derby, and full brother Rocket’s Glare, winner of the Jefferson QHA Futurity, are out of Pitti Sing by Buddy Question Mark by Question Marks Sonny by Question Mark. The dam of Pitti Sing is H J Silk Hat by Bob Wade W by Question Mark. This gives Pitti Sing a breeding pattern of 3x3 to Question Mark.
Red Alert, the last stakes horse from Rocket Bar’s 1961 crop, brings us to the Rocket Bar/Leo
cross. Red Alert was third in the 1963 PCQHRA California-Bred Futurity. He is out of Stage Show by Leo Tag by Leo. The dam of Stage Show is Sharon Clabber by Clabber by My Texas Dandy by Porte Drapeau. It should be noted that the Tinky Poo daughters Tinky’s Lady, Tiny’s Inky and Tinky Chumina are all out of Clabber’s Image by Clabber by My Texas Dandy by Port Drapeau.
The Rocket Bar/Leo cross was very prominent in Rocket Bar’s nick with Joe Reed P-3 bred mares. Suleo, by Leo, produced
four stakes winners by Rocket Bar, including Suleo’s Rocket, Princess Rozella, El Charro Rocket and Barleo Rocket. Eight-time stakes winner Osage Rocket serves as a different example of Rocket Bar crossed with mares from the Leo line. Osage Rocket is out of Osage Lamb by Palleo Pete by Leo.
Quincy Rocket is an example of the Rocket Bar/Leo cross. Multiple stakes winner Quincy Rocket is out of Leocita by Leo, and Leocita is out of Oncita by Band Play. Quincy Rocket has had her own impact on the million dollar sire list. She is the dam of Sweet Blush by Hempen TB. Sweet Blush is the dam of Leaving Memories,
a stakes placed son of First Down Dash who
is a million dollar sire of $7,930,059. Leaving Memories is the sire of Send Me The Candy, who is the second dam of 2015 Champion Two- Year-Old Colt and All American Futurity-G1 winner Jess Good Candy. An added note: The dam of Send Me The Candy is Send Me Candy by Tiny’s Gay, a son of Gay’s Delight by Rocket Bar and out of Miss Ginger Gay by Palleo
Pete by Leo. This gives Send Me The Candy a double dose of the Rocket Bar/Leo cross through Quincy Rocket and Gay’s Delight.
Quincy Rocket is the second dam of Blushing Bug by Bugs Alive In 75 and out of Sweet
Blush. Blushing Bug’s is the sire of $5,573,792. He counts among his runners a multiple stakes winner Blushing By, whose wins include the Los Alamitos Invitational Championship-G1 and Go Man Go Handicap-G1. Blushing By is out of legendary race mare Charger Bar, who is out of La Ree Bar by Rocket Bar, and La Ree Bar is out of TInky Ann by Tinky Poo.
Quincy Rocket is also the second dam of Sweet Victress, a daughter of Sweet Blush. Sweet Victress is the dam of Tempt Me Not, and she is the dam of A Tempting Chick.
A Tempting Chick is the dam of Tempting Dash, who is by First Down Dash. Tempting Dash is a million-dollar sire with earners of $8,982,119. The leading money earner by Tempting Dash is Kiss My Hocks, the 2014 Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and winner of the Ruidoso Futurity-G1 and Sam Houston Futurity-G2 where he set a New Track Record in the trials of this race for 330 yards in :16.433. Kiss My Hocks is the #3 Leading
Freshman Sire of Money Earners of 2019 with earnings of $1,384,370.
Quincy Rocket is another by Quincy Farms, which also bred another Rocket Bar/Leo cross foal in Sugar Rocket by Rocket Bar and out of Sugar Mayday, by Leo. Sugar Rocket is another AQHA Supreme Champion by Rocket Bar. He is a AAA rated runner, Superior halter horse and Champion. His dam Sugar Mayday, by Leo, is out of Frontera Sugar, the dam of Champion Sugar Bars by Three Bars.
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
When we count up the Rocket Bar stakes winners, we see that 26 of them were out of the following broodmare sires—Leo, Joe Reed II, Bull’s Eye, Palleo Pete, Leo Tag, Barred, Vandy or Tinky Poo. Just think what might have happened if leading trainer George Kaufman hadn’t needed a stallion for his mares and hadn’t bought Rocket Bar to breed? Makes us think – might there
not be a Rocket Bar as a sire of Quarter Horses without the mares he was bred to?
Then we have to stop and think - what would have happened if Bubba Cascio hadn’t trained horses for an Appaloosa breeder named Thayer Hobson, the man who didn’t want to breed his mares to Three Bars, so Cascio bred to Three Bars’ son Rocket Bar? Makes us think – might there not be a Rocket Wrangler to sire Dash For Cash?
It is thoughts like these that make the development of the Three Bars sire line, demonstrated here by his son Rocket Bar, so interesting.
Rocket Bar won his first race and then injured his knee in his second start, an injury that plagued him through his entire race career.
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