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he started Three Bars in a race at Churchill Downs and he won. This forced Stivers to pay the $300.
Cloud sold Three Bars to Eudell Wyatt, who, in turn, sold Three Bars to Stan Snedigar and his partner, Toad Haggard. Snedigar actually claimed Three Bars in Detroit for $2,000. He took him to the Southwest at a time when modern Quarter Horse racing was being established. Before Snedigar realized any racing success, World War II forced a racing blackout and Three Bars was turned out for a rest. Sid Vail heard about Three Bars and decided to pay him a visit. Three Bars was Vail’s ideal horse and, after negotiations, he took Three Bars home. He stood Three Bars at Melville Haskell’s Rincon Stock Farm in 1945, and his first crop of 10 foals came in 1946.
Snedigar got a racing lease from Vail on Three Bars, and he raced him for a time during 1946 and ‘47. Three Bars’ year off must have done him some good as a racehorse as he came back to win the Aqua Caliente Speed Handicap and set a New Track Record at the Arizona Jockey Club Track for 5 furlongs in :57 3/5. He started 17 times in 1946, with eight wins for his best year of racing. Vail permanently retired the horse in 1947 with 12 wins, three seconds and one third from 28 career starts with just over $20,000 in earnings.
Three Bar was bred by Jim Parrish, a banker and race horse breeder from Midway, Kentucky. Parrish is the man who got the late Hall of Fame Thoroughbred trainer Woody Stevens started in the horse business. Stevens is best known for his five consecutive Belmont Stakes winners.
Percentage, the sire of Three Bars, was the winner of 19 races including two stakes wins in
the Cincinnati Trophy and the Pontchartrain Handicap. He raced through eight years of age, earning $42,182. His sire record shows 43 foals with 33 starters, 29 winners and three stakes horses. One of his leading runners was Perlette, winner at Washington Park going 5 furlongs in :59 1/5. Foals by Percentage earned $324,878 on the track. Percentage dropped into obscurity after his sale by Mrs. Parrish in the Parrish Farm Dispersal.
Percentage is by Midway, a stakes winning stallion that won such stakes as the Washington Handicap and Clark Handicap. Midway is by Ballot and out of Thirty-Third by Sir Dixon. He was owned by James Parrish, the breeder of Three Bars. Ballot was a multiple stakes winner, including the Suburban Handicap and the Matron Stakes, a six furlong race. His sire is Voter and his dam is Cerito by Lowland Chief. Voter is a grandson of Hermit.
Percentage is out of Gossip Avenue by Bulse by Disguise. Bulse, the winner of the Sanford Memorial Stakes, is out of Nethersole by Tournament. Disguise, a son of the great speed sire Domino, was raced in England where he was third in the Epsom Derby. He was stakes winner in the Jockey Club Stakes in England, and raced there as Disguise II.
Myrtle Dee, the dam of Three Bars, was
a sprint specialist that held the track record
for 5 1⁄2 furlongs at the Coney Island Track in Cincinnati. Her sire is Luke McLuke, a son
of the double bred Domino stallion Ultimus. Ultimus is by Commando by Domino and out of Running Stream by Domino. The Domino breeding in Luke McLuke gave Three Bars his second and third cross of Domino. Thus, Three Bars is 5 X 5 X 5 linebred to Domino.
Myrtle Dee is out of Civil Maid, a daughter of Patriot, a son of Ben Brush. Myrtle Dee’s Domino/Ben Brush breeding accounts for
her sprinting ability. The Domino/Ben Brush cross is found in such speed producers as the legendary sire Top Deck.
Myrtle Dee was inbred to *Sandfly, who was bred to Trenton to get Midge, the dam of Luke McLuke. *Sandfly was bred to Ben Brush to
get Patriot, the sire of Civil Maid, the dam of Myrtle Dee. Thus, Myrtle Dee is 3 X 3 linebred to *Sandfly, who is a link between the Domino and Ben Brush breeding found in Myrtle Dee. She apparently crossed well with both lines.
It has to be noted that Disguise, Voter, Ballot, Ultimus and Luke McLuke were bred by James R. Keene. Domino and Ben Brush were used by James R. Keene for his breeding program at Castleton Stud.
Golden Rocket, the dam of Rocket Bar, is
by Cartago and out of Morshion by Morvich. Golden Rocket was foaled in 1940 just like Three Bars. She won the Washington State Futurity at Longacres Racetrack in 1942 in 1:06.20 for the
5 1/2-furlong race. Her official race record shows she had 24 starts with four wins, two seconds and three thirds to earn $3,050.
The produce record for Golden Rocket shows that she had six Thoroughbred foals with five starters, one stakes winner in Rocket Bar, and one stakes placed runner in Spot Rocket
by Spotted Bull. Spot Rocket was third in the 1956 Raton Futurity and set two New Track Records at Prescott Downs. The first was for 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:06.20 and the other was in 1:01.8 for 5 furlongs. She made 64 starts with
Leading trainer George Kaufman purchased Rocket Bar to breed
to his mares
that included daughters of Joe Reed II, Barred, Red Joe of Arizona and Tinky Poo.
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