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Mares by Tinky Poo (right), co-owned & trained by George Kaufman, crossed on Rocket Bar produced 12 stakes winners.
as a sire was notable from the beginning, unlike his sire Three Bars, despite the fact that his first stakes winner came in his third crop.
Mr Tinky Bar, foaled in 1961 is the first stakes winner sired by Rocket Bar. He is out of Kaufmans mare Tinky’s Lady by Tinky Poo, an AQHA Champion. Tinky Poo is by Wayward Irving and out of Little Peach by Beggar Boy. Little Peach is out of Peaches by Oklahoma Star P-6.
Mr Tinky Bar won the 1963 Kansas Futurity and then finished second in the All American Futurity to the great Goetta. He was named the AQHA Racing Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. The Rocket Bar/Tinky’s Lady cross also produced Mr Rocket Bar, a multiple stakes winner of races like the Fresno Futurity and a two-time winner
of the Clabbertown G Handicap. Stakes placed runners by Rocket Bar include Rocket Poo, second in the Juvenile Handicap, and Mrs Rocket Bar, second in the Bay Meadows Futurity.
The Rocket Bar/Tiny Poo mares produced 12 stakes winners and stakes placed runners. These runners include four out of Tinky’s Lady. Tinky’s Inky by Tinky Poo is the dam of Inky’s Rocket, a stakes winner by Rocket Bar and a full brother to stakes placed Bombin Rocket. Then, we will add Sky Way Rocket, by Rocket Bar, that is a stakes winner out of Tinky Chumina. Tinky’s Lady, Tinky’s Inky and Tinky Chumina are full sisters by Tinky Poo and out of Clabber’s Image by 1940 World Champion Clabber. Susie Poo, by Tinky Poo, is the dam of stakes winner Kittie Rocket and stakes placed Classy Rocket. The dam of Susie Poo is Suleo by Leo. Tinky Ann, also by Tinky Poo, was the dam of stakes winner La Ree Bar and stakes placed Shadow Rocket. Tinky Ann is out of the Thoroughbred Annahi by High Step. Then we find Rockets Mist, a stakes winner out of Tinky Berry out of Granberry by Jimmy Gray. Tinky Berry is also the dam of Fire Rocket, an AQHA Champion and AQHA Supreme Champion. The last one on this list is 1964 Champion 2-Year-Old Gelding Nug Rock by Rocket Bar. Nug Rock is
out of Tinky’s Nugget by Tinky Poo and out of Dream’s Gold Bar by Barred.
Smooth Move is another stakes winner by Rocket Bar. He won four stakes including the Yakima Meadows Derby in 1968. His dam is Lady Wayward by Wayward Irving the sire of Tinky Poo. Smooth Move is the broodmare sire of Tolltac the 1983 Champion Two Year Old and Champion Two-Year- Old Colt and the 1984 AQHA Racing Champion Three-Year-Old Colt, as well as a leading sire.
The next significant year for the sire record of Rocket Bar came in the 1965 PCQHRA Futurity at Fairgrounds at Sacramento. He had five qualifiers for this event, and they were the
first five finishers across the finish line. They were Suleo’s Rocket, Cape Canaveral, Rocket Vandy, Rocket’s Glare and Clabber’s Rocket. The winner, Suleo’s Rocket, is out of Suleo by Leo and bred by O. M. Starlin. Z. Wayne Griffin was the owner of Rocket Vandy and Clabber’s Rocket.
The Rocket Bar/Suleo cross was a very good one. This mare produced four stakes winners from five foals sired by Rocket Bar. In addition to Suleo’s Rocket, the other three were: Princess Rozella, a multiple stakes winner including the PCQHRA Futurity;
El Charro Rocket, winner Jefferson QHA
Multiple stakes winner Smooth Move (below), by Rocket Bar, is the broodmare sire of 3-time Champion Tolltac.
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