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Multiple stakes winner Quincy Rocket, by Rocket Bar and out of Leocita by Leo, is a good example of the Rocket Bar/Leo cross.
Futurity; and Barleo Rocket, another multiple stakes winner in the 1967 Thanksgiving Stakes and 1968 Barbra B Handicap. Suleo is by Leo and out of Sue Wood by Kingwood, a son of the King Ranch stallion Macanudo.
Quincy Rocket is an example of the Rocket Bar/Leo cross. This mare is a multiple stakes winner in races like the 1968 Casa Blanca Futurity, 1969 Buttons And Bows Stakes and 1969 C. L. Madden’s Bright Eyes Stakes. She is out of Leocita by Leo and Leocita is out of Oncita by Band Play.
Quincy Rocket was bred by Quincy Farms and they bred another Rocket Bar/Leo cross
in Sugar Rocket. Sugar Rocket was an AQHA Supreme Champion by Rocket Bar. He was a AAA rated runner, Superior halter horse and AQHA Champion. His dam was Sugar Mayday by Leo and she was out of Frontera Sugar, the dam of Sugar Bars by Three Bars.
Osage Rocket serves as a different example of Rocket Bar and mares from the Leo line. She was the winner of eight stakes races, including the 1971 Portland Meadows Futurity, Kindergarten Futurity, and Lassie Stakes. Her success on the track in 1971
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1971 Champion Osage Rocket, by Rocket Bar and out of Osage Lamb by Palleo Pete by Leo, serves as a different example of the
Rocket Bar/ Leo cross.
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