Page 36 - Barrel Stallion Register 2019

Frances Johnston bought Prissy Cline, shown as an aged mare, to make her a barrel racer, but Frances passed away and Prissy Cline became a broodmare.
Prissy Cline & Troy Johnston, the grandson of Stanley & Frances Johnston. Prissy Cline is the dam of Sun Frost.
starts - one third and no wins. He went on to be a successful halter horse, earning 36 AQHA Halter Points with nine Grand Championships in 15 shows, including Grand Champion at shows like the 1962 Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, and one Reserve.
Doc Bar became a successful perfor- mance horse sire with his foals earning 118 ROM, 27 AQHA Championships
and 29 Superior Awards in halter and performance. We all are familiar with the fact that Doc Bar went on to revolutionize modern cutting by producing horses like Fizzabar, an NCHA Hall of Fame mare, and Doc O’Lena, the 1970 NCHA Open Futurity Champion.
Doc Bar may have failed as a racehorse, but he was bred to be one. His sire was the AAA rated Lightning Bar, a stakes placed runner with a second in the S. M. Beaudry Handicap and a third in the Juvenile Prep Stakes. He reportedly set two track records and equaled the World Record for 330 yards in :17.2. He had 10 starts at two, with four wins before an injury forced his retirement.
Art Pollard, the breeder and owner of Lightning Bar, believed that if the injury had not happened the horse had the poten- tial to be a Champion. “We got the inside of Super Charge at Pomona. They were running in the California Open Futurity.” Pollard recalled how the injury occurred in my interview with him. “The first three or four horses had to go over a bank at
Pomona, that bull ring track. If you hit just over the hump of the Thoroughbred bank, it would literally propel your horse. But if you hit behind it, chances are the horse would stumble badly and sometimes break down.” Pollard went on to say that Lightning Bar popped a knee and broke down when he
hit that hump. He couldn’t remember what happened to Super Charge, but he recalled they both were injured that day.
Lightning Bar became an AQHA Champion based on his race points and his halter points. He earned 18 halter points with one Grand Championship and one reserve Grand Championship, with six class wins in nine shows.
When Lightning Bar came home to stand, he was exercised by Frank Figueroa, who trained Lightning Bar to rope. This was unknown to Pollard. One day, Figueroa showed up with the winnings from a jackpot roping that he had ridden Lightning Bar to that was held at a neighbor’s place. Pollard wasn’t too happy when he found out whom Figueroa had ridden to win the rop- ing. Needless to say, Figueroa didn’t rope on him anymore. The jackpot was $400.
Lightning Bar sired 148 foals before dying at the age of nine from complica- tions of Colitis X. He sired 79 racing ROM, including 1958 Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Pana Bar and 1960 Champion 3-Year-Old Colt Light Bar. His arena record shows
he sired five Champions and Supreme Champion Lightning Rey.
Lightning Bar is by Three Bars TB and out of Della P by Doc Horn TB. Three Bars, the speedy Thoroughbred that revolutionized the modern Quarter Horse, is the sire of 317 race ROM, 14 Champions and 38 racing Superior Award winners. He is also the sire of 37 perfor- mance ROM, with 29 Champions and four Supreme Champions.
Della P is a Cajun-bred race mare
from Louisiana. Her sire Doc Horn is a Thoroughbred by Flying Squirrel, and her dam is a mare by Old D. J., the famous brood- mare sire of Cajun-bred running horses. Old D J is also the sire of Della Moore, the dam of Joe Reed P-3 and Joe Moore.
The dam of Doc Bar is Dandy Doll by Texas Dandy, a son of My Texas Dandy. Dandy Doll is a AA rated race mare with five wins in 21 starts. She won races at 220, 330 and 440 yards. Her sire Texas Dandy is by My Texas Dandy, the sire of Clabber. Clabber is the first official World Champion Racehorse in the old AQRA, now AQHA.
The dam of Doc’s Jack Frost was Chantella, a AAA rated AQHA Champion as well. She earned 12 halter points. Chantella produced three foals that earned their ROM with Moolah Bardell earning
a racing ROM and a performance ROM; Buxom Moolah earning a performance ROM; and Doc’s Juniper earning a perfor- mance ROM. Chantella is by War Chant, another AAA runner by Three Bars TB.
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courtesy Randy Johnston
courtesy Randy Johnston