Sonny Dee Bar

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Breed: Quarter Horse
Discipline: Halter
Sire: Win Or Lose
Grandsire: Mr Bar None
Dam: Chigger's Baby
Maternal grandsire: Chigger
Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1965
Country: United States
Color: Sorrel
Breeder: E. V. Roberts
Honors
Other Awards
AQHA Performance Register of Merit, AQHA Superior Halter Horse
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Infobox last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Sonny Dee Bar was a Quarter horse stallion and famous sire of show horses, not only Quarter Horses but Paint horses and Appaloosas as well.[1]

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[edit] Life

Sonny Dee Bar was a registered Quarter Horse who was foaled in 1965. His sire was Win Or Lose, a descendant of Three Bars (TB) and Leo. His dam was linebred to Midnight Jr, as both her sire and her dam were by Midnight Jr.[2] He died on August 20, 1994.[1]

Sonny Dee Bar earned a Superior Halter Horse award from the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA), along with a Performance Register of Merit.[3]

He sired, among others, such famous horses as Maid of Luck, Red Sonny Dee, Lucky Machine, Sonny Go Lucky, Sonny Deluxe, Dirty Larry, Sonny Go Royal, James Caan, and Scotch Bar Time.[4] He sired 1070 Quarter Horse foals in his breeding career, with thirty-one of them AQHA Champions, one AQHA Supreme Champion, and five AQHA World Champions.[1] Scotch Bar Time was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame in 2002.[5]

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[6]

[edit] Pedigree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Percentage (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Three Bars (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Myrtle Dee (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr Bar None
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Moco Burnett
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Murl L
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Day Break I
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Win Or Lose
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Joe Reed II
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Leo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little Fanny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lady Leo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 David Thomas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lady Thomas Wilson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bonny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sonny Dee Bar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Midnight
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Midnight Jr
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Salty
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chigger
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Waggoner's Rainy Day P-13
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Denver
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Singleston mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chigger's Baby
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Midnight
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Midnight Jr
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Salty
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sugar Foot M
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Martindale Legends 7 p. 156-167
  2. ^ All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Sonny Dee Bar retrieved on June 27, 2007
  3. ^ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 660
  4. ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 119-120
  5. ^ National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame retrieved on July 5, 2007
  6. ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008

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