Lightning Bar was an American Quarter Horse who raced and subsequently became a breeding stallion. The horse was born in 1951 and was bred to be a race horse, but injuries and bouts of illnesses kept him from racing past theage of two. He equalled one track record for two-year-olds at the Los Angeles County Fair race meeting in Pomona, California. Lightning Bar died of an intestinal infection at the age of nine in 1960.
About Lightning Bar in brief
Lightning Bar was an American Quarter Horse who raced and subsequently became a breeding stallion. He was bred by his lifelong owner Art Pollard of Sonoita, Arizona, and was the offspring of Three Bars, a Thoroughbred, and Della P, a Quarter Horse mare from Louisiana. Lightning Bar raced ten times, achieving four victories and four other top three finishes. His racing career was cut short by illness after only one year, following which he spent two years as a show horse. In 1960 Lightning Bar died of an intestinal infection at the age of nine, and he was inducted into the AQHA’s Hall of Fame in 2008. As a breedingstallion he sired seven crops, or years, of foals, among whom Doc Bar was the best known.
The most successful of his foals earned USD 476,949, earning a total of USD 4,949. Five of Lightning Bar’s foals went on to race or show in either a race or a show careers, and five of Lightning Belle’s foal’s earned USD134,134. The horse was born in 1951 and was bred to be a race horse, but injuries and bouts of illnesses kept him from racing past theage of two. He equalled one track record for two-year-olds at the Los Angeles County Fair race meeting in Pomona, California, running 330 yards in 17. 2 seconds.
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