Lightning Bar

Lightning Bar
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Lightning Bar
BreedAmerican Quarter Horse
DisciplineRacing
SireThree Bars (TB)
GrandsirePercentage (TB)
DamDella P
Maternal grandsireDoc Horn (TB)
SexStallion
Foaled1951
CountryUnited States
ColorSorrel
BreederArt Pollard
OwnerArt Pollard
Record
10–4–3–1
Stakes: 0–1–1
Earnings
$1,491 (equivalent to $17,000 in 2023)
Major wins
2nd Beaudry Handicap
3rd Juvenile Prep Stakes
Awards
American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Race Register of Merit
Other awards
AQHA Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Last updated on: May 24, 2009.

Lightning Bar (1951–1960) 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, then noted for the breeding of sprint horses. 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. As a breeding stallion, he sired seven crops, or years, of foals, among whom Doc Bar was the best known. In 1960 Lightning Bar died of an intestinal infection at the age of nine. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (AQHA) Hall of Fame in 2008.[1]

  1. ^ American Quarter Horse Foundation "Lightning Bar"