Charger Bar facts for kids
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| Breed | Quarter Horse |
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| Discipline | Racing |
| Sire | Tiny Charger |
| Grandsire | Depth Charge (TB) |
| Dam | La Ree Bar |
| Maternal grandsire | Rocket Bar (TB) |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1968 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Wayne Charlton |
| Owner | Dr. Edward Allred |
| Honors | |
| Racing record | |
| 43 starts: 28-3-6 | |
| Race earnings | |
| $495,437.00 | |
| Major racing wins | |
| Los Alamitos Championship Champion of Champions Los Alamitos Derby Go Man Go Handicap (twice) Vessel Maturity |
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| Racing awards | |
| 1971 World Champion Quarter Running Horse 1972 Champion Quarter Running Mare 1973 Champion Quarter Running Mare 1974 Champion Quarter Running Mare Superior Race Horse |
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| Honors | |
| American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
An outstanding Quarter Horse racehorse, Charger Bar (1968–1997) was the 1971 World Champion Quarter Running Horse and an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Superior Race Horse. She was posthumously inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.
Background
Charger Bar was foaled in 1968, a bay filly sired by Tiny Charger and out of a daughter of Rocket Bar (TB) named La Ree Bar. Her sire was a son of Depth Charge (TB) out of a descendant of Clabber.
Racing career
Charger Bar's racing record was forty-three starts in six years. She won twenty-eight of her races, and placed second in three and third in six. She earned a total of $495,437.00 in purse money. Charger Bar beat Kaweah Bar three times in her racing career. She was undefeated in 1971, and was named World Champion Quarter Running Horse. Other honors included being named Champion Quarter Running Mare in 1972, 1973 and 1974. She also earned 144 AQHA racing points, which earned her the title of Superior Race Horse from the AQHA.
Breeding record and honors
Charger Bar went on to produce fourteen foals. Of those foals, twelve started races, and ten earned Register of Merits and ten won races. Among her foals were Proud Heritage, Go Proudly, and Blushing By. Her offspring earned a total of $626,076.00 on the racetrack. She died November 26, 1997 and her ashes were scattered over the infield at the Los Alamitos racetrack.
In 2001 Charger Bar was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.
Pedigree
| * St. Germans (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bold Venture | |||||||||||||||||||
| Possible (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Depth Charge (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Haste (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Quickly (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stephanie (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tiny Charger | |||||||||||||||||||
| Clabber | |||||||||||||||||||
| Clabber II | |||||||||||||||||||
| Do Good | |||||||||||||||||||
| Clabber Tiny | |||||||||||||||||||
| Perifox (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tiny Iny (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tiny Rose (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Charger Bar | |||||||||||||||||||
| Percentage (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Three Bars (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Myrtle Dee (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rocket Bar (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cartago (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Golden Rocket (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Morshion (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| La Ree Bar | |||||||||||||||||||
| Wayward Irving (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tinky Poo | |||||||||||||||||||
| Little Peach | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tinky Ann | |||||||||||||||||||
| High Step (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Annahi (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Verda Ann (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
