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Sugar Bars

Breed	Quarter Horse
Discipline	Racing
Sire	Three Bars (TB)
Grandsire	Percentage (TB)
Dam	Frontera Sugar
Maternal grandsire	Rey
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1951
Country	United States
Color	Sorrel
Breeder	George E. Wood
Owner	Bud Warren, Roy Hittson
Honors
Racing record
30 starts: 7-4-7 AAA speed rating
Race earnings
$3164.00
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Sugar Bars (1951–1982) was a famous Quarter Horse racehorse and stallion. He became well-known for fathering many successful Quarter Horses, both for racing and for horse shows.

Life of Sugar Bars

Sugar Bars was a sorrel stallion, meaning he had a reddish-brown coat. He was born in 1951 in El Paso, Texas. His official registration number with the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) was 42,606. George E. Wood was his breeder. When he was first registered, his owner was Bud Warren from Perry, Oklahoma.

Sugar Bars' father was a horse named Three Bars (TB). His mother was Frontera Sugar.

Racing Career

Sugar Bars raced for three years. He competed in 30 races. Out of those, he won 7 races, came in second 4 times, and finished third 7 times. He earned $3,164.00 during his racing career. He also achieved an AAA speed rating, which is a high honor for a racehorse. This rating helped him earn an AQHA Race Register of Merit, showing he was a top performer.

Bud Warren, who owned Sugar Bars after his racing days, once said that Sugar Bars was a "good racehorse," even if he wasn't considered a "great one."

Breeding Success

After his racing career, Bud Warren bought Sugar Bars in 1954 for $2,500. Warren wanted Sugar Bars to breed with his mares that were related to another famous horse named Leo. This was to create new lines of strong Quarter Horses.

By 1968, Bud Warren felt he had enough of Sugar Bars' bloodline in his horses. So, he sold Sugar Bars to Sid Huntley and Dean Parker. They moved Sugar Bars to California. He continued to be a breeding stallion there until he passed away on June 6, 1972. He died from a heart attack after having surgery for colic, a common stomach issue in horses.

Sugar Bars became a very successful breeding stallion. He fathered many famous horses, including:

• Sugar Leda
• Jay's Sugar Bars
• Nice N Sweet
• Mr. Sugar Boy
• Otoe
• Cabin Bar
• Gofar Bar
• Bar Pistol

Sugar Leda was named the top Halter Horse by the AQHA in 1968. Halter horses are judged on their looks and build. His offspring, Sugar Line and Jay's Sugar Bars, were top Reining Horses in 1976 and 1978. Reining is a Western riding sport where horses perform patterns of circles, spins, and stops.

Sugar Bars fathered 30 horses that became AQHA Champions. Both Otoe and Gofar Bar were AAA-rated racehorses and also earned an AQHA Championship. Sugar Vaquero, one of Sugar Bars' grandsons, was the 1973 National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) World Champion Cutting Horse. Cutting is a sport where a horse and rider separate a single cow from a herd. Sugar Vaquero is also in the NCHA Hall of Fame.

Honors

In 1994, Sugar Bars was honored by being inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. This is a very special award for horses that have made a huge impact on the Quarter Horse breed.

Family Tree (Pedigree)

• Miller, Christie "Sugar Bars" Performance Horse February 2003