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Three Bars, the most influential Thoroughbred in American Quarter Horse history, was foaled April 8, 1940 near Lexington. Despite severe circulatory problems in a hind leg, Three Bars won races as a three-, four-, and five-year-old. As a six-year-old in 1946, he set a :57 3/5 track record over five furlongs at the Phoenix Fairgrounds in Arizona.
The chestnut stallion possessed not only speed, but excellent conformation and disposition, which he conveyed to 558 American Quarter Horse offspring. A legendary sire of almost transcendental genetics, Three Bars sired champions in all facets of the American Quarter Horse breed, with four AQHA Supreme Champions, 29 AQHA Champions, 14 Racing Champions, and 64 Racing Stakes Winners.
His impact still weighing heavily on the breed, Three Bars figures prominently in the pedigree of virtually every champion from racing to cutting to showing. Three Bars died in 1968, at the age of 28.
Dedicated July 1997, American Quarter Horse Foundation.
Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, Fayette County Kentucky
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