I-44 Horses

01/01/2025

HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL our FAMILY, FRIENDS and CUSTOMERS!! We are so THANKFUL for All of You!!

12/30/2024

PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: 2022 AQHA Filly ready to be started under saddle sired by MR BIG out of a Dtr of SIERRAS BLACK GOLD x CK KID dtr. Dam was bred by Lisa King she was also the Dam of ZR SIERRA GOLD our Palomino Overo AQHA/APHA Stallion pictured. Agouti is aa so will produce Black or Grulla. Can be left to be Bred at affordable care costs. Located in Southwest Missouri.

12/22/2024

MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL OUR FRIENDS and FAMILY!! May we All Remember CHRIST is the Reason we Celebrate and keep GOD in our Daily Lives each day! Blessings to All of You today and throughout the coming year!

12/22/2024

Three Bars (TB) 1940 chestnut stallion
Bred on James W. Parrish’s Midway, Kentucky, farm, Three Bars (TB) dam, Myrtle Dee, and two other mares were bought by Jack Goode, Ned Brent and Bill Talbot in the spring of 1940. Just days after the purchase, Myrtle Dee foaled a good-looking chestnut c**t on April 8, 1940. The men named the foal Three Bars, hoping he would pay off like a slot machine.

Goode placed the c**t in race training as a two-year-old, but leg problems kept Three Bars from winning until he was three. He was injured as a 3-year-old and spent most of 1944 recuperating. Three Bars returned to competition and finished the year with three wins in four starts. However, the last race was a claiming race, and Toad Haggard and Stan Snedigar took ownership of Three Bars for $2,000.
The partners hauled the stallion to Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of breeding him to Quarter Horse mares and racing him. Hearing of the Thoroughbred, Sidney H. Vail traveled to Phoenix to inspect the stallion for breeding purposes. Liking what he saw, Vail bought Three Bars for $10,000 in 1945.
As a sire, Three Bars found his stride. By the end of the 1950s, a number of mare owners either could not get their mares on the stallion’s limited stud book or could not afford the fee.

Walter Merrick of Oklahoma knew he’d hit the jackpot when he started breeding mares to Three Bars. He persuaded owner Sidney H. Vail to let him lease the stallion for three breeding seasons, 1952-54. Instead of breeding 12 or 15 mares a year, suddenly Three Bars was breeding 70. After the lease was up, Merrick hauled his best mares to wherever Three Bars was standing.

Three Bars was the sire of 29 AQHA Champions, 4 AQHA Supreme Champions, 317 Racing Register of Merit earners, and his foals earned more than $3 million on the racetrack. Among his famous offspring were Mr. Bar None, Gay Bar King, Sugar Bars, Lightning Bar, Tonto Bars Gill, St. Bar, Steel Bars, Barred and Bar Money. Others include Triple Chick, Alamitos Bar, Bar Depth, Royal Bar, Josie’s Bar, and Galobar.

His grandson Doc Bar became one of the most influential sires of cutting horses ever known. Another grandson, Tonto Bars Hank, sired all around horses. Jewel’s Leo Bars (Freckles), an outstanding cutting horse and sire of cutting horses, was another grandson of Three Bars (TB).

Impressive, a triple descendant of Three Bars, became the most prepotent sire of Quarter Horse halter horses from the 1970s through the 1990s. His offspring Rocket Bar (TB), Sugar Bars, Lena’s Bar (TB), Lightning Bar and Zippo Pat Bars were all inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame. Of his grandget, Doc Bar, Zippo Pine Bar, Easy Jet, Kaweah Bar, Zan Parr Bar, and The Invester were inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. Four of his sons were AQHA Supreme Champions — Kid Meyers, Bar Money, Fairbars, and Goldseeker Bars

From 1945 to 1963, Three Bars sired 554 foals. His stud fee went from $100 in 1945 to $10,000 in 1963.

On April 6, 1968, two days shy of his 28th birthday, Three Bars (TB) died from a heart attack at Merrick’s ranch in western Oklahoma, where he had returned to stand the 1967 season.

At the time of his death, he was the all-time leading sire of racing ROM qualifiers, of AAA runners and of money earners, his get having earned $2,857,781.

He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1989. Three Bars will be the first Thoroughbred inducted into the Oklahoma Quarter Horse Hall of Fame.

12/20/2024

Most all modern horses trace to THREE BARS. Lightning Bar was a Son and sired DOC BAR and the Dam of IMPRESSIVE. We raise ALL AROUND Horses with Brains and Disposition that make great family and working horses. Yes we use some halter bloodlines but maintain functionality and keep the eye appeal! No ugly horses here!

Gorgeous Quarter Horse Stallion. Lightning Bar was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2008.

12/19/2024

Two 12 inch seat Children’s saddles for Christmas!! One is Roughout the other is Buckstitched. Choice one and half carrots. Very Good Condition.
Carthage/Joplin
Southwest Missouri

12/13/2024

STANDING AT STUD at I-44 Horses. AQHA/APHA 6 Panel NN including IMM ZR GLAMARAMA STAR Bay Overo Stallion by STAR SECLUSION. GLAM carries Frame Overo and Sires Loud Colored Foals!
Wonderful Disposition like his Sire featured in a YouTube Video made by Blacky’s previous owners when retiring and preparing to sell him. Pictures in everyday clothes on Grass Hay & ADM GroStrong Mineral only. Live Foal Guarantee, Live Cover or Shipped Semen. Limited Contracts Available. $350 Booking Fee credited toward $1000 Stud Fee Mare Care or Collection & Shipping in addition to Stud Fee. Negative Coggins required. We Welcome your Calls or Texts Located in Southwest Missouri.
Other AQHA Stallions Standing at I-44 Horses Grulla Hz Black & Hz Dun, Black Splash1 with 4 Socks, Palomino Overo, Bay Frame Overo & Splash1, Sorrel Overo, Black Overo and Jet Black.

12/13/2024

SOLD going to California😊 PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: AQHA 2022 Filly by MR BIG out of an Own Dtr of OBVIOUS CONCLUSION. Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget here’s your Girl!! Both parents Black so aa on Agouti will produce Black or Grullas. Make a Great Rider, Rope Horse, Family/All Around Horse! Wonderful Disposition can also leave here for feed costs & stud fee to be bred to any of our Stallions. We have horses going in several directions so can help coordinate transportation. We welcome your calls or texts.
Located in Southwest Missouri

12/09/2024

Are there 10 of you who would like a HALF PRICE BREEDING to Super Disposition & Colorful Stallion ZR CLASSIC PIZZAZZ the only Loud Colored Double Registered AQHA/APHA Own Son of the Immortal KIDS CLASSIC STYLE?? $500 (normal fee $1000) due in full with signed contract. Chute Fee and Collection and shipping or mare care for Live Cover at appropriate time. Live Foal Guarantee He is a Full Brother to CLASSIC CREDENTIALS 2X World Champion the Palomino Overo pictured and DADDYS GIRL World Champion. Sire is the Beautiful Buckskin AQHA World Champion pictured. Located in Southwest Missouri 417-300-5750

12/07/2024

PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: Can Hold til Christmas!!! Fancy AQHA/APHA NN Dun Splash1 C**t. GORGEOUS Color and Conformation by 2X Res. World Champion ZR AMAZING ACE out of a Foundation Bred Grulla Mare. Registrations are Pending. Should mature in the 15.3 range located in Southwest Missouri. We Welcome your Calls
417-300-5750

11/25/2024

PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: AQHA
Panel NN BUCKSKIN C**t By MR BIG out of an own Dtr of KIDS CLASSIC STYLE X SCOTCH BAR TIME! Super Disposition will Excel in any Discipline!
Located in Southwest Missouri We Welcome your Calls 417-300-5750

11/25/2024

SOLD
PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: AQHA
TWO EYED JACK bred Dun Filly he is on her Dam’s Papers Top and Bottom!
Sired by a Son of AQHA CHAMPION with Points in 8 Events. 15.3 Sire pictured just shy of 26 yrs old snd still moves and floats like a Yrlg! Super Cute, Athletic and Friendly mature around 15 hands. Panel NN by Parentage. Located in Southwest Missouri We Welcome your Calls
417-300-5750

11/23/2024

SOLD!!!! We have a DUN Filly TWO EYED JACK bred by Same Stallion!
PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: Panel NN
Homozygous Dun AQHA GRULLA C**t.
Super Disposition and Amazing Dun Factor along with excellent build. Pic of 15.3 Sire 3 months shy of 26 yrs old and his 15.1 Dam. Grand Sire was an AQHA CHAMPION with Points in 8 Events and Multiple World, Congress and ALL AROUND Championships. Should mature around 15.2. He was spoken for over a month ago but buyer wasn’t able to complete the transaction. Located in Carthage, Southwest Missouri. We Welcome Your Calls 417-300-5750

11/21/2024

PM I-44 HORSES for INFO: The Only LOUD Colored Overo AQHA/APHA Stallion by KIDS CLASSIC STYLE!! ZR CLASSIC PIZZAZZ 2018 Full Brother to 2X World Champion CLASSIC CREDENTIALS the Palomino Overo shown and to Daddys Girl, World Champion Buckskin Filly. Let’s Talk!!Open to Partial Interest/Full Possession, Totally New Barn or Lease Great Disposition, Very Quiet. He has not been bred only because we have several Stallions and it would be selfish for us to waste his genetics. Located in Southwest Missouri we welcome your Calls 417-300-5750

11/21/2024

Carthage, Mo a Mile East of Joplin Stockyards on I-44

11/21/2024

Carthage, Mo. a Mile East of Joplin Stockyards on I-44