PRODUCTION LIST

Win Or Lose

Colt AQHA 0176704
Foaled By: Lady Leo

Mr Bar None

1955
AQHA

(65848)

Sorrel
Stallion

Oscar “June” Jeffers Jr. had an eye for speed, and his wife, Zelma, had a knack for crossing the right bloodlines. Together, they created an explosive, record-breaking racehorse.

In 1955, June and Zelma saw their breeding vision arrive when a spindly legged colt was foaled. Mr Bar None, as they called him, was a dark chestnut with a vivid white star and strip down his face that would show through his racing silks as his head burst out in front of many a racing finish line.

“Mr Bar None was lazy, and our grandparents had done all this master planning with breeding Murl L to Three Bars, and they thought it was all going to be for nothing. They were even thinking of selling him, but Grandpa knew of a jockey named Tecumseh Stark,” says Dalinda Jeffers of Bixby, Oklahoma, one of Zelma and June’s granddaughters.

“Starkey” knew how to get the best out of Mr Bar None. However, the late Kenneth Chapman was Bar None’s jockey for every race but one, and Bar None finished the 1958 race season as the AQHA racing champion stallion, the AQHA racing champion 3-year-old colt and the world champion racing Quarter Horse.

He earned $72,125 on seven tracks as a 2-year-old and five tracks as a 3-year-old. Of 36 races, he won 22, was second in 10 and was third in one. His last race was in 1958 at Los Alamitos.

After Mr Bar None left the track, it was other horse owners loading up their mares and driving to Wagoner to the court of Mr Bar None. Mr Bar None’s foals earned $1.157 million on the track.

Mr Bar None developed degeneration of the spine, and on a cold, rainy day in February 1982, he was euthanized. The stallion was buried at the Jeffers family ranch near Wagoner, where a statue of him looks out across a mare band to mark his grave.

Mr Bar None was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2014.

1957 & 1958 Champion Running Horse, World Champion Stallion

1958 High Money Earning Horse
Race Money-Earner, QH Hall Of Fame Nominee, Honor Roll Race Horse (1957), Race Earnings: $72,126 (36-22-10-1).

Sired World Champion Offspring, AQHA Champion Offspring, Race-Money Earners. Grandsire of Sonny Dee Bar; 62 Halter Pts., 10 Performance Pts., ROM Superior Halter

In 1957-58, Mr Bar None "burned up the tracks" . In the Autumn Championship, he beat 3-time world champion Go Man Go & 1959 World Champion Racing Stallion Double Bid. In one year he made more than career earnings of all but 3 Quarter Horses.

Great sire of speed horses. 367 foals, 290 starters, 30 stakes winners, 4 AQHA Champions, 3 World Champions, offspring earnings of $1,156,677.

Died in 1982, a few feet from the place he was foaled, in Wagoner, OK.

THREE BARS (TB) 1940 TB	PERCENTAGE (TB) 1923 TB T0153140	MIDWAY (TB) 1914 TB	BALLOT (TB) 1904 TB
			THIRTY-THIRD 1902
		GOSSIP AVENUE (TB) 1918 TB	BULSE (TB) TB
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	MYRTLE DEE (TB) 1923 TB T0153139	LUKE MCLUKE (TB) 1911 TB	ULTIMUS TB
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		CIVIL MAID (TB) 1915 TB	PATRIOT (TB) TB
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MURL L AQHA	MOCO BURNETT 1608	TEXAS JACK AQHA	JACK MCCUE 1914 AQHA U0072586
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		MARE BY JOE HANCOCK AQHA	JOE HANCOCK 1923 AQHA 455
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	DAY BREAK 1 AQHA	LITTLE HICKORY AQHA	-
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		BLACK BESS AQHA	LITTLE JOE 1905 AQHA
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