Zippo Pat Bars

Zippo Pat Bars was a son of the Thoroughbred stallion Three Bars out of a daughter of Leo named Leo Pat.[http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/zippo+pat+bars Zippo Pat Bars Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree] He was a 1964 sorrel stallionWagoner Quarter Racing Digest p. 1345 bred by Paul Curtner. As a weanling, Curtner was offered $20,000.00 for the colt, which he turned down.Groves "Where'd We Get That Zip?" Quarter Horse Journal p. 18

Zippo Pat Bars raced for two years, starting eighteen times. He won five races and placed second four times. He earned a Race Register of Merit with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) in 1966 with an AAA speed rating. He earned $1855.00 on the racetrack. He injured himself as a two-year-old, fracturing two vertebrae in a stall accident. The injury kept the horse out of the 1966 All American Futurity.Beckman "Zippo Pat Bars" Quarter Horse Journal pp. 82–85

After the end of Zippo Pat Bars's racing career, he retired to the breeding shed. He sired, among others, Zippo Pine Bar, Scarborough Fair, The Invester, and Mr Pondie Zip.Pitzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 159–160Thornton "Working Lines: Zippo Pat Bars" Southern Horseman pp. 28–40 His sons Zippo Pine Bar and The Invester were inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame as well as the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame.{{cite web |title=Zippo Pat Bars |url=https://www.nsba.com/nsba-hall-of-fame |website=National Snaffle Bit Association |publisher=www.nsba.com |access-date=May 11, 2019}}[https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame AQHA Hall of Fame][http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 NSBA Hall of Fame] His grandson Zippos Mr Good Bar also was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2019.{{cite web |title=Zippos Mr Good Bar |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/zippos-mr-good-bar?/ |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=May 9, 2019 }} In 2000, Zippos Mr Good Bar was inducted as well into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame{{cite web |title=Pecho Dexter |url=https://www.nsba.com/nsba-hall-of-fame |website=National Snaffle Bit Association |publisher=www.nsba.com |access-date=May 11, 2019}}

{{cite web |title=NSBA Hall of Fame |url=https://www.nsba.com/nsba-hall-of-fame |website=National Snaffle Bit Association |access-date=May 9, 2019}}

Zippo Pat Bars sired nine AQHA Champions, as well as sixteen Superior Western Pleasure Horses and four Superior Halter Horses. In 1996, Zippo Pat Bars was inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame.

Zippo Pat Bars died May 1, 1988, due to heart problems. He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame{{cite web |title=Zippo Pat Bars |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/zippo-pat-ba-1? |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=September 2, 2017 }} in 2002.

{{Ahnentafel

|1 = Zippo Pat Bars

|2 = Three Bars (TB)

|3 = Leo Pat

|4 = Percentage (TB)

|5 = Myrtle Dee (TB)

|6 = Leo

|7 = Dunny Girl

|8 = Midway (TB)

|9 = Gossip Avenue (TB)

|10 = Luke McLuke (TB)

|11 = Civil Maid (TB)

|12 = Joe Reed II

|13 = Little Fanny

|14 = Little Chuck

|15 = Thoroughbred mare

|16 = Ballot (TB)

|17 = Thirty-third (TB)

|18 = Bulse (TB)

|19 = Rosewood (TB)

|20 = Ultimus (TB)

|21 = Midge (TB)

|22 = Patriot (TB)

|23 = Civil Rule (TB)

|24 = Joe Reed P-3

|25 = Nellene

|26 = Joe Reed P-3

|27 = Fanny Ashwell

|28 = Golden Chief

|29 = Chuck

|30 = unknown

|31 = unknown}}

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• [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/zippo+pat+bars All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Zippo Pat Bars] accessed on June 27, 2007
• [https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/zippo-pat-ba-1? American Quarter Horse Foundation – Zippo Pat Bars] accessed on September 2, 2017
• [https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on September 2, 2017
• {{cite journal|author=Beckman, Bruce |title=Zippo Pat Bars: Close to Ideal?|journal=Quarter Horse Journal|date=December 1988 |pages= 82–85}}
• {{cite journal |author=Groves, Lesli Krause |title=Where'd We Get That Zip? |journal=Quarter Horse Journal |date=March 1996 |page= 18}}
• [http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 NSBA Hall of Fame] accessed on July 5, 2007
• {{cite book |title= The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires |last= Pitzer |first= Andrea Laycock |year= 1987 |publisher= Premier Pedigrees |location= Tacoma, WA }}
• {{cite journal|author=Thornton, Larry |title=The Working Lines: Zippo Pat Bars |journal=Southern Horseman |date=November 1993 |pages= 28–40}}
• {{cite book |title= Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976 |last= Wagoner |first= Dan |year= 1976 |publisher= Equine Research |location= Grapevine, TX }}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130619202950/http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2649 Zippo Pat Bars at Quarter Horse Directory]
• [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4222222223222222222 Zippo Pat Bars at Quarter Horse Legends]

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