Bert (horse)

Horse infobox
horsename = Bert


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breed= Quarter Horse
sire = Tommy Clegg
grandsire = Sam Watkins
dam = Lady Coolidge
damsire = Beetch's Yellow Jacket
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1934
country = United States
color = Brown
breeder = Bert Benear
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 10 2008

Bert was one of the most influential sires in the early years of the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA).Simmons "Legends" p. 115-116]

Life

Foaled on March 24 1934Nye "Outstanding Modern Quarter Horse Sires" p. 144-148] in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bert was registered as number 227 with the AQHA.AQHA "Official Stud Book" Combined Books 1-5 p. 86] His registration entry gives his breeder as Bert Benear of Tulsa, Oklahoma and his color as brown. His sire, Tommy Clegg was a descendant of Peter McCue while his dam was descended from both Yellow Jacket and Yellow Wolf. [ [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/bert All Breed Pedigree Pedigree of Bert] retrieved on June 23, 2007] Lady Coolidge was a dun mare foaled in 1928, bred by Mike Beetch of Lawton, Oklahoma. Her dam, Mayflower, was a match racing mare with a time of eleven seconds for the 220 yards. Bert's sire Tommy Clegg was used on the Benear ranch as a cowhorse before he was sold to Howard Martin.

Bert was bought as a colt by Bob Weimer of Council Hill, Oklahoma who named his new purchase after the colt's breeder. Bert was broke as a three-year-old, but before he could start on a riding career, he injured himself in barbed wire, almost cutting his right front foot off. After a recovery lasting months, Bert was sound, but his owner did not feel that it was safe to work him hard, as the colt had been purchased mainly as a breeding stallion prospect. In his prime, he stood 14.3 hands high and weighed close to 1150 pounds. Weimer claimed that he could "turn him out in the morning with the mares and drive out in the pasture in the evening with the pick-up and he will come to me as quick as I call him."

He sired racehorses, roping horses, and all around ranch horses. He was the sire of eleven race starters, all of whom earned an AQHA Race Register of Merit.Wagoner "Quarter Racing Digest" p. 95-96] His foal who earned the most money on the racetrack was V's Bert, who earned $2777 from forty-eight starts with five wins, twelve seconds and five thirds in six years of racing. He sired four AQHA Champions, as well as Superior Halter horses and Superior Performance horses. [Pitzer "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" p. 12-13] His daughter Jeanne's Patsy was the 1955 AQHA High Point Roping horse.Nye "The Complete Book of the Quarter Horse" p. 77] His granddaughter Baby Doll Combs was a noted rodeo bull dogging mare. Bert died in May of 1956.

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008]

Pedigree

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1 = Bert
2 = Tommy Clegg
3 = Lady Coolidge
4 = Sam Watkins
5 = Mamie
6 = Beetch's Yellow Jacket
7 = Mayflower
8 = Hickory Bill
9 = Hattie W
10 = Red Bird
11 = Julia Crowder
12 = Yellow Wolf
13 = mare by Yellow Jacket
14 = Nail Driver
15 = Snip
16 = Peter McCue
17 = Lucretia M
18 = Duke of the Highlands (TB)
19 = Katie Wawekus (TB)
20 = Little Rondo
21 = Shely mare
22 = John Crowder
23 = Shely mare
24 = Old Joe Bailey
25 = Old Mary
26 = Yellow Jacket
27 = unknown
28 = unknown
29 = unknown
30 = unknown
31 = unknown

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/bert All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Bert] " retrieved on June 23, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* American Quarter Horse Association "Official Stud Book and Registry Combined Books 1-2-3-4-5" Amarillo, Texas:American Quarter Horse Association 1961
* Nye, Nelson C. "The Complete Book of the Quarter Horse: A Breeder's Guide and Turfman's Reference" New York:A. S. Barnes and Co. 1964
* Nye, Nelson C. "Outstanding Modern Quarter Horse Sires" New York:William Morrow & Company 1948
* Pitzer, Andrea Laycock "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" Tacoma, WA:Premier Pedigrees 1987
* Simmons, Diance C. "Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 1993
* Wagoner, Dan "Quarter Racing Digest: 1940 to 1976" Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1976

External links

* [http://www.foundationhorses.com/bertped.htm Bert at Foundation Horses]
* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=7708 Bert at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4 Bert at Quarter Horse Legends]