Cee Bars at the Burnett Ranch
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Working Lines Cee Bars at the Burnett Ranch Chicaro Bill was bred by John Dial. a south Texas horseman and racehorse enthusiast. Dial, a key person in this history, was the man who brought the thoroughbred Chicaro from Louisiana to Texas. He eventually sold Chicaro to the King Ranch and this stallion was the first thoroughbred in what became the King Ranch Thoroughbreds. Chicaro is the broodmare sire of King Ranch bred horses like Middleground, a Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, and Top Deck, the progenitor of such noted quarter horses as Go Man Go, Moon Deck and his grandsons, Top Moon and Jet Deck. Cee Bars stands in front of the famous 6666 barn. “He (Cee Bars) handled By Larry Thornton perfectly. He One of the continuing aspects of cement the Burnett Ranches as a reined well and a good ranch-breeding program is source of good horses in all he had a perfect the introduction of new blood into disciplines. movement and the breeding herd. The Burnett Cee Bars was born in Arizona in Ranches or the Four Sixes, Guthrie, 1950, bred by Franklin B. Cox who stop. He isn’t TX, is a prime example. This was also the owner of the famous too heavily famous ranch has been noted for stallion Senor Bill by Chicaro Bill. muscled.” integrating the best blood to boost The dam of Senor Bill was Do its breeding program, starting with Good. Do Good is a foundation mare George Humphreys Tom L. Burnett bringing Tom for the Vessels Stallion Farm of Ranch Manager (Scooter) to the ranch, and then Bonsal, CA. Do Good was the dam using the remount stallions Buggins, of a full sister to Senor Bill named King O’Neill 2nd and Besom on the Chicado V. Chicado V was the dam Chicaro was bred by Harry ranch mares. The history of this of the great stallions Triple Chick, Payne Whitney in Kentucky. He was breeding program shows that the Three Chicks and The Ole Man. sired by *Chicle and out of Wendy success of outcross stallions on the Cee Bars was sired by Three by Peter Pan. Peter Pan is a grandson ranch mares helped bring the Bars. Three Bars was a son of of Domino. Chicaro was a racehorse Burnett Ranch to the height of its Percentage and out of Myrtle Dee by with his best finish a third in the contribution to the modern quarter Luke McLuke. The Chicado V sons, Pimlico Fall Serial Weight For Age horse. Triple Chick, Three Chicks and The No. 3. He won one of 17 starts with During the 1950’s when the Ole Man, were sired by Three Bars. two seconds and three thirds. He was blood of Three Bars was just getting The dam of Cee Bars was Chicaro a racehorse in New Orleans when he its hold into the quarter horse, the Annie C by Chicaro Bill. This makes Flying Bob from Noah Zerringue’s Burnett Ranch bought a son of this Cee Bars a ¾ brother to Triple Chick great mare Belle. Flying Bob would stallion named Cee Bars. The and his full brothers. Chicaro Annie go on to be a leading quarter running outcross contribution of Cee Bars C was bred by Franklin B. Cox. She horse sire of champions including goes beyond the ranch-breeding was unraced and unshown in the Queenie and Dee Dee. program into the industry, helping AQHA. Chicaro comes to the fore again Page 52 WORKING HORSE MAGAZINE • March/April 2014 Dial owns him and he is breeding of Miss Anson, a Harmon Baker was stakes placed in the Phoenix QH mares with him. Dial bought a mare that was out of a Jim Ned Futurity in 1958. The fourth ROM number of mares sired by Little Joe, mare. The dam of Boots C is listed runner out of Chicaro Annie C was who was owned by Ott Adams. This in the AQHA Stud Book as Cherry Annie June by Mr Bar None. This is the Little Joe that is the grandsire Flip a thoroughbred mare. makes Annie June a ¾ sister to Cee of King P-234. One of the mares that The mating of Three Bars and Bars as she was sired by Mr Bar Dial got from Adams was Verna Chicaro Annie C was a good one, None by Three Bars. Annie June was Grace. She is registered Verna Grace producing six foals with three ROM– stakes placed in the Timberline but was also known as Fair Chance. Bar Annie, Chicabar and Cee Bars. Handicap at Centennial Racecourse. Verna Grace was the dam of Bar Caro was a full brother to these Cee Bars was bred to be a Chicaro Bill. She was sired by Little three that didn’t earn an ROM but racehorse and he was ROM on the Joe and out of a mare known as Johnny Wilkens by Horace H, a thoroughbred. The AQHA registration papers for Verna Grace say that the dam of Johnny Wilkens was a mare of Ott Adams breeding. Chicaro Bill would be a pretty well traveled stallion, with foals showing up in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California and Oklahoma. He was registered while in Arizona when owned by Glen Chipperfield and Sons of Phoenix, Arizona. Franklin B. Cox bred Boots C to Chicaro Bill to get Chicaro Annie C. Boots C was sired by Redwood by Madway Tenacity. Redwood was out track with an AAA rating. He had 31 starts in 1952 and 1953. He won four, was second in four and third in three of his races. He set track records at Los Alamitos going 350 in 18.5 seconds and at the Fairplex Park at Pomona going 330 yards in 17.3 second. He earned $2,272. Cee Bars was purchased by the Burnett Ranch in 1956 from his breeder Franklin B. Cox. George Humphreys was the ranch manager and he described what he found in Cee Bars in the article “The Burnett Horses” in the February 1957 issue of The Quarter Horse Journal. “He handled perfectly. He reined well and he had a perfect movement and stop. He isn’t too heavily muscled,” Humphreys said of Cee Bars. Humphreys also related in the Three Bars and Chicaro (above right) are two thoroughbreds biography of the Burnett Ranches that came together to make a great contribution to the quarter that appeared in the book “The horse with horses like Cee Bars. Quarter Horse Breeder” (Compiled Three Bars photo Courtesy The American Quarter Horse Journal by Lindeman) that he’s, “one of the Chicaro Photo Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum. WORKING HORSE MAGAZINE • March/April 2014 Page 53 best balanced horses I ever rode.” their fillys: The first 64 were wet As Humphreys noted, “As soon mares and their foals. The next as I got him back here to the Sixes, I group, dry mares, were numbered turned him into a pasture with some 65 to 87. The last set, yearlings, mares. He was never pasture bred were numbered 89 to 100. before, but he did all right with them The first crop of foals sired and we’re expecting some great colts by Cee Bars for the Burnett from him next spring. I liked him Ranch came in 1957. He sired 19 mighty well. I think he is a great registered foals from that first horse.” Burnett Ranch crop, with six of That band of mares had come the 19 winning points point and/ through the rejuvenated Burnet or money. Three of the Ranch broodmare band through a performers from this cross were project started in the mid 1930’s, money earners in the NCHA; four were point earners, and two The Burnett earned ROM’s in the AQHA. Peg’s Bar was a ROM Ranch used Chicaro Bill is the broodmare sire of performer by Cee Bars and out numbers to of the Joe Tom mare Peg O’Neill not only Three Bars but Triple Chick, keep track of Three Chicks and The Ole Man. from that crop. This mare earned Courtesy The AQHA Hall of Fame and these mares two halter and seven Museum. and their performance points. Joe Tom was bred on the Triangle Ranch, fillys: The first sired by Joe Hancock and out of a Cee Bars Lady 71 became an AQHA 64 were wet thoroughbred mare. The dam of Peg Champion and an AQHA Superior mares and O’Neill was Mary O’Neill by King Halter Horse. She earned 71 halter O’Neill 2nd, one of the remount points and 30 performance points. their foals. stallions used on the Four Sixes. The She was the 1966 AQHA third place dam of Mary O’Neill was Miss high point tie-down roping horse and called the “L” band of mares. A Tommy 96 by Tom (Scooter). She an NCHA money winner. group of 28 mares from the ranch was sired by Tom (Scooter) but her Cee Bar Lady 71 was out of the were singled out to be a base set of dam is unknown. Grey Badger II mare Badger Gal 71. mares to work with. The next group The other Cee Bars’ ROM from Her sire was Grey Badger II. Badger to join the new broodmare band was this crop was Holly Bars 39. She Gal 71 was out of Triangle Lady 71 purchased through J. L Sypert of was the leading money winner and from the Triangle Ranch. The Lamesa, TX, 10 mares from the point earner from this group.