| Horsename: | Zippo Pat Bars |
| Breed: | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline: | Racing |
| Sire: | Three Bars (TB) |
| Grandsire: | Percentage (TB) |
| Dam: | Leo Pat |
| Damsire: | Leo |
| Sex: | Stallion |
| Foaled: | 1964 |
| Country: | United States |
| Color: | Sorrel |
| Breeder: | Paul Curtner |
| Racerecord: | 18 starts: 5-4-0 AAA speed rating |
| Raceearnings: | $1856.00 |
| Honors: | American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame |
Zippo Pat Bars (1964–1988) was an American Quarter horse racehorse and showhorse who became an influential sire in the breed.
Zippo Pat Bars was a son of the Thoroughbred stallion Three Bars out of a daughter of Leo named Leo Pat.[1] He was a 1964 sorrel stallion[2] bred by Paul Curtner. As a weanling, Curtner was offered $20,000.00 for the colt, which he turned down.[3]
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.[2] 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.[4]
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.[5] [6] 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.[7] [8] [9] His grandson Zippos Mr Good Bar also was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2019.[10] In 2000, Zippos Mr Good Bar was inducted as well into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame[11] [12]
Zippo Pat Bars sired nine AQHA Champions, as well as sixteen Superior Western Pleasure Horses and four Superior Halter Horses.[5] In 1996, Zippo Pat Bars was inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame.[9]
Zippo Pat Bars died May 1, 1988, due to heart problems.[4] He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame[13] in 2002.