Lifetime Leading Sires - PAINTS
by Lesli Kathman

Mr. Norfleet
1977 sorrel frame overo

----------Kickapoo Chief
-------Awhe Chief
----------Muddy Squaw
---Chief Norfleet
----------Apache Norfleet
-------Awhe Pila
----------Jigg's Rita -QH
MR. NORFLEET
----------Brush Mount
-------Quick M Silver
----------Blue Bonnet Moore
---Perry's Peppy -QH
----------Peppy's Pepper II
-------WR's Blacky
----------Black Annie J

A four time National Champion, he has sired over 31 National and World Champions. He's the top ranked sire of Performance Horses, and the number five sire of halter point earners. (He is the only sire in this group to make the Top Five on both lists.)

Triple's Titan
1975 sorrel sabino

----------Three Bars
-------Triple Chick
----------Chicado V
---Triple's Image -QH
----------Leo
-------Phffft
----------Sue Hancock Krohn
TRIPLE'S TITAN
----------San Siemon
-------Scooter San
----------May Blanton
---Sands 243 -QH
----------K4 Rojo Mas
-------Arenas Mas
----------Sands 214

Triple's Titan is the Leading Sire of Halter Horses, and is also the Leading Broodmare Sire of halter horses. He is a cropout son of Triple's Image, a Quarter Horse who also appears on a list for Leading Broodmare Sires (number 6 on the list for Performance Horses.)

Scotch Bar Tommy
1983 sorrel sabino

----------Win or Lose
-------Sonny Dee Bar
----------Chigger's Baby
---Scotch Bar Time -QH
----------Spot Time
-------Chubby Time
----------Hat Eight Two
SCOTCH BAR TOMMY
----------Bar Mount
-------Comanche Mount
----------Miss Lara Bell
---Comanche Laura
----------Three Moore
-------Triangle Bars
----------Triangle Time

Scotch Bar Tommy is the second Leading Sire of Performance Horses. Tommy was himself a National Champion in both Halter and Western Pleasure, and is probably best known for producing Western Pleasure horses. Like most of the horses descending from Sonny Dee Bar, he is a sabino, He may carry the frame gene as well, but it is hard to tell with the type of pattern he displays.

Gambling Man
1975 brown splash overo

----------*Bernborough
-------Berseem -TB
----------Little Priss
---Sutter's Berseem -QH
----------Snoky T
-------Navada Queen
----------Coke Rooberds mare
GAMBLING MAN
----------Nowata Star
-------Star Duster
----------Lowry's Mabel
---Miss Lucky Mount -QH
----------White Mount
-------Mount Question
----------Pokey's Question

Gambling Man, another crop-out Quarter Horse, is the fourth Leading Sire of Performance Horses. Gambling Man himself has earned the APHA Versatility Award as well as the Superior All-Around Horse Award. He also earned an AA rating at the track. He is a classically marked splash overo, and his photograph is often used to illustrate that pattern.

Skip's Artist
1975 sorrel tobiano

----------Skipper's Lad -QH
-------Skip Hi
----------Sky Hi
---Skippa Streak
----------unregistered Paint
-------Cheyenne Lil
----------unregistered Thoroughbred
SKIP'S ARTIST
----------Skip Hi
-------Skip's Lad
----------Skip Joy -QH
---Skip's Aid
----------Skip Hi
-------Skip Satin
----------Satin Nick -QH

Skip's Artist is the fifth leading sire of Performance Horses, and one of the few tobiano Paints to appear on the Leading Sires list. Readers should note the level of inbreeding in this horse. Inbreeding is not necessarily a sign of bad breeding decisions; this horse came from the herd of master breeder Hank Weiscamp (himself many times on the leading breeder's lists for Quarter Horses, Paints, and Appaloosas.)

Barlink Macho Man
1982 sorrel sabino-frame

----------Tardy Too
-------Tardy's Tuffy I
----------Jan's Dawny Bar
---Tuffy's Two Spades -QH
----------Silver Cash
-------Jay Kay Sue Cash
----------Showgal 3
BARLINK MACHO MAN
----------Smuggler Clegg
-------Our Sir Prize
----------Pretty Jackie
---Prize's Bar Link
----------Tonto's Time
-------My Tontime -QH
----------My Leo Nita

Macho Man was a two-time National Champion, and won over 50 Grand Championships and Reserves, and retired from showing at two years old. He is the second Leading Sire of Halter Horses. Among his many successful offspring is the young stallion Mighty Awesome, who is number two on the list of for Halter Sires of 1998- outranking his sire at number four. Most of Macho Man's offspring have been sabinos, but he has sired frames from solid mares (his dam was a frame) so it is likely he is a frame overo as well. He has sired a fairly large number of splashes as well, so he may even carry that pattern, too, but it is hard to tell if the pattern came from him or the mares.

Sockett
1980 sorrel sabino-frame

----------Mr Hoss -QH
-------Mardelle Dixon
----------Squirmin' Irma
---Ratchett
----------Leo Van
-------Leo's Silver Van -QH
----------Rick Sue
SOCKETT
----------Lanolark
-------Lanovay -QH
----------Vera Vay
---Soxalena Lano
----------Pacific Bailey
-------Soxalena Lano
----------Miss Reck Reed

Sockett belongs to a dynasty of great Paint stallions that descend from his grandsire Mardelle Dixon. Sockett is the third Lifetime Leading Sire of Halter Horses, and he is joined on that list by his sire (number 10), son Socketts Imprint and grandson Sock Broker. His son Socketts Imprint is also the Leading Sire of Halter Horses for 1998, while Sock Broker led the list for Point Earners for 1998.

Red Sonny Dee
1972 sorrel (minimal sabino) QH

----------Mr Bar None
-------Win or Lose
----------Lady Leo
---Sonny Dee Bar
----------Chigger
-------Chigger's Baby
----------Sugar Foot M
RED SONNY DEE -QH
----------?
-------Toldeo
----------?
---Toledo Christy
----------?
-------Wolfette
----------?

Red Sonny Dee (QH) is an influential son of Sonny Dee Bar (source of so many crop-out Quarter Horses). He is number four on the list for Lifetime Leading Sires of Halter Horses. He also appears on the list for Sires of Performance Horses (number 10). He also appears on the list for Broodmare Sires of Halter Horses.

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