BYE BYE BYRD H, STANDARDBRED, 1955
| Color: b Height: p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272
p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272
1959 Harness Horse of the Year. First Standardbred to earn over $500,000.Hailed as one of the leading performers of his time, Bye Bye Byrd held twelve world pacing records during his racing career. Bred by the Larkin\'s of Poplar Hill Farm, he was by Poplar Byrd out of Evalina Hanover. He was named Horse of the Year in 1959
and retired from the track to the stud barn in 1961 with more than a half-million dollars in earnings.
He became a top sire, with Well over one hundred 2:00 horses to his credit. He was the first Horse of the Year to sire another Horse of the Year - Keystone Ore (1976). One of his daughters, Niagara Dream, produced the champion Niatross. Bye Bye Bird died in 1980 at age twenty-five.
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BYE BYE BYRD* b p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272 1955 STANDARDBRED | POPLAR BYRD b p,T1:59.3m $69,300 1944 STANDARDBRED | VOLOMITE * blk/br 3,2:03¼m $32,649 1926 STANDARDBRED | PETER VOLO* br 4,2:02m 1911 STANDARDBRED | | PETER THE GREAT* br 15.3h 4,2:07¼m 1895 | PILOT MEDIUM* | gr 1879 |
| SANTOS | br 1887 |
NERVOLO BELLE* br 1906 | NERVOLO | b p,2:04¼ 1896 |
| JOSEPHINE KNIGHT | ch 1894 |
CITA FRISCO b 1921 STANDARDBRED | SAN FRANCISCO br 5,T2:07¾m 1903 | ZOMBRO | br 2:11 1892 |
| ONISKA | b 1898 |
MENDOCITA b 1899 | MENDOCINO | b 2:19½ 1889 |
| ESTHER | b 1877 |
ANN VONIAN p,3,2:01.3m $4,974 1937 STANDARDBRED | GRATTAN AT LAW blk p,4,2.16¼h 1922 STANDARDBRED | GRATTAN ROYAL ch p,2.06¼m 1908 | GRATTAN | blk 2:13m 1887 |
| MONA | b 1887 |
DAISY AT LAW blk 1902 | HEIR AT LAW | blk P 2:05 3/4 / T 2:12 1888 |
| DAISY RYSDYK | br 1895 |
MARGARET VONIAN 1928 STANDARDBRED | FAVONIAN b T2:01¾m 1918 | J MALCOLM FORBES | dkb/br 4, 2.08m 1907 |
| ALLIE WATTS | ch 1912 |
MARGARET C BROOKE 1919 | BARON BROOKE | b 1914 |
| MAUD G | b 1901 |
EVALINA HANOVER p,1:59.2m $12,420 1946 STANDARDBRED | BILLY DIRECT* b p,4,T1:55m $12,040 1934 STANDARDBRED | NAPOLEON DIRECT ch p,1:59.4m 1909 STANDARDBRED | WALTER DIRECT* b 2:05¾m 1900 | DIRECT HAL | blk 1896 |
| ELLA BROWN | b 1885 |
LADY ERECTRESS 1900 | TOM KENDALL | 1898 |
| NELLY ZARRO | 1898 |
GAY FORBES br p,5,2:18.4 1916 STANDARDBRED | MALCOLM FORBES b 1904 | BINGEN | br 6,2:06¼m $12.035 1893 |
| NANCY HANKS* | dkb/br 15.3 hands T 2:04 1886 |
GAY GIRL CHIMES b 1911 | BERKSHIRE CHIMES | br 1900 |
| MISS GAY GIRL | br 1904 |
ADIEU b 1938 STANDARDBRED | HAL DALE* b p,6,2:02¼m $595 1926 STANDARDBRED | ABBEDALE* blk p,2:01¼m 1917 | THE ABBE | blk 3,T2:10¾ m p,2:03½m 1903 |
| DAISYDALE D | blk 1908 |
MARGARET HAL b p,2,2:19.2h 1914 | ARGOT HAL | b 16h 2:07½m p,11,T2:04¾m 1903 |
| MARGARET POLK | b 1906 |
ADIOO VOLO b p,3,2:05 h 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY ch p,9,2:00¾m 1910 | GUY DILLON | b 1902 |
| ADIOO | b 1895 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 | PETER VOLO* | | br 4,2:02m 1911 |
| POLLY PARROT | ch p 2:13¼ 1904 |
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