BYE BYE BYRD b. H, STANDARDBRED, 1955
| Color: b Height: p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272
atr. 94484
Breeder & Owner Rex C. & Ethel W. Larkin (KY)
Trainer: Don Taylor
1959 U. S. Harness Horse of the Year. First Standardbred to earn over $500,000. One of the leading performers of his time, Bye Bye Byrd held twelve world pacing records during his racing career. He was sired by Poplar Byrd (HoF) out of Evalina Hanover. He was voted Horse of the Year in 1959 and retired from the track to the stud barn in 1961.Bye Bye Byrd 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 great champion Niatross.Bye Bye Byrd died in 1980 at age twenty-five.
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BYE BYE BYRD* b p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272 1955 STANDARDBREDatr. 94484 | POPLAR BYRD b p4,T1:59.3m $69,300 1944 STANDARDBREDATR 76774 | VOLOMITE* br 15.2 1926 STANDARDBREDATR 68580 | PETER VOLO* br 16.0 1911 STANDARDBREDATR 57574 | | PETER THE GREAT* b 15.3 1895 | PILOT MEDIUM* | gr 16.0 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 2:07¾m, 1903 | ZOMBRO | br 2:11 1892 |
ONISKA | b 1898 |
MENDOCITA b 1899 | MENDOCINO | b 2:19½ 1889 |
ESTHER | b 16.0, star, 1877 |
ANN VONIAN* p,3,2:01¼m 1937 STANDARDBRED | GRATTAN AT LAW blk p,4,2.16¼h 1922 STANDARDBREDATR 68847 | GRATTAN ROYAL ch p,2:06¼m 1908 | GRATTAN | blk 2:13m 1887 |
MONA | b 1887 |
DAISY AT LAW blk p.2,2:12¼h 1902 | HEIR AT LAW | blk p,2:05¾m 1888 |
DAISY RYSDYK | br 1895 |
MARGARET VONIAN b p,2:05 1928 STANDARDBRED | FAVONIAN b T2:01¾m 1918 | J MALCOLM FORBES* | br 4,2:08m 1907 |
ALLIE WATTS | ch p,4,2:07¼ 1912 |
MARGARET C BROOKE b 1920 | BARON BROOKE | b p,5,2:09¼m 1914 |
MAUD G | b p,2:08½ 1901 |
EVALINA HANOVER b p,1:59.2m $12,420 1946 STANDARDBRED | BILLY DIRECT* b p,4,T1:55m $12,040 1934 STANDARDBREDATR 73233 | NAPOLEON DIRECT* ch p,1:59¾m 1909 STANDARDBREDATR. 02568 | WALTER DIRECT* b p,2:05¾ 1900 | DIRECT HAL* | blk p,2;04¼ 1896 |
ELLA BROWN | b 1885 |
LADY ERECTRESS ro 1902 | TOM KENDLE | 1898 |
NELLY ZARRO | 1898 |
GAY FORBES br p,5,2:07¾m 1916 STANDARDBRED | MALCOLM FORBES b 2:06¼ 1904 | BINGEN* | br 6,2:06¼m $12,035 1893 |
NANCY HANKS* | br 15¾ 6,T2:04m 1886 |
GAY GIRL CHIMES b 1911 | BERKSHIRE CHIMES | br 1900 |
MISS GAY GIRL | br 1904 |
ADIEU b p,2,T2:04½m 1938 STANDARDBRED | HAL DALE* b p,6,2:02¼m $595 1926 STANDARDBREDATR. 72206 | ABBEDALE* blk 15.1 1917 | THE ABBE* | blk p,2:04 1903 |
DAISYDALE D | blk 3,2:15¼m 1908 |
MARGARET HAL b p,2,2:19¼ 1914 | ARGOT HAL | b 16h p,11,T2:04¾ 1903 |
MARGARET POLK | b 1906 |
ADIOO VOLO b p,3,2:05h 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY* ch p,9,2:00¾m 1910 | GUY DILLON | b T2:21¼m 1902 |
ADIOO | b 1895 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 | PETER VOLO* | | br 16.0 1911 |
POLLY PARROT | ch p 2:13¼ 1904 |
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