BYE BYE BYRD b. H, STANDARDBRED, 1955
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ATR 94484
p,5,T1:56.1m $554,272 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 1955 STANDARDBREDATR 94484 | POPLAR BYRD b 1944 STANDARDBREDATR 76774 | VOLOMITE* br 15.2hh 1926 STANDARDBRED1.16,6 ATR 68580 | PETER VOLO* br 16hh 1911 STANDARDBRED1.15,8 ATR 57574 | | PETER THE GREAT* b 15.3hh 1895 | PILOT MEDIUM* | gr 16hh 1879 |
| SANTOS | br 1887 |
NERVOLO BELLE* dkb/br 1906 | NERVOLO | b 1896 |
| JOSEPHINE KNIGHT | ch 1894 |
CITA FRISCO b 1921 STANDARDBRED | SAN FRANCISCO* br 1903 | ZOMBRO | br 1892 |
| ONISKA | b 1898 |
MENDOCITA b 1899 | MENDOCINO | b 1889 |
| ESTHER | b 16hh 1877 |
ANN VONIAN* 1937 STANDARDBRED | GRATTAN AT LAW blk 1922 STANDARDBREDATR 68847 | GRATTAN ROYAL ch 1908 | GRATTAN | blk 1887 |
| MONA | b 1887 |
DAISY AT LAW blk p.2,2:12¼h 1902 | HEIR-AT-LAW | blk 1888 |
| DAISY RYSDYK | br 1895 |
MARGARET VONIAN b 1928 STANDARDBRED | FAVONIAN b 1918 | J MALCOLM FORBES* | br 1907 |
| ALLIE WATTS* | ch 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 1934 STANDARDBREDATR 73233 | NAPOLEON DIRECT* ch 1909 STANDARDBREDATR 02568 | WALTER DIRECT* b 1900 | DIRECT HAL* | blk 1896 |
| ELLA BROWN | b 1885 |
LADY ERECTRESS ro 1902 | TOM KENDALL | 1895 |
| NELLY ZARRO | 1898 |
GAY FORBES br p,5,2:07¾m 1916 STANDARDBRED | MALCOLM FORBES b 1904 | BINGEN* | br 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 1926 STANDARDBREDATR 72206 | ABBEDALE* blk 15.1hh 1917 | THE ABBE* | blk 1903 |
| DAISYDALE D | blk 3,2:15¼m 1908 |
MARGARET HAL b 1914 | ARGOT HAL | b 1903 |
| MARGARET POLK | b 1906 |
ADIOO VOLO b 1930 STANDARDBRED | ADIOO GUY* ch 1910 | GUY DILLON | b 1902 |
| ADIOO | b 1895 |
SIGRID VOLO b p,2:04m 1921 | PETER VOLO* | | br 16hh 1911 |
| POLLY PARROT | ch p 2:13¼ 1904 |
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