First Love Farms
Home of APHA Champion
Sonny Dee Summer
(A Summer Breeze x Miss Holly Bar Dee)

10032 US Hwy 150
West Terre Haute, IN  47885

deb@firstlovefarms.com
(812) 230-0697

Sonny Dee Summer
APHA Champion standing at stud

Offered for Sale   $ 10,000 Firm (reduced from $ 20,000)
$ 500 stud fee  - Live Cover
(Standing At Stud until sold)

Click here for the 2010 Breeding Contract

Click here to see some of Sonny's offspring 

Sonny's pedigree

          

                                     

                                   

Sonny is almost a mirror image from his left to right side!


February 2009

We are getting out of the breeding business (standing at stud until sold though) to focus mainly on showing our babies from this GREAT stud. Our change of plans is your gain! He is currently ridden several times a week - trail riding, barrels, jumping. He rides with just a halter and lead rope, bareback or under saddle. Sold to approved, good home only with references. I have shown him in open shows for the past 2 years in barrels/poles. He has placed 2nd & 3rd place in 3rd division (4D) several times. I have been jumping him 3' recently with no problems-very honest and willing jumper. Can be turned out in a group with mares. Pasture breeds, hand breeds. Has been collected from a phantom and even on the ground. Any other questions, please ask. SERIOUS inquiries only-no hoof kickers please. I do not have to sell him as I ride him in all-around events as well as breed. However, I would like to find a good, breeding home for him because he throws NICE babies and I would love to see him continue his breeding career while still being ridden.

Sonny's Bio:

    • APHA Champion

    • APHA lifetime points:  16 Halter; 83 performance

    • 6 Open ROMS (Halter, Reining, Trail, Western Riding, Barrel Racing & Pole Bending)

    • Just one point away from receiving his Open ROM in Hunter Hack,
       and 2 pts away in Open Western Pleasure. 

    • 1999 APHA Open Junior Award (Number 10 in the APHA) in Open Hunter Hack;

    • 1999 APHA Open Junior Award (Number 5 in the APHA) in Open Pole Bending

    • 4 times Grand Champion

    • 10 times Reserve Grand Champion

    • Check out his bloodlines - champions!!

    • Throws foals with gorgeous heads and big hips. 

    • Dam, Miss Holly Bar Dee,  is own daughter of Sonny Dee Bar with 116.5 Performance Pts.,
      1987 Superior in Western Pleasure.

    • Sire is A Summer Breeze. 

      • 1990 APHA Champion
      • 18 APHA Lifetime Halter Points (9 Grands, 4 Reserves), 106 APHA Lifetime Performance Points
      • ROMs Halter, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunter Hack, Trail, Working Hunter and Western Pleasure.  Points in Western Riding;
      • California Paint Horse Association High-Point 2-Year-Old, 3-Year-Old and Aged Halter Stallion
      • Top 10 World Show Performance Horse
      • SPHC High-Point Horse of the Year
      • Ten High-Point Performance Awards
      • Sire of Top 10 Performance Horse at World Show
      • Sire of Halter and Performance Champions

    • Grandsire is Dixie's War Drum.  One of APHA's All-Time Leading Sires, APHA National and Reserve National Champion Sire, APHA World Champion Sire, Versatility Award Sire, Superior Performance Sire, Halter Point Earner Sire, ROM Western Pleasure, Points in Halter, Hunter Under Saddle, Hunter Hack, Heeling, Trail, Western Pleasure and Western Riding.

    • Grandsire is Sonny Dee Bar.  Sonny Dee Bar was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2003.  Leading sire of AQHA champions.  Leading sire of AQHA Register of Merits (halter and performance).  Sonny Dee Bar's offspring have earned more than 35,000 points in four different breed organizations.  From 23 crops, Sonny Dee Bar sired 1,065 foals, including 409 point earners that garnered 24,106 points in AQHA competition.

    • Three Bars in pedigree.  The majority of the leading sires today are descended from Three Bars.  Three Bars was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1989.  His Quarter Horse sons include Doc Bar, Sugar Bars, Gay Bar King, Barred, Cee Bars, Zippo Pat Bars, Triple Chick, Goldseeker Bars.  He also sired Thoroughbred sires such as Lucky Bar sire of Impressive and Rocket Bars sire of Dash for Cash.  Without a shadow of a doubt, Three Bars has had the greatest impact on the Quarter Horse breed of any horse in history.  He has forever left his mark in racing, halter, cutting and performance events.

     

Hunter Hack:  October 4, 2008 (Rockville, IN open show)
 

Barrel Racing:  Summer 2008

Pole Bending:  Summer 2008