BERT

Due to injury Bert became a breeding stallion in 1937.

American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2007.

Bert sired racehorses, roping horses, and all around ranch horses. He was the sire of eleven race starters, all of whom earned an AQHA Race Register of Merit. His foal who earned the most money on the racetrack was V's Bert, who earned $2,777 from forty-eight starts with five wins, twelve seconds and five thirds in six years of racing.

He sired four AQHA Champions, as well as Superior Halter horses and Superior Performance horses. His daughter Jeanne's Patsy was the 1955 AQHA High Point Roping horse. His granddaughter Baby Doll Combs was a noted rodeo bulldogging mare known as "Baby Doll" who was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979. Bert died in May 1956.

It was said if a horseman had a Bert mare, he was in the horse business.

Bert produced four AQHA Champions and his daughters produced 25 AQHA Champions.

The stallion’s four AQHA Champions were Bert’s Lady, Janie Bert Watts, Sutherland’s Dwight and Thomas Bert. Another well-known Bert horse was Jeanne’s Patsy, 1955 AQHA high-point tie-down roping horse.

Baby Doll Combs, “Baby Doll” In the 1950s, nearly every steer wrestler who rode the mare placed in the money.