Thoroughbred percentage of the horses competing at the WNFR
2025 WNFR Pedigree Analysis... one thing remains constant – all the timed-event horses at the WNFR have Thoroughbred ancestry. The most prolific of those ancestors is the Thoroughbred stallion Three Bars.
The 2025 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo will take place December 4th-13th at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event will showcase the top fifteen Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association contestants in bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping and bull riding. The top contestants of the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association will also be competing at the WNFR. However, due to the ongoing EHV-1 outbreak, the breakaway roping has been postponed. The barrel racing will still proceed, but several contestants will be borrowing horses.
This WNFR will look a little different than in years past, but one thing remains constant – all the timed-event horses at the WNFR have Thoroughbred ancestry. The most prolific of those ancestors is the Thoroughbred stallion Three Bars. Most of the horses also trace back to Top Deck, Depth Charge, Jackstraw, Spotted Bull and Azure Te. More recent influxes of Thoroughbred blood come from stallions such as Beduino, Raise Your Glass, Reb’s Policy, Master Hand and Leinster House.
Examining the pedigrees of modern Quarter Horses makes the Thoroughbred influence hard to ignore. To illustrate this, The Western Thoroughbred went back eight generations and calculated the Thoroughbred percentage of the horses competing at the WNFR.
Read more at: 2025 WNFR Pedigree Analysis
Credit to The Western Thoroughbred for the article.
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