So I now find myself the proud owner of Cee Dat Pate Bug, a 7 year old bay mare, and she actually came with papers. Anybody an AQHA bloodline guru? I see all these really awesome pedigree critiques in sport horse breeding where they can tell size, shape, what the horse is good at and sometimes even the color, and wondered if somebody here could give me any neat info on “bugsy”.
all I can tell you is that she has one line of barrel/racing blood in there, and the rest seems to be all foundation lines… Pics? 
I did post an answer, where did it go?
Anyway, nice breeding, Top Moons are known for being quirky but not prepotent for it, so with all that good, more than sensible breeding also there, that should not matter.
All the other is excellent ranch horse, rodeo arena, roping and such breeding.
Those lines don’t necessarily are extremely athletic, but they are strong and good bone and sound and with enough cow and speed for general work and roping.
Those are also generally good medium sized horses, not tiny or very large.
Cee Booger Red is a leading sire of roping horses and many look for that breeding still today.
The Clabber Bars were beyond kind and cooperative, the real born broke type that were still very good horses, not slowpokes.
Those are generalizations, we still have to look at the horse in front of us.
There are surprise genes out there that sometimes trump the breeding we think should be there.
I did read your response yesterday, and for super weird internet fun time, if you go to your profile it will show where you responded, but when you click on the “read more” it comes here.
I will get some pics up sooner or later. I was supposed to be last night but the carpet installer came by.
Okay, this is my first time uploading photos, so I hope it works. There are two photos. Neither one is great, but together they should give you a pretty good idea.
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Your mare is bred to barrel race.
Clabber Bar was an old-time race horse, one of the many many good sons of the greatThoroughbred stallion Three Bars. You’ll see Three Bars three times on your mare’s pedigree. He’s also the sire of Cee Bars, the grandsire of Cee Booger Red, known as a sire of roping and barrel racing horses. And Three Bars is also the sire of Paul H, a TB who’s not as well known in QH circles.
Lady Bugs Moon was a top-notch racehorse of the day, a son of two Hall of Famers, FL Lady Bug and Top Moon. Barrel racers love Lady Bugs Moon horses.
Sugar Bars and Lady Bugs Moon both show up, for instance, in the pedigree of Sugar Moon Express, aka “Martha,” the top horse of top WPRA barrel racer Lindsay Sears.
Though it doesn’t show on this visible pedigree, Three Bars was also the sire of Sugar Bars, who was known as a sire of ranch and rodeo horses.
Dee Dat Booger is a roping stallion.
Your mare appears never to have been shown, so if you dislike her name, you can change it with AQHA.
Racing blood. Good looking, balanced mare from your pictures with lots of bone and foot.
Whatcha gonna do with her?
Right now we are just kinda getting to know each other. I really kinda wanted to let her tell me what she wants to do, although we are about a mile rom a wildlife reserve with trails, so I do see lots of trails in our future. She’s got a really great mind, most of the time. She’s curious instead of spooky, and will investigate things all on her own. I feel like we connect really well. She’s one of those horses that pays very close attention to you, and wants to get along, as long as she gets a little bit of credit. We’ve been doing a lot of hand walking; when she showed up she needed a chiro adjustment in a bad way and had really poor muscle tone. I’ve been on her twice and really like the way she rides. Either through training or build she works off her hind end as soon as you walk off.
I’m not much into the barrel racing scene, at least the way it’s done around here. I’ve considered getting a rope and playing with it some, but as hubby says, I’m not the most graceful gazelle on the savannah. I like the idea of doing some cutting, and we have a trainer nearby, but I don’t know if he’s any good or not.
It is hard to tell much about a horse from one picture, as when the horse moves what we see there may have a life of it’s own.
Then they may still surprise you when you ride them.
You wonder where that feeling they give you was from, maybe super smooth, maybe all that impulsion, if you were not seeing that with the horse just standing there.
She looks like she would be a good all arounder, as horses bred like her tend to be.
Whatever you ask and train her for, she will gladly go ahead and try to do it.
As far as having any cow, you can’t tell until you put one on cattle and they either fire or not.
You expect a modern cow bred horse to show cow, older breeding comes in all kinds, some have it, some not so much, but not all horses cutting for fun have to be world beater talented either, so give it a try.
Whatever you do, just working together and learning whatever skills you enjoy will be a great path for both of you.
You can’t ever learn enough, no matter what it is.
For what you want, that her disposition fits you I would say is the best start you can have for many coming years of fun.
