Chip’s bloodlines go back 35 times to AQHA Hall of Fame horses including multiple crosses to Three Bars, Sugar Bars, Leo, King, Joe Reed, Joe Reed II, Poco Dell, Poco Bueno, Zippo Pine Bar and Zippo Pat Bars. His grandsire, Zips Chocolate Chip is a double NSBA Hall of Fame horse (both as a Show Horse and as a Sire).

On the Thoroughbred side, Chip goes back to a Thoroughbred Hall of Fame Horse, a Racing Hall of Fame horse and a Belmont Stakes winner.

Sire: Zans Living Legend -
Legend has 60 AQHA Performance points with an AQHA Superior in Western Pleasure and an AQHA Performance ROM. He was Solid Gold Reserve Champion in Western Pleasure and 8th out of 132 in Western Pleasure (only Stallion shown) at the International Congress, as well as a North American Expo Sr. Pleasure Champion. As of 2002, he had, for five consecutive years, sired Top 10 at the International Congress in Western Pleasure, Western Riding, Yearling Longe Line and Weanling Halter . He has also sired an All Around Grand Champion at the Denver Stock Show and futurity champions in Weanling Halter, Yearling Longeline and Western Pleasure in Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Colorada, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Texas and California.

Sire’s Dam: Zans Tiffany Ann was an AQHA Reserve World Champion in Halter, an AQHA Champion, and qualified in five World Performance Events. She had a Superior in Halter, with 79 Halter points and 69 Performance Points. Her sire was Zan Parr Bar, a three-timeAQHA World Champion in Halter with 245 Halter points and an astounding 357 Performance points. He sired 36 AQHA World Champions and multiple AQHA Champions. Zan Parr Bar was also AQHA Hi Pt. Halter Stallion in 1977 and a Congress Halter Champion. The dam of Zans Tiffany Ann, Sagey Ann was an AQHA Champion and the dam of an AQHA Reserve World Champion.

Dam: Count Me A Miracle, a 16.2 hh Appendix Quarter Horse mare, was not shown AQHA. She was beginning a career as an eventer at the time of her death in 2002.

Dam’s Sire: Quincy Sun Dun was an AQHA Champion and multiple AQHA Champion sire. He also sired a World Champion and a Reserve World Champion in Western Pleasure. Sun Dun had 111 AQHA Halter Points and 23 Performance Points, a Halter Superior, and was in the top 10 at the AQHA World Show in Halter. Quincy Sun Dun was by Sir Quincy Dan (20 halter points and AQHA Champion sire) by Quincy Dan (68 halter points; sire of 7 AQHA World Champions and 12 AQHA Champions).

Quincy Sun Dun’s dam, Penny Perk, was an AQHA Champion producer whose bloodlines include Snipper Reed, Joe Reed, Shady Dell, Poco Dell, Poco Bueno and King.

Dam’s Dam: Nother Dilly (TB), unraced, was a Hunter-Jumper until her retirement due to injury. Her sire, Martins Shadow, was sired by George Royal, a Thoroughbred hall of Fame horse and Leading Canadian Horse of the Year at four years. Nother Dilly’s dam, Dilly Shot, was by racing champion and leading sire, Winning Shot, who traces back to a Belmont Stakes Winner, a Racing Hall of Fame horse and two horses who led the U.S. General Sires List several times.