Doc O'Lena

Doc O'Lena
BreedQuarter Horse
DisciplineCutting
SireDoc Bar
GrandsireLightning Bar
DamPoco Lena
Maternal grandsirePoco Bueno
SexStallion
Foaled1967
CountryUnited States
ColorBay
BreederDr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen
OwnerDr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen
Other awards
1970 NCHA Futurity Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Doc O'Lena (1967–1993) was a Quarter Horse stallion, a champion cutting horse and a sire of champion cutting horses.[1] He was inducted into both the AQHA and NCHA Halls of Fame, as was his dam Poco Lena.[2] He was the 1970 NCHA Futurity Open Champion, followed by his full brother, Dry Doc, who won the title in 1971. As a sire, Doc O'Lena earned recognition as the first futurity champion to sire a futurity champion when Lenaette won the title in 1975. He also sired Smart Little Lena, the first horse to win the NCHA Triple Crown.

Background

Doc O'Lena was foaled in 1967, sired by Doc Bar and out of the mare Poco Lena.[3] He is one of only two horses in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame with both parents also inductees; the other is Easy Jet. His color was bay, and his only markings were a small star on his head, and a small white half pastern on his left hind foot.[4][5] He was bred and owned by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen of Paicines, California at the time of registration.

Career

The Jensens had hoped to sell Doc O'Lena as a yearling to cutting horse trainer, Don Dodge. Dodge had purchased Doc O'Lena's dam in 1953 from E. Paul Waggoner's Three D Stock Farm in Arlinton, TX., and had successfully shown her to win numerous AQHA and NCHA awards and titles. After seeing Doc O'Lena, Dodge concluded that he was too small to be a cutting horse, and passed on the offer. The Jensens decided to keep Doc O'Lena and get him into the hands of a professional trainer. They contacted Shorty Freeman who, in 1968, was hauling for the NCHA World Championship title showing King Skeet for Adrian Berryhill. On his way to the San Francisco Cow Palace, Freeman stopped by the Jensen's to look at Doc O'Lena. Freeman wasn't concerned about the yearling's small size, and agreed to take him for training.[6]

During an interview, Freeman recalled the first time he tried to ride Doc O'Lena as a green broke, long yearling and the colt ran off with him.[6] He said, "I didn't think running off belonged to him, so that didn't really bother me." Referencing Poco Lena he said, "Besides, I knew what the old mare was, so I wanted to ride him." He also said, "I didn't train Doc O'Lena anyway, he trained himself. I knew about 30 days after I got him that he was an exceptional horse... I always had to ride him last in the training program, 'cause if I didn't, I'd be mad at all the other horses in the barn. He was just that good."[4][6]

In April 1970, Adrian Berryhill partnered with Freeman and they purchased Doc O'Lena from the Jensens for $15,000. In December that same year, Freeman rode Doc O'Lena to win the NCHA Futurity, and "became the first competitors to make a clean sweep of the futurity's preliminary go-rounds, semi-finals and finals",[2] winning $17,357 for his new owners.[4] Doc O'Lena's NCHA lifetime earnings totaled $21,991.93, and he had also earned an NCHA Certificate of Ability.[7]

Breeding career and honors

Doc O’Lena sired 1,310 foals: 321 were AQHA point earners having accumulated 3,978.5 points; 87 earned Registers of Merit in performance events (also 9 amateur, 3 youth); 9 earned Superior performance awards; 4 were world champions; 6 were youth world champions; and 4 were reserve world champions.[8]

Among Doc O'Lena's offspring were Doc Athena, Sugar Olena, Lenas Peppy, Smart Little Lena, and Todaysmyluckyday.[9] His son Montana Doc is a member of the NCHA Hall of Fame.[10] Doc O'Lena was the first NCHA Futurity winner to sire a Futurity winner when Lenaette won the Futurity in 1975. His son Smart Little Lena was the first winner of the NCHA triple crown. And in 1978, Doc O'Lena himself was syndicated for $2.1 million, at that time a record for the cutting horse industry.[4]

Doc O'Lena was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 1997.[2]

Sire line tree

Pedigree

Percentage (TB)
Three Bars (TB)
Myrtle Dee (TB)
Lightning Bar
Doc Horn (TB)
Della P
mare by Old DJ
Doc Bar
My Texas Dandy
Texas Dandy
Streak
Dandy Doll
Bartender II
Bar Maid F
Nelly Bly
Doc O'Lena
Zantanon
King P-234
Jabalina
Poco Bueno
Old Poco Bueno
Miss Taylor
mare by Hickory Bill
Poco Lena
Dodger
Pretty Boy
Little Maud
Sheilwin
Blackburn
mare by Blackburn
Waggoner Ranch mare

Notes

  1. ^ Thornton, et al. Legends 4 pp. 190–205
  2. ^ a b c American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Doc O'Lena". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  3. ^ Pedigree of Doc O'Lena at All Breed Pedigree retrieved June 26, 2007
  4. ^ a b c d Groves "Doc O'Lena" Quarter Horse Journal p. 18
  5. ^ American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Vol. 22 p. 341
  6. ^ a b c Nettles, Gala (1990). Just Shorty. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  7. ^ NCHA Earnings for Doc O'Lena retrieved on July 4, 2007
  8. ^ "AQHA: Doc O'Lena". AQHA. June 21, 1967. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  9. ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 30–33
  10. ^ National Cutting Horse Association "Hall of Fame Archived September 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine"
  11. ^ Doc O'Lena: Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1997.
  12. ^ Smart Little Lena: Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2015.
  13. ^ Smart Little Lena
  14. ^ Smart Chic Olena: Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 2018.
  15. ^ Smart Chic Olena
  16. ^ Smart Chic Olena: The late stallion is enshrined in the AQHA Hall of Fame, the NRHA Hall of Fame and the NRCHA Hall of Fame.
  17. ^ From the Archives: Smart Chic Olena
  18. ^ Jole Kosloske and Chic In Time Steal the Show in USEF Large Pony Medal at Kentucky Summer Classic
  19. ^ Smart Spook Crosses NRHA Five Million Dollar Threshold
  20. ^ Andrea Fappani and Custom Spook Win NRBC Open Classic Challenge/$25k NRHA Open
  21. ^ a b Steve Orth Goes 1-2 at ARHFA Cornhusker Classic on Hudsons’ Mounts The Spook Dun Time and Dual Oak E
  22. ^ Remembering Chics Magic Potion
  23. ^ What Makes a Legend?
  24. ^ Chics Magic Potion 2016 NRCHA Hall of Fame inductee
  25. ^ 2023 Breeder’s Guide Stallion: Olena Oak
  26. ^ Olena Oak Becomes NRCHA No. 1 Money-Earning Horse
  27. ^ Orth and Dual Oak E Win ARHFA Sun Circuit Heeling
  28. ^ Coming In Hot
  29. ^ Studs Streakin Irish Relic and Collen All Chics Get Riata #9.5 Win
  30. ^ Travelin Jonez
  31. ^ Very Smart Remedy

References

  • All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Doc O'Lena retrieved on June 26, 2007
  • American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Hall of Fame Inductees". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  • American Quarter Horse Association (1968). Official Stud Book and Registry. Vol. 22. Amarillo, TX: American Quarter Horse Association.
  • Groves, Lesli Krause (October 1994). "Doc O'Lena". Quarter Horse Journal: 18.
  • NCHA website retrieved on July 4, 2007
  • National Cutting Horse Association. "Hall of Fame". National Cutting Horse Association. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved July 4, 2007.
  • Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
  • Thorton, Larry; Holmes, Robert L.; Boardman, Mike; Ciarloni, Diana; Goodhue, Jim; Gold, Alan D.; Harrison, Sally; Lynch, Betsy; Mangum, A. J., eds. (2002). Legends 4: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-49-X.

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