Doc Bar
{{short description|Quarter Horse show stallion and sire}}
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{{Infobox named horse
| horsename = Doc Bar
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| breed = Quarter Horse
| discipline = Halter
Cutting sire
| sire = Lightning Bar
| grandsire = Three Bars
| dam = Dandy Doll
| damsire = Texas Dandy
| sex = Stallion
| foaled = 1956
| country = United States
| color = Chestnut
| breeder = Finley Ranches
| honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
|updated=January 11, 2008
}}
Doc Bar (1956–1992) was a Quarter Horse stallion that was bred to be a racehorse, became an outstanding halter horse, and in his sire career revolutionized the cutting horse industry.
Life
Doc Bar was foaled in 1956,Close and Simmons, Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares pp. 68–69 and his sire was Lightning Bar, a son of Three Bars (TB). His dam was Dandy Doll, a daughter of Texas Dandy. Dandy Doll's dam was a descendant of Joe Reed P-3.[http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/doc+bar Pedigree of Doc Bar at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved on June 22, 2007
Offspring
Among Doc Bar's famous offspring are Doc O'Lena, Doc's Dee Bar, Doc's Oak, Dry Doc, Doc's Marmoset, Doc's Dandy Doll, Doc's Haida, Doc's Starlight, Handle Bar Doc, Doc's Prescription, and Doc's Play Mate.Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 27–30 Among his grandget are Smart Little Lena, Lenas Peppy, Royal Mahogany, and Lynx Melody.
Death and honors
Doc Bar died on July 20, 1992, and was buried on the Jensen/Ward Doc Bar Ranch in Paicines, California.Wohlfarth "Last Rites" Quarter Horse Journal p. 14
Doc Bar was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 1993.{{cite web |title= Doc Bar |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/doc-bar? |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=August 20, 2017 }} In 2007 Western Horseman magazine chose Doc as number two on their list of top ten ranch horse bloodlines.Denison and Hecox "The Top Ten Ranch Horse Bloodlines" Western Horseman pp. 34–41
Pedigree
{{Ahnentafel
|1 = Doc Bar
|2 = Lightning Bar
|3 = Dandy Doll
|4 = Three Bars (TB)
|5 = Della P
|6 = Texas Dandy
|7 = Bar Maid F
|8 = Percentage (TB)
|9 = Myrtle Dee (TB)
|10 = Doc Horn (TB)
|11 = mare by Old DJ
|12 = My Texas Dandy
|13 = Streak
|14 = Bartender II
|15 = Nelly Bly
|16 = Midway (TB)
|17 = Gossip Avenue (TB)
|18 = Luke McLuke (TB)
|19 = Civil Maid (TB)
|20 = Flying Squirrel (TB)
|21 = Debutante (TB)
|22 = Old DJ
|23 = unknown
|24 = *Porte Drapeau (TB)
|25 = Sadie M
|26 = Lone Star
|27 = mare by Cap
|28 = Lawyer (TB)
|29 = Lundy
|30 = Red Joe of Arizona
|31 = Topsy by Gringo}}
Notes
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References
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- [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/doc+bar All Breed Database Pedigree of Doc Bar] retrieved on June 22, 2007
- {{cite web |title= Doc Bar |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/doc-bar? |work= AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=August 20, 2017 }}
- {{cite book |editor1=Close, Pat |editor2=Simmons, Diane |title= Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares |publisher=Western Horseman |location=Colorado Springs, CO |year=1993 |isbn=0-911647-26-0 }}
- {{cite journal |editor1=Denison, Jennifer |editor2= Hecox, Ross |title=The Top Ten Ranch Horse Bloodlines: Western Horseman ranks the top bloodlines used in today's working ranch remudas |journal=Western Horseman |date=October 2007 |pages= 34–41}}
- {{cite book |author= Pitzer, Andrea Laycock |title= The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires |year= 1987 |publisher= Premier Pedigrees |location= Tacoma, WA }}
- {{cite journal |author= Wohlfarth, Jenny |date=July 1996 |title= Last Rites |journal= Quarter Horse Journal |pages=14 }}
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Further reading
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- Close, Pat "Doc Bar: The Story Behind the Legend" Western Horseman July 1977
- Dixon, Cathy "The Doc Bar Heritage" Quarter Horse Journal June 1979
- Nettles, Gayla "Doc Bar: The Failed Racehorse who Became the King of Cutting" Quarter Horse Journal February 2002
- Robertson, Anna "The Doc Bar Influence in Cutting ... Will it Last?" Quarter Horse Journal January 1973
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040118020513/http://qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2746 Doc Bar at Quarter Horse Directory]
- [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home32 Doc Bar at Quarter Horse Legends]
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