Doc O'Lena

Doc O'Lena was foaled in 1967, sired by Doc Bar and out of the mare Poco Lena.[http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/doc+olena Pedigree of Doc O'Lena at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved June 26, 2007 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.Groves "Doc O'Lena" Quarter Horse Journal p. 18American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Vol. 22 p. 341 He was bred and owned by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen of Paicines, California at the time of registration.

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.{{cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Just-Shorty/dp/B0006F206Q|title=Just Shorty |last=Nettles|first=Gala|date=1990|access-date=March 31, 2017}}{{page needed|date=August 2017}}

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. 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."{{page needed|date=August 2017}}

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", winning $17,357 for his new owners. Doc O'Lena's NCHA lifetime earnings totaled $21,991.93, and he had also earned an NCHA Certificate of Ability.[https://www.nchacutting.com/members/secretary-tools/horse-earnings NCHA Earnings for Doc O'Lena] retrieved on July 4, 2007

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.{{cite web | title=AQHA: Doc O'Lena | website=AQHA | date=1967-06-21 | url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame-horse-inductees/-/asset_publisher/JbReVpSPcSnY/content/doc-o-lena? | access-date=2018-04-12}}

Among Doc O'Lena's offspring were Doc Athena, Sugar Olena, Lenas Peppy, Smart Little Lena, and Todaysmyluckyday.Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 30–33 His son Montana Doc is a member of the NCHA Hall of Fame.National Cutting Horse Association "[http://www.nchacutting.com/members/hall-of-fame-awards Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927111847/http://nchacutting.com/members/hall-of-fame-awards |date=September 27, 2018 }}" 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.

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

{{Ahnentafel

|1 = Doc O'Lena

|2 = Doc Bar

|3 = Poco Lena

|4 = Lightning Bar

|5 = Dandy Doll

|6 = Poco Bueno

|7 = Sheilwin

|8 = Three Bars (TB)

|9 = Della P

|10 = Texas Dandy

|11 = Bar Maid F

|12 = King P-234

|13 = Miss Taylor

|14 = Pretty Boy

|15 = mare by Blackburn

|16 = Percentage (TB)

|17 = Myrtle Dee (TB)

|18 = Doc Horn (TB)

|19 = mare by Old DJ

|20 = My Texas Dandy

|21 = Streak

|22 = Bartender II

|23 = Nelly Bly

|24 = Zantanon

|25 = Jabalina

|26 = Old Poco Bueno

|27 = mare by Hickory Bill

|28 = Dodger

|29 = Little Maud

|30 =Blackburn

|31 = Waggoner Ranch mare}}

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• [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/doc+olena All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Doc O'Lena] retrieved on June 26, 2007
• {{cite web |url=https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame |title=Hall of Fame Inductees |work=AQHA Hall of Fame |author=American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association |access-date=August 30, 2017 }}
• {{cite book |author=American Quarter Horse Association |title=Official Stud Book and Registry |volume=22 |location=Amarillo, TX |publisher=American Quarter Horse Association|year= 1968}}
• {{cite journal |author=Groves, Lesli Krause |title=Doc O'Lena |journal=Quarter Horse Journal |date=October 1994 |page= 18}}
• [http://www.nchacutting.com NCHA website] retrieved on July 4, 2007
• {{cite web |author=National Cutting Horse Association |url=http://www.nchacutting.com/members/hall-of-fame-awards |title=Hall of Fame |publisher=National Cutting Horse Association |access-date=July 4, 2007 |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927111847/http://nchacutting.com/members/hall-of-fame-awards |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite book |author= Pitzer, Andrea Laycock |title= The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires |year= 1987 |publisher= Premier Pedigrees |location= Tacoma, WA }}
• {{cite book |editor1=Thorton, Larry |editor2=Holmes, Robert L. |editor3=Boardman, Mike |editor4= Ciarloni, Diana |editor5= Goodhue, Jim |editor6= Gold, Alan D. |editor7= Harrison, Sally |editor8= Lynch, Betsy |editor9= Mangum, A. J. |title=Legends 4: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares |publisher=Western Horseman |location= Colorado Springs, CO |year= 2002 |isbn=0-911647-49-X }}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070611225804/http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2640 Doc O'Lena at Quarter Horse Directory]
• [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home32 Doc O'Lena at Quarter Horse Legends]

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Category:Cutting horses

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Category:1967 animal births

Category:AQHA Hall of Fame (horses)