Doc O'Lena

Doc O'Lena
Doc O'Lena
Breed Quarter Horse
Discipline Cutting
Sire Doc Bar
Grandsire Lightning Bar
Dam Poco Lena
Maternal grandsire Poco Bueno
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1967
Country United States
Color Bay
Breeder Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen
Owner Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen
Honors
Other awards
1970 NCHA Futurity Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

Doc O'Lena (born 1967) was a Quarter Horse stallion and an outstanding cutting horse and sire of cutting horses.[1]

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Life

Doc O'Lena was foaled in 1967, the offspring of Doc Bar and Poco Lena.[2] He is one of only two horses in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame with both parents also inductees. He was a bay foal, bred owned by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen of Paicines, California at the time of registration.[3] His markings were just a small star and a small white half pastern on his left hind foot.[4]

The Jensens hoped to sell Doc O'Lena while still a yearling to Don Dodge, who had trained the colt's dam, Poco Lena, but Dodge thought the colt was too small to train as a cutting horse. So instead, the Jensens decided to keep the colt and have Shorty Freeman come look at him to see if Freeman wanted to train the colt. However Freeman did not have an auspicious beginning, as the first time Freeman tried to ride the green broke yearling, Doc O'Lena ran away. However, Freeman decided to take Doc O'Lena on, and said of the horse

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]

Freeman talked one of his clients into going into partnership with him and buying Doc O'Lena from the Jensens in April 1970 for $15,000. That December, Doc O'Lena was National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) Futurity Champion, winning $17, 357 for his new owners.[4] In all, Doc O'Lena earned $21,991.93 in NCHA earnings, along with an NCHA Certificate of Ability.[5]

Among Doc O'Lena's offspring were Doc Athena, Sugar Olena, Lenas Peppy, Smart Little Lena, and Todaysmyluckyday.[6] His son Montana Doc is a member of the NCHA Hall of Fame.[7] 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.[8]

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. ^ Pedigree of Doc O'Lena at All Breed Pedigree retrieved June 26, 2007
  3. ^ American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Vol. 22 p. 341
  4. ^ a b c d Groves "Doc O'Lena" Quarter Horse Journal p. 18
  5. ^ NCHA Earnings for Doc O'Lena retrieved on July 4, 2007
  6. ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 30–33
  7. ^ National Cutting Horse Association "Hall of Fame"
  8. ^ American Quarter Horse Association "Hall of Fame"

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