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Doc O´Lena
Sabias que es realmente un milagro que Doc O'Lena haya nacido?
La familia Jensen de California compró su madre, Poco Lena, gravemente lesionada, en 1963, con la intención de servirla con Doc Bar. Le costó tres temporadas de servicios tener un potrillo. Ese potro era Doc O'Lena, nacido el 21 de junio de 1967.
Shorty Freeman de Scottsdale, Arizona, entrenó a Doc O'Lena cuando tenía 2 años (aunque siempre admitió que el potro se entrenó solo). Un año después, en el Futurity de la National Cutting Horse Association de 1970, Doc O'Lena y Freeman se convirtieron en los primeros competidores en arrasar en las rondas preliminares, semifinales y finales del futurity. Doc O'Lena ganó $ 21,991 en la NCHA.
Cuando Lenaette ganó el NCHA Futurity en 1975, Doc O'Lena se convirtió en el primer ganador de futurity en engendrar un ganador. Smart Little Lena, fue el primer caballo en ganar la Triple Corona de la NCHA. Doc O'Lena también engendró a Tanquery Gin, Shorty Lena, CD Olena, Mr Sun O Lena, Travalena y Scarlett O Lena.
En total, Doc O'Lena engendró 1.310 potros. De estos, 321 acumularon 3.978,5 puntos; 87 Registros de Mérito; nueve obtuvieron premios de rendimiento superior; cuatro fueron Campeones del mundo; seis fueron Campeones Mundiales Juveniles y cuatro fueron Reservados Gran Campeón
Doc O'Lena murió el 27 de febrero de 1993 en Phillips Ranch en Frisco, Texas. Fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama de AQHA en 1997.
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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
Other awards
1970 NCHA Futurity Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
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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.
Contents
1 Background
2 Career
3 Breeding career and honors
4 Pedigree
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links
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][page needed]
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][page needed]
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]
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Stallion Show Record for Doc O'Lena
Hall of Fame
NCHA Futurity
NCHA Derby
NCHA money-earner
Performance Point Earner
Stallion Offspring Record for Doc O'Lena
Hall of Fame Offspring:
NCHA Horse of The Year:
World Champion Offspring:
Reserve World Champion Offspring
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
ROM Halter Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
NRHA Money-earners
NCHA Money-earners
NRCHA Money-earners
All-time Leading Sire:
Featured Offspring:
Additional Featured Offspring:
Outstanding Offspring for Doc O'Lena
Call Me Bad Blood, LTE WCH-$7,000
Cd Olena, $170,706 LTE-CUT
Colonel Rey Lena, LTE RN-$25,868, NRHA O Res. World Champion
Data Lena, $149,340 LTE-CUT
Doc O Ninety Five, $71,635 LTE CUT; COA, Bronze, Silver
Docs Christmas, NCHA LTE: $85,997.15, COA, Bronze, Silver, Gold
Doctor What, $128,468 LTE-CUT
Dolly Olena, $126,000 LTE-CUT
Dox Abilena, $123,785 LTE-CUT
Dunna Doc, LTE WCH-$5,681.84
Fannys Oskar, $180,050 LTE-CUT
Gay Lean Doc, CUT LTE $13,157, COA
Good Draw, LTE WCH-$10,516.31
Hollywood Boulevard, LTE WCH-$12,668
Kimberlena, 2.5 Perf Pts; NCHA LTE: $51,860.96, '87 1st NCHA Non-Pro Challenge
Lenas Dynamite, LTE CUT-$265,325; '86 Bonanza 4-Yr-Old O Champion, Tropicana 4-Yr-Old O Futurity Champion
Lenas Gyrator, $24,722, NRHA O Super Stakes Champion; NRHA O Derby Res. Champion
Lenas Lucinda, $161,247 LTE-CUT
Lenas Telesis, $148,675 LTE-CUT
Made To Boogie, LTE WCH-$5,870.15
Marcellena, $135,614 LTE-CUT
Montana Doc, NCHA LTE: $211,967.45; '80 4th NCHA O World Champion; COA, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum; NCHA Hall of Fame
Olena Day, LTE WCH-$11,192.99
Rosezana Lena, '97 O World Champion Jr. CR; '97 Congress HL Champion
Sanolesa, $188,838 LTE-CUT
Scarlett O Lena, $242,325 LTE-CUT
Si Olena, '98 World Champion Sr. CUT
Skeeto, NCHA LTE: $37,467.21, COA, Bronze, Silver, NCHA offspring earnings: $268,102.95
Smart Little Lena, LTE CUT-$743,275, NCHA Triple Crown; NCHA F. & Super Stakes Champion; NCHA Derby Co-Champ.
Smart Peppy Lena, $12,423 RN & CUT; 42.5 Pts., NRHA Novice O Res. World Champion
Sonitalena, NCHA: COA Bronze Silver Gold Platinum ; $220,453 LTE-CUT, NCHA Hall of Fame
Tap O Lena, LTE CUT-$458,501; NCHA O Super Stakes Champion, '96 NCHA Super Stakes O & Non-Pro Classic Champion
Todaysmyluckyday, $105,836; '95 NRHA O Futurity Champion, World Champion, Jr. RN, '97 Jr. WCH
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Doc O’Lena was foaled in 1967, the offspring of Doc Bar and Poco Lena. 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 owned by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen of Paicines, California.
It is really quite a miracle that Doc O’Lena was ever born at all. The Jensen family bought his dam, the severely foundered Poco Lena, in 1963, with the intention of breeding her to their already proven halter and performance sire, Doc Bar. In addition to an already heart wrenching story behind her laminitis, Poco Lena had suffered long-term effects from the drugs that had kept her from cycling during her cutting career. It took three breeding seasons before she carried a foal. That foal was Doc O’Lena, born June 21, 1967.
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 of Scottsdale, Arizona, come look at him to see if Freeman wanted to train the colt. 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.”
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 and Freeman became the first competitors to make a clean sweep of the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity’s preliminary go-rounds, semi-finals and finals becoming the 1970 Futurity Champion and winning $17, 357 for his new owners. In all, Doc O’Lena earned $21,991.93 in NCHA earnings, along with an NCHA Certificate of Ability.
Doc O’Lena sired 1,310 foals. Of these, 321 accumulated 3,978.5 points; 87 earned performance Registers of Merit (also nine amateur, three youth); nine earned Superior performance awards; four were world champions; six were youth world champions; six were youth world champions; and four were reserve world champions.
Among Doc O’Lena’s offspring were Tanquery Gin, Shorty Lena, CD Olena, Mr Sun O Lena, Travalena, Sarlett O’LenaDoc Athena, Sugar Olena, Lenas Peppy, Smart LittleLena, and Todaysmyluckyday. His son Montana Doc is a member of the NCHA Hall of Fame. 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 died on February 27, 1993, at the Phillips Ranch in Frisco, Texas. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1997.
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