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Doc Bar 
Breed Quarter Horse Discipline Halter
Cutting sireSire Lightning Bar Grandsire Three Bars Dam Dandy Doll Maternal grandsire Texas Dandy Sex Stallion Foaled 1956 Country United States Color Chestnut Breeder Finley Ranches Honors Honors American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame Last updated on: 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.
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Life
Doc Bar was foaled in 1956,[1] 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.[2]
Among Doc Bar's famous offspring are Doc O'Lena, 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.[3] Among his grandget are Smart Little Lena, Lenas Peppy, Royal Mahogany, and Lynx Melody.[1]
Doc Bar died on July 20, 1992,[1] and was buried on the Jensen/Ward Doc Bar Ranch in Paicines, California.[4]
Doc Bar was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame.[5] In 2007 Western Horseman magazine chose Doc as number two on their list of top ten ranch horse bloodlines.[6]
Pedigree
Midway (TB) Percentage (TB) Gossip Avenue (TB) Three Bars (TB) Luke McLuke (TB) Myrtle Dee (TB) Civil Maid (TB) Lightning Bar Flying Squirrel (TB) Doc Horn (TB) Debutante (TB) Della P Old DJ mare by Old DJ unknown Doc Bar *Porte Drapeau (TB) My Texas Dandy Sadie M Texas Dandy Lone Star Streak mare by Cap Dandy Doll Lawyer (TB) Bartender II Lundy Bar Maid F Red Joe of Arizona Nelly Bly Topsy by Gringo Notes
- ^ a b c Simmons, Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares pp. 68–69
- ^ Pedigree of Doc Bar at All Breed Pedigree retrieved on June 22, 2007
- ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires pp. 27–30
- ^ Wohlfarth "Last Rites" Quarter Horse Journal p. 14
- ^ American Quarter Horse Association "AQHA Hall of Fame"
- ^ Denison and Hecox "The Top Ten Ranch Horse Bloodlines" Western Horseman pp. 34–41
References
- All Breed Database Pedigree of Doc Bar retrieved on June 22, 2007
- American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "AQHA Hall of Fame". American Quarter Horse Association. Archived from the original on December 15, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071215210702/http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html. Retrieved November 10, 2010.
- Denison, Jennifer and Ross Hecox (ed.) (October 2007). "The Top Ten Ranch Horse Bloodlines: Western Horseman ranks the top bloodlines used in today's working ranch remudas". Western Horseman: 34–41.
- Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
- Close, Pat; Simmons, Diane (editors) (1993). Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-26-0.
- Wohlfarth, Jenny (July 1996). "Last Rites". Quarter Horse Journal: 14.
Further reading
- 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
External links
Categories:- Quarterhorse racehorses
- American racehorses
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- Cutting horses
- Influential Quarter horse sires
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