Doc O Lena NCHA OPEN FUTURITY CHAMPION, Winning all 4 go-rounds. NCHA EARNINGS: $21,992 Sired a Record 36 NCHA Futurity Finalists Equi-Stat Offspring LTE CUT Earnings: $14,195,164

photo by Bill McNabb

Doc O Lena is a son of DOC BAR, one of the most influential stallions in cutting history. Throughout performance history, the cross of DOC BAR & his son, DOC O LENA, crossed with PEPPY SAN BADGER horses, has produced more successful cutting and performance horses than any other. This classic breeding 'nick' is evident in today's modern bloodlines, still in the pedigrees of the majority of popular sires today, such as CD OLENA and DUAL PEP. Wet Paint Farms stallion, DELTA DARE DEVIL is double-bred DOC BAR...

Stallion Sire Record World Champion Sire Res. World Ch. Sire Superior Perf. Sire AQHA Champion Sire NRHA Get Money-earners NCHA Get Money-earners ROM Performance Sire Working Cow Horse Get Money-earners Doc O Lena & Shorty Freeman Photo: Frank Conrad

Sire: Doc Bar NCHA Hall Of Fame	Lightning Bar AQHA Champion	Three Bars (TB)
		Della P
	Dandy Doll More Info	Texas Dandy
		Bar Maid F
Dam: Poco Lena More Info 1st Mare inducted into NCHA Hall Of Fame Dam of Dry Doc, NCHA Futurity Champion	Poco Bueno NCHA Hall Of Fame Foundation Cutting Sire	King Foundation Cutting Sire
		Miss Taylor
	Sheilwin Bred by Waggoner Ranch, Winner 1995 AQHA Best Remuda Award	Pretty Boy
		Blackburn mare

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Hall of Fame

Smart Peppy Date - Stallion - 2009 Inductee

Smart Peppy Date

Smart Peppy Date was purchased May 31, 2008 by Victor Almond, owner of 3V Performance Horses in Ponoka, Alberta. This regal stallion left former owners Carl and Julia Gerwien with a long list of accomplishments. He now stands at Vic's ranch with confidence and anticipation to contine his legacy.

Foaled March 31, 1995 by Wiens Ranch Company Inc. in Sedalia, CO, Smart Peppy Date was an embryo transfer colt sired by Smart Little Lena and Peppys Date. He boasts a deep sorrel colour with a star marking and a left hind white pastern. Smart Peppy Date began his training with his new owners, Carl and Julia Gerwien of Willow Spring Ranch in Nanton, Alberta, after his purchase in December 1996. Carl developed Smart Peppy Date's talents for both the cutting and working cow horse arenas. Smart Peppy Date suffered an unfortunate injury while cutting at age 3. Back in training at 4, this well healed talented horse won Canada's Greatest Horseman Competition with Brad Pedersen.

	Smart Peppy Date & Victor Almond

Smart Peppy Date's list of heirs include 103 registered foals of which 39 are offspring performers. His heirs share Smart Peppy Date's physical traits and demonstrate winning abilities creating an impressive Sire Record.

Smart Peppy Date's performance record includes: Earner of $36,490; 4th PCCHA 4-Year-Old Non Pro Stakes; Top 10 Gold Coast Winter Non Pro Classic Challenge; Canadian Supreme Non Pro Classic Challenge Champion; Canadian Non Pro Classic Co-Reserve Champion; Canadian Futurity Non Pro Finals Co-Champion; 3rd Canadian Supreme 4-Year-Old Open Derby.

Victor proudly boasts Smart Peppy Date as a gentleman. "He is a perfect gentleman who loves a handful of oats, loves to perform and loves his mares. Smart Peppy Date is currently pasture breeding and will reside with his girlfriend for the off season". Victor extends a special thank you with sincere appreciation to Carl and Julia Gerwien and family for their commendable work and accomplishments with this great horse.

Doc Bar

Inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1993

Doc Bar revolutionized the cutting industry in a way never seen before or since.

The chestnut stallion was foaled in 1956 on Tom Finley’s Arizona ranch. Doc Bar was by Lightning Bar by Three Bars (TB) and out of Dandy Doll by Texas Dandy. The chestnut colt was bred to run, but failed miserably.

Earning a total of $95 in four outs, Doc Bar was given to Charley Araujo of California to show at halter. This endeavor seemed doomed to fail because Doc Bar did not fit what the judge’s eye had been groomed to see. The chestnut stood a scant 15 hands and did not have the punched-together look of his contemporaries.

The halter industry was ripe for change. With Araujo at the lead and the stallion’s unique conformation, the guidelines for halter horse champions were altered almost overnight. Out of 15 shows, Doc Bar won nine grand champion titles and one reserve champion title.

Doc Bar attracted the attention of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Jensen of Double J Ranch in Paicines, California. The couple had pieced together a broodmare band of Poco Tivio, Hollywood Gold, King and Leo mares, and was in the market for a stallion. Doc Bar fit their needs and the couple bought him in 1963 for $30,000.

Over the following years, Doc Bar sired National Cutting Horse Association Futurity winners, world champions and top-10 horses. A few progeny include Doc O’Lena, Dry Doc, Fizzabar and Doc’s Kitty. He was the grandsire of Smart Little Lena, Tenino San, Docs Sangria and Don N Willy.

In AQHA competitions, Doc Bar’s get amassed nearly 9,000 points and won multiple world championships.

The key to Doc Bar’s success was summed up by Charlie Ward, manager of the Jensens’ ranch, “is that he’s so consistent in his type. His colts are all uniform and possess a lot of sense. They’re easy to train, they have a lot of natural ability – every one of them is cowy.”

Doc Bar died in 1992 at 36. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1993.