Doc Bar
| Doc Bar | |
|---|---|
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
| Discipline | Halter Cutting sire |
| Sire | 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 | |
| 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.
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. 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.
{{cite journal}}:|author=has generic name (help) - 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.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - 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