Doc Somebody

BY Ralph Galeano

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      Browsing through the  Quarter Horse Stallion Register a few years ago, I was impressed with the statistics of the top producing stallions. Naturally, I looked for stallions related to the horses in our herd.  Mostly we have cow horse breeding and have been happy with the results we see in our foals.  We’re happy with the old time great sires in our horse’s pedigrees.  They trace back to such greats as Poco Bueno, King, Three Bars and, of course, Doc Bar.  It’s interesting to see how many stallions have Doc in their name.  Plenty, to be sure, but when you see how many are listed in the register you gotta’ believe you’re on the right track for breeding performance horses.

     Doc Bar was bred to be a race horse but  was a failure on the track.  In four starts he earned only ninety-five dollars.  However, he was a champion halter horse and his offspring dominate the cutting horse sport today.  You’ll find variations of his name plastered all over performance horse statistics.  Yet he was never ridden in performance competition.  Maybe he didn’t like the smell of cows and passed it on to our mare. 

 

The DOC SOMEBODY column explores the reasons so many horses have Doc Bar in their pedigree.  The stallion register a few years ago listed the top 100 sires and 33 of them had Doc in their registered names. Breeding, performance and different traits are discussed in this interesting column.

 

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