Poco Lena
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Cutting |
| Sire | Poco Bueno |
| Grandsire | King P-234 |
| Dam | Sheilwin |
| Maternal grandsire | Pretty Boy |
| Sex | Mare |
| Foaled | 1949 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | E. Paul Waggoner |
| Owner | E. Paul Waggoner, Don Dodge |
| Other awards | |
|
AQHA Performance Register of Merit AQHA Champion AQHA Superior Halter Horse AQHA Superior Cutting Horse 1959-1960-1961 AQHA High Point Cutting Horse 1959-1960-1961 NCHA World Champion Cutting Mare,br>1954-1955-1959-1960-1961 NCHA Reserve World Champion NCHA Silver Award NCHA Bronze Award | |
| Honors | |
|
NCHA Hall of Fame American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
Poco Lena (1949–1968) was an outstanding cutting mare, and dam of two famous Quarter horse cutting horses and stallions: Doc O'Lena and Dry Doc.[1]
Life
Poco Lena was foaled in 1949, the daughter of Poco Bueno out of a daughter of Pretty Boy named Sheilwin. She traced to Peter McCue on both her sire's and her dam's side.[2]
With the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) Poco Lena earned her AQHA Championship, a Performance Register of Merit, a Superior Cutting Horse award and a Superior Halter Horse award.[3] She was also the AQHA High Point Cutting Horse in 1959, 1960, and 1961.[3] With the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) she earned a total of $99,819.61 in cutting contests in her career.[4] She earned a Certificate of Ability, as well as a Bronze and a Silver Award with the NCHA.[5] She was also inducted into the NCHA Hall of Fame.[6]
In late 1961, Poco Lena foundered. She recovered, and was showing well when in October 1962 her owner, B. A. Skipper Jr., died in a plane crash. In the confusion, Poco Lena was left in a trailer for four days without food or water. She foundered again, and never competed again.[1] Eventually she was bought by the owners of Doc Bar, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Jensen. After much nursing and effort, Poco Lena produced two foals when bred to Doc Bar – Doc O'Lena and Dry Doc, both of whom won the NCHA Cutting Futurity.[1] However, Poco Lena's founder deteriorated after the birth of Dry Doc, and on December 16, 1968 she was put to sleep.[1]
Poco Lena was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[7]
Pedigree
| Little Joe | ||||||||||||||||
| Zantanon | ||||||||||||||||
| Jeanette | ||||||||||||||||
| King P-234 | ||||||||||||||||
| Strait Horse | ||||||||||||||||
| Jabalina | ||||||||||||||||
| mare by Traveler | ||||||||||||||||
| Poco Bueno | ||||||||||||||||
| Little Joe | ||||||||||||||||
| Old Poco Bueno | ||||||||||||||||
| Virginia D | ||||||||||||||||
| Miss Taylor | ||||||||||||||||
| Hickory Bill | ||||||||||||||||
| mare by Hickory Bill | ||||||||||||||||
| unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Poco Lena | ||||||||||||||||
| Harmon Baker | ||||||||||||||||
| Dodger | ||||||||||||||||
| Froggie | ||||||||||||||||
| Pretty Boy | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip | ||||||||||||||||
| Little Maud | ||||||||||||||||
| Bess | ||||||||||||||||
| Sheilwin | ||||||||||||||||
| Yellow Jacket | ||||||||||||||||
| Blackburn | ||||||||||||||||
| Siss | ||||||||||||||||
| mare by Blackburn | ||||||||||||||||
| unknown | ||||||||||||||||
| Waggoner Ranch mare | ||||||||||||||||
| unknown | ||||||||||||||||
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Swan Legends 3 pp. 98–111
- ↑ Poco Lena Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree
- 1 2 Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 544
- ↑ Poco Lena NCHA Earnings
- ↑ Pitzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 97
- ↑ NCHA Hall of Fame
- ↑ AQHA Hall of Fame
References
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for Poco Lena retrieved on June 26, 2007
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on October 30, 2011
- NCHA Hall of Fame retrieved on March 1, 2011
- Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
- Poco Lena NCHA Earnings retrieved on March 1, 2011
- Swan, Kathy, ed. (1997). Legends 3:Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs: Western Horseman.
- Wagoner, Dan (1974). Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition. Grapevine, TX: Equine Research.