The Invester
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
|---|---|
| Discipline |
Western Pleasure Halter |
| Sire | Zippo Pat Bars |
| Grandsire | Three Bars (TB) |
| Dam | Hank's Peppy Lou |
| Maternal grandsire | Dinky Reed |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1969 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Sorrel |
| Breeder | Eldon R. England |
| Other awards | |
|
AQHA Performance Register of Merit AQHA Champion AQHA Superior Halter Horse | |
| Honors | |
|
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame | |
The Invester (1969–2002) was a Quarter Horse stallion who excelled at halter and at western pleasure, as well as being a famous sire of western pleasure horses.[1]
Life
The Invester was a 1969 sorrel son of Zippo Pat Bars and out of a linebred daughter of Dinky Reed named Hank's Peppy Lou. Hank's Peppy's Lou's dam Logan's Miss Lue, and she was out of a daughter of Dinky Reed.[2]
Jerry Wells bought The Invester as a weanling at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1969. Later, he described the horse as "He was a cherry-red sorrel with stockinged legs, a real pretty head and neck, and lots of body and muscle. He was also straight and correct and a good-minded colt."[3] Wells, however, felt that the original registered name of Hank Lou Bars wasn't a good fit for the colt, and renamed him with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) as The Invester.[4]
During his show career, The Invester earned an AQHA Superior Halter Horse award as well as an AQHA Championship and an AQHA Performance Register of Merit.[5] He earned points in Halter, Cutting, English Pleasure, Western Pleasure, and Reining. Although known for being a halter horse, in 1972 The Invester missed making the finals of the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity semi-finals by just one point.[3]
The Invester was the second Quarter horse stallion to be syndicated.[1][6] In 1994 he was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame.[4][7] He was humanely put down on February 28, 2002 due to old age.[1]
Among The Invester's offspring are The Appraiser, Double Vested, El Cicatriz, Bonafid, Investers Skip, The Stockbroker, The Big Investment, Vested Pine, Assets, and Impulsions.[1][5] His offspring The Big Investment and Impulsions were inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame, along with his grandget January Investment.[7] In 1980, his offspring placed first through fourth in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity.[3]
The Invester was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[8]
Pedigree
| Midway (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Percentage (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Gossip Avenue (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Three Bars (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Luke McLuke (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Myrtle Dee (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Civil Maid (TB) | ||||||||||||||||
| Zippo Pat Bars | ||||||||||||||||
| Joe Reed II | ||||||||||||||||
| Leo | ||||||||||||||||
| Little Fanny | ||||||||||||||||
| Leo Pat | ||||||||||||||||
| Little Chuck | ||||||||||||||||
| Dunny Girl | ||||||||||||||||
| Thoroughbred mare | ||||||||||||||||
| The Invester | ||||||||||||||||
| Joe Reed P-3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Reed McCue | ||||||||||||||||
| Patsy Reed | ||||||||||||||||
| Dinky Reed | ||||||||||||||||
| Chief P-5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dinky Rainbow | ||||||||||||||||
| Black Dixie | ||||||||||||||||
| Hank's Peppy Lou | ||||||||||||||||
| Hank H | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Hank | ||||||||||||||||
| Preview W | ||||||||||||||||
| Logan's Miss Lue | ||||||||||||||||
| Dinky Reed | ||||||||||||||||
| Logan's Betty | ||||||||||||||||
| Logan's Ruby | ||||||||||||||||
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 Holmes Legends 6 pp. 170–183
- ↑ Pedigree of The Invester at All Breed Pedigree
- 1 2 3 Meyer "Living Legends: The Invester" Horse & Rider pp. 56–59, 96
- 1 2 Campbell "Chairman of the Board" Quarter Horse Journal" p. 12
- 1 2 PItzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 134
- ↑ "There's Fixin to be an Invester Revival" Southern Horseman pp. 20–21
- 1 2 NSBA Hall of Fame
- ↑ AQHA Hall of Fame
References
- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for The Invester accessed on June 26, 2007
- AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on October 31, 2011
- Campbell, Jim Bret (April 2000). "Chairman of the Board". Quarter Horse Journal: 12.
- Holmes, Frank (editor) (2004). Legends 6: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares. Colorado Springs, CO: Western Horseman. ISBN 0-911647-73-2.
- Meyer, Jennifer Forsberg (March 1997). "Living Legends: The Invester". Horse & Rider: 56–59, 96.
- NSBA Hall of Fame accessed on July 5, 2007
- Pitzer, Andrea Laycock (1987). The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires. Tacoma, WA: Premier Pedigrees.
- Staff (February 1991). "There's Fixin to be an Invester Revival... The Invester". Southern Horseman: 20–21.
External links
- The Invester at Quarter Horse Directory
- The Invester at Quarter Horse Legends
- The Invester at Dan McWhirter Quarter Horses