| 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 |
| 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 (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 outstandingcutting mare, and dam of two famousQuarter horse cutting horses andstallions:Doc O'Lena andDry Doc.[1]
Poco Lena was foaled in 1949, the daughter ofPoco Bueno out of a daughter of Pretty Boy named Sheilwin. She traced toPeter McCue on both her sire's and her dam's side.[2]
With theAmerican 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 theNational 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 theNCHA Horse Hall of Fame.[6]
In late 1961, Poco Lenafoundered. 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 ofDoc Bar, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Jensen. After much nursing and effort, Poco Lena produced twofoals 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 waseuthanized.[1]
Poco Lena was inducted into theAQHA Hall of Fame.[7]
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