DIAMOND N QUARTER HORSES

Doc Bar was bred by Tom & Jack Finley of Gilbert, Arizona. They bred Lightning Bar to Dandy Doll in hopes for a fast foal. At 14.3 and 1000 pounds, Doc Bar did not look the part of speed bred horse. Doc Bar was not a race horse. He won only $95 dollars in four starts. He wasn't even a performance horse, but he did turn into a good halter horse. Then once he bred some mares he turned into and exceptional sire whose offspring has changed the sport of cutting. His sons and daughters forever changed the cutting horse industry with their athleticism and presence.

Charley Araujo, from Coalinga, California, seen Doc Bar as a foal and remarked he wanted to show him as a halter horse if he did not make it on the track. Araujo was allowed to show Doc Bar and stood him in California.

Doc Bar was showed at halter 13 times, and earned 36 points, with 12 wins and 1 second. Doc Bar also stood grand Champion 10 times and reserve champion once. In 1962 Dr & Mrs Stephen Jenson of Orinda, California, purchased Doc Bar as a 6 year old. They were just starting up their horse ranch named the Double J. They eventually decided to cross their Poco Tivio mares to Doc Bar. This cross created one the great magic crosses within Quarter Horse History. He was also bred to daughters of King, Hollywood Gold, and Leo.

The Doc Bar cutting dynasty would start in 1969 with four offspring entered in NCHA futurity. Three placed second through 4th:Doc's Kitty ridden by Shorty Freeman: Doc Luck Bar, ridden by Buster Welch; and Doc's Leo Lad, ridden by Carol Rose.

This started the string of NCHA Futurity wins that continued almost unbroken for 2 decades, in which Doc Bar's get and grandget dominated cutting's most prestigious event. The ability of Doc Bar and his sons and daughters to pass on their talents became even more obvious in the 1983 NCHA Futurity, when 21 of the 23 finalists had Doc Bar somewhere in their pedigree.

Doc Bar renamed on the Double J, which was remained in 1970, to the Doc Bar Ranch. Doc Bar became famous not due to his performance abilities but more for the performance abilities of his offspring and grandget. Doc Bar sired 485 foals who earned 2,492 halter points and 4,569.5 performance points. This does not truly reflect Doc Bar's greatness though for many of his offspring competed in only NCHA cuttings.

At the age of 21, Doc Bar sired his last foal, suitably named Doc's Last Chance and born in 1978.

The Jensen's humanely put down Doc Bar on July 20, 1992, at the age of 36 years old.

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