Baby Doll Combs

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Breed: Quarter Horse
Discipline: Rodeo
Sire: Oklahoma Star Jr
Grandsire: Oklahoma Star P-6
Dam: Miss Boctick
Maternal grandsire: Bert
Sex: Mare
Foaled: 1947
Country: United States
Color: Brown
Owner: Willard Combs
Honors
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Infobox last updated on: January 10, 2008.

Baby Doll Combs was a registered Quarter horse mare and a prominent rodeo horse.[1] She was owned by Willard Combs, a steer wrestler or bulldoger who competed in the rodeo circuit in the 1950's. Combs not only rode Baby Doll himself, but also allowed other wrestlers to ride her in return for a cut of the prize money.[1] Combs won the Rodeo Cowboy's Association - a precursor organization to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (or PRCA) - World Champion Steer Wrestler title in 1957 with Baby Doll.[1] Her one and only foal was Checotah Star, a result of an accidental breeding in 1957.[2] Between 1953 and her death in 1960 she earned over $400,000 in prize money, and in 1957 when she won the title for Combs, she also carried the riders who finished second, third, fourth and fifth in the standings. Bill Linderman, a famous rodeo cowboy, once said that "Baby Doll knew bulldogging better than some of the guys who rode her."[3]

She was bay mare who weighed about 1030 pounds and stood about 14.1 hands high. She had a blaze and a left hind sock as the only white on her.[3] A short horse is an advantage to a steer wrestler, as it's closer to the steer.[4]

Baby Doll died of a ruptured intestine in 1960.[1][2] She died at a Kansas rodeo, but her owner had her returned to Checotah, Oklahoma where he lived so that she could be buried on his ranch. Many of the cowboys who had earned money off her were present at the ceremony, and a photograph of them at the graveside appeared in Life Magazine.[5]

She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004.[6] The PRCA honored her in 1979 by inducting her into their Hall of Fame in the first group of inductees.[2]

[edit] Pedigree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lobos (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dennis Reed (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bess Chitman (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oklahoma Star P-6
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gulliver
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cutthroat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Belle K
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oklahoma Star Jr
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little Earl
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little Earl Jr
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Link Wiley mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Babe Dawson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little Earl
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Queen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Texas quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Baby Doll Combs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sam Watkins
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tommy Clegg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mamie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bert
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Beetch's Yellow Jacket
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lady Coolidge
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mayflower
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Boctick
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bosticks Ribbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Close Legends p. 116
  2. ^ a b c "Hall of Fame" Quarter Horse Journal March 2004 p. 50
  3. ^ a b Groves "Baby Doll" Quarter Horse Journal February 1994 p. 18
  4. ^ Lindeman The Quarter Horse Breeder p. 86
  5. ^ Wohlfarth "Last Rites" Quarter Horse Journal July 1996 p. 14
  6. ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008

[edit] References

  • All Breed Pedigree Pedigree of Baby Doll Combs
  • Close, Pat ed. Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 1993 ISBN 0-911647-26-0
  • Groves, Lesli Krause "Baby Doll" Quarter Horse Journal February 1994 p. 18
  • "Hall of Fame" Quarter Horse Journal March 2004 p. 42-53
  • Lindeman The Quarter Horse Breeder: Basic Text and References on the American Quarter Horse Wichita Falls:Quarter Horse Breeders Publishing Co. 1959
  • Wohlfarth, Jenny "Last Rites" Quarter Horse Journal July 1996 p. 14

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