Poco Lena

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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
Honors
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, 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
Infobox last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Poco Lena was an outstanding cutting mare, and dam of two famous Quarter horse cutting horses and stallions: Doc O'Lena and Dry Doc.[1]

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[edit] 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) she 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 of 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]

She was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[7]

[edit] 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
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Swan Legends 3 p. 98-111
  2. ^ Poco Lena Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree retrieved June 26, 2007
  3. ^ a b Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 544
  4. ^ Poco Lena NCHA Earnings retrieved on July 4, 2007
  5. ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 97
  6. ^ NCHA Hall of Fame retrieved on July 4, 2007
  7. ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008

[edit] References

  • All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for Poco Lena retrieved on June 26, 2007
  • AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008
  • Pitzer, Andrea Laycock The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
  • Swan, Kathy ed. Legends 3:Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 1997
  • Wagoner, Dan Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974

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