AQHA Stallion Sire RecordAQHA Champions - 27, World Champion Sire, Cutting, Working Cowhorse, WP, Reserve World Ch. Sire, Cutting, Top Ten World Show Sire, AQHA High Pt Halter Stallion, Superior Performance Sire.  Sire of 31 AQHA Champions, Sire of NCHA Money-earners.  Some of his Outstanding Get: Doc O'Lena, '70 NCHA Futurity Champion, NCHA earner of $21,991, Doc Wilson, $33,361 LTE-CUT, NCHA $121,191; NCHA Hall of Fame.Nu Bar, 33 Perf. Pts, '74 O Res. World Champ. Jr. CUT.

  A look at  Doc Bar's pedigree shows speed, and that's what Tom and Jack Finley of Gilbert, Arizona, wanted when they bred Dandy Doll to Lightning Bar, a AAA AQHA Champion son of Three Bars (TB).  Dandy Doll was a AA mare by Texas Dandy, an atletic horse who sired 14 AAA runners and 3 AQHA Champions. Tom Finley says, "Dandy Doll won races from 220 yards up ro 440 yards. She was a small mare with alot of guts."

By crossing two running bloodlines, the Findleys had high hopes for a speedster.

"We wanted a race horse from that breeding," said Tom Finley (a past president of the AQHA), "but we didn't get a race horse. What we got was a good looking horse who did well at halter."  At 14.3 and 1,000 pounds, Doc Bar didnt look the part of a stretchy, streamlined race horse.

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