Doc Olena

At the 1970 National Cutting Horse Association Futurity clean sweep of the futurity’s preliminary go-rounds, semi-finals and finals. Doc O’Lena earned a lifetime amount of $21,991 in the NCHA.

Doc O’Lena died on February 27, 1993, at the Phillips Ranch in Frisco, Texas. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1997.

Doc O’Lena sired 1,310 foals. Of these, 321 accumulated 3,978.5 points; 87 earned performance Registers of Merit (also nine amateur, three youth); nine earned Superior performance awards; four were world champions; six were youth world champions; six were youth world champions; and four were reserve world champions.

Doc O’Lena became the first futurity winner to sire a winner. Smart Little Lena, a stallion from Doc O’Lena’s ninth crop, was the first horse to win NCHA’s Triple Crown. Doc O’Lena also sired Tanquery Gin, Shorty Lena, CD Olena, Mr Sun O Lena, Travalena and Scarlett O Lena. By 1978, Doc O’Lena had been syndicated for an unprecedented $2.1 million.