Is Doc Bar a good racing blood line?

Question

im looking into buying a barrel horse with doc bar in him ppl keep teling me its a pleasure line but some tell me its a running line, i dont knwo much about doc bar so i was wondering if anyone could tell me more??

Answer 1

Doc bar is a throughbred so yea he will have speed in him, if hes has qh in him like mine he should do barrels fine. and yea doc bar is a pleasure horse but hes also great at running but really in barrel racing its about that horse not the blood line but the line does help in selling and race common sences. hope that helps good luck

Answer 2

It all depends on the other horses in the pedigree of the horse you get.

He certainly could add some good qualities to a barrel horse.

My friend has a mare with some Doc Bar lines and she is a great barrel horse. She's never been 1D, but runs consistent times and is a great all-around horse, winning in open speed events, barrels, poles, and doing things from jumping and dressage clinics to western pleasure. She is also a great trail horse. She's thrown some gorgeous foals too.

Answer 3

Doc Bar was bred to be a race horse, but he ended up only maturing to about 14'3 and had the build of a really stocky cow type horse, not so much a race horse. Finding a horse with enough up close Doc Bar blood right now would be hard. One of the latest horses to be producing that type of foal is Firewater Flit. You can find his breeding pretty easy....just an option.

Answer 4

Doc Bar horses have great speed, like people say they make the best ranch horses. They love it when you make them work and work. I'm not joking my friend has a Doc Bar mare. She loves it when you make her work. Her mother was the same exact way. Her trainer told me that mare hated being groomed for a long time, but loved it when you tacked her up and worked her. He told me one time the headstall he was using on the mare broke. But the mare held the bit in her mouth. True story.

Some Doc Bar horses are hard headed. But once you convence them that your the boss their the best companions. But Doc Bar is not a pleasure line

Answer 5

i have a doc bar horse and he is a great cow horse,kind of goofy (he makes faces at the cattle and sometimes nips them)but a great cow horse.the line is good but all horses have their own traits,mine can turn on a dime,spin,back up and still beat a cow across the pen,my friend also has a doc bar and cant get him to go.so it really depends on the horse,some of the fastest horses i have seen are mountain bred quarters that look like monsters with a roman nosed attitude,but man are they fast

Answer 6

http://www.sunrisewest.com/reference.html



A link for Barrel Horse reference sires......................................



Doc Bar's parents were both registered Quarter Horses. Lightning Bar (sire) 1951; Dandy Doll by Texas Dandy (Dam) 1948.



Go to an Easy Jet or Go Man Go bloodline (there are others out there). They're bred to run....



Doc Bar couldn't do anything but look pretty in halter classes when he was alive....now, his extended "get" are known for their cow smarts...Working Cow Horse and Cutting. The dream "nick" for a cowhorse is a Doc Bar crossed on a King Fritz decendant.



http://www.barrelhorseworld.com/



Barrel horses for sale



Doc Bar "get" see what they're famous for............

http://qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=2746&sex=



I have a grandson of Doc's Hickory who is by Doc Bar. Doc's Hickory is the number 4 all time winning sire of registered cutting horses...my gelding shows immense talent in the cutting pen and in also taking a steer down the fence.

He is close up Doc Tom Tucker on his dam's side.



Go to this link to see close up sons of Doc's Hickory.



http://www.berteigperformancehorses.com/CrackinHickory.htm

Answer 7

I had him far back in one of my mare's pedigree. He was on the stud's side. Researching it...I found he was bred to race, but actually excelled in halter and cow sense. And the cow sense is what I was looking for. Like any stud...he has his fans, and those who don't like him. The down side of him for me...was I bred Foundation Quarter Horses, and the thoroughbred blood in him...counted against a foundation bloodline.

I was also told...don't KNOW if it's true...that alot of Doc Bar's have what they call a 'spade' hoof. Just a big flat hoof. Don't know if that's so...because of his history in halter showing.