04/14/2023
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐞
Poco Lena was bred to be royalty, sired by Poco Bueno and out of a mare called Sheilwin by Pretty Boy. But as other yearlings at the Waggoners’ Three D Stock Farm were being sold in 1950, no one seemed interested in her. It was just as well. Ranch manager Pine Johnson started working with her and was impressed by her talent. He developed her and started showing her in halter and cutting, where she began impressing a wider audience.
She went on to fame with the equally legendary Don Dodge and later was sold to B. A. Skipper, whose story turned tragic. Skipper was killed in a plane crash on the way back from a cutting, and the driver who had been hired to haul Poco Lena back disappeared. The mare was found four days later in the trailer, where she had been without food and water. She was severely foundered.
Dr. Stephen and Jasmine Jensen heard about the mare’s plight and purchased her, unaware of how bad her condition was. Read more about this mare’s sad story and about how her only foals for the Jensens – Doc O’Lena and Dry Doc – were game-changers for the cutting-horse industry. It’s in the March-April issue of The American Quarter Horse Journal, available for everyone to read ➡️ https://hubs.li/Q01KqMkT0
