Doc O'Lena
| Breed | Quarter Horse |
|---|---|
| Discipline | Cutting |
| Sire | Doc Bar |
| Grandsire | Lightning Bar |
| Dam | Poco Lena |
| Maternal grandsire | Poco Bueno |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1967 |
| Country | United States |
| Color | Bay |
| Breeder | Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen |
| Owner | Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen |
| Other awards | |
| 1970 NCHA Futurity Champion | |
| Honors | |
| American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame | |
Doc O'Lena (1967-1993) was a Quarter Horse stallion, a champion cutting horse and a sire of champion cutting horses. He was inducted into both the AQHA and NCHA Halls of Fame, as was his dam Poco Lena. He was the 1970 NCHA Futurity Open Champion, followed by his full brother, Dry Doc, who won the title in 1971. As a sire, Doc O'Lena earned recognition as the first futurity champion to sire a futurity champion when Lenaette won the title in 1975. He also sired Smart Little Lena, the first horse to win the NCHA Triple Crown.
Doc O'Lena was foaled in 1967, sired by Doc Bar and out of the mare Poco Lena. He is one of only two horses in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame with both parents also inductees; the other is Easy Jet. His color was bay, and his only markings were a small star on his head, and a small white half pastern on his left hind foot. He was bred and owned by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Jensen of Paicines, California at the time of registration.
The Jensens had hoped to sell Doc O'Lena as a yearling to cutting horse trainer, Don Dodge. Dodge had purchased Doc O'Lena's dam in 1953 from E. Paul Waggoner’s Three D Stock Farm in Arlinton, TX., and had successfully shown her to win numerous AQHA and NCHA awards and titles. After seeing Doc O'Lena, Dodge concluded that he was too small to be a cutting horse, and passed on the offer. The Jensens decided to keep Doc O'Lena and get him into the hands of a professional trainer. They contacted Shorty Freeman who, in 1968, was hauling for the NCHA World Championship title showing King Skeet for Adrian Berryhill. On his way to the San Francisco Cow Palace, Freeman stopped by the Jensen's to look at Doc O'Lena. Freeman wasn't concerned about the yearling's small size, and agreed to take him for training.
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