The Invester
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The Invester (1969–2002) was a Quarter Horse stallion who excelled at halter and at western pleasure, as well as being a famous sire of western pleasure horses.[1]
Life
The Invester was a 1969 sorrel son of Zippo Pat Bars and out of a linebred daughter of Dinky Reed named Hank's Peppy Lou. Hank's Peppy's Lou's dam Logan's Miss Lue, and she was out of a daughter of Dinky Reed.[2]
Jerry Wells bought The Invester as a weanling at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1969. Later, he described the horse as "He was a cherry-red sorrel with stockinged legs, a real pretty head and neck, and lots of body and muscle. He was also straight and correct and a good-minded colt."[3] Wells, however, felt that the original registered name of Hank Lou Bars wasn't a good fit for the colt, and renamed him with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) as The Invester.[4]
Show career
During his show career, The Invester earned an AQHA Superior Halter Horse award as well as an AQHA Championship and an AQHA Performance Register of Merit.[5] He earned points in Halter, Cutting, English Pleasure, Western Pleasure, and Reining. Although known for being a halter horse, in 1972 The Invester missed making the finals of the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity semi-finals by just one point.[3]
Breeding record
Among The Invester's offspring are The Appraiser, Double Vested, El Cicatriz, Bonafid, Investers Skip, The Stockbroker, The Big Investment, Vested Pine, Assets, and Impulsions.[1][5] His offspring The Big Investment and Impulsions were inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Horse Hall of Fame, along with his grandget January Investment.[6] In 1980, his offspring placed first through fourth in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity.[3]
Death and honors
The Invester was the second Quarter horse stallion to be syndicated.[1][7] In 1994 he was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame.[8][4][6] He was humanely put down on February 28, 2002, due to old age.[1] The Invester was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004.[9]
Pedigree
Notes
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- ↑ a b c d Holmes Legends 6 pp. 170–183
- ↑ Pedigree of The Invester at All Breed Pedigree
- ↑ a b c Meyer "Living Legends: The Invester" Horse & Rider pp. 56–59, 96
- ↑ a b Campbell "Chairman of the Board" Quarter Horse Journal, p. 12
- ↑ a b PItzer Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 134
- ↑ a b NSBA Hall of Fame
- ↑ "There's Fixin to be an Invester Revival" Southern Horseman pp. 20–21
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References
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- All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for The Invester accessed on June 26, 2007
- https://www.aqha.com/hall-of-fame AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on September 2, 2017
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- NSBA Hall of Fame accessed on July 5, 2007
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External links
- The Invester at Quarter Horse Directory
- The Invester at Quarter Horse Legends
- The Invester at Dan McWhirter Quarter Horses