The Invester | |
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Breed | Quarter Horse |
Discipline |
Western Pleasure Halter |
Sire | Zippo Pat Bars |
Grandsire | Three Bars (TB) |
Dam | Hank's Peppy Lou |
Maternal grandsire | Dinky Reed |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1969 |
Country | United States |
Color | Sorrel |
Breeder | Eldon R. England |
Other awards | |
AQHA Performance Register of Merit AQHA Champion AQHA Superior Halter Horse | |
Honors | |
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Midway (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Gossip Avenue (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Three Bars (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Luke McLuke (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Myrtle Dee (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Civil Maid (TB) | |||||||||||||||||||
Zippo Pat Bars | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Reed II | |||||||||||||||||||
Leo | |||||||||||||||||||
Little Fanny | |||||||||||||||||||
Leo Pat | |||||||||||||||||||
Little Chuck | |||||||||||||||||||
Dunny Girl | |||||||||||||||||||
Thoroughbred mare | |||||||||||||||||||
The Invester | |||||||||||||||||||
Joe Reed P-3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Reed McCue | |||||||||||||||||||
Patsy Reed | |||||||||||||||||||
Dinky Reed | |||||||||||||||||||
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Dinky Rainbow | |||||||||||||||||||
Black Dixie | |||||||||||||||||||
Hank's Peppy Lou | |||||||||||||||||||
Hank H | |||||||||||||||||||
Last Hank | |||||||||||||||||||
Preview W | |||||||||||||||||||
Logan's Miss Lue | |||||||||||||||||||
Dinky Reed | |||||||||||||||||||
Logan's Betty | |||||||||||||||||||
Logan's Ruby | |||||||||||||||||||