AQHA MARE FOR SALE, BLOODLINES OF DOC'S STARLIGHT, DOC O'LENA, PEPPY CHEX DOC
Doc's Sneaky Pete, 1978 AQHA Reserve World Champion
Doc's Sneaky Pete was by Doc's Dee Bar, by Doc Bar and out of Beetle Bonnet.
We bought Pete as a very promising athletic two year stallion. He won every western pleasure futurity and class he was entered in as a two and three year old, and also halter classes. He severed a tendon on a trailer light guard and had to be on complete stall rest, but in time he recovered and eventually got back into training. After such a severe injury he was able to enter in reining and working cowhorse classes. He won AQHA reining, western pleasure, halter, working cowhorse classes. In 1978 he was the AQHA Reserve World Champion Working Cowhorse.
Shown in halter and western pleasure by Jerry Lucas.
1978 AQHA Reserve World Champion working cowhorse
As a four year old Pete was barely beaten at the AQHA world show by a King Ranch, TX son of Okie Leo
Doc's Sneaky Pete
Pete came to us as a very athletic, promising two year old stallion. He excelled in just about everything he was asked to do. He won pleasure and halter classes, reining and cow horse classes. After the 1978 AQHA World Show I started breeding him and he was an excellent horse to collect on a dummy mare. He threw a lot of color so APHA mares had lovely colorful foals. He turned out to be a producer of excellent athletic foals with good attitude and dispositions.
Doc's Sneaky Pete photos showing his versatility and beauty
1978 AQHA World Show
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
1978 Reserve world champion working cowhorse.
Tony Amaral trainer/rider,
Caroline & Danny Strub, owners.
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
Doc's Sneaky Pete was a born cowhorse. Tony trained him in a bosal.
Slide stopping in a bosal
Working cowhorse training with Tony Amaral
Arizona Sun Country Circuit Reining Champion
Reining horse training
Arizona Sun Country Circuit Reining Champion
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Arizona Sun Country Circuit Reining Champion
Tony Amaral was Pete's trainer for reining and cowhorse.
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Pete was a fabulous smooth ride as a western pleasure horse. Jerry Lucas was the trainer and rider in Western Pleasure futurities and AQHA classes.
Doc's Sneaky Pete was a Grand Champion halter horse
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Winner of the Del Mar Pleasure Futurity as a 2 year old
Pete had perfect conformation and lots of color. When bred to APHA mares he threw lots of white.
Doc's Sneaky Pete twin fillies
Miss Cue Pep gave birth at the age of 20 years to twin fillies - who thrived!
One filly was registered APHA , and named "Color me Sneaky". The smaller filly we named "Sneaky Surprise". We weren't expecting 2 babies!
The gorgeous paint baby was sold early on, but Surprise was tiny and needed the time to grow and fill out. When she was a two year old we bred her to Peppy Chex Doc and she had a filly who seemed almost as big as her Mom. Surprise lost all her colostrum so we took a unit of blood from another mare and gave the plasma to Surprise's baby. See the cover photo below in March 1st. 1985 California Horsetrader. The filly never looked back from that plasma transfusion and Surprise matured physically a great deal. She was eventually sold to a man who said "she is the best horse I've ever owned". What a wonderful life experience! In this old photo above Surprise is on the left and Color me Sneaky is the larger foal on the right.
Sneaky Surprise, the little twin, with her foal by Peppy
March 1st. 1985 California Horsetrader article
Caroline in March 1985 in the breeding barn at Strub Ranch.
I only did artificial insemination because there was no possibility of disease or injuries, and my stallions preferred it to live cover because they trusted the artificial mare - who was always the same height, color (they prefer a lighter color mare) and "she" never kicked them! Nobody ever got hurt or infected with a transmittable disease. In the summer months, the normal breeding time for horses, the sperm count could be high enough to breed more than 100 mares on one single collection if an extender was added. The photo shows the artificial vagina on the top shelf, that is filled with warm water the normal temperature of a mare. When ready to collect the stallion it weighs about 25 lbs. On the lower shelf is my microscope and spectrophotometer, which was used to do the sperm counts. I had used this equipment in my human pathology work.
We would have a mare in heat on cross ties in front of the stallion when we washed him. The stallions would always run right by the mare in heat over to the dummy mare - that's what they were trained to do and they felt confident and comfortable with that. Young mares would never know the fear of being bred by a stallion the first time, so it was much kinder and easier for them. Using artificial insemination we had an almost 100% conception rate. The only mare that couldn't be settled in foal was a lovely Sugar Bars bred mare whose uterus constantly produced pus - and in spite of using antibiotics to attempt to get rid of the bacteria, it would return to more pus production. I hated to tell her owners this, because I knew what would happen to the mare.
