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Poco Dell
1950; Bay; Poco Bueno x Shady Dell
Stallion Show Record
AQHA Champion, '57 O
ROM Performance, '57 O
Halter Point Earner
Performance Point Earner
Total Points Earned: 50; Halter Points: 35; Perf Points: 15; 
Stallion Offspring Record
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring, Leading sires list.
ROM Performance Offspring
Halter Point Earners
Performance Point Earners
AQHA Offspring Record
Total Points Earned: 4,235.5; Reg Foals: 474; Number Shown: 184; Point Earners: 158; 
Halter Points Earned: 2,308; Halter Point Earners: 126; Superior Halter Awards: 11; 
Performance Points Earned: 1,927.5; Performance Point Earners: 123; Performance ROMS: 52; Superior Performance Awards: 4; 
AQHA Champions: 18; Total Superior Awards: 15; Total ROM's: 52; High Point Wins: 3; 
Leading Sire List
AQHA Performance List: #13 All-time leading broodmare sire of AQHA Champions - 18; #18 All-time leading sire of Open AQHA Champions - 18
Outstanding Offspring
Poco Dondi, 135 HLT & 23.5 Pert Pts.
Shady Fawn, 6 HLT & 342 Perf Pts.

Poco Tivio

POCO Tivio: A true cow horse   (STORY)
He was the first foal of Poco Buenos and one of the first horses to bring the blood of King to the Pacific Coast. He became a legend in his own time and left us with the legacy of his ancestors. PocoTivio was a pure cow horse.
The Tivio legend properly begins back in June 1952, on a sunny day in Santa Barbara California, when a young Lloyd Jenkins declared the young horse grand champion stallion at the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Associationâ€™s eighth annual show. Poco Tivio's bay coat gleamed like had rubbed mahogany. His exceptionally good withers and powerful arm and hindquarters were qualities to catch and hold the eye of any knowing judge.
Poco Tivio stood easily, for it was a placed he had occupied may times in h is short career. Head had left his impression on audiences in Denver, Houston, and Fort Worth. Five years old now, the young stallion was doing much to build the reputation of Poco Bueno as a sire. In the cutting arena, he was exhibiting to West Coast horsemen the best of Texas style cow work.
The significance of the Santa Barbara win was that it put the young stallion under the wire in his race to another championship. Poco Tivio now had enough points to give him the coveted title which the American Quarter Horse Association was hold in reserve for only the best of it s reprehensive. In September 1952, the associtiation announced the names of its first AQHA Champions. Poco Tivio's name headed that list; he had a total of eight halter points and 16 points in cutting. The names that accompanied his name were Little Egyptâ€™s, Star Jack Jr., Paul A, JB King, Snipper W, Pandora and Babe Mac C (In an era when 16 hand Quarter Horses are almost commonplace it is an interring to not that not one of those early day champions stood over 14.3 and there were a couple of fair race horses among them.)
Poco Tivio was the first blush of a cautious mating of two successful bloodlines. Poco Bueno, a line bred Little Joe, was a South Texas Quarter Horse through and through. Poco Tivio's mother, Shellwin, represented the best of the Waggoner ranch breeding at the time. Her sire was Pretty Boy by Dodger by Harmon Baker. She was out of a mare by Blackburn, who was destined to become a leading Material GRANDSIRE of AQUA CHAMPIONS.
Just as Poco Bueno was to become a leading sire, Shellwin would soon be an important matron of the breed. This crossed proved more than moderately successful, for it had produced two tier AQHA Champions. Poco Champ and Poco Lena. The latter was quite possibly the greatest cutting mare of all time. She campaigned consistently for 11 years, held the career earnings record-just short of $100,000-for 16 years and when retired as a broodmare, produced the NCHA Futurity winners Dry Doc and DocO'Lena.
The Waggonerâ€™s proved Poco Tivio out before they let him go. The young stallion came along at a time when cow cutting was starting to catch on as a spectator event. Poco Bueno hand been shown as a cutting horse, and his first son exhibited by the same inclination to play with cattle.
Pine Johnson was still showing Poco Bueno when Poco Tivio was ready to begin competition. The Waggoner trainer found himself riding both horses in many of those early shows. Father and son had similar styles, both of them extremely powerful and quick, and each with a whole corral full of cow sense. They were both crowd pleasers and did much to bring cutting into national prominence.
In September 1950, the Waggonerâ€™s held a sale at Vernon, Texas. Average for the sell was $675. As the high selling lot, Poco Tivio went under the hammer to the late Cliff Mager's of Fort Worth for $5,000. Under Waggonerâ€™s ownership, Poco Tivio continued to win halter classes and add more cutting points to his credit with the help of a couple of good cowboys named Milt Bennett and Andy Hensley.
By this time, some of the West Coast trainers were beginning to jump on the cutting bandwagon. One of these was Californian Don Dodge.
Dodge was training hunters and jumpers, and had brought some good bridle horses into prominence. Dodge felt that cutting was going to catch on in California, just as it had in the Southwest. In July of 1951, Dodge bought Poco Tivio from Mager's "for slight under $15,000." The young stallion was reported to be the highest price cutting horse in the country at the time.
Before the end of the following year, Dodge had ridden the bay horse into the Top-10 NCHA standings. Poco Tivio's success heralded the importation of literally truckloads of Poco Buenoâ€™s sons and daughters in California. The remaining years of the 50's were those of unprecedented demand for the get of a single sire. Poco Bueno set the standard for both conformation and in performing style as no other individal had done before. His fashionably during that ear was of an intensity since unequaled.
One of the first California breeders to recognize the future demand for this breeding was Charles Araujo, a native Californian whose entire life had revolved around horse and livestock. There is little doubt that his knowledge was vast and his insight keen. Long before the Quarter Horse boom- even before establishment of registry-Araujo was bringing good horses to his Coalinga ranch, and breeding better ones. He stood he Grand Champion, Catechu, at California's first Quarter Horse Show in 1944.
Shortly after Don Dodge purchased Poco Tivio, he added Snipper W to his stable. This young gelding was well on his way to the NCHA Championships. Dodge had little use for a breeding stallion at that time and even though Poco Tivio was campaigning well, he decided to let him go and make an all-out-effort for the world with his flashy dun gelding. 
In 1952, shortly after he earned his AQHA Championship, Poco Tivio added his name to the list of outstanding horses owned by Charles Araujo. And under the guiding hand of this master breeder, the bay stallion was to mount an influence, which virtually mutated the California cow horse. The Poco Tivioâ€™s were temperamentally low -keyed, but their working style had flash and color.
The Tivioâ€™s were a versatile lot. They stood in halter classes; they competed as working and pleasure horses with their amateur owner-riders; they moved in the toughest company of highly competitive events especially cutting.
Although Poco Tivio sired good sons who also became good sire- horses like Puro Tivio it is probably through his producing daughters that he will be best remembered. Mares such as Theresa Tivio, Tibet and Bonita Tivio are the sustenance of which reputations for maternal grandsires are made. 
Could there have been more champions? Some think there could have been. Poco Tivio grew up under Arturoâ€™s Ownership. The Tivioâ€™s were great in demand thought the 50's and on into the 60's. But fashions do change and horsemen are, by and large, acaprocopis lot. Just as they had allowed the King blood to alter the shape and scope of their working horses, they were now addressing themselves to still another changing influence.
Quarter Horse racing experienced tremendous growth during decade of the 50's. It became expedient and popular to use thoroughbred sires to inject more speed in to older Quarter Horse stains. Although many of the thoroughbred sires did not compliment Quarter Horse type, there were some notably Three Bars, which merely modified Quarter Horse conformation, gave it more refinement as well as size. Such blood produced speed and stamina which lacking in many of the individuals from foundation quarter horse strains. This blood inevitably found its way in to the working strains and changed the whole breeding picture. Many breeders who wanted to survive either supplemented the new blood, or abandoned older failure altogether, developing new programs based on bloodlines from the speed horse. This was especially true in the Pacific Coast.
Ironically it was Charles Araujo himself who brought Doc Bar (a grandson of Three Bars) into California-just as, years before, her had introduced Joe Reed and Then King blood to the west coast scene. The result of this importation was that Tivio stock began to fade. Doc Bar was himself a very refined looking individual with a classic head, almost Arabic in its elegance. Yet his musculature exhibited as much lusty energetic force as any of the old strains.
The first Doc Bar foals graced the halter scene and those began to have their impact on the type. Dr. And Mrs. Stephen Jensen purchased the six-year-old Doc Bar from Araujo in 1962, and stood him at their Paicines Ranch. They set out to probe him as a sire of doing horses as well as beauty contest winners. Their success in this venture is now history. But in the m meantime, Poco Tivio mealy dropped in to oblivion. Still owned by Araujo, he no longer stood to the public. The aging horseman was allowing the aging stallion to service only a few of his own mares each year. Many people thought the old horse was dead.
But what many of the Doc Bar fanciers did not realize-or chose to ignore was the first \\ fact that the nucleus of the Jensen broodmare band, from whence sprung the wondrous Doc bars, were daughters of King, Poco Bueno and Poco Tivio. The top-line "sting" of the Doc Bar was so overwhelming that many horsemen overlooked the bottom line and the subtle influences of the blood of King.
Before his death in December 1972. Charles Araujo provided for the last years of the greatest of all his great horses by leaving him to and p; d and trusted friend, Floyd Boss. And in so doing, perhaps unknowingly created a final serge of much deserved popularity for Poco Tivio,
Boss, a farrier who lives in Fresno, California took Poco Tivio to Silken Oaks, a stud farm on the outskirts of Fresno. He stood the grand old sire for a nominal fee and the Tivio book was immediately filled. At 26 years, Poco Tivio was still and handsome individual relying his age. But now a scion of the Quarter Horse royalty, he attended his stud duties with the enthusiasm of a three- year old and self-assurance of a veteran. Although gentle and easily handled, advanced age did not prevent him from bowing his heavily crested neck and trumpeting peremptory challenges to the upstart studs Occupying adjacent stalls. Many of Poco Buenosâ€™s admirable qualities had not been inherited by his first-born. Longivity was one of them. King lived to the patriarchal age of 26. And Poco Bueno hoarded his band of mares over the limitless pastures of the half million-acre Waggoner Ranch until he died, sound and active, at 25.
It said that Poco Tivio, at age 27, two years before his death in 1976, was moving on granite-gray feet with the light step of a range colt, exuding stallion masculinity form every pore of his 14.2 hand, 1200 pound frame. The blood of Poco Tivio represents a heritage, which transcends mere fashionably. His influence will be carried into future generations, and the horseman of tomorrow will be better mounted for his having been here.

Poco Ojos Grande

Poco Ojos Grande â€“ Last Living Son of Poco Bueno  (STORY)
Died April 9, 2002

Poco Ojos Grande was a 1969 bay stallion and the last living son of Poco Bueno.  The horses in his pedigree are legends, but most people aren't aware of the major contributions he made to the foundation quarter horse movement.  In the last years of his life, Poco Ojos Grande produced a large number of foundation bred foals.

Early in his life the "bulldog" Foundation Quarter Horse fell out of favor with the halter, pleasure and racehorse enthusiast.  They were looking for horses with a thoroughbred type conformation.  In the early days of the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA), horses like Poco Ojos Grande and the others in his pedigree were the kind of horses that were winning at halter as well as performance.  He is one of the all-around type horses that were popular at the inception of the AQHA.

Poco Ojos Grande had a difficult start in life.  He was the last foal of his dam, Wimpy's Ojos and was orphaned at a young age.  Poco Ojos Grande was later injured when hit by a truck on the Waggoner Ranch.  Those of us interested in the old foundation bloodlines are fortunate that he has been around long enough to give us some of the youngest grandsons and granddaughters of Poco Bueno.

Poco Ojos Grande was an own son of the great Poco Bueno and out of Wimpy's Ojos.  Wimpy's Ojos was by Wimpy P-1, and out of an own daughter of Peppy-212.  Poco Ojos Grande is a royal bred Foundation Quarter Horse.  He is one of eight foals from Poco Bueno's last foal crop.

Poco Ojos Grande's sire, Poco Bueno, embarked on his performance career as a cutting horse.  Poco Bueno, the most famous son of the immortal King P-234, quickly made a name for himself in the cutting arena, while earning 37 halter points and an AQHA championship.  Poco Bueno had 405 registered foals of which there are 163 halter point earners; 118 performance point earners and 83 register of merits (ROM) earners.  He is still a leading sire of AQHA Champions with 36 foals obtaining this achievement.

Poco Bueno produced many National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) competitors, but the most well known was his daughter, Poco Lena.  For ten consecutive years Poco Lena was a top ten finalist in cutting.  She was a top money earner, and was the first horse inducted into the NCHA Hall of Fame.  Poco Lena earned a performance ROM; superior halter, superior cutting; and AQHA champsionship.  Her most important contribution was as a broodmare.  Poco Lena competed for so long that she had only two foals, but these were the 1970 and 1971 NCHA futurity champsions, Doc O'Lena and Dry Doc.

Poco Ojos Grande's dam, Wimpy's Ojos, was one of  E. Paul  Waggoner's favorite mares.  Mr. Waggoner was the third generation raising these horses to supply the 500,000 acre W.T. Waggoner Ranch,  and had as many as 500 head of Foundation Quarter Horses to choose from at any one time.  Even before the founding of the AQHA, the Waggoner ranch was considered one of the premier breeders of top quality horses.  In his book, Outstanding Quarter Horse Sires, Nelson C. Nye remarked, "The Waggoner's bred, searched out and corraled one of the most impressive bands of quarter horses ever seen under one iron."

Poco Ojos Grande's, dam, Wimpy's Ojos, had twelve foals.  She had eight mares and four stallions all sired by Poco Bueno.  These foals earned 245 AQHA points, including Poco Ojos who earned a performance ROM; superior halter and an AQHA Championship.

Poco Ojos Grande's full brother, Poco Husky, was selected by  E. Paul Waggoner to be the replacement sire for Poco Bueno when he retired.  After Mr. Waggoner passed away in 1967, Poco Husky and most of his horses were sold in a dispersal sale.  Poco Bueno and Poco Ojos Grande's dam, Wimpy's Ojos, were two of the few horses retained by the Waggoner Estate.

Poco Ojos Grande's dam, Wimpy's Ojos, was sired by Wimpy P-1.  Wimpy was a double bred grandson of Old Sorrel, the foundation sire of the King Ranch horses.  Wimpy P-1 achieved fame by being awarded the number one in the AQHA registry.  The AQHA awarded this number to the grand champion stallion at the Fort Worth Exposition and Fat Stock Show in 1941.  The best stallions of that era were there competing when Wimpy earned a grand championship and the number of designation.  Wimpy had 174 registered foals and they earned 547 AQHA points.  He sired four performance ROM earners; two superior halter earners, one superior performance earner; and one AQHA champion.

Wimpy's Ojos' dam was sired by another King Ranch stallion, Peppy 212.  He was the first horse extensively shown by the King Ranch.  Peppy 212 was shown for several years and was considered by most people to be unbeatable.  He was almost always named Grand Champion stallion.   Peppy 212 had 193 foals and they earned 122 AQHA points; two performance ROM's and one race ROM.  Robert Denhardt said that Peppy 212 was best known for the good mares he sired.  Peppy's daughter, Caccucchai, bred to Wimpy, produced Showdown, who had an outstanding career and became a leading sire of AQHA champions.

Early in Poco Ojos Grande's life, horses of Poco Bueno breeding weren't as popular as in the early days of the AQHA, or as they are now.  As a result of this and some breeding problems due to an injury and venereal disease, he sired very few foals the first years of his life.  Poco Ojos Grande's major contribution to the foundation quarter horse movement came in the last years of his life.  After trying unsuccessfully in the past to buy Poco Ojos Grande, M.L. Belcher Jr. of Holliday, Texas was able to obain him in 1993 at the age of 24.  At this time Poco Ojos Grande had sired 18 registered foals.  Mr. Belcher put him under the care of some very capable equine specialists, and now at the age of 33 he has produced over 200 foals.  Poco Ojos Grande's last foal crop was in the year 2000, when he produced ten foals.  Breeding this great son of Poco Bueno to the best foundation quarter horse mares available, Mr. Belcher has perpetuated the foundation quarter horse bloodline of King, Poco Bueno, Wimpy and Peppy.  The stallion that started his breeding career at a $125 stud fee to outside mares and booked very few, ended up commanding a $3000 stud fee to breed select outside mares.

Poco Ojos Grande is now deceased, but these great old foundation bloodlines can still be obtained through his many sons and daughters.These type of horses are winning in the Foundation Quarter Horse Registry Shows.

Poco Mos

Commander King

Pistol Lady 2 Be

Royal Holly Gold

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Pine's Holly

Tinhorn Doc

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Jameen Tivio

Susie's Bay

Susie's Bay
1955; Bay; Poco Tivio x Susie L
Mare Offspring Record
Hall of Fame Offspring
World Champion Offspring
Top Ten World Show Offspring
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA High Point Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
NCHA Money-earners
Halter Point Earners
Performance Point Earners
AQHA Offspring Record
Total Points Earned: 1,064; Reg Foals: 12; Number Shown: 10; Point Earners: 10; 
Halter Points Earned: 64; Halter Point Earners: 7; 
Performance Points Earned: 1,000; Performance Point Earners: 13; Performance ROMS: 11; Superior Performance Awards: 2; 
AQHA Champions: 2; Total Superior Awards: 2; Total ROM's: 11; World Championships: 3; High Point Wins: 2; 
AQHA Offspr NCHA LTE: $166,560
Outstanding Offspring
Doc's Bar Bender, 19 Perf Pts; O Perf ROM
Doc's Marmoset, 24 Perf Pts; NCHA LTE: $94,066.22; '74 World Champion O Jr CUT; '81 NCHA O World Champion
Doc's Oak, NCHA LTE-$70,997.95, COA Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum; NCHA Hall Of Fame
Doc's Solano, 18 HLT & 48 Perf Pts; O AQHA Champion; O Perf ROM
Doc's Susie Que, 11 HLT & 5 Perf Pts
Doc's Sweet Sue, 24 HLT & 162 Perf Pts; O & 2 Y Perf ROMs; O AQHA Champion; NCHA LTE: $321.32
Janey Durante, 2 HLT & 137 Perf Pts; O & Y Perf ROMs; '77 World Champion Y WCH
San Benito Bob, 7 HLT & 577.5 Perf Pts; O & Y Superior WR; '74 World Champion O Sr WR; '78 O & Y High Pt WR Horse

Indian Commander

Teresa Tivio

Teresa Tivio
1954; Brown; Poco Tivio x Saylor's Little Sue
Mare Offspring Record
Hall of Fame Offspring, NCHA
World Champion Offspring
Reserve World Champion Offspring
Superior Performance Offspring
AQHA Champion Offspring
ROM Performance Offspring
NRHA Money-earners
Halter Point Earners
Performance Point Earners
AQHA Offspring Record
Total Points Earned: 333; Reg Foals: 13; Number Shown: 10; Point Earners: 8; 
Halter Points Earned: 29; Halter Point Earners: 3; 
Performance Points Earned: 234; Performance Point Earners: 9; Performance ROMS: 6; Superior Performance Awards: 2; 
AQHA Champions: 1; Total Superior Awards: 2; Total ROM's: 6; World Championships: 4; Res World Championships: 1; 
Equi-Stat Cutting Offspring LTE: $215,154
AQHA Offspr NCHA LTE: $215,154
Outstanding Offspring
Boon Bar, 6 Perf Pts, '76 2nd NCHA Finals Non-Pro, NCHA LTE: $12,325.19, COA
Cal Bar, 21 Perf Pts, O Perf ROM; '74 5th NCHA World Champion; NCHA LTE: $10,426.84
Cattabar, 7 Perf Pts, O Perf ROM
Cran Bar, NCHA LTE: $728.45
Doc Bar Gem, 19 Perf Pts, O Perf ROM, NCHA LTE: $8,683.78, COA
Doc's Haida, 17 HLT & 97 Perf Pts, O Superior CUT, O AQHA Champion, '76 World Champion Y CUT; '77 World Champion Y CUT, '78 World Champion Y CUT; '79 World Champion Y WP; '79 3rd World Show Y CUT; NCHA LTE: $67,305.72, COA, Bronze
Doc's Remedy, 1 HLT & 7 Perf Pts, '76 4th NCHA CUT Futurity; NCHA LTE: $47,453.10, COA, Bronze, Silver
Fizzabar, 11 HLT & 114 Perf Pts, '67 O Superior CUT; 1967 3rd NCHA Finals; '68 4th NCHA O World Champion; '68 3rd NCHA Finals, '69 3rd NCHA Finals; '70 2nd NCHA Finals; '73 4th NCHA Finals; NCHA LTE: $50,841.75, COA, Bronze, Silver, NCHA Hall of Fame.
Mr San Tivio, NCHA LTE: $850.39
Nu Bar, 33 Perf Pts, '74 Res World Champion O Jr CUT, '76 7th World Show O Sr CUT; NCHA LTE: $16,539.08, COA, Bronze

King Skeet

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King Sunday

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