The Invester

Horse infobox
horsename = The Invester


caption = - The Invester -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline = Western Pleasure
Halter
sire = Zippo Pat Bars
grandsire = Three Bars (TB)
dam = Hank's Peppy Lou
damsire = Dinky Reed
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1969
country = United States
color = Sorrel
breeder = Eldon R. England
owner = Jerry Wells, Dan McWhirter, Wayne Atchley, George Pardi, Brad McCamy
otherawards= 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
updated= January 12 2008

The Invester was Quarter horse stallion who excelled at halter and at western pleasure, as well as being a famous sire of western pleasure horses.Holmes "Legends 6" p. 170-183]

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. [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/the+invester Pedigree of The Invester at All Breed Pedigree] retrieved on June 26, 2007]

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 mucsle. He was also straight and correct and a good-minded colt."Meyer "Living Legends: The Invester" "Horse & Rider" March 1997 p. 56-59, 96] 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.Campbell "Chairman of the Board" "Quarter Horse Journal" April 2000 p. 12]

During his show career, The Invester earned a AQHA Superior Halter Horse award as well as an AQHA Championship and a AQHA Performance Register of Merit.PItzer "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" p. 134] 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.

He was the second Quarter horse stallion to be syndicated."There's Fixin to be an Invester Revival" "Southern Horseman" February 1991 p. 20-21] He was humanely put down on February 28 2002 due to old age. In 1994 he was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association (or NSBA) Hall of Fame. [http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 NSBA Hall of Fame] retrieved on July 5, 2007.]

Among his important offspring are The Appraiser, Double Vested, El Cicatriz, Bonafid, Investers Skip, The Stockbroker, The Big Investment, Vested Pine, Assets, and Impulsions. His offspring The Big Investment and Impulsions were inducted into the NSBA Hall of Fame, along with his grandget January Investment. In 1980, his offspring placed first through fourth in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity.

He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008]

Pedigree

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1 = The Invester
2 = Zippo Pat Bars
3 =Hank's Peppy Lou
4 = Three Bars (TB)
5 = Leo Pat
6 = Dinky Reed
7 = Logan's Miss Lue
8 = Percentage (TB)
9 = Myrtle Dee (TB)
10 = Leo
11 = Dunny Girl
12 = Reed McCue
13 = Dinky Rainbow
14 = Last Hank
15 = Logan's Betty
16= Midway (TB)
17 = Gossip Avenue (TB)
18 = Luke McLuke (TB)
19 = Civil Maid (TB)
20 = Joe Reed II
21 = Little Fanny
22 = Little Chuck
23 = Thoroughbred mare
24 = Joe Reed P-3
25 = Patsy Reed
26 = Chief P-5
27 = Black Dixie
28 = Hank H
29 = Preview W
30 = Dinky Reed
31 = Logan's Ruby

Notes

References

* " [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/the+invester All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree for The Invester] " retrieved on June 26, 2007
* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008
* Campbell, Jim Bret "Chairman of the Board" "Quarter Horse Journal" April 2000 p. 12
* Holmes, Frank ed. "Legends 6: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs: Western Horseman 2004 ISBN 0911647-73-2'
* Meyer, Jennifer Forsberg "Living Legends: The Invester" "Horse & Rider" March 1997 p. 56-59, 96
* " [http://www.nsba.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=210 NSBA Hall of Fame] " retrieved on July 5, 2007
* Pitzer, Andrea Laycock "The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires" Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
* "There's Fixin to be an Invester Revival... The Invester" "Southern Horseman" February 1991 p. 20-21

External links

* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=500 The Invester at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4222222223222 The Invester at Quarter Horse Legends]