Baby Doll Combs

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horsename = Baby Doll Combs


caption = - Baby Doll Combs -
breed = Quarter Horse
discipline=Rodeo
sire = Oklahoma Star Jr
grandsire = Oklahoma Star P-6
dam = Miss Boctick
damsire = Bert
sex = Mare
foaled = 1947
country = United States
color = Brown
breeder =
owner = Willard Combs
honors = American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
updated= January 10 2008

Baby Doll Combs was a registered Quarter horse mare and a prominent rodeo horse.Close "Legends" p. 116] She was owned by Willard Combs, a steer wrestler or bulldoger who competed in the rodeo circuit in the 1950's. Combs not only rode Baby Doll himself, but also allowed other wrestlers to ride her in return for a cut of the prize money. Combs won the Rodeo Cowboy's Association - a precursor organization to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (or PRCA) - World Champion Steer Wrestler title in 1957 with Baby Doll. Her one and only foal was Checotah Star, a result of an accidental breeding in 1957."Hall of Fame" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2004 p. 50] Between 1953 and her death in 1960 she earned over $400,000 in prize money, and in 1957 when she won the title for Combs, she also carried the riders who finished second, third, fourth and fifth in the standings. Bill Linderman, a famous rodeo cowboy, once said that "Baby Doll knew bulldogging better than some of the guys who rode her."Groves "Baby Doll" "Quarter Horse Journal" February 1994 p. 18]

She was bay mare who weighed about 1030 pounds and stood about 14.1 hands high. She had a blaze and a left hind sock as the only white on her. A short horse is an advantage to a steer wrestler, as it's closer to the steer.Lindeman "The Quarter Horse Breeder" p. 86]

Baby Doll died of a ruptured intestine in 1960. She died at a Kansas rodeo, but her owner had her returned to Checotah, Oklahoma where he lived so that she could be buried on his ranch. Many of the cowboys who had earned money off her were present at the ceremony, and a photograph of them at the graveside appeared in Life Magazine. Wohlfarth "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14]

She was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004. [ [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/halloffamebios.html AQHA Hall of Fame] accessed on February 3, 2008] The PRCA honored her in 1979 by inducting her into their Hall of Fame in the first group of inductees.

Pedigree

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1 = Baby Doll Combs
2 = Oklahoma Star Jr
3 = Miss Boctick
4 = Oklahoma Star P-6
5 = Babe Dawson
6 = Bert
7 = Bosticks Ribbon
8 = Dennis Reed (TB)
9 = Cutthroat
10 = Little Earl Jr
11 = Queen
12 = Tommy Clegg
13 = Lady Coolidge
14 = unknown
15 = unknown
16 = Lobos (TB)
17 = Bess Chitman (TB)
18 = Gulliver
19 = Belle K
20 =Little Earl
21 = Link Wiley mare
22 = Little Earl
23 = Texas quarter mare
24 = Sam Watkins
25 = Mamie
26 = Beetch's Yellow Jacket
27 = Mayflower

Notes

References

* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/baby+doll+combs All Breed Pedigree Pedigree of Baby Doll Combs]
* Close, Pat ed. "Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares" Colorado Springs:Western Horseman 1993 ISBN 0-911647-26-0
* Groves, Lesli Krause "Baby Doll" "Quarter Horse Journal" February 1994 p. 18
* "Hall of Fame" "Quarter Horse Journal" March 2004 p. 42-53
* Lindeman "The Quarter Horse Breeder: Basic Text and References on the American Quarter Horse" Wichita Falls:Quarter Horse Breeders Publishing Co. 1959
* Wohlfarth, Jenny "Last Rites" "Quarter Horse Journal" July 1996 p. 14

External links

* [http://www.aqha.com/foundation/halloffame/images/Baby%20Doll%20Combs.pdf Baby Doll Combs information from the American Quarter Horse Foundation]
* [http://www.qhd.com/horse/stallion.asp?id=61470&sex=mare Baby Doll Combs at Quarter Horse Directory]
* [http://quarterhorselegends.googlepages.com/home4 Baby Doll Combs at Quarter Horse Legends]