Smart Little Lena

Smart Little Lena (1979–2010) was an American Quarter Horse cutting horse and sire of performance horses.

Life and Winnings

Smart Little Lena was foaled on June 29, 1979, out of the mare Smart Peppy and by Doc O'Lena. He was a dark sorrel stallion with a blaze and white socks on both hind feet. Smart Little Lena was a small horse, standing only 13.3 hands (55 inches, 140 cm).

In 1982 Smart Little Lena won the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity. He later won first in both the NCHA Super Stakes and Derby as well. Smart Little Lena earned $577,652 in US dollars in just eight shows.

Smart Little Lena was euthanized in 2010, after he apparently suffered a stroke. However, he is still siring foals through artificial insemination. He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame (AQHA) in 2015.^[1]

Offspring

Smart Little Lena's descendants have competed in every discipline in American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) competition, and have earned 9,744 points and 22 world championships. In National Reining Horse Association competition, his get have earned $686,470. In the National Reined Cow Horse Association they have earned $973,136, and in the NCHA they have won over thirty-four million dollars.

Pedigree

^†Denotes inbreeding

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