DELTA DOC O LENA WINS FORT WORTH STOCKSHOW’S
BIGGEST JUNIOR PAINT CUTTING IN HISTORY

For Release: Immediate

FORT WORTH, Texas, January 23, 2002 – With record entries this year, Delta Doc O Lena, a five year old APHA bay tobiano stallion owned by Wet Paint Farms of Omaha, Nebraska, started the new year off right with an impressive win at the Fort Worth Stock Show in the APHA Junior Cutting event, ridden by top NCHA & APHA cutting trainer, Chubby Turner.  The cutting held on Jan. 14^th, known as the "Color of Money," is a special cutting event for paint horses, co-sponsored by the American Paint Horse Association (www.apha.com) and the Stock Show. Exhibitors competed for a total purse of approximately $25,000 in paint cuttings, with $4,000 added for the junior class.

Delta Doc O Lena earned 24 APHA performance points and $2,027 for his win, scoring first under all four judges with high scores of 76, 75, 75 and 74.  His sire, DELTA FLYER (APHA) is one of the highest cutting money earning paints of all time, an NCHA OPEN SUPER STAKES CHAMPION and an NCHA FUTURITY SEMI-FINALIST with lifetime cutting earnings of $260,760.  His dam, JAVOLENA, (AQHA) is a top NCHA producing daughter of DOC O LENA whose offspring have earned more than $87,000. 

"As an association, we wanted to offer more incentives for Paint Horse owners to enter their horses in cutting competition and give greater exposure to these talented Paints," explains APHA’s Jim Kelly. "There are a lot of great paint cutting horses out there and this is a chance for those competitors to earn points and money at the same time."  The plan paid off, as entries were split into two sets of horses (24 horses total) for the largest junior cutting for paint horses ever held at the Stock Show event. 

Delta Doc O Lena will stand at Sycamore Farms in Omaha, Nebraska.  
For offspring and mares in foal to Delta Doc O Lena for sale, visit: www.wetpaintfarms.com

  
2002 FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW APHA JUNIOR CUTTING CHAMPION

CHUBBY & GINGER TURNER with DELTA DOC O LENA
Photos by Shane Rux Photography