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competition. Upon resumption of competition in 1988, he
reinjured the leg, causing permanent crippling. Petitioners
estimated the value of Docs Fancy Feat at the time of trial as
$20,000. The record does not contain Docs Fancy Feat's breeding
records.
Sometime in 1985, Mrs. Sullivan concluded that it would be
advisable to experiment with a new bloodline. Docs Fancy Feat's
lineage was from Doc Bar, a champion cutting horse whose
bloodline was so popular among cutting horse enthusiasts that
there was a proliferation of "Doc Bar" cutting horses. Mrs.
Sullivan anticipated there would be a growing demand for superior
non-"Doc Bar" horses to be bred to the large numbers of "Doc Bar"
horses. Consequently, she arranged a breeding of one of her
successful non-"Doc Bar" mares with a non-"Doc Bar" champion
stallion, Colonel Freckles. The result was a colt, Colonel Rey
Lew, born in 1986. Colonel Rey Lew did not enter the National
Cutting Horse Association Futurity as a 3-year-old. Starting in
1989, he has been bred 22 times; his breeding fee in 1992 was
$500. He was bred seven times in 1991, and three to four times
per year from 1992 through 1995. Mr. Hightower was paid to
campaign Colonel Rey Lew in "open" or professional class weekend
competitions during 1992, in which the horse qualified for the
"open" finals of the National Cutting Horse Association World
Championship. Mrs. Sullivan campaigned Colonel Rey Lew in
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