The Invester

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.^[2]

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 muscle. He was also straight and correct and a good-minded colt."^[3] 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.^[4]

During his show career, The Invester earned an AQHA Superior Halter Horse award as well as an AQHA Championship and an AQHA Performance Register of Merit.^[5] 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.^[3]

Among The Invester's offspring are The Appraiser, Double Vested, El Cicatriz, Bonafide, Investers Skip, The Stockbroker, The Big Investment, Vested Pine, Assets, and Impulsions.^[1][5] His offspring The Big Investment and Impulsions were inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Horse Hall of Fame, along with his grandget January Investment.^[6] In 1980, his offspring placed first through fourth in the All American Quarter Horse Congress Two-Year-Old Western Pleasure Futurity.^[3]

The Invester was the second Quarter horse stallion to be syndicated.^[1][7] In 1994 he was inducted into the National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame.^[8][4][6] He was humanely put down on February 28, 2002, due to old age.^[1] The Invester was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame in 2004.^[9]