"During each person's life, opportunities arise. Some opportunities are man made but the true opportunity that has no earthly reason for happening is said to come from Divine intervention. Just having the opportunity to own such a magnificent horse as Doc Elite has to be from Divine intervention."

- Nancy Zehner

Doc Elite is the 1979 brown son of Doc O'Lena. What more could one ask for? The dam side is just as impressive. His dam is Elite Etta, the great filly out of Miss Elite, NCHA Hall Of Fame. Miss Elite, the great cutting mare owned by Hyer Boot Company of Olatha, Kansas, and shown by Jack Williams of Wichita, Kansas, and later owned and shown by the late Gabe McCall, was included into the NCHA Hall Of Fame November 18, 1963, as the 11th horse and 5th mare to receive this honor.

Elite Etta, a daughter of Miss Elite and the dam of our own Doc Elite,  was shown in the NCHA Futurity, at which time she incurred a muscle injury that concluded her show career. 

Doc Elite was never shown due to a broken shoulder in 1982 as he was preparing for the 1982 NCHA Futurity. He moved from Wyoming to Oklahoma in the spring of 1999. The Zehner Farm & Ranch of Buffalo, Oklahoma, is proud to announce that Doc Elite will stand the 2000 breeding year to a very limited number of approved mares. The babies will also be eligible for the 2001 Incentive Fund program through the AQHA. His first Oklahoma foal crop arrives March of 2000.

For all of those "old timers" that remember Miss Elite and all of the young horse lovers that know the bloodlines of Doc O'lena, we are looking forward to continuing the great lineage of Doc Elite at Zehner Ranch. The first babies of 2000 are stunning, and we are excited about his future as a breeding stallion of 'elite' performance horses.