Anyone who knows anything about cutting horses and the history of the American Quarter Horse is probably familiar with the name, "Cutter Bill," a recognizable name on many good Quarter Horse pedigrees.

Cutter Bill was sired by Buddy Dexter, whose claim to fame was that he had beaten the great Poco Bueno in halter. Initially used as a teaser stallion for Cauble Ranches' premier stallions, Wimpy P-1, Hard Twist and Silver King for two years, the horse earned more points than any other junior cutting horse in 1959 and went on to sire over 600 foals. Under Sonny Perry, Cutter Bill went on to win the National Cutting Horse World title as well as being the AQHA's Honor Roll Cutting Horse in 1962.

He died in 1983 at the age of 26.

This documentary was filmed in 1973, when the stallion was 18. The program was originally part of the highly-acclained American Horse & Horseman television series, starring film and television star, Dale Robertson.

Jay Trump was the result of a pasture breeding between his dam "Be Trump" who refused to load on the trailer to go to another farm to be bred and stallion "Tonga Prince" who was at the breeders farm waiting to heal up from an injury. The dark bay colt with a white diamond was foaled in 1957 and died at the age of 31 in 1988. He is buried at the finish line at the steeplechase track at the Kentucky Horse Park.

He was severely injured as a 2 year old when a jockey's whip hit him in the eye and he crash into a fence post. Moved to Maryland after being purchased for $2,000, he was trained as a hunter and dressage horse. Five years later, Jay Trump was in England winning the toughest steeplechase in the world at odds of 100 to 6. Retiring in 1971, he spent the rest of his years as field hunter.

This program was originally part of the highly-acclained American Horse & Horseman television series, starring film and television star, Dale Robertson.

This one and a half hour long program was filmed by Charles and Sally Lasater of Tejano Productions in 1983 in Houston, Texas. It includes the complete lecture and shoeing demonstration by Burney Chapman before the members of the American Farriers convention in Houston during that year. The master tape has long been lost, but recently a pristine VHS copy of the program was located, and the resulting digitized version is now once again available.

Burney Chapman is best known as the farrier who reintroduced the heart bar shoe for therapeutic use on foundered or laminitic horses. Until his death at the early age of 57 from a brain tumor, he was world renown for his work with foundered horses. For more than 30 years his practice was limited to the shoeing of horses afflicted with laminitis. From his home state of Texas to the royal stables of the Middle East, many hundreds of horses owe their lives to this man. He often flew himself from foundered horse to foundered horse in his twin-engine plane.

Born in Fort Worth, Chapman worked during college for the famous 6666 Ranch in Guthrie, Texas. A graduate of Texas Tech University, he was elected in the first round of balloting for the Kentucky Derby Museum’s "Horseshoer’s Hall of Fame" in 1993.

Chapman dedicated his professional life to educating farriers and horse owners, and was a popular lecturer. His client list was a veritable "Who’s Who" of worldwide horse breeders and competitors, though he enjoyed working with pet horses as much as champions. Horses in Japan, Qatar, Ireland, England, and many other countries benefited from his personal attention to laminitis shoeing.

This program was originally part of the highly-acclained American Horse & Horseman television series, starring film and television star, Dale Robertson.

Dale Robertson interviews Senator Thurston Morton, the then-president of the American Horse Council (1973) and Chairman of Churchhill Downs at the time about the goals and ambitions of the Council. Dale emphasizes the fact that the horse industry and horse people finally had a voice in Washington, D.C. It is interesting to listen to what Senator Morton has to say about the Council almost 30 years ago. Has the Council lived up to its expectations? The viewer can decide!

This program was originally part of the highly-acclained American Horse & Horseman television series, starring film and television star, Dale Robertson.