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Three-time NCHA Futurity Champion Bill Freeman provides easy to follow instructions on how to train a cutting horse. Freeman starts with his method of breaking the colt and continues with explicit steps for training that culmination in preparing your horse to show.

Written in first person format, Bill speaks in an easy, conversational style that makes the information understandable and easy to follow. In addition, it has numerous simple to understand diagrams, as well as wonderful photographs taken on the Freeman Ranch. They are designed to help the read with this step-by-step approach to training both the horse and rider.

This 190 page hardback book is a must have for any cutter's library!

This book contains numerous photographs of the stallion, many of them never-before-seen.

Doc Bar’s life is told through the lives of those who owned and cared for him. He was one of those truly great horses that stands shoulder-high above others, proven by his ability to pass on his greatness to his offspring on whose bloodline can be found in a majority of the Quarter Horse registrations.

Hard back; 135 pgs.

His name is linked with some of the most famous horses; Doc Bar, Poco Lena, Poco Bueno, poco Tivio, Fizzabar, and that's just the beginning.

Inducted into more hall of fames than any other trainer, his talent knew no boundaries, making champions out of reject horses and winners out of prominent people who couldn’t even ride.

Hard cover with 264 pages.

Cheer with Doc O’Lena’s Futurity record run that still holds today; cry when Shorty makes his lonely last trip with his beloved stallion. Experience Shorty’s illness, the dispersal sale that brought out “whose who” in the equine world, and Shorty’s last days. Only a limited supply of this book left and it will not be reprinted.

Hard cover. 166 pages.

The book shares the stories that few people know: how buyers rejected Little Tenina, the winner of almost $400,000, when she was a young filly, ad how Haidas Little Pep, during his early training, had to be lead to the herd rather than ridden with trainer Buster Welch on his back. Readers relive the tragic day that Gray’s Starlight became deathly ill, and learn how the great Peptoboonsmal got his name.

Hardback. 202 pages.

This book drips with history, both of the historic King Ranch and the phenomenal stallion Peppy San Badger, aka Little Peppy. It is filled with never-before-seen photos of both the ranch and the stallion. This is a must have book for every horse lover and every historian.

The coffee-table book, first published in 1996, sold out in a short time, and was re-released to commemorate the publishing of two companion books on the stallion’s get, making these fascination stories a phenomenal collection of equine history connected to King Ranch.

Hardback. 222 pages.

This book is a one-of-a-kind collection of the success stories of more than 200 Little Peppy champions as shared by their owners and riders - and what stories they have to tell!

Michelle Bell vows that Martinis Dr. Peppy is an equine Houdini, and if you’ll give him just a hair of a chance, he’ll happily show you his bag of tricks.

Killer knows who loves him, even when he ran away once. When those racehorse guys chased after him with quips in hand, he flew straight back to his mom, Nancy Holtsford! And they say horses are dumb animals!

“These Little Peppy progeny are symbolic of a lineage that bucked us off, tested our patience in ground maneuvers, and insisted on training on their terms,” commented Gala. “At the same time, though, they easily wiggled their way into our hearts, and their stories are just exceptional!”

Hard cover. 288 pages.

This is the life of the rough & rowdy cowboy and his numerous championship horses. Read about Mr. Pat's days as a Hollywood stunt man and his years training horses, which ultimately cast him into the NCHA Hall of Fame.

Hard cover 157 pages.

She was ugly and scrawny, but the late Tom Bellamy, who had two-year-old Royal Blue Boon in training for the 1982 Futurity felt she was a stinger and turned to trainer Larry Reeder. Reeder believed as he did; talent won cuttings, not size and looks. Indeed, Royal Blue Boon won like a slot machine, that money becoming the makeup that turned an ugly duckling into a desirable grown swan. She is, simply put, the greatest mare in NCHA’s history.

Here is her story and the stories of her eighteen progeny that crowned her with her title.

Hard Cover

Trendsetters I is full of stories of great stallions, their offspring, the people who owned them and those who rode them. Read how Jewels Leo Bars, destined to be a race horse, became a cutting horse instead; how Colonel Freckles sold for 6 figures and how Shorty Freeman jostled finances and partners to always own part of Doc O’Lena. Finally, learn about the mysterious disappearance of Freckles Fantasy and the untimely death of Col Lil Pepper.

Soft cover. 197 pages.

Without a hefty bank account to fund him, owner Sam Wilson still made the stallion a champion. The stallion then proved he could pass those genes on and chapter after chapter share the stories of his get such as Short Doc, Show Biz Sandy, Bob Acre Doc, etc.

Soft cover 199 pages.

Building acceptable character so that everyone doesn't wish we lived elsewhere isn't always easy, but those are the subjects that "Yikes" addresses. If you have experienced guilt, sadness, resentment, fulfillment, plus all the emotions in between and handled them correctly, this book isn't for you! If, though, you strive daily to be the kind of person you'd like to have as a friend, sibling or parent, but failing more times than succeeding, then you'll enjoy the read!