Cutter Bill

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Breed: Quarter Horse
Discipline: Cutting
Sire: Buddy Dexter
Grandsire: Dexter
Dam: Billie Silvertone
Maternal grandsire: Silvertone
Sex: Stallion
Foaled: 1955
Country: United States
Color: Palomino
Breeder: R. L. Underwood
Owner: Rex Cauble
Honors
Other Awards
AQHA Performance Register of Merit, AQHA Champion, AQHA Superior Cutting Horse, 1962 AQHA High Point Cutting Horse. 1962 NCHA World Champion Cutting Horse, 1963 NCHA Reserve World Champion Horse, NCHA Silver Award, NCHA Bronze Award
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Infobox last updated on: January 11, 2008.

Cutter Bill was a Quarter horse stallion who was a famous cutting horse in the late 1950's as well as being an influential sire.[1]

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[edit] Life

The product of R. L. Underwood's linebreeding program for Copperbottom bloodlines, Cutter Bill was linebred to Golden Chief, a descendant of Copperbottom, a Thoroughbred foaled in 1828.[2][3] His sire, Buddy Dexter, was extremely inbred, being the product of a father-daughter mating.[3] To a lesser degree, Cutter Bill was also inbred to Tom (or Scooter) by Midnight.[3] Registered with number 53,703 with the American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA), Cutter Bill was a 1955 palomino stallion who was bred by R. L. Underwood of Wichita Falls, Texas and owned by Rex Cauble of Houston, Texas.[4] Cauble bought Cutter Bill at Underwood's dispersal sale in 1956 for $2500.[5]

Cauble broke Cutter Bill himself, and for the first couple of years used him as a teaser stallion for Cauble's more famous stallions like Wimpy P-1, Silver King, and Hard Twist. As a three year old, Cutter Bill was started on cutting and proved a natural at it.[5] Cutter Bill was the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA), World Champion in 1962 and the NCHA Reserve World Champion in 1963, earning a total of $35,964.05 in NCHA competition.[1] With the AQHA he earned the 1962 High Point Cutting Horse award along with AQHA Champion and Performance Register of Merit awards. He was also an AQHA Superior Cutting Horse.[6] He was the second horse to win both the NCHA World Champion title and the AQHA High Point Cutting title, Poco Stampede was the first, but he was the first to do it in the same year.[5]

Among his offspring were Bill's Highness, Cutter's First, Bill's Jazabell, Cutter's Lad, Pecos Billie, Blaze Face Bill, Cutter's Streak and Bill's Loceta.[7] Bill's Lady Day won the 1987 AQHA Senior Calf Roping World Champion title and Cutter's Rocket won two younth World Championships in working cowhorse in 1983 and 1985. Royal Cutter won the 1971 National Reined Cow Horse Association's Snaffle Bit Futurity and then later won the hackamore and bridle sweepstakes held by the same organization.[5]

A neat little bit of trivia was when Rex Cauble lost Cutter Bill in a Seven Card Stud poker game at Stanmire Lake in Leon County, Texas to King T. Blake. The other attendees at the game were Joe Lee Thompson, Julian Wakefield, Ed Rutledge, Lee Thompson, and King's two sons Bennett and Norman who were fishing most of the time. King, being the businessman/gentleman that he was gave the horse back after two weeks but not before his wife "Audrey" rode him so she could go berry picking which antagonized Rex to no end. They (Rex and King) decided to trade it off at Blake's Farm and Ranch Supply on Highway 7.

He died in the fall of 1982.[5] He was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame.[8]

[edit] Pedigree

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Yellow Stud
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Golden Chief
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dexter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tom (Scooter)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Tommie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Buddy Dexter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Golden Chief
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dexter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss Tommie
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Little March
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mustard Seed (TB)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 March
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lowe Brothers quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cutter Bill
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jud
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dunny Boy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 mare by Yellow Wolf
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Silvertone
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 bay quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Billie Silvertone
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Yellow Stud
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Golden Chief
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Star Light
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tom by Rainy Day
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Y Ranch quarter mare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Martindale Legends 7 p. 6-21
  2. ^ Short Unregistered Foundation Sires p. 11
  3. ^ a b c Cutter Bill Pedigree at All Breed Pedigree retrieved on June 27,2007
  4. ^ AQHA Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 6-10 p. 902
  5. ^ a b c d e Groves "The Golden Age of Cutter Bill" Quarter Horse Journal June 1993 p. 18, 205-209
  6. ^ Wagoner Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition p. 152-153
  7. ^ Pitzer The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires p. 24-25
  8. ^ AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008

[edit] References

  • AQHA Hall of Fame accessed on February 3, 2008
  • American Quarter Horse Association Official Stud Book and Registry Combined 6-7-8-9-10 Amarillo, Texas: American Quarter Horse Association 1962
  • Groves, Lesli Krause "The Golden Age of Cutter Bill" Quarter Horse Journal June 1993 p. 18, 205-209
  • Martindale, Cathy and Kathy Swan ed. Legends 7: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares Fort Worth: Western Horseman 2006 ISBN 0-911647-79-1
  • Pitzer, Andrea Laycock The Most Influential Quarter Horse Sires Tacoma, Washington:Premier Publishing 1987
  • Short, Victoria Unregistered Foundation Sires of the American Quarter Horse Houston:Loshadt Publishing 1998
  • Wagoner, Dan Quarter Horse Reference 1974 Edition Grapevine, Texas:Equine Research 1974

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