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Attention Ranch Horse Exhibitors!
Your horse will sparkle and shine with this beautiful hand tooled breast collar with featured stainless steel studs. This 2 inch wide contoured breast collar comes with stainless steel hardware and adjustable tugs. It's perfect for adding an authentic Vaquero look to your Ranch Horse Versatility gear. This is a very nice pre owned Vaquero Ranch Style studded breast collar made by Billy Cook of Sulpher Oklahoma. The breast collar is in clean well maintained pre-owned condition, all the studs are present and in good condition and the waffle pattern hand tooling is sharp.
In 1953, young Billy Cook first opened his own saddle shop in Greenville, TX. That year he built seventy-five saddles. Over the next few years, Billy’s business kept growing, and production was scaled to 1,200 saddles a year by the end of the 1950's. In 1988, Billy Cook incorporated as Billy Cook Harness & Saddle Manufacturing and moved his saddlemaking operation to Sulphur, Oklahoma where it remains today.
Over the years Billy Cook’s team was augmented by two key players in the shop: Jody Ramer, a native of Sulphur, OK who began working alongside Billy in 1991 learning the craft of saddlemaking. In 2018 Jody began personally managing the production of the saddles to ensure the integrity and quality of the product was maintained as Billy aged and Rutilo Osornio, a leather artisan with the mechanical skills necessary to maintain the sewing and cutting equipment used to make saddles who began working with Billy in 1979. Rutilo began directly overseeing the production of bridles, breast collars, and other tack and accessories under Billy in 1992.
Billy Cook passed on in October of 2019. But Jody and Rutilo continue to operate the shop and personally supervise the production of all of the Genuine Billy Cook products in the same fashion as Billy taught them. Together with their staff, Jody and Rutilo perpetuate the heritage of Billy Cook. America’s most prolific saddlemaker and one of the finest leather toolers the world has ever known.
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