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In Good Hands

Alvin Trenk didn’t realize he was creating a legacy the day he found himself in Greenville, Texas, wandering into Billy Cook’s original shop back in 1975. He bought two saddles that day for his sons, Steven and Jeffrey, and Steven’s young son, Adam Trenk, grew up sitting in those seats.

Then when Adam was 14, he got his first horse and was gifted an old Billy Cook that belonged to his aunt for his first saddle. When he outgrew it in 1999, he purchased a model 2020 Billy Cook Roping Saddle…one he still uses to this day. “I started a lot of colts in it my summers

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