Kay Floyd (cutter)

Kay Floyd (1948 – August 17, 2015) was an American horse breeder who was the first woman ever to win two NCHA Futurity championships, albeit in the Non-Pro division (1976 and 1987).

Originally from Indiana, Floyd moved to Midland, Texas, in the 1960s,[1] and gained employment as manager of Square Top 3 Ranch owned by Texas oilman and cattle rancher, Marion Flynt, a former president of the National Cutting Horse Association, and breeder of champion cutting horses.

[3] Flynt was planning to euthanize the stallion but Riddle convinced him otherwise, and he chose instead to gift Freckles Playboy to Kay Floyd.

She promoted him as a sire and Riddle managed the breeding at his ranch in Wynnewood, OK where Freckles Playboy stood at stud to the public.

As an AQHA sire, he was ranked in the top 10 as an all-time leading maternal grandsire of cutting and working cow horses.

[3] His offspring earned more than $285,000 in National Reined Cow Horse events, and close to $177,000 at the AQHA World Championship Show.

Kay Floyd and Freckles Madera at the Harris Ranch cutting in 1988.