The National Cutting Horse Association Futurity was designed to bring together the world’s best young cutting horses. One of the results is that it also brings together some of the world’s most interesting people.

A case in point is NCHA Hall of Famer Dan Lufkin, who was a founding member of the Wall Street firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, former chairman of Columbia Pictures’ finance committee, creator and head of Connecticut’s Department of Environmental Protection in the 1970s, rancher, cutting horse breeder, and former cutting competitor.

At this year’s NCHA Futurity Sales, Lufkin’s Oxbow Ranch, Weatherford, TX, sold a yearling red roan filly by Dual Rey out of Oxbow-bred and owned Bet Yer Blue Boons for $285,000, a record shared with Waco Bend Ranch, Fort Worth, TX, who sold the yearling filly Ruby Reyn, by Dual Rey out of Playboys Ruby, for $285,000.

In a 2002 interview for Harvard Business School, Lufkin said one of his proudest accomplishments was becoming a member of the National Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame. Listen to him here.