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PBR 2021 World Finals XXVIII – Day 3
One needs to remind oneself that the ride astride the bucking bull lasts only eight (8) seconds, yes a small fraction of a minute! But most athletes will tell you that these are like no other eight seconds! The adrenal rush of trying to remain seated on the fiercely bucking beast while holding the riding rope with one hand & without touching the bull or oneself with the other is immense & is often felt by the cheering spectators!
The exhilaration of those eight seconds together with the joy of winning as well as, no doubt, the big money involved all make athletes return to the arena even after sustaining injuries! Thus we see, for instance, Austin Richardson taking part in the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour championship only twenty-four days after surgery for a broken collar bone!
Mason Taylor came in first place in round 3 and the competition contiues. -
PBR 2021 World Finals XXVIII – Day 2
Over & above the attractions previously mentioned, there are ‘Mechanical Bull Competitions’, sessions when besides the ‘Rider Meet & Greet’, a fan can have his/her favorite Rider sign him/her a souvenir. A Western Gift Expo is there on hand for all the gifts one might desire for family & friends. There is the Pendleton Whisky Concert Series and lots and lots more all in a memorable week in Las Vegas, Nevada!
This time round, there is also a new feature: four bucking bulls coming all the way from Alberta’s Foley outfit are taking part. They are: Fogo, Ceilis Pyper, Road Rash and Nasty Cherry. There are other world famous bulls, such as Woopaa, Chiseled, Little Yellow Jacket and many more. Like Riders, Bulls also have their fans and may the best win at the end.At the end of round 2 , Chase Dougherty is on top and the exciting finals continues.Here highlights of round 2.
Press Conference After Round 2 -
2019 PBR World Finals XXVI, Round 2
Tonight, 2019 PBR World Finals XXVI continues in round 2. Bull riding is perhaps the fiercest and most grueling of sports, especially when we consider that the test of a competitor’s skill requires no more than to hold on and ‘stay put’ for a mere eight seconds! But these are indeed eight seconds like no other when the staying put is on a bull bucking like mad to get the unwanted rider off its back! Depending on the rider’s prior experience and level of training as well as skill, those eight seconds are bound to feel very different from any other. They might well feel like eighty seconds not eight!Bulls
After all, this is the ultimate contest between the sheer brute force of the beast (weighing on average over 600 kgs with some bulls weighing a colossal 995 kgs) and the human brain of the rider! No amount of physical strength, prowess or agility serves the rider in such contests as much as his wits. To ensure success, he needs above all to forestall the movements of the beast and out-maneuver it. The difficulty is compounded by the fact that the rider, holding the fiercely bucking bull by the rope in one hand, must not at any time touch himself or the bull by the other free hand.
Bull Breeding
Bull breeding is a lucrative business in its own right but is more so now than ever before, with developments in the science of genetics playing a significant role! Some are already grumbling about the unfair advantage it gives the bulls over the riders! In the past after contests, winning bulls were simply retired to stud farms. Now over and above natural breeding, their sperm is on offer for sale while some have even been cloned! A sperm specimen from a world-wide famous bull like Bushwacker, for instance, sells for up to $3,000; the arithmetics become all the more staggering when one learns that as many as 300 samples can be collected in one session! A promising bull can sell for anything between $50,000 to $250,000! According to the Professional Bucking Bull Association, the industry has grown by 500 percent. “Entry fees are up, and prices are ten times higher than they were ten years ago”. Prize money has likewise shot up to the skies; the top winners this year will scoop two millions!.
Here are some highlights of this round:
Cody Jesus Round 2 results:
- Cody Jesus
- Eduardo Aparecido
- Cody Teel
For more information please see the following link:
https://www.pbr.com/results?eventId=168701&season=2019
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2019 PBR World Finals XXVI
History
Before we present the adrenaline charged action of the PBR 2019 World Finals, in T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, we ask our dear readers’ permission to give a very brief bird’s eye view of what is at stake by way of starters. For our regular followers, this will enhance the excitement and whet their appetite for the pleasures of the coming events, the awaited four-day main course to be followed by a fifth of announcement of winners & celebrations. For those who are new to the sport, it introduces a few pieces of necessary information.
This year’s PBR World Finals XXVI contests are number 26 as the Latin numerals indicate. Twenty-six years ago, in 1992 to be precise, twenty American Rodeo athletes provided $1000 each and set up the professional body that organized and arranged the bull-riding contests which evolved into to-day’s World Finals. $20,000 may seem little by to-day’s standards but, in its day, was a hefty sum not to be sneezed at. Nowadays professional bull-riding is a multi-million dollars sport drawing athletes and fans not only from the two Americas but from all over the world. The contests are watched by new and veteran fans who cross continents and oceans to attend in person. Millions more watch the action on tele, with many networks airing the events; others watch the action on tablets or other smart devices.
The Competition
Bull riders are usually clad in traditional cowboy outfits with protective vests made of special high quality foam to lessen the impact of a fall, if one occurs, and leather chaps to protect the legs and thighs. To protect against rope burn, a rider also wears a leather glove on the hand that holds the rope. Mouth guards are optional on the professional level. Cowboy hats are the norm but wearing helmets is on the increase among adult riders. Young riders, that is those under 18 years of age, have to wear helmets and facial ice hockey like masks for extra protection. The beast has only the 5/8″ flank strap which is made of soft cotton and is wrapped under its hind legs supposedly to encourage it to buck. This innocuous strap has, in the past, caused much wrangling as animal rights activists wrongly thought that it was tied round the animal’s testicles.
Four judges are entrusted with giving points to the riders and four judged give points to the bulls. Each of the four judges gives up to 25 points for the rider’s performance. The bull is also given scores of up to 25 points by each judge for its effort. Then all four scores are combined and the total divided in half; this becomes the official score.
Round 1 Results and Highlights
Eduardo Aparecido
Chase Outlaw
Dalton Kasel
Cody Teel
Jose Vitor Leme
For more information please see the following link:
https://www.pbr.com/sites/default/files/2018-12/Section_01_PBR_basics_2018.pdf
https://www.pbr.com/page/332686/media-guide
https://www.pbr.com/results?eventId=168701
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2018 PBR World Finals November 11th/ Day 5
On November 11th, the 2018 PBR World Finals was indeed a most exhilarating sports event offering maximum excitement and a rare chance to meet and mix with some of the best champions in the field. Kaique Pacheco (24 years, Itatiba Brazil) won the 2018 PBR World Champion title with total 2018 earnings of $1,535. Marco Eguchi (29 years, Poia Brazil) is the 2018 World Finals event winner with total 2018 earnings of $372,000). Keyshawn Whitehorse (21 years, McCracken Springs, UT, USA) won 2018 Rookie of the Year award with total 2018 earnings of $103,523.
Kaique Pacheco, the 2018 PBR World Champion with PBR CEO Sean Gleason 
Marco Eguchi, the 2018 World Finals event winner and his family with PBR CEO Sean Gleason 
Keyshawn Whitehorse, the 2018 Rookie of the Year and his family with PBR CEO Sean Gleason -
2018 PBR World Finals November 9th/Day 3
The 2018 PBR World Finals contests in Las Vegas have been full of breathtaking and hair-raising moments as the riders tenaciously held on to the fiercely bucking bulls! On Day 3 of the 2018 World Final , we have captured those memorable moments on camera and we share them with you.
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2018 PBR World Finals November 8th/Day 2
In our article last year, “2017 PBR World Finals”, we commented at length on the immense appeal and increasing excitement of this sport which pits highly trained athletes’ wits, mental alertness and agility versus the sheer brute force of the bulls! Its fan base has continued to grow over the years and now counts millions upon millions not only in the two Americas but all over the world. Those who can, travel across the globe to watch the contest in situ while those unable to take the journey watch the contests on the screen. CBS Sports Network and other networks around the globe broadcast PBR contests. PBR televised broadcast viewers are now estimated at half a billion households. In February of this year (2018), a new digital network called RidePass adds hundreds of hours of bull riding and other western sports to anytime availability. It is a fitting addition to to-day’s digital world especially since PBR turned 25 this year! Happy 25th anniversary!.
It is a well-known fact that the ride lasts a mere eight (8) seconds but these are adrenaline-filled seconds like no other. Some animal activist groups think it a cruel sport but actually the riders are more likely to suffer injuries than the bulls. Bulls are money and that ensures that they are well looked after by their owners. Likewise, the athletes know well that it is paramount for them to have a good ride; it means thousands or millions of dollars in their pockets while a bad ride or a fall gets them next to nothing. Yet for most champions the most highly prized reward is to have their name listed in the Ring of Honour, similar to a hall of fame induction, and the $20,000 gold belt buckle.
2018 PBR World Finals contests in Las Vegas have been full if breathtaking and hair-raising moments as the riders tenaciously held on to the fiercely bucking bulls! We have captured those memorable moments on camera and will share them with you. On the second day of the contests, we are glad to report that all the champions left the arena on their feet. At the end of the second day, the 2008 World Champion, Guilherme Marchi (36 years old) announced that with 16 years’ experience of professional bull riding, he was looking forward to the next stage in his career: coaching and training aspiring bull riders in his native Brazil. Meanwhile, J. B. Mauney confirmed the close friendship between those two champions adding that professional bull-riding camaraderie was more like a family bond than competition.As always happens at this type of sports events, there is more to sample, experience and purchase by way of memento or souvenir. Thus there is PBR Finals Week Western Gift Expo, besides music and song with Vanessa Legrand, and great food and drink specials. All in all, the 2018 PBR World Finals is indeed a most exhilarating sports event offering maximum excitement and a rare chance to meet and mix with some of the best champions in the field.
For more details, please see the following links:
www.ridepass.com
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/professiobal_Bull_Riders
2017 PBR Media Guide, PBR & Bull Riding Basics -
The Monster Truck Nationals “Night of Destruction”
“Night of Destruction” at Lucas Oil Speedway
If you have never in your life seen a Monster Truck competition, then the October 20th, 2018 event was a MUST! Indeed, “Wheatland, MO Roared and Rumbled with the nation’s most competitive MONSTER TRUCKS as they stormed into The Lucas Oil Speedway (per www.lucasoilspeedway.com earlier statement). The show featured seven famous Monster Trucks – Bigfoot, Overkill Evolution, Black Stallion, Storm Damage, Hurricane Force, Overbored and Miss Overbored. The show included incredible, high jumping, ground pounding, car crushing race and then went completely insane with amazing freestyle action. The Monster Truck Nationals “Night of Destruction” is the USA most competitive and was indeed a fitting grand finale of the Lucas Oil Speedway season. And, as if this was not temptation enough, early birds, on the day, met the drivers, took photos with them and their amazing trucks at the pre-event Autograph Pit Party on the track. Apart from enjoying the actual event, visitors, young & old, had a chance to get a ride on a real Monster Truck during the Pit Party, the Intermission and at the end of the show.
Monster Trucks
A monster truck is a pickup truck modified with a larger suspension and larger tires for recreational and sports uses. But not any pickup truck can enter a competition. To take part in a racing event, a monster truck must meet specific guidelines. It must be 12 feet tall, 12 feet wide, and from 2015 onwards should be equipped with specifically made 462 lb BKT 66-inch off-road tires. Monster trucks competing at an event are equipped also with a remote ‘kill switch’ which track officials can trigger to shut down a truck’s engine to stop it if endangering the safety of the spectators or the driver. The height above ground of monster trucks made them ideal for rescuing people in flooded areas, as happened in Texas in August 2017 after Hurricane Harvey.
A monster truck tire weighs between 800-900 lbs and, when multiplied by four, takes up about a third of the truck’s average 10,000 lbs weight! The minimum weight of a monster truck is 9,000 lbs while some weigh as much as 12,500 lbs! On the 20th of October, Lucas Oil Speedway had more than 70,000 lbs of Monster Truck Thunder! The average cost of a monster truck tire is $ 2,600 while an average monster truck costs $ 150,000! A Monster Truck driver can make $ 25,000-50,000 per year but naturally that can rise considerably with fame. Some monster truck drivers who are still participating in competitions as well as some who have retired offer coaching and training to fans who aspire to join in the fun. Thus there are monster truck ‘schools’ with ‘student trainees’ from all over the world!.
Lucas Oil Speedway
Lucas Oil Speedway is located at Highways 83 and 54 in Wheatland, Missouri, USA. It is considered by industry insiders to be one of the top 5 race tracks in the USA; it has also been referred to as “The Diamond of Dirt Tracks”.
It was originally built in 2001 by Ron and Jenkins of Wheatland and was named simply Wheatland Raceway. But Lucas Oil bought it in 2004, re-built and re-opened it as Lucas Oil Speedway in 2006 with new visitor, VIP, and competitor and track facilities. Later “Lake Lucas” an artificial lake was added for drag boats and motorboat racing. This addition, which is the world’s first artificial lake for drag boat racing, was opened in 2011. This is in addition to a scenic campground with spots for RV camping with onsite shower house, water, electric hookups, fishing ponds and hiking trails. Then the construction of an off-road supercross-motorcross-style track was started in 2016 and completed with inaugural events in 2017. The track hosts off-road dirt buggy racing and is the only one of its king in southwest Missouri.
Most Popular Driver
Besides, motorsports fans, whether attending the events or watching them on the screen (on CBS Sports and MAVTV Motorsports Network) were invited to vote, on line at (https://www.lucasoilinvite.com/speedway-2018) for their “Most Popular Driver”. This year’s banquet is set for Nov. 3, 2018 where the top ten drivers, in each of the four divisions, will be honored & the Forrest Lucas Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented. What is perhaps almost unbelievable, though definitely true, is that the event included a National Monster Truck Spectacular performed by kids aged 6-17!.
Forrest & Charlotte Lucas
We’ll bring our article to a close with an interesting brief story about the persons behind the whole venture. Lucas Oil Products Inc. is now a world leader of High Performance Lubricants and Problem Solving Additives. But it all began when a truck driver started experimenting with oil additives to benefit his business. This truck driver is Forrest Lucas and this is how the company came to be founded in 1989 by Forrest and Charlotte Lucas. Their ambition, backed by hard work and dedication, paid off in assured success. And besides oil products and racing, they are passionate about their ranch in Cross Timbers, Missouri & a new organization, Protect the Harvest. Another example of their successful diversification is their acquiring of the cable network MAVTV. The awesome Monster Truck Nationals photos need no comment; they tell their own story!.
For more information, please review the following links:
http://www.lucasoilspeedway.com/guest-info/camping-lodging
http://www.lucasoilspeedway.com/track-info/lake-lucas
http://www.lucasoildragboats.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Oil_Speedway
https://monstertruck.wikia.com/wiki
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_truck)
https://www.lucascattlecompany.com
https://www.protectthe harvest.com
https://www.lucasoilinvite.com/speedway-2018
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The 34th Annual Norco Mounted Posse PRCA Rodeo
Norco, in Riverside County, California, is an American town with a difference. The town’s motto is “Horse Town USA” and this is exactly what makes it different. Instead of sidewalks you have horse trails and you ride to town and tie up your horse at corrals and hitching rails! When the city was founded, its ordinances actually dictated that its architecture should reflect a Western theme which is equestrian oriented. Norco’s Mounted Posse force was founded in 1964 to provide law enforcement services on horseback. From that date up to now, the force patrols the town’s horse trails and provides events security besides taking part in parades and arranging a popular rodeo every summer. On August 17-19, Norco, celebrated the 34th Annual Norco Mounted Posse PRCA Rodeo. The event took place at the George Ingalls Equestrian Event Center. This is a major event for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) celebrating California’s Wild West roots. The Rodeo included barrel racing while offering the chance to sample great food, listen to superb music and, for the energetic, the chance to dance all night.
It was a well-organized family event full of fun activities suited to all ages. We will share with you some of the photos that were captured the event.
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2017 PBR World Finals
The Start
If you day-dream, dream BIG! This is the lesson PBR leaves you mulling. Twenty bull-riders’ dream, in 1992, costing each $ 1000, has become one of the fastest growing globally televised sports not only in the USA or the two Americas but in the whole world with millions upon millions of USA dollars in prize money. It’s a tough sport when you think that the average weight of the bull-rider is below 160 pounds (usually 159 or often less) while the bull usually weighs 2000 pounds! The ride lasts a mere eight (8) seconds but the risks to the rider are enormous till one remembers that this sport is not about weight nor yet about physical strength but about dexterity and the mental alertness-cum-imagination which allows the rider to foresee the bull’s move and maneuver his response so as to forestall every attempt by the bull to throw the rider off its back. Champion cow-boys’ wit and skill pitted against champion bulls’ brute force encapsulate the immense appeal and excitement inherent in this sport which attracts millions of fan attendees and glues millions more to their television screens.
2017 Competition
The BFTS (Built Ford Tough Series) World Finals in Las Vegas (1-5/11/2017) promised, and delivered, heaps of exciting competitions and lots more. Fans saw and cheered famous bull riders like Derek Kolbaba who at twenty-one years of age has become one of the top ten names in the sport with earnings over $ 306,000. There were many other well-known experienced bull-riders such as Cooper Davis and Kaique Pacheco. These two (Davis and Pacheco) were, unfortunately for them, bucked off in the fifth and final round of the World’s Finals on Sunday. Cooper Davis finished as number three (3) in the 2017 Finals with earnings totaling $280,770.92 while Kaique Pacheco finished as number five (5) with $405,775.15 in earnings. Number two was Derek Kolbaba who made $359,672.32 in earnings. But this year’s number one, the 2017 World Champion is Jess Lockwood with a whopping $1,525,292.90 earning. It is a dazzling achievement for Montana’s young rider who is only twenty years old. He is actually the youngest World Champion in PBR history. Jose Vitor Leme (Ribas do Rio Pardo, Brazil) won the 2017 PBR World Finals and Rookie of the Year with earnings totaling $459,927.
The 2017 Champion Bull
As for the bulls, to be fair one has to admit that they too put a remarkable show of stubbornness, bucking capacity and agility in spite of their colossal weight. Many of the bulls were already well-known worldwide; they too were cheered and admired and though bulls do not see a growth in bank accounts, they eventually get rewarded by being allowed to retire on some pretty stud farm. The 2017 Champion Bull is SweetPro’s Bruiser who has proved himself a champion par excellence, having won the YETI title for the second consecutive year! Congratulations to the Champions, humans and beasts, and the fun and excitement continue with the next rounds of competitions and winners.
It is pertinent here to note that there is more to the BFTS World Finals, in Las Vegas, than bull-riding competitions. Some of the most famous artists in country music and song have always taken part thereby adding an artistic and glamorous dimension to the events. There were many famous stars such as Chase Rice, Aaron Watson and Ryan Weaver. All in all the occasion provided lots of excitement and joy to the fortunate fans attending the event and to the millions watching on the screen all over the world. If you missed the event this year, plan for 2018 World Finals in November, 2018.
Mason Taylor came in first place in round 3 and the competition contiues.
