2018 PRCA Media Guide - Stock Contractors

Bull of the Year; Misfit, 2008 First Frontier Circuit Bareback Horse of the Year; Shasta, 2007 First Frontier Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year. BACKGROUND : After six years in amateur rodeo, Shawn Graham got his PRCA stock contractor card in 2006, shortly after purchasing 56-year- old Painted Pony Championship Rodeo from Jack McCue. Painted Pony took a bareback horse to the Wrangler NFR in 2016. LOCATION: Dallas, Texas. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Dirty Jacket, PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2014-15, top three, 2012-13 (also had the top two scores of the regular 2014 season, 91 points, in Stephenville, Texas, and Cheyenne, Wyo., and the top score of the 2015 regular season, 92 points, in Pecos, Texas); MGM Deuces Night, PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2012; Real Deal, PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2005, runner-up, 2006. OTHER NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : bucking bull Half Nuts had one of the top two 2015 regular-season scores of 93 points in Pecos, Texas, and was named one of the top four bulls of that year; Poker Face, among top three bulls of the 2014 season; Riverboat Annie, runner-up, PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2007. BACKGROUND: Pete Carr Pro Rodeo was established in 2005 by Carr to produce PRCA rodeos and provide high-caliber livestock throughout the United States. He and his crew produce the richest rodeo in Oklahoma, Guymon Pioneer Days; the oldest rodeo in Texas, the West of the Pecos; and the richest rodeo in New Mexico, the Lea County Fair and Rodeo in Lovington. They have excelled at both ends of the arena, providing the calves for the 2007Wrangler NFR. Carr stock has also won many circuit awards and set arena records at some of the biggest rodeos in the country. The firm was nominated for stock contractor of the year in 2013-15. Pete Carr Pro Rodeo sent four bareback horses, four saddle broncs and three bulls to the 2016 Wrangler NFR. WEBSITE : www.PeteCarrProRodeo.com. LOCATION: Dallas, Texas. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Big Tex, PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2010, top three, 2008, 2011. NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Wise Guy, top bareback horse of the Wrangler NFR, 2006, and No. 2 in the PRCA, 2009; Cattle Drive, who carried Ryan Stutes to a 93-point ride in Texarkana, Ark., tying the second-highest scored bareback ride in PRCA history, in 2007; Good Time Charlie, No. 2 bareback horse of the 2012 Wrangler NFR. BACKGROUND: Former bareback rider Scotty Lovelace, with his wife, Tonya, and his mother, Patty, purchased Classic Pro Rodeo in 1991; it received its PRCA stock contracting card in 1995, and Lovelace was named 2003 PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year. In 2013, PRCA stock contractor Pete Carr purchased the former Classic Pro Rodeo, which has taken livestock to every Wrangler NFR since it became eligible in 1997. In 2016, it sent five bareback horses, two saddle Pete Carr Pro Rodeo Stock contractor: Pete Carr Pete Carr’s Classic Pro Rodeo Stock contractor: Pete Carr

broncs and three bucking bulls to the Wrangler NFR. As Classic Pro Rodeo, the firm was nominated for PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year in 2008-12; as Pete Carr’s Classic Pro Rodeo, it was nominated in 2015. WEBSITE : www.PeteCarrProRodeo.com.

Pickett Pro Rodeo Stock contractor: Cullen Pickett

LOCATION: Fairfield, Texas. NOTABLE STOCK: Top Flight was the No. 3 Pendleton Whisky Bareback Horse of the Year in 2016. BACKGROUND: Former PRCA bareback rider Jay Austin, a three-time DNCFR contender who went to the RAM Southeastern Circuit Finals Rodeo 16 times, bought Gold Buckle Rodeo from Mark “Sparky” Dreesen and Dr. Bruce Fink in March 2010 and renamed it Coyote Pro Rodeo. PRCA stock contractor Cullen Pickett bought Coyote Pro Rodeo in 2011 and renamed it Pickett Pro Rodeo. Pickett had purchased J Bar J’s prize stud Nightjacket for the Lancaster and Pickett firm in 2009 not long after Jim and Margaret Zinser sold that firm to Sparky and Marlene Dreesen. In 2011, Pickett married the Dreesens’ daughter, Amanda. The firm took nine bareback horses, one saddle bronc and two bulls to the 2016Wrangler NFR. Powder River Rodeo Stock contractors: Hank, Lori and John Franzen LOCATION: Riverton, Wyo. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Shepherd Hills Tested, 2013, also top bucking bull, 2012 Wrangler NFR; bareback horse Khadafy Skoal, 1990, 1995-96, inducted Into ProRodeo Hall of Fame, 2012; saddle bronc Miss Congeniality, 2005, 2007, top three, 2008; reserve champion bareback horse Skoal’s Frontier, 1991. OTHER NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Craig at Midnight won the Pendleton Whisky Bareback Horse of the Year Award in 2016 after tying for third the previous year. BACKGROUND: Hank Franzen, a PRCA Gold Card member, began in the PRCA stock contracting business in 1986 after spending all his life in rodeo arenas. He and his wife, Lori, started the company on their own. In those 25 years, they have earned 148 “top stock” awards, including RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo and circuit awards, and were nominated for Stock Contracting Firm of the Year in 2012-13 and 2015. The Franzens’children, Jill and John, are a huge part of their family entertainment productions. The Franzens run more than 350 head of horses, 150 head of bulls and 50 head of cows, most of them raised in the“born to buck”breeding program they started more than 20 years ago. The Franzens produce or lease stock to 35 rodeos a year. Hank has also served as stock contractor representative for the RNCFR and on the PRCA’s stock contractor executive council. Powder River sent one bareback horse, four saddle broncs and five bucking bulls to the 2016 Wrangler NFR.

STOCK CONTRACTORS

Rafter G Rodeo Stock contractors: Jim and Neal Gay

LOCATION: Terrell, Texas. NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Assault, top bareback horse of the 2013 Wrangler NFR. BACKGROUND: In 1958, a group of cowboys, including Neal Gay (father of eight-time World Champion Bull Rider Don Gay), Jim Shoulders, Ira

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2018 PRCA MEDIA GUIDE