2018 PRCA Media Guide - Stock Contractors

manager in 2015. The firm sent a saddle bronc and a bucking bull to the 2016 Wrangler NFR.

Achievement Award for contract personnel at the PRCA’s Awards Banquet just before the 2011 NFR, and the award was named for her in 2012. One Barnes saddle bronc was selected for the 2016 Wrangler NFR. WEBSITE : www. BarnesPRCARodeo.com. LOCATION: Elk City, Okla. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Bareback horses Sam Bass, 1973; Copenhagen Comotion, 1998-2000; saddle broncs Blowout, 1985; Challenger & Skoal, 1987; bulls Cowtown, 1985; Voodoo Child, 2007-08. OTHER NOTABLE STOCK : Killer Bee, top saddle bronc of the 2013-14 Wrangler NFRs and top five in 2015, and No. 2 bronc of the year in 2015; Wound Up, second-ranked saddle bronc of the year and of the Wrangler NFR in 2016, andone of the topfive saddle broncs of the 2014-15 Wrangler NFR (who also had the top score of the 2015 Wrangler NFR with the event’s only 90-point ride and the top score of the 2016 Wrangler NFR with a 90.5 in Round 10 with two-time World Champion Cody Wright); saddle bronc Rebel Soul had the top roughstock score of the 2015 regular season, a 94, in Austin, Texas. Fighting Bulls of the Year –4B, 1991; Red, 1992; Wack-O, 1996; Spotted Demon, 1998-99, Black Out, 2000. Bucking stock: Black Cat tied for No. 3 PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, 2011; Wonderland, top- three PRCA bareback horse, 2010; Little Lightning, top-three PRCA bull, 2009. BACKGROUND: Longtime PRCA stock contractor Bennie Beutler and his son, Rhett, joined forces in 2001 to form Beutler & Son Rodeo Company, which was known as Beutler and Gaylord Rodeo from 1989-2001. The Beutler name has been synonymous with stock contracting since 1929. Bennie’s grandfather, Elra, and his great-uncles, Jake and Lynn, began supplying stock to Oklahoma and Texas rodeos more than 70 years ago. Bennie Beutler has served as assistant general manager of the Wrangler NFR since 1982; NFR chute boss, 1979-80; member of PRCA Rules Committee, 1980; stock contractor representative on NFR Committee, 1981-82; member of PRCA board of directors, 1989-91; stock contractor director on PRCA board until 2004. He was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2010 and the firm was PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year in 1997 as well as being nominated in 2008-11 and 2013-15. Five Beutler & Son bareback horses, five saddle broncs and four bulls were selected for the 2016 Wrangler NFR. LOCATION: Ritzville, Wash. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Bareback horse Spring Fling, 1997; saddle bronc Spring Fling, 1999, (tie) 2000; bulls Rapid Fire, 1997; Unforgiven, 2002; Tahonta, 2003- 04. OTHER NOTABLE STOCK : Kool Toddy, tied for No. 3 saddle bronc in the PRCA, 2010, top five saddle bronc, Wrangler NFR, 2012, 2015; Dog Face, top bull of the Columbia River Circuit and selected for Wrangler NFR, 1992, reserve Bull of the Year, 1996; Tradewinds owns a share of the record with Beutler & Son Rodeo Stock contractors: Bennie and Rhett Beutler Big Bend Rodeo Stock contractors: Chad and Don Hutsell

Bar T Rodeo Stock contractors: Jeff Flitton, Evelyn Kerby and Cody Flitton

LOCATION: Chester, Utah. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Alley Cat, tie, 1977, also top-three bareback horse at NFR 1976, 1982, and top bareback horse of the Wilderness Circuit, 1976- 77, 1981-83. OTHER NOTABLE STOCK : Sparrow, top-three PRCA saddle bronc, 1991-93, top saddle bronc at 1990 NFR and among top three 1991-3; Highland Special, who went to the NFR 20 times; Deception, High & Mighty and Reception, also Wrangler NFR bucking horses; Son of Sadie and Eight Ball were named among the top five saddle broncs of the 2009 Finals. BACKGROUND: Bar T Rodeo has been a family-run operation for more than 60 years. Stock is kept on 2,500 acres, leased and owned, in central Utah. In 1997, Swanny Kerby, who started the business, was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. His son, saddle bronc rider and pickup man Bud Kerby, and Bud’s wife Evelyn builtupBarTRodeo’sbreedingprogramandhelped produce the first-ever Olympic exhibition rodeo in Farmington, Utah, in 2002. Bud Kerby passed away in October 2010 and was posthumously inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2012, Evelyn sold the business to their daughter and son-in-law Wendie and Jeff Flitton, their son Cody and daughter Kellie Addington and her husband Sam, who operate it with another Kerby daughter, Lori Pierce, and her husband, Martin. Evelyn Kerby continues to advise the family. Bar T Rodeo won the Remuda Award in 2005 and 2011 for providing the best, most consistent pens of bucking horses to PRCA rodeos, and Bar T livestock swept the Wilderness Circuit awards in 2011 as Bitter Robin, 8 Ball and Top Gun were named best bareback horse, best saddle bronc and best bucking bull, respectively. Three Bar T bareback horses, five saddle broncs and one bucking bull were selected for the 2016 Wrangler NFR. LOCATION: Peterson, Iowa. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Saddle bronc Crystal Springs, 1977. OTHER NOTABLE STOCK : Bucking bull T Bar, Reliant Stadium arena-record 94 points with Terry Don West; bareback horse Smokeless Bow Tie carried Wes Stevenson to a 93-point ride at the 2002 Summer Tour Finale in Dallas, tying the second-highest score in PRCA history. BACKGROUND: Bob Barnes, who passed away in 2013, was in the stock contracting business for 60 years; he had stock at each NFR since its inception in 1959 and at every RAMGreat Lakes Circuit Finals Rodeo. One of the most respected stockmen in professional rodeo, he was 1984 PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year and was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1994. Barnes considered it his mission to educate people about the sport and its Western heritage. His wife, Donita, was posthumously awarded the inaugural Lifetime Barnes PRCA Rodeo Stock contractor: Marty Barnes

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