2018 PRCA Media Guide - Stock Contractors

Award for best pen of bucking horses, and John Growney served on the PRCA’s stock contractor executive council 2008-10. The three partners raise 200 bucking bulls, 200 bucking horses and 400 calves and steers on three ranches in the area around Red Bluff, Calif., on more than 3,500 acres of owned and leased land. Growney Brothers Rodeo sent four bareback horses, two saddle broncs and three bulls to the 2016Wrangler NFR. LOCATION: Avondale, Colo. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Bareback horse Smokey, 1974 (and No. 1 bareback of the NFR in 1972); saddle broncs Sarcee Sorrel, 1976; Rusty, 1981; Angel Sings, 1978- 79; Wrangler Savvy, 1986; Bobby Joe Skoal, 1991- 93 (also top saddle bronc of the 1991 NFR); Painted Valley, 2010 (also top saddle bronc of the 2009 Wrangler NFR); bulls Panda Bear, 1976, No. 777, 1979-80. OTHER NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Necklace, Bareback horse of the Year 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970 (a record four times); bull No. 33, top bull of the NFR in 1975. BACKGROUND: Born and raised in Canada, Harry Vold started his rodeo company there in 1954, relocating to a Colorado ranch in the late 1960s. His stock has produced some of the most famous bloodlines in America, passed along through many other stock contractors’ herds. Vold, known as “Duke of the Chutes,” said his goal is “to produce top rodeos all over North America and to have the best stock at the biggest and best rodeos, featuring the top cowboys.” Voted PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year 11 times and nominated many more times, he bought most of his bulls but breeds many bucking horses and raised approximately 50 colts a year. He passed away in early 2017 and his daughter Kirsten will continue to manage the firm, which sent one bareback horse and one saddle bronc to the 2016 Wrangler NFR. The firm won the Remuda Award in 2013, and Harry Vold’s wife Karen won the Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award for her commitment to rodeo. LOCATION: Wellston, Okla. BACKGROUND: John Walter became a PRCA stock contractor in 1979 and was named Great Lakes ProRodeo Circuit stock contractor of the year in 1985. Mid States Rodeo Company marked its 40th year in business in 2012. Separately, Van Flaherty, a former PRCA roughstock contestant, started working on his own herd with bloodlines from Zinser stud Nightjacket in 1997 and added bucking bulls in 2008, forming the Hi Lo Rodeo Company. In January 2011, Flaherty bought Mid States from Walter, who passed away in January 2015; the herd now numbers about 100 horses plus bulls. Hi Lo ProRodeo sent two bareback horses, one saddle bronc and one bull to the Wrangler NFR in 2016. Stock Contractors (continued) Harry Vold Rodeo Stock contractor: Kirsten Vold Hi Lo ProRodeo Stock contractor: Van Flaherty General manager: Dustin Murray

Hi Lo ProRodeo Company Stock contractors: Van Flahery and Jeff Flaherty; general manager Jeff Flaherty LOCATION: Clinton, La. NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Cochise, top bull, Wrangler NFR, 2007; Zippo, top saddle bronc, Wrangler NFR, 1984. BACKGROUND: Klein & Sons Rodeo was started in 1970 as Circle K Rodeo by Dan Klein. His son, Errol, is the primary stock contractor, chute boss and arena director. Errol’s brothers, Roy “Boo” and Dan Jr., are pickup men. The company has progressed through the ranks, producing Little Britches, high school and college rodeos, as well as providing stock for professional rodeos since the company began. The Klein family joined the PRCA and became a professional stock contracting company in 1978. The next year, the company produced 15 rodeos, including two college and two high school rodeos, spanning five states and 700 miles from Arkansas to Mississippi. In early 2017, the company was purchased byVan Flaherty, owner of Hi Lo ProRodeo, and Jeff Flaherty. Honeycutt Rodeo Stock contractor: Jerry Honeycutt LOCATION: Alamosa, Colo. BACKGROUND: Roy Honeycutt, a former PRCA competitor, uses knowledge he has acquired through the years to produce fair competition and expand ProRodeo’s scope and reach. Based in Alamosa, Colo., the Honeycutt family continues the traditions of Roy’s father-in-law, Walter Alsbaugh, who passed along his legacy of wisdom in stock contracting and breeding award-winning bucking horses. Four generations of the Honeycutt Rodeo family create quality family-oriented rodeo entertainment with award-winning bucking stock, top contract personnel and dynamic music, although the company is now owned by only one of Roy’s sons, Jerry, and his wife, Dawn. Honeycutt Rodeo sent a bucking bull to the Wrangler NFR in 2015. BACKGROUND: “Ranch-reared” Vernon Guidry raised most of his formidable bucking bulls. In 1993, Guidry purchased Dorenkamp Rodeo in Holly, Colo. He has established a phenomenal “born to buck” program with such notable sires as Red Wasp, Hot Damn, Coopers Comet, Western Hauler, Final Dose, XS Energy and Hopscotch, each of whom possesses foundations that go back to legendary bulls such as Rooster, Hobo, Houdini, Tequila and Spook. Guidry partnered with Binion Cervi 2005-11 and the company was named Cervi & Guidry at that time. In 2012, Guidry formed a partnership with Lyndal Hurst and Bryan Payne, a PRCA member since 2006. Hurst Pro Rodeo took a bull to the 2016 Wrangler NFR. Hurst Pro Rodeo Stock contractor: Lyndal Hurst LOCATION: Slaton, Texas. J Bar J Stock contractor: Mark“Sparky”Dreesen LOCATION: Circle, Mont. NOTABLE LIVESTOCK : Perennial Wrangler NFR bucking horse Nightjacket,

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