2024 PRORODEO Media Guide

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Harper & Morgan Rodeo General manager: Scotty Lovelace LOCATION: Athens, Texas. BUCKING STOCK OF THE YEAR: Bareback horse Real Deal, 2005; Bucking Bull Hot & Ready, 2019. OTHER NOTABLE LIVESTOCK: Donkey Kong had one of the two top scores of the 2015 regular season, a 93, in Pecos, Texas. BACKGROUND: Stace Smith, a stock contractor since 1995, became owner of Smith, Harper & Morgan in 2004. Harper and Morgan had been producing rodeos since 1965 and had been stock contractors since 1983. Harlan Robertson joined the firm in 2010. Smith, Harper & Morgan Rodeo sent one saddle bronc and three bucking bulls to the 2020 Wrangler NFR. 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 four bareback horses, three saddle broncs and two bucking bulls to the Wrangler NFR in 2020. 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 one bull to the 2020 Wrangler NFR. Hurst & TNT Pro Rodeo Owners: Lyndal Hurst and Mitchell Terrell LOCATION: Slaton, Texas. 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” Hi Lo ProRodeo Stock contractor: Van Flaherty General manager: Dustin Murray Honeycutt Rodeo Stock contractor: Jerry Honeycutt

horse Dreamboat Annie, paired with Larry Peabody for an 89-point ride in 1981 for a record that held until 1995; Sock Dancer was top saddle bronc of the 2008 Wrangler NFR; bull Wolfman (whose bloodlines include ProRodeo Hall of Fame bulls Red Rock and Oscar) in 1991 teamed with Wade Leslie for the only 100-point ride in rodeo history; Cash Money, one of top five bucking bulls, 2012 Wrangler NFR. BACKGROUND: Growney Brothers Rodeo started with stock that John Growney, a PRCA roughstock competitor, used for practice. In 1979, Growney purchased Rodeo Stock Contractors from Bob Cook and, after three years in the amateur rodeo business, turned professional. His partner Don Kish managed the bucking bull program from the beginning, and Growney added another partner, Tim Bridwell, in 2005 to manage the bucking horse program. Growney Brothers Rodeo was the PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year in 2000, and was often nominated before that year as well as 2009-10; in 2008 the firm won the PRCA Remuda 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 2016 Wrangler NFR. Hampton Pro Rodeo General manager: Kevin Hampton 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 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. In 2020 the firm sent one bareback horse to the Wrangler NFR. WEBSITE : www.PeteCarrProRodeo.com.

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