PRORODEO Sports - April 24, 2026 Digital Edition

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN PETE CARR HAS BECOME ELITE PRORODEO STOCK CONTRACTOR By Tracy Renck

S ince 2005, Pete Carr has established himself as one of top stock contractors in PRORODEO. However, it is a journey Carr never thought he would take. Carr was raised by a single mom and had every reason to not live a productive life. “We grew up and we didn’t know we were poor, but we were poor. We lived in government subsidized apartments in Dallas,” Carr said. “We didn’t know any difference. We always had hamburger helper on the stove without the hamburger. “We always had something to wear and we didn’t know back then it was different. People didn’t wear designer clothes, and it didn’t matter what tennis shoes you had on. So, it was easier to get by like we did. But we never wanted for anything.” Carr acknowledged his mother’s resilience and persever ance kept the family afloat. Her actions were an inspiration to him. “My mom was everything. She worked three jobs. She was the oldest of five in her family,” Carr said. “She taught me ev erything I knew about everything. From her, I learned about work ethic and being kind to people. And she was that kind of person that took care of all of her siblings, me and my sister. “Besides her, my aunt was probably like my second mom, and she would always watch us when my mom had to go to work. And we’d talk all the time. She’s been a great influ ence too.” Carr’s mom put him on the right path – but it didn’t involve rodeo. “You know, I couldn’t even spell rodeo when I was grow ing up,” Carr said. INTRODUCTION TO RODEO Really by chance, Carr was introduced to the sport as a teenager, thanks to a neighborhood family. “I started riding bareback horses in high school, thanks to a local family that was right up the street,” Carr said. “We lived in Richardson, Texas, and there was a family, the Rodriguez family. They had five boys and their oldest son, Monty, rode bareback horses. “I started traveling around with those guys, not rodeoing, I was just hanging out with them. I was the younger kid, and they were going to all the local rodeos all over. They did the junior stampede and various rodeos around the Metro

plex. I thought we were really going, (it felt like) two days, and it was like two hours. It was fun. I hung around, and I watched those guys. Monty rode bareback horses, so it kind of got me interested. That’s kind of how I got started as a bareback rider.” There was one problem though. If Carr wanted to contin ue rodeoing, he needed money. “The only job I could do and get my (school) courses (done) was work construction. I barely got out of high school. I think they actually called at one point and asked me if I wouldn’t come for the rest of the school year,” Carr said. “My mom wanted me to graduate from high school, so I did. I do have a diploma from high school. But I just didn’t learn that way. I wasn’t an academic star by any means. But the only way I could continue to rodeo was to have a construction job. We would start at 7 in the morning, get off at 3. Well, you can make a lot of rodeos that way. There’s a rodeo in pretty much every town around here (in Texas). “I would go to the short ones on Thurs day night, the further ones on Friday, and then the longest ones. If I had to go to Houston or somewhere, I’d go there on Saturday and I’d try to get entered correctly to where I could work. At the most, I would take off at like 2 o’clock. When we had a break,

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