PRORODEO Sports - April 24, 2026 Digital Edition

to be at a sale or you see something. I have a notion that, ‘Hey, I’m going to bet on the horse and buy it,’ and ends up being a world beater. There’s definitely a lot of luck involved in it, but you have to be in the game. You have to keep pushing, you have to keep entering. You have to keep trying every day to be in the game. As long as you get a seat at the table, anything can happen.” Carr said seeing his livestock capturing Horse or Bull of the Year honors is a point of pride. “When you get chosen to go to the NFR, it is surreal and very special,” Carr said. “Definitely raising (animals who get chosen), it is kind of like watching your kid at a soccer game. You stick your

the 2014 and 2015 PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year, as another cornerstone piece of his stock contracting firm. The first time Dirty Jacket ever bucked at a PRCA rodeo in 2008 was a precursor for things to come. Dirty Jacket was just 4 years old when Carr put the colt to the test in Guymon, Okla. The bay gelding guided his cowboy to the title and did it again the next three years, five times overall. As he matured, Dirty Jacket grew in stature and in legend. He was just 5 when he performed at the National Finals Ro deo for the first of 12 straight times. He was quickly becom ing one of the greatest bucking animals in the sport. The cowboys voted him as the third-best bareback horse in 2012, the year his half-sister, Deuces Night, won the world championship. A year later, Dirty Jacket was the Reserve Bareback Horse of the Year, and

in 2014 and 2015, the explosive example of equine dynamite was twice the PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year. In addition to his dozen trips to the NFR, Dirty Jacket has been named the Texas Circuit horse of the year three times since 2013, twice in bare back riding and once in bronc riding. “I think I paid $3,200 for Dirty Jacket and who knew how good he was going to be,” Carr said. The gamble with Dirty Jacket is just one example of the tight rope stock contractors walk to find star horses and bulls, something Carr acknowl edges is far from an exact science. “You need a lot of luck. When you’re breeding animals and things like that. If you get into the weeds of the rodeo business, it takes quite a bit of luck,” Carr said. “You have to have the right guy draw the right horse or breed the right

Pete Carr’s fuel to become a stock contractor

animal to the right stud to the right mare and end up with the world champion horse or be lucky enough

began with his general contracting business.

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