PRORODEO Sports News - June 6, 2025

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They weren't consistent traveling partners on the rodeo road, but they maintained a close relation ship and made sure to stay in touch when they retired from competi tion. "We've been friends ever since," Davis said. "We didn't always travel together, but we did sometimes and we had a lot of the same ideas about the sport. "I could call him after not seeing him for a year, and I knew what his reaction was going to be." Smith qualified for the National Finals Rodeo 13 times, missing the PRORODEO's championship event just once from 1965 to 1978. After retirement, Smith produced a nightly PRCA rodeo in North Platte, Neb., and operated the Wyoming Quarterhorse Ranch in Thermop olis. "He loved the horses that he rode. He talked about bucking horses 24 hours a day," Davis said. "I've never seen anybody who loved talking about bucking horses and the sport the way he did." True to his strong sense of right and wrong, Smith did everything in his power to stand up for fairness in rodeo. "He always loved the sport, but he always wanted fairness in the sport," Davis said. "He always pro fessed that and lived it."

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