ProRodeo Sports News - 2021 Year End Edition

BOB THAIN 5/27/1936-8/2/2021

friend to many cowboys. JOHN WARREN MCFARLANE 8/9/1940-2/22/2021

A ProRodeo Hall of Famer, Thain helped reorganization efforts of the PRCA in the 1980s, was part of efforts to move the National Finals Rodeo from Oklahoma City to Las Vegas and was on the PRCA Board of Directors for nearly two decades. In 1985, when the PRCA was going through tough times, Harry Vold and Shawn Davis asked Thain and Eldon Davis to head the

McFarlane was a former PRCA cowboy and National Finals Rodeo pick-up man in 1976. McFarlane had a passionate love for his horses. He joined the PRCA in the 1960s, winning numerous all-around titles working both ends of the arena. He was runner-up for the Linderman award twice. JIM MOSBRUCKER 12/15/1943-8/16/2021 A PRCA stock contractor, Mosbrucker had horses buck at multiple National Finals Rodeos, including Magic Wars, who teamed with bareback rider Will Lowe in 2007 to set the arena record of 91.5 points that stood for 10 years. Magic Wars was named the top bareback horse of the NFR. Also that year, three rounds were won at the NFR on War Chick, Silver Moon and Magic Wars. Mosbrucker had a passion for rodeo and started as a pickup man in 1968 and was voted Pickup Man of the Year multiple times. Mosbrucker believed the success of a rodeo had to do with the caliber of the stock and the quality of cowboys. GARRETT WADE NOKES 11/21/1975-2/14/2021 Nokes qualified for the 2005 National Finals Rodeo in steer wrestling, finishing fourth in the world standings that season with $127,775. He earned $740,031 in his PRCA career, $440,113 in steer wrestling, $279,803 in tie-down roping and $15,170 in team roping. Nokes began rodeoing in the PRCA in 1996, winning all-around honors at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days and the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver. At the 2005 NFR, Nokes won Round 1 with a 3.6-second time. SHARON SHOULDERS 12/30/1929-1/30/2021 Shoulders, wife of the late ProRodeo Hall of Fame legend Jim Shoulders, was steadfast in her support and encouragement of Jim as he won 16 world championships. She also co-founded the Jim Shoulders Rodeo Company and ran the J Lazy S Ranch in Henryetta, Okla., while Jim traveled to rodeos. Along with her lifelong friend Donna McSpadden, she founded the HANDS group, an organization helping other women in the rodeo world with the personal challenges of raising a family and being alone due to the nature of rodeo life. JULIE SUTTON 3/24/1936-7/21/2021 Sutton, wife of stock contractor Jim Sutton Jr., was the recipient of the 2017 PRCA Donita Barnes Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award along with her husband. Jim was inducted in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 17. But Julie was unable to attend the ceremony. Jim and Julie were married for 68 years. The history of the Suttons’ being involved in the rodeo business traces back to 1926 when Edwin Sutton, Jim’s grandfather began producing rodeos on the home ranch in Sully County, S.D. Jim and Julie took the company to the next level with a focus on production and innovation. Sutton Rodeo has had its stock selected to perform at every National Finals Rodeo since 1959 but two.

reorganization efforts as co-commissioners in 1985-86. Thain was awarded the PRCA Man of the Year in 1987. STOCK

CRAIG AT MIDNIGHT Powder River Rodeo’s Craig at Midnight was the 2016 PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year and the top bareback horse at the 2017 National Finals Rodeo. Craig at Midnight was a ranch-raised colt out of world champion sire Cut The Cards and mare T33 KC Rocket (Tooke bloodline). Craig at Midnight was buried next to the Franzen’s house under a cottonwood tree next to Powder River Rodeo’s ProRodeo Hall of Fame bareback horse Khadafy Skoal. The last time Craig at Midnight competed was April 17 at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up. Wyatt Bloom had an 81-point ride aboard the horse. Craig at Midnight was the 2016 Pendleton Whisky “Let ‘er Buck” Bucking Stock of the Year in bareback riding. That year Craig had 11 outs during the regular season, with eight of the 11 riders lasting eight seconds. All eight of those cowboys earned a check, with two of them placing first and two others placing second. The gray gelding went to the NFR eight consecutive years (2013-20). In 2017 at the NFR, Craig at Midnight and C5 Rodeo’s Virgil split the honor for Top Stock of the NFR. At that NFR, Craig at Midnight bucked off Clayton Biglow in Round 3 while eventual Bareback Riding World Champion Tim O’Connell had an 85-point ride on Craig at Midnight to split fourth place in Round 8. SPILLED PERFUME OLS Tubs Spilled Perfume, an award-winning bareback horse from the Macza Pro Rodeo stable, passed away Aug. 24 as a result of complications from colic. She was 13. Laminitis (also termed founder) is inflammation of the laminae of the foot – the soft tissue structures that attach the coffin or pedal bone of the foot to the hoof wall. The inflammation and damage to the laminae causes extreme pain and leads to instability of the coffin bone in the hoof. Spilled Perfume has a 2-month-old colt. Spilled Perfume weighed 1,400 pounds and was 15.3 hands. Spilled Perfume competed at the National Finals Rodeo from 2015-20. At the 2020 Wrangler NFR at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, Spilled Perfume bucked off Jamie Howlett (Round 3) and Richmond Champion (Round 8). She finished second in the Bareback Horse of the Year voting at the 2018 and 2019 NFRs and was third in the voting at the 2017 NFR. SPIDER Saddle bronc horse Spider was a two-time National Finals Rodeo selection from Bailey Pro Rodeo. Spider’s last two outs were at the Snake River Stampede in Nampa. Dawson Dahm had an 81.5-point ride on July 20, and Tegan Smith had an 82.5-point trip on him July 23. Spider’s two outs at the NFR came with Isaac Diaz (2015) and Jacobs Crawley (2018) aboard. Spider also was the 2017 Badlands Circuit Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year.

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