ProRodeo Sports News, June 1, 2018

2019 Rule Proposals Change R10.5.5 Disqualification of a Rider. Any of the following shall disqualify a rider: A) Changing hands on rein. B) Losing or dropping rein before pre-designated time. C) Wrapping rein around hand. D) Losing stirrup. E) Being bucked off. F) Touching animal, equipment ground or fence or person with free hand. Riding with locked rowels, or rowels that will lock on spurs, and/or rowels not dulled. G) Violating the spur out rule. Dry resin may be used on chaps and saddle. Anyone using any other foreign substance shall be disqualified and declared ineligible to compete for 30 days; also subject to fine. (The judges will examine clothing, saddle, rein and spurs, and exception will be made if local rules make it necessary for the covering of spur rowels.) If a rider who has been advised he is next to go, failing to be above the animal with his glove on, if used, when previous horse leaves arena. (C. Corey submitted 4/16) Competition Committee - denied Change R10.4.6 Disqualification of Rider. Any of the following shall disqualify a rider: A) Riding with rowels too sharp or locked; B) Being bucked off; Touching animal, equipment, ground, fence or person with free hand. One arm must be free at all times; D) Rigging comes off horse, with or without breaking; E) Violating the spur out rule; F) Taking any kind of finger tuck, finger wrap, or use of finger tape. Violators shall be disqualified and may also be subject to fine; G) If rider has been advised he is next to go, failing to be above the animal with his glove on when previous horse leaves the Change R10.6.7 Disqualification of Rider [in Bull Riding]: Any one of the following shall disqualify a rider: A) Being bucked off. B) Touching animal, equipment ground or person with free hand. C) Using sharp spurs, or placing spurs or chaps under the rope when rope is being tightened. D) Not having a bell on bull rope. E) When a bull rider who has been advised he is next to go is not above the animal with his glove on when previous bull leaves the arena. F) Intentionally leaving the chute with spurs hooked or lodged in the bull rope loop(s). (C. Corey submitted 4/16) Competition Committee – amended and approved Change R10.6.3.2 Use of Horse Flanks in Bull Riding. Horse flanks and/or draw flanks will not be allowed in the bull riding. provided that the tail of the flank strap is not long enough to touch the ground once pulled. (C. Whitney submitted 7/16) Competition Committee – amended and approved Change R7.3.2 Ineligibility Period. At the time a contestant doctor releases, he must indicate whether the mandatory ineligibility period shall last 4, 10 days or 30 days. Ineligibility period shall begin the first day of competition after notification to the Central Entry Office of the intended doctor release and shall continue through the period of 4, 10 days or 30 days following the first scheduled competition of the rodeo or rodeos for which the contestant doctor releases. During a rodeo year, a contestant may not designate more than two ineligibility periods which last less than 30 days. All subsequent ineligibility periods shall automatically last 30-days. (G. Williams submitted 11/16) Competition Committee – denied Change R7.3.1 Procedure. A contestant may doctor release, thus waiving all obligations for entry fees, turn-out fines, and mount monies, provided: A) Contestant has an injury or illness which prevents him from competing in one or more events for which he is entered at a rodeo; B) Contestant notifies the Central Entry Office of the intended doctor releases no later than three hours prior to the performance for which the contestant’s first go-round competition is scheduled (with contestant responsible for listing all rodeos in which he is scheduled to compete within the 4, 10- or 30-day ineligibility time period described below); and C) A medical doctor verification can only be submitted by a licensed medical doctor, physician’s assistant, nurse practitioner or arena. (C. Corey submitted 4/16) Competition committee – denied

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