ProRodeo Sports News, June 1, 2018

ProRodeo Hall of Fame housing three Vold horses this summer The ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs welcomed horses from the Harry Vold Rodeo Company this summer for the Rodeo Livestock Exhibit. The horses arrived at the Hall of Fame the afternoon of May 23. Kirsten Vold, the daughter of the late Harry Vold, a ProRodeo Hall of Fame stock contractor, brought Beaver Tail. Beaver Tail gave birth May 15 to a colt. With the baby on the property, the ProRodeo Hall of Fame will be running a “Name the Colt” contest with the museum guests this summer to name the newborn horse. Beaver Tail has been bucked as a bareback and saddle bronc horse, bucking off several cowboys at large rodeos, including Prescott, Ariz., and Cheyenne, Wyo. Beaver Tail’s first colt, 6V Pillow Talk, became a three-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo participant. Vold also brought Painted Fling, whose sire is Painted Valley, the 2010 PRCA Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year. Painted Fling will turn 5 years old in August and has never been bucked. His dam is a horse cloned from Flying 5 Rodeo Company horse – Spring Fling. “We are excited to have a mare, colt and stallion for this year’s Rodeo Livestock Exhibit,” said Kent Sturman, director of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and Museum of the American Cowboy. “This is a different angle than the standard retired bucking horses we’ve had in the past, as these animals will allow us the opportunity to showcase the breeding side of the bucking stock industry and exhibit a future bucking horse. “Guests will learn about the importance of bloodlines and how breeding certain animals produces the best stock available. As an added educational piece, since Painted Fling is a product of a cloned mare, we can pass along some knowledge about cloning and how it is becoming a popular and important aspect of the bucking horse breeding programs of many stock contractors. We thank Vold Rodeo Company for supporting this exhibit and loaning us these

The horses will spend the summer at the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. PRCA ProRodeo photo

animals for the summer.” Kirsten Vold is happy to bring the horses to the ProRodeo HOF. “We are great supporters of the (ProRodeo) Hall of Fame,” she said. “Anytime you can educate the visitors on the welfare of animals and seeing that bucking horses are taken care of well and how important they are to the industry, it’s a good deal. This year it is an interesting angle because the stud, Painted Fling, his mother is actually a clone. They cloned Spring Fling a few years back, and it just shows how rodeo is progressing with science.”

McSpadden celebrated at Will Rogers Stampede The opening night of the Will Rogers Stampede PRCA Rodeo in Claremore, Okla., May 25, was the perfect time to celebrate all that Clem McSpadden was. “We’re here to pay tribute to a man who gave us a lifetime of public service to his community, to his rodeo and to his country,” said Claremore City Manager Jim Thomas in a Ted Harbin press release during a dedication for McSpadden and the updated Stampede Park, which is undergoing a transformation and is in the first phase of a three- to five-year renovation plan. “Stampede Park is a dream for all,” Thomas said. “It’s a place for cowboys, cowgirls, city slickers, wan- nabes and families to gather. It’s a park connected by pioneer traditions going back many years. Our genera- tions today are the benefactors of the blood, sweat and tears which has produced the last four years, the PRCA’s best small rodeo of the year. We are indebted to those who came before us.” McSpadden, a ProRodeo Hall of Fame rodeo announcer, served as a U.S. Congressman for his home state of Oklahoma. He passed away July 7, 2008. He was 82. The Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping bears his name. A stone with McSpadden’s likeness was revealed during the dedication and stands as a welcome to Stampede Park.

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Stampede Park in Claremore, Okla., recently was dedicated to Clem McSpadden, who died in 2008.

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