ProRodeo Sports News - June 28, 2019

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Gunnison rodeo giving back

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Cattlemen’s Days raises money for community One applicant for the Sowing Good Deeds initiative is the Cattlemen’s Days in Gunnison, Colo., a town in southwest Colorado with a population of 15,000. Cattlemen’s Days is the largest annual event for the Gunnison community. The rodeo began in 1900 when local ranchers drove cattle and wild horses onto main street and created a small arena to have horse races, bronc riding and roping events. In addition to the preservation of this Western heritage, the Cattlemen’s Days Rodeo Committee gives back to the community in many ways. This year’s rodeo is July 11-13 at the Fred Field Western Heritage Center. Cattlemen’s Days Tough Enough to Wear Pink campaign raises money at the annual Cattlemen’s Days TETWP Concert and Auction and Cattlemen’s Days TETWP Rodeo for breast cancer financial support, treatment and education. Since 2005, Cattlemen’s Days TETWP has raised $2.7 million and is planning to eclipse the $3 million mark this year. More than $1 million has been spent in the community throughout the program. A significant amount of that money has gone toward the purchase of a variety of screening equipment, including a Hologic 3D Tomosynthesis mammography machine, digital ultrasound, digital mammography machine, stereotactic biopsy, PINK robes and warmers – all in use at Gunnison Valley Health. The rodeo committee for Cattlemen’s Days’ latest initiative is using a portion of the ticket sales for the Saturday night rodeo and other events to support the Gunnison Ranchland Conservation Legacy. The Legacy is a conservation entity which helps fund and place conservation easements on ranchlands in the Gunnison Valley to keep the land in agricultural production for perpetuity, protect water rights and wildlife habitat, and ensure that the picturesque landscapes of the Gunnison Valley will be there for future generations to use as working ranches. What started as a community celebration and rodeo has evolved into a volunteer committee which preserves the Western heritage it cherishes through the PRCA Rodeo and other Cattlemen’s Days events. Cattlemen’s Days helps its community members battle breast cancer and helps others at GVH through the state-of-the-art equipment purchased by TETWP. In the book Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West (William Morrow; $27.99), acclaimed authors and journalists David Wolman and Julian Smith captivatingly illuminate this little-known and dramatic episode in American history. The book details the journey of Hawaiians Ikua Purdy, Archie Ka’au’a and Jack Low from the islands of Hawaii to the Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days in the early 1900s. With them they carried pride and hope of the islands. Aloha Rodeo chronicles the parallel rise of the cowboy – paniolo, in Hawaiian – culture in Hawaii and that most American of sports, rodeo, culminating in the amazing year when those worlds collided. Aloha Rodeo book on sale

points or more at the last two PRCA Division 1 Xtreme Bulls events – the 42nd George Paul Memorial Xtreme Bulls Divi- sion 1 event April 26-27 in Del Rio, Texas, and the Reno (Nev.) Rodeo Xtreme Bulls event June 20. The high-scored rides were Stetson Wright’s 93.5-point ride on All In Pro Rodeos’ Smoke Show in Reno and Trevor Reiste’s 91.5-point trip on Silver Creek Rodeo’s Time To Shine in Del Rio. 20 The number of times Rod Hay qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (1989- 90, 1992-2008, 2010). Saddle bronc rider Billy Etbauer qualified for the Wrangler NFR 21 times. Hay’s son, Dawson, won the Wainwright (Alberta) Stampede on June 23. $12K The amount of money, $12,413, Trevor Brazile earned at the 2013 Greeley (Colo.) Stampede, the record for an all- around champion at that rodeo dating to 1953. Brazile has won 14 all-around gold buckles and 24 gold buckles overall, both PRCA records. The 2019 Greeley Stampede runs June 27 through July 3.

As a proud sponsor of the PRCA, AGCO® Corporation, through its brands Hesston® and Massey Ferguson, recognize that PRCA-sanctioned rodeos contribute significant support for local, regional and national charities and organizations. These charitable efforts by rodeo committees are making a positive impact on members of the various communities. Hesston and Massey Ferguson, through its Sowing Good Deeds initiative, want to raise awareness of these local efforts and reward one PRCA committee each year whose impact goes above and beyond.

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