ProRodeo Sports News - May 1, 2020

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BY THE NUMBERS 11 The number of times a cowboy has won two events in one night at the National Finals Rodeo since its inception in 1959. The last time it happened was in Round 8 of the 2014 NFR, when Trevor Brazile won team roping with heeling partner Travis Graves and shared the tie- down roping win with Matt Shiozawa. 21 The event record number of times saddle bronc rider Billy Etbauer qualified for the National Finals Rodeo. Etbauer, a ProRodeo Hall of Famer, won world championships in 1992, 1996, 1999- 2000 and 2004. 316 The number of people (256), animals (32) and rodeo committees (28) that will have been inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame when the eight-member 2020 class is enshrined Aug. 1 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Hall opened in 1979.

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Bruiser enjoying time on ranch

When you’re one of the baddest bucking bulls

a big ol’ sand hill. We call it the exercise pen and let him out there once or twice a day. You have to tie up the gate because he will end up all over the place if you don’t tie up those gates.” SweetPro’s Bruiser is a highly decorated animal athlete. He was the 2017 PRCA Bull of the Year and was second in 2018. Bruiser also was top bull of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2015, 2017 and 2019. At last year’s Finals, he was voted bull of the night for Round 8 after teaming with six-time reigning world champion Sage Kimzey for a 94-point ride to win the round. “He knows he’s Bruiser, 100%,” Roberts said. “He knows he’s the (baddest bull at the ranch).”

on the planet life is good.

That is the case for Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser, owned by H.D. Page of D&H Cattle. SweetPro’s Bruiser, 9, lives on the D&H Cattle Ranch in Dickson, Okla., with about 700 other bulls. Cash Roberts, H.D. Page’s stepson, is a handler of SweetPro’s Bruiser, and he talked to ProRodeo Sports News about what SweetPro’s Bruiser does on the ranch. “He looks in about as good of shape as he has been in in a long time,” Roberts said about the 1,800-pound beast. “He hangs out here at the ranch. He has a big ol’ sandbox he gets in, and he plays on

Rattle, Matt Reeves’ standout horse, passes away

Matt Reeves’ horse, Do Get Famous “Rattle,” the 2019 Steer Wrestling Purina Horse of the Year presented by AQHA, passed away April 17 of a ruptured stomach. She was 8. “It was just a freak deal,” said Reeves, 41. “Words don’t really describe (Rattle passing). There’s not really a way to say it. It’s one of those things. I have had some really good horses, and this

(out of grief).”

Reeves bought Rattle in August 2016 and started rodeoing on her Jan. 24, 2018. In a short time, Rattle was a superstar. She helped Reeves, a seven- time Wrangler NFR qualifier, win the NFR average for the first time in 2019 with a 48.4-second time on 10 head. In the 2020 PRCA season, Rattle

Reeves

one was the horse of the year. This is extremely hard and sad. The hazing horse that stayed with her every day for the past two years didn’t eat for two days

won a check at every rodeo she attended.

Rattle stood more than 14 hands tall and

weighed 1,000 pounds.

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