ProRodeo Sports News May 3, 2019

PRO RODEO HALL OF FAME

our-time world champion team roping heeler Allen Bach Big 12 2019 inductees announced F BY PSN STAFF highlighted a star-studded, 12-member class that was selected April 22 to the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. The class will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 3. The rest of the 2019 ProRodeo Hall of Fame class consists of bucking horse Commotion; stock contractors Elra Beutler and his son,

ALLEN BACH – Team Roping Heeler Bach was one of the best in ProRodeo over four decades, highlighted by capturing world championships in 1979, 1990, 1995 and 2006. Bach holds the PRCA record for most qualifications (including invitations) by a team roper to the National Finals Rodeo with 30 (1978-96, 1998-2008). “I’m flattered, but does that mean I can’t try to make the NFR one more time?” Bach said. Bach also won NFR average titles in 1979 and 2006, roping with Jesse James and Chad Masters, respectively. In 1990 and ’95, Bach paired with Doyle Gellerman and Bobby Hurley. In 2007, Bach became the 11th rodeo competitor to surpass $2 million in career earnings. Bach joined the PRCA in 1978.

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Jiggs; two-time world champion steer wrestler Dean Gorsuch (2006, 2010); world champion bull rider Doug “Droopy” Brown (1969); world champion

bareback rider Larry Peabody

(1984); notable Jerome Robinson; the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede Rodeo; contract personnel Tommy Lucia; and three Women’s Professional Rodeo Association inductees – barrel racers Jimmie Munroe and Sammy Thurman Brackenberry, and notable Florence Youree. Guy Elliott, a former arena director for the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver and the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, will receive the Ken Stemler Pioneer Award, which honors individuals in recognition of their groundbreaking, innovative ideas and forward thinking.

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COMMOTION – Bareback Horse Commotion, a 1,300-pound bay stallion, who stood at 16.1 hands, was voted the top bareback horse at his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 1997. He went on to win the next three Bareback Riding Horse of the Year awards, 1998-2000, when he was part of the Beutler and Gaylord Rodeo Company string. He made 10 consecutive trips (1997-2006) to the Wrangler NFR before retiring in his prime at the 2006 Wrangler NFR at the age of 15. Two rounds were won on him at the Wrangler NFR. Commotion passed away Sept. 7, 2016, at the Beutler & Son ranch near Elk City, Okla. He was 25. “I think this is great,” said stock contractor Bennie Beutler. “With Commotion, he either bucked them off or they would win first on him. He was one of the horses who liked to buck, and he never had a bad day.” Commotion sired more than 70 horses who have gone on to compete at the Wrangler NFR, including daughter Killer Bee – the Top Saddle Bronc at the Wrangler NFR in 2013 and 2014 – and daughter Wound Up – the 2016 Top Saddle Bronc at the Wrangler NFR and the 2017 Saddle Bronc of the Year.

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