ProRodeo Sports News - Nov. 1, 2019

Killer Bee is 16.2 hands tall and

big guys, good guys and bad guys. He bucks in the mud, inside and outside. There’s no bluffing with him. When you run him in the bucking chutes, you can tell something is going to happen. He leaves the chute so hard and he bucks from the first jump on. The minute he hears that gate crack, stuff happens. I’m very proud of him because he’s so old. He went to the NFR as a 5-year- old and he’s been bucking a long time. He still acts like he’s 5. A lot of horses will start to soften a bit because they get ridden every time, but he still bucks a lot of guys off. He’s a freak of nature.” Isaac Diaz had an 88.5-point ride on Get Smart to win the finals at the Clark County Fair & Rodeo in Logandale, Nev., April 14.

TOP STOCK OF THE YEAR BAREBACK RIDING 1. Killer Bee, Beutler & Son Rodeo Co. ........... 34 pts. 2. Virgil, C5 Rodeo ................................................. 18 3. Top Flight, Pickett Pro Rodeo ............................ 10 SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Get Smart, Northcott Macza .............................. 20 2. Medicine Woman, Frontier Rodeo .................... 13 3. Spring Planting, Flying 5 Rodeo ........................ 11 BULL RIDING 1. Hot & Ready, Harper & Morgan Rodeo ............. 30 2. SweetPro’s Bruiser, Powder River Rodeo .......... 18 3. Spotted Demon, Big Stone Rodeo Inc. ...............14

weighs 1,350 pounds.

“When we started bucking her, she was in the bareback riding, and we switched her to saddle bronc riding and she was outstanding,” Bennie said. “Then we put her back in the bareback riding a couple of summers ago. It doesn’t matter what event you put her in because she’s as rank of a horse as I’ve ever seen. When bareback riders ride her, they are in the high 80s and 90s. We probably will not ever put her back in the bronc riding.” Four-time PRCA world champion bareback rider Kaycee Field had an 87-point ride on Killer Bee in the finals at Rodeo Austin (Texas), March 30.

GET SMART Northcott Macza Rodeo 2019 Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year Get Smart of Northcott Macza Rodeo based out of High River, Alberta, is a first-time horse-of-the-year winner in the PRCA, but he’s won the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year five times, including receiving the honor in 2019. Get Smart, 17, also was the top saddle bronc horse of the 2018Wrangler NFR. “This is a huge award for us to win,” Ward Macza said. “When I bought out (Harvey Northcott), ol’ Harvey raised this horse (Get Smart). He’s the son of (the horse) Wyatt Earp. He (Get Smart) is bred right, but he’s a freak because he’s not very big.” Wyatt Earp was the top saddle bronc horse of the NFR in 1997 and 1998. Earp was the father of Grated Coconut, who was a PRCA-record six- time Bareback Horse of the Year for Calgary Stampede. Get Smart is 14.3 hands and weighs 1,100 pounds. “He has a heart as big as a house,” Macza said. “He bucks the little guys,

HOT & READY Harper & Morgan Rodeo 2019 Bull of the Year

Hot & Ready is 9 years old and weighs 1,650 pounds. “Garrett Burruss is Scott Burruss’ son, and Scott is a partner,” said Scotty Lovelace, general manager of Harper &Morgan Rodeo. “Garrett flanks him and takes care of (Hot & Ready) all of the time. (Hot & Ready) is very easy to be around. He’s old-school lookin’ with a hump and horns. He has a lot of kick and speed. He has all the traits because he has kick and speed and a little bit of move forward to him, just enough that he can buck guys off. To be 9 years old, this is a big feat. Usually they are starting to slip by the time they are 9. He has been the best bull in this herd for nine years and one of the best bulls in the world the last three years.” A year ago, Hot & Ready finished third in the bull-of-the-year voting behind Big Stone Rodeo, Inc.’s Spotted Demon and Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser. “I think what cowboys like about (Hot & Ready) is that he’s rock solid,” Lovelace said. “Every time with him, you have a chance to be 90. He’s never not had a good day. He’s always been really good.” Of the six cowboys who climbed aboard Hot & Ready during the 2019 ProRodeo season, none made the whistle.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Dan Hubbell World champion saddle bronc rider Jacobs Crawley rode Northcott Macza Rodeo’s Get Smart in Round 9 of the 2017 Wrangler NFR.

William Kierce photo Bull rider Josh Frost competed on Harper & Morgan Rodeo’s Hot & Ready during the regular season at Coleman, Texas.

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