A sequence of photos taken at the Riding On Faith Rodeo, in Banderas, TX. on August 7th.
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Everyone walked away.
A sequence of photos taken at the Riding On Faith Rodeo, in Banderas, TX. on August 7th.
Just keep clicking the grey arrow to the right side of the page.
Everyone walked away.
Pretty wild.
JB Mauney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQl6BnDRQg
He’s the $6 million man. Very impressive how he rides. Wow!
It’s like a salmon running at your boat … better take up that line.
L – More like a killer whale taking a run at your canoe.
“Where’s my harpoon or lance, as the case may be?”
Bull riders are the craziest, they get recruited straight into Special Forces or Airborne in wartime.
Indeed. My analogy was accurate regarding the rope … but failed in the size of the fight.
Many, many moons ago, a guy by the name of Warren Cooper was the voice of the Calgary Stampede rodeo. He was a tremendous announcer. Now, one afternoon there was a bull that just didn’t really want to leave the bucking arena. One of the pick-up men, who was employed by Vold Stock Contracting, was THE consummate cowboy. If it had hooves or horns, he could ride it or get a rope on it. So, he starts cantering around the arena behind this bull, just a few steps behind. After a bit he tosses a big, lazy loop of rope over this bull’s head, gets a couple wraps of the other end around his saddle horn, the starts gently backing off from the bull. That way the rope just gradually got tighter without the bull really noticing. That’s when Warren Cooper says, into the mike, “Well, look what you caught. I bet your horse is real proud of you.”
Wow. I’m so glad all walked away. That had the potential for a head on train wreck.
I saw one similar last month and it didn’t come out any kind of good.
If only horses could talk: “WTF is it with you and your crazy games with these G-D Bulls and what makes you think that I want to participate?”
Horses are way too trusting for their own good.
I should find you the Youtube video of a Spanish bullfighter’s horse working a bull on his own in an arena.
I spent a summer on horses (used them to get to where we cruised timber before ATVs were available for use on winter haul roads and seismic lines) in Northern Alberta and for some reason our Cree wrangler would draft me on the days we trailed the horses in moving camp. Every once in a while we would come upon grazing lease cattle and the horses displayed their natural proclivity for driving the cattle in all directions. I could see where with some discipline, even pack horses could use that natural animal pecking order in a positive light.
Thanks Bill for reminding me of one of the best announcers and best neighbors a person could have ever had. The whole Cooper family were some of the the nicest people in the ranching community around here.
bartinsky- I loved Warren Cooper’s announcing style. He had a great voice, a perfect delivery, and was great at providing a quip that gave the whole grandstand a chuckle. My family was in chuckwagons, making Joe Carberry the de facto voice of their sport, but to me, Warren Cooper will always be the voice of the Stampede.
Had a dog that would take on any bull. It didn’t matter how big or how rank. He would even break up bull fights. Yet, one look from a cow and he would tuck his tail and run.
Do you think the bull was the only one with a brown stain?