Courtesy of PRCA
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Broken ribs, there’s nothing you can do about them. You’ve just got to go. I ice them before and take a bunch of Tylenol and stuff. You’ve just got to cowboy up now. Our job is to stay on bulls, and we’ve got to do our jobs when we get there. We can’t worry about the small things.”
– Bull rider Shane Proctor, the world standings leader, telling the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, how he’s dealing with being injured.
After missing three months of competition with a fractured left ankle, Canadian bareback rider Jake Vold returned to action in mid-July and has earned checks at all six rodeos he's entered in the United States and Canada. Eighth in the world standings when he got hurt at the Clovis (Calif.) Rodeo, he now has some ground to make up if he is going to challenge for his first trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo; he is currently 23rd.
PRCA gold card member Doug Flanigan won a bareback riding title and two all-around titles at the Calgary Stampede back in his heyday in the 1960s, but he had to wait until his retirement years to get his biggest payoff there. He and wife, Alvina Chell, were among the lottery winners at this year’s Stampede, winning a new truck and other prizes totaling $162,587. “This is my last hour of glory here,” Flanigan told the Calgary Herald with a grin.
Despite a wet spring, construction of the new Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ’76 Museum –which will showcase the history of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame rodeo committee – is on schedule to open in June 2012 for the 90th edition of the rodeo. “When we started this,” museum director Deborah Gangloff told the Rapid City Journal, “the only thing people knew about the Days of ’76 was what they remembered, because there was nothing written down in any really comprehensive kind of way. So, one of the first things we did was to hire a historian to go through all those boxes of archives and write a documentation of who, what, when and where.”
Don Atkinson, a former Rodeo Cowboys Association competitor who was later well known in the Western community for his saddle and boot making skills, died July 15 in Ingram, Texas. He was 82.
PRCA gold card member Doug Flanigan won a bareback riding title and two all-around titles at the Calgary Stampede back in his heyday in the 1960s, but he had to wait until his retirement years to get his biggest payoff there. He and wife, Alvina Chell, were among the lottery winners at this year’s Stampede, winning a new truck and other prizes totaling $162,587. “This is my last hour of glory here,” Flanigan told the Calgary Herald with a grin.
Despite a wet spring, construction of the new Deadwood (S.D.) Days of ’76 Museum –which will showcase the history of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame rodeo committee – is on schedule to open in June 2012 for the 90th edition of the rodeo. “When we started this,” museum director Deborah Gangloff told the Rapid City Journal, “the only thing people knew about the Days of ’76 was what they remembered, because there was nothing written down in any really comprehensive kind of way. So, one of the first things we did was to hire a historian to go through all those boxes of archives and write a documentation of who, what, when and where.”
Don Atkinson, a former Rodeo Cowboys Association competitor who was later well known in the Western community for his saddle and boot making skills, died July 15 in Ingram, Texas. He was 82.
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