Bullfighter Colin Lamont of Lodgepole, S.D., has been selected to work the Ram Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeo in Minot, N.D., Oct. 6-9. "It’s a huge honor," Lamont said. "When your peers put that much confidence in you, essentially putting their life in your hands, it’s an honor.”
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“I was ready to ride the devil tonight. I wanted it bad.”
– Young bareback rider Orin Larsen, telling the Ellensburg (Wash.) Daily Record how fired up he was about the 83-point ride he had to finish second in the first round of the Ellensburg Rodeo.
News and Notes From The Rodeo Trail
ProRodeoLive.com will air full coverage of the Sept. 14-17 Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up and the Sept. 22-24 Justin Boots Championships in Omaha, both of them anchored by veteran PRCA announcer Steve Kenyon. For webcast details, visit www.prorodeolive.com.
Eight-time PRCA Announcer of the Year Bob Tallman headlines the list of contract personnel selected for the 37th annual Ram Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeo in Minot, N.D., Oct. 6-9. Tallman, of Poolville, Texas, is most familiar to rodeo fans as announcer of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and his smooth and humorous delivery has made him a favorite of Minot rodeo fans for the past two years. The two men with the most dangerous jobs at the Minot rodeo were selected by the cowboys they will be there to protect. Bullfighters Josh Rivinius, of Elgin, N.D., and Colin Lamont, of Lodgepole, S.D., were chosen by the bull riders in the Badlands Circuit to work the finals. “It’s a huge honor,” Lamont said. “When your peers put that much confidence in you, essentially putting their life in your hands, it’s an honor.” Ash “Crash” Cooper has been chosen as rodeo clown and barrelman, and the other rodeo personnel selected are rodeo secretary Rowena Nelson, Williston, N.D.; timers
Kim Sutton, Agar, S.D., and Amy Sutton Mueller, Onida, S.D.; and pickup men Brent Sutton, Onida, S.D., and Tyler Robertson, Hermosa, S.D.
Kennewick, Wash., bullfighter Mick Thompson, a PRCA member since 1999, worked his last regular-season rodeo in Bremerton, Wash., last month. He is retiring at age 38.
Veteran barrelman Marvin Nash will be participating in the Leading the Charge Against Bullying Conference, Oct. 4-7 at the Plaza Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Visit www.bullyinghurts.com for more information.
The Natoma County Commission has allocated $500,000 of optional 1-cent sales tax revenue so that the fair board can provide more power for the 88 recreational vehicle spaces used by contestants during Casper’s Central Wyoming Fair & Rodeo in July and the College National Finals Rodeo in June. “We don’t have enough power to handle them (as it is),” fairgrounds director Tom Jones told the Casper Tribune.
A large animal rescue site was established at the Tehachapi (Calif.) Rodeo Grounds last week to serve as a shelter for the animals displaced from ranch properties by the Canyon Fire in Old West Ranch.
PRCA Gold Card member Rowland Clark, a former steer wrestler from Garvin, Okla., died Sept. 6 in Idabel, Okla. He was 67. Clark joined the Rodeo Cowboys Association (precursor to the PRCA) in 1962 after being taught how to be a bulldogger by three-time World Champion Todd Whatley in Hugo, Okla., as a teenager.
Three Hills Rodeo of Bernard, Iowa, will be hosting a Rodeo Committee Seminar Sept. 17 in De Pere, Wis., to discuss contestant incentives, hospitality, cooperative efforts among committees to attract contestants and promotional ideas that can make rodeo productions more efficient. For more details, contact Marla Morehead at thr@threehillsrodeo.com ...
The 66th Grand National Rodeo Horse & Livestock Show has come up with a pretty good contestant incentive of its own for the Oct. 14-25, 21-22 event. Each winner in each event will receive a $100 bonus at each performance courtesy of AT&T.
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