Thursday, March 1, 2012
Back Seat Bucker #95
#95 was bred and raised by Lance Bloyd of Bloyd Bucking Bulls. The bull was the second pick in the Back Seat Buckers draft auction, purchased by Trevor Walker for $82,500.
More about Muleys: The Genetics of Horns
Here's a recycled article from a couple of years ago.
Some time ago I wrote an article about horns, and I have meant for a while to revisit the subject. What interests me is muleys, or hornless bulls, like Major Payne, of whom I am very fond. But this article totally got away with me and took me into the realm of the genetics of horns in cattle. So be forewarned, it gets a little crazy here.
Those of us who concern ourselves with bull riding know that most bucking bulls have horns. Now and then you see a polled bull - that's a bull with no horns, also called a muley - come out of the chute, but it's uncommon. So when I tell you that the gene for hornlessness is dominant, you might be surprised. I was surprised too. But even though it is dominant, it didn’t end up being that simple. So let’s proceed with caution. And forgive me in advance if the only thing about this that you care about is, well, none of it.
The gene for the trait of hornlessness or polled (P), is dominant to the gene for horns (p). It can work out this way:
But this is where the complication comes in. If the animal is a descendant of Zebu cattle, it may or may not, carry another gene (called the African horned gene, or Af) that dominates the gene for hornlessness. Bucking bulls are almost all crossbred cattle. They have all got a little of this and little of that and most of them have bloodlines that aren’t documented far enough back to know who’s got what. It's nearly impossible to tell whether or not they carry the Af gene, unless they are muleys, in which case they do not carry the Af gene. If they did, that gene would have trumped the polled gene and they would not be muleys. Further complicating matters is the fact that many bucking bulls have Brahman blood, and Brahmans are almost certainly descendants of African Zebu cattle.
It is thought that Af is is a sex-linked gene, behaving differently in cows than it does in bulls. In bulls, the presence of Af trumps the polled gene. So if a bull has the polled gene, but also has an Af gene, he will have horns. But the Af gene is recessive in females. A cow with polled genes may or may not carry an Af gene as well. If she carries two Af genes, they will dominate any polled genes she has, and she will have horns. A homozygous polled bull may produce horned bull calves if he is bred to a cow that does have the Af gene.
So where does that leave us? Besides confused? It leaves us pretty much where we started off: with mostly horned bucking bulls. And with the muley Major Payne, who does not have the Af gene, even though he is from a genetic line that traces back to a Brahman bull (possibly a Zebu descendant) crossed with red Angus cows. That’s about as far as I can go without losing my mind. And as for you, if you’ve made it this far, well then, I salute you.
Some time ago I wrote an article about horns, and I have meant for a while to revisit the subject. What interests me is muleys, or hornless bulls, like Major Payne, of whom I am very fond. But this article totally got away with me and took me into the realm of the genetics of horns in cattle. So be forewarned, it gets a little crazy here.Those of us who concern ourselves with bull riding know that most bucking bulls have horns. Now and then you see a polled bull - that's a bull with no horns, also called a muley - come out of the chute, but it's uncommon. So when I tell you that the gene for hornlessness is dominant, you might be surprised. I was surprised too. But even though it is dominant, it didn’t end up being that simple. So let’s proceed with caution. And forgive me in advance if the only thing about this that you care about is, well, none of it.
The gene for the trait of hornlessness or polled (P), is dominant to the gene for horns (p). It can work out this way:
- If an animal has two polled genes (PP) it is homozygous for polled and it will not have horns.
- If an animal has one polled and one horned gene (Pp), it is heterozygous for polled and it will not have horns.
- If an animal has two horned genes (pp), it is homozygous for horns, and it will have them.
But this is where the complication comes in. If the animal is a descendant of Zebu cattle, it may or may not, carry another gene (called the African horned gene, or Af) that dominates the gene for hornlessness. Bucking bulls are almost all crossbred cattle. They have all got a little of this and little of that and most of them have bloodlines that aren’t documented far enough back to know who’s got what. It's nearly impossible to tell whether or not they carry the Af gene, unless they are muleys, in which case they do not carry the Af gene. If they did, that gene would have trumped the polled gene and they would not be muleys. Further complicating matters is the fact that many bucking bulls have Brahman blood, and Brahmans are almost certainly descendants of African Zebu cattle.
It is thought that Af is is a sex-linked gene, behaving differently in cows than it does in bulls. In bulls, the presence of Af trumps the polled gene. So if a bull has the polled gene, but also has an Af gene, he will have horns. But the Af gene is recessive in females. A cow with polled genes may or may not carry an Af gene as well. If she carries two Af genes, they will dominate any polled genes she has, and she will have horns. A homozygous polled bull may produce horned bull calves if he is bred to a cow that does have the Af gene.
So where does that leave us? Besides confused? It leaves us pretty much where we started off: with mostly horned bucking bulls. And with the muley Major Payne, who does not have the Af gene, even though he is from a genetic line that traces back to a Brahman bull (possibly a Zebu descendant) crossed with red Angus cows. That’s about as far as I can go without losing my mind. And as for you, if you’ve made it this far, well then, I salute you.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Breeder Profile: Bloyd Bucking Bulls
Bloyd Bucking Bulls is owned and operated by Lance and Alison Bloyd of Carney, OK. One of their bulls, Winchester's Image, has been hauled on the PBR Built Ford Tough and Touring Pro tours. The Bloyds had two yearling bulls selected for the ABBI's new Back Seat Buckers program. The Bloyds are also owners of BuckingBullPro, which sells flanks, bucking dummies, timers, apparel, and feed supplements. This is an edited version of a telephone interview with Lance Bloyd.
How did you get started in the bull breeding business?
It was in 2003 and I think one day I went to the sale barn and brought home a baby bull calf. It was just a little black, bony, beef-like bull calf. At this time, in 2003, rodeo cows were ridiculously priced. I mean, prices were through the roof. So I bought him and then three red polled heifers thinking I'm going to raise bucking stock out of these cows and I'd just buy stuff from the sale barn. I'd buy some of the wild ones that came through there.
Where did you go from there?
My first real rodeo-bred calf was a heifer I bought from Colby Yates. Then we started saving money and bought a daughter of Kish's Winchester. I'd always been a real big fan of the Kish stuff because of Red Rock and Mr. T and all those famous bulls, so we bought this Winchester cow. She was bred to a Nacarrato bull that was rumored to be an Oscar's Velvet son. But the people who had owned him had sent the blood off to the ABBI and it came back as not being that. So this guy had three or four Winchester heifers and he wanted to sell the whole bunch of them for quite a bit of money. I called him up and told him that if he'd let me take one of those four, I'd give him $200 more than what he was asking per head. He said yes and we drove down there and I picked the one I thought looked the best and loaded her up and took her home. A few months later she ended up having a bull calf and that bull calf is Winchester's Image. He was the first truly rodeo-bred calf that was born in our herd, and he bucked.
A year or two later I was surfing on the internet and found a picture of our Winchester Image's sire on the Coffey's website. They had purchased the bull and had sent the blood into the ABBI and it came back as a DNA'd son of Oscar's Velvet.
All these other animals we had were kind of half-blooded and a lot of them were no-blooded. The next few years I tinkered with buying different cows. But there was no consistency in our herd. It was stuff from all over the map. And that works with people who have 200 cows.
They can play around and there's more room for error.
When you have a hundred bull calves a year, you're going to have some buckers in there no matter what you're breeding. But when you have a small herd like we have, you have to concentrate and have a line-bred herd to consistently raise good buckers, and we weren't doing that. We'd have a couple that were good, but most of them weren't.
I know that at one point you decided to start over and redevelop your whole program around the Kish line. How did that happen?
When the prices hit the wall, that's when I saw the opportunity to start loading up on some Kish-bred cattle. That Winchester cow was the only one we had who every time she had a calf it was good. We basically built our entire herd around her. Everything I did was based on building from her and getting a herd that was bred like she was because she was the cow that was consistently producing.
I bought cows from people who were going out of business. There were a lot of people who got into it when the prices were really high and when the prices dropped out, so did their motivation for having to mess with wild cows because the risk was outweighing the benefit. I bought cows that people paid six to eight thousand dollars for back when things were at their peak. I bought them for a fraction of that.
Have you seen a difference since then?
I have no question. I've already gotten proof from some of the cows that I've bought in the last couple of years that they can produce and that they will produce outstanding bulls.
Before that I knew that I didn't have really good cows and really great stuff and there weren't people emailing me and knocking my door down wanting to buy stuff from me. Then two years ago when I started buying these Kish cows and bought Cash Prize and started breeding to him, people started contacting me left and right wanting to buy calves before they were even born.
I've turned a lot of people away because I don't want to sell any of the heifers out of Cash Prize. I really like his calves. They're big and long-legged and deep-bodied and I'm really excited about them. I'm keeping all of them and I'm not selling any of the bull calves.
Getting Cash Prize was a really smart way to buy a herd sire because if he hadn't been crippled up you never would be able to buy him.
He would be so expensive. He's one of those bulls that if he was four years old and bucking, he would be a hundred-thousand-dollar bull.
Do you still have that cow, the first one?
She's the one you featured on your website with the heifer calf on her side. She was a wild maniac when we got her and she's probably one of our gentlest cows now. She calmed down over the years.
How old is she?
She's an '03, so she's eight. She's had a calf every year. She finally had her first heifer calf this year.
What advice would you give someone starting out in the business?
Go buy five heifers from somebody that's established. From Don Kish or Alex Nacarrato or Rafter 7r. Buy a bull that's from proven bloodlines, a bull that actually performs and bucks. Breed those heifers to that bull and you're going to be in the bull business. The way I went about it - I didn't have the money to do any differently. I struggled through buying non-rodeo-bred cattle, and when you do that, you see the results of it. It doesn't work.
If you look at my cows now, every one of them is a direct daughter of a bull that's been to the NFR or PBR Finals or both. And I've seen a huge difference it's made in my calf crops. I won't ever breed to a bull - I don't care if he's the rankest bull in the world - I won't breed to him if he doesn't have a background in rodeo genetics.
You’re a purist.
I am. There aren't a lot of people in the central part of the country that have that west coast blood and have a pure set of west coast cows bred to a west coast bull. A lot of them have the Plummer stuff and the Kish-Plummer cross works really well. That was one of my business plans: to be able to offer a pure-bred set of west coast bred females for those Plummer guys to outcross to.
What are your goals from here on out? What do you want to accomplish?
Our main goal is to raise good quality cattle, which we're doing already. We just want to continue to raise high quality cattle that people want. When I think about breeding, I think about my heifers first, really, because I want to make my heifers marketable. I believe that if your heifers are marketable the bulls will sell themselves. If you have good quality females that you can sell for a decent price, the bulls will pay for themselves.
We're mainly focused on the Classic level bulls, three and four-year-old bulls. Our herd is based on the Oscar bloodline and they mature later. If you look at world champion bulls and Classic champion bulls, a lot of those have that Oscar influence in them. They make really good solid bucking bulls. So we probably won't ever haul bulls to futurities. We weaned out calves a couple of weeks ago and we'll give them their first dummy trip in the spring and won't do anything with them until they're two. Unless one of them doesn't show any desire at all to buck, I'll keep him around and let him grow up because a lot of times those calves don't buck with a dummy anyway.
How many cattle in the herd right now?
We have 20 cows total. Eighteen momma cows and two recip cows. The recip cows are rodeo bred, they're just not a bloodline I wanted to incorporate into my herd. They were the only two non-horned, fairly gentle cows that I had so I used them as recip cows for Mr. Juicy embryos. Then we've got 12 or 13 calves, weaned a couple of months ago. We've got three breed bulls - Winchester's Image, Cash to Win (Winchester's son), and Cash Prize.
Any young bulls?
I had six or eight bulls anywhere from yearlings all the way up to three year olds and I sold all of them this summer because of the hay prices. I was in the process of building up a set of bulls to start to haul places and put that off for a few years due to the economy. I didn't want to feed all those bulls through the winter. And then we sold the two yearlings to the ABBI for the Back Seat Buckers program.
[Note: Yearlings were chosen in a video competition by the ABBI, and winners were bought by the ABBI for the program for $3,500 each. First place winners in each video "round" were given an additional prize of $500. Bloyd's calves won first in both rounds.]
If you could pick one straw from any bull, what would you pick?
It would be Too Legit because of the way his daughters produce. He has 47 offspring in the registry and nine sons with probullstats. I'd venture to say all of this daughters minus a few have either produced something or is the grandparent of something that has. Too Legit is from that original deep line-bred Oscar-bred herd of Alex Naccarato's. There's a reason it's priced as high as it is. If some good Kish cows were used in those IVF procedures they'd sell like hot cakes. Too Legit has never been bred to the type of cows Vernon [Guidry]has been using. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. I know this is a fact, Too Legit was only live-bred. All of his known sons bucked. He was a solid bull his whole life.
Coming up next week: Lance Bloyd talks about flanks.
How did you get started in the bull breeding business?
It was in 2003 and I think one day I went to the sale barn and brought home a baby bull calf. It was just a little black, bony, beef-like bull calf. At this time, in 2003, rodeo cows were ridiculously priced. I mean, prices were through the roof. So I bought him and then three red polled heifers thinking I'm going to raise bucking stock out of these cows and I'd just buy stuff from the sale barn. I'd buy some of the wild ones that came through there.
Where did you go from there?
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| Winchester Girl and 2011 calf Photos courtesy of Bloyd Bucking Bulls |
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| Winchester's Image |
All these other animals we had were kind of half-blooded and a lot of them were no-blooded. The next few years I tinkered with buying different cows. But there was no consistency in our herd. It was stuff from all over the map. And that works with people who have 200 cows.
They can play around and there's more room for error.
When you have a hundred bull calves a year, you're going to have some buckers in there no matter what you're breeding. But when you have a small herd like we have, you have to concentrate and have a line-bred herd to consistently raise good buckers, and we weren't doing that. We'd have a couple that were good, but most of them weren't.
I know that at one point you decided to start over and redevelop your whole program around the Kish line. How did that happen?
I bought cows from people who were going out of business. There were a lot of people who got into it when the prices were really high and when the prices dropped out, so did their motivation for having to mess with wild cows because the risk was outweighing the benefit. I bought cows that people paid six to eight thousand dollars for back when things were at their peak. I bought them for a fraction of that.
Have you seen a difference since then?
I have no question. I've already gotten proof from some of the cows that I've bought in the last couple of years that they can produce and that they will produce outstanding bulls.
Before that I knew that I didn't have really good cows and really great stuff and there weren't people emailing me and knocking my door down wanting to buy stuff from me. Then two years ago when I started buying these Kish cows and bought Cash Prize and started breeding to him, people started contacting me left and right wanting to buy calves before they were even born.
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| Cash Prize |
Getting Cash Prize was a really smart way to buy a herd sire because if he hadn't been crippled up you never would be able to buy him.
He would be so expensive. He's one of those bulls that if he was four years old and bucking, he would be a hundred-thousand-dollar bull.
Do you still have that cow, the first one?
She's the one you featured on your website with the heifer calf on her side. She was a wild maniac when we got her and she's probably one of our gentlest cows now. She calmed down over the years.
How old is she?
She's an '03, so she's eight. She's had a calf every year. She finally had her first heifer calf this year.
What advice would you give someone starting out in the business?
Go buy five heifers from somebody that's established. From Don Kish or Alex Nacarrato or Rafter 7r. Buy a bull that's from proven bloodlines, a bull that actually performs and bucks. Breed those heifers to that bull and you're going to be in the bull business. The way I went about it - I didn't have the money to do any differently. I struggled through buying non-rodeo-bred cattle, and when you do that, you see the results of it. It doesn't work.
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| 2011 heifer calf |
You’re a purist.
I am. There aren't a lot of people in the central part of the country that have that west coast blood and have a pure set of west coast cows bred to a west coast bull. A lot of them have the Plummer stuff and the Kish-Plummer cross works really well. That was one of my business plans: to be able to offer a pure-bred set of west coast bred females for those Plummer guys to outcross to.
What are your goals from here on out? What do you want to accomplish?
Our main goal is to raise good quality cattle, which we're doing already. We just want to continue to raise high quality cattle that people want. When I think about breeding, I think about my heifers first, really, because I want to make my heifers marketable. I believe that if your heifers are marketable the bulls will sell themselves. If you have good quality females that you can sell for a decent price, the bulls will pay for themselves.
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| The Bloyd ranch |
How many cattle in the herd right now?
We have 20 cows total. Eighteen momma cows and two recip cows. The recip cows are rodeo bred, they're just not a bloodline I wanted to incorporate into my herd. They were the only two non-horned, fairly gentle cows that I had so I used them as recip cows for Mr. Juicy embryos. Then we've got 12 or 13 calves, weaned a couple of months ago. We've got three breed bulls - Winchester's Image, Cash to Win (Winchester's son), and Cash Prize.
Any young bulls?
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| 2011 bull calf |
[Note: Yearlings were chosen in a video competition by the ABBI, and winners were bought by the ABBI for the program for $3,500 each. First place winners in each video "round" were given an additional prize of $500. Bloyd's calves won first in both rounds.]
If you could pick one straw from any bull, what would you pick?
It would be Too Legit because of the way his daughters produce. He has 47 offspring in the registry and nine sons with probullstats. I'd venture to say all of this daughters minus a few have either produced something or is the grandparent of something that has. Too Legit is from that original deep line-bred Oscar-bred herd of Alex Naccarato's. There's a reason it's priced as high as it is. If some good Kish cows were used in those IVF procedures they'd sell like hot cakes. Too Legit has never been bred to the type of cows Vernon [Guidry]has been using. It will be interesting to see what comes of it. I know this is a fact, Too Legit was only live-bred. All of his known sons bucked. He was a solid bull his whole life.
Coming up next week: Lance Bloyd talks about flanks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Bulls & Bloodlines: Atlanta
You know I'm a bull person and I usually root for them over the riders, but this time I was with pretty much everyone else, in a 6-second state of excitement that maybe Stormy Wing was going to ride Asteroid. He was doing something no one had ever had time to do before, which was work his outside leg. It wasn't just prayer and good luck that kept him on that long. If I was a rider I would be watching the tape trying to figure it out.
High-scored bulls:
781 Asteroid - 46.50 - Circle T
718 Rango - 45 - Jeff Robinson
708 Delco - 44.50 - Jeff Robinson
83 T-Rex - 44.50 - Circle T
601 Shepherd Hills Trapper - 44.50 - Circle T
5081 Highway 12 - 44.25 - Jeff Robinson
822 Little Kombat - 44 - Circle T
7473 Trickster - 44 - Austin Riley/Teague
61 BigTexTrailers.com - 44 - Jeff Robinson
296 Sancho - 44 - Circle T
705 Back Bender - 44 - Jeff Robinson/Wolf Creek Cattle
540 King Lopez - 44 - K Bar C
Pedigree Notes:
632 South Point (K Bar C/Strickland/Folds): I don't think you too often you see a full-blooded Kish bull on the east coast, but this one is, both sides, all the way back to Too Legit on the sire side.
61 BigTexTrailers.com (AKA Moon) (Jeff Robinson): By a Gunslinger son (Gunfighter) out of a Guidry cow.
521 Who Dat (K Bar C) is a grandson of Baby Brother, who is a son of Wrangler Rivet. Interesting note: Paycheck, Deja Blue Emu, and Pretty Boy also all go back to Wrangler Rivet.
603 Gypsy Boots (formerly known as Penguin) is a Wilfong bull (BW 72/2 over BW 341). Grandsire on both sides is Wilfong's The Darkness. The granddam is a Broke Back V daughter.
7473 Trickster's sire - LH124 - is a Trick or Treat son out of a Gunslinger daughter.
7312 Whitewater Trouble is a Whitewater grandson. (Teague).
Pedigree Notes:
632 South Point (K Bar C/Strickland/Folds): I don't think you too often you see a full-blooded Kish bull on the east coast, but this one is, both sides, all the way back to Too Legit on the sire side.
61 BigTexTrailers.com (AKA Moon) (Jeff Robinson): By a Gunslinger son (Gunfighter) out of a Guidry cow.
521 Who Dat (K Bar C) is a grandson of Baby Brother, who is a son of Wrangler Rivet. Interesting note: Paycheck, Deja Blue Emu, and Pretty Boy also all go back to Wrangler Rivet.
603 Gypsy Boots (formerly known as Penguin) is a Wilfong bull (BW 72/2 over BW 341). Grandsire on both sides is Wilfong's The Darkness. The granddam is a Broke Back V daughter.
7473 Trickster's sire - LH124 - is a Trick or Treat son out of a Gunslinger daughter.
7312 Whitewater Trouble is a Whitewater grandson. (Teague).
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Atlanta Report
The jury is still out on the new one-night event format we saw in Atlanta this weekend. Or at least my internal jury of multiple personalities is still out. Some of their thoughts:
Pro: Riders seem to like these advance-if-you-ride events and the performance seems to go up a notch, with the riding average reaching over 47%. Determination is in the air.
Con: Seems that having four stadium events, two of which are these simple formats, will detract from the excitement of the Last Cowboy Standing and the Iron Cowboy. Or then again they may raise the anticipation. (See? Many persons batting around ideas in here.)
Con: A stadium was too large a venue for the event. Why have it in a stadium only to cut the stadium in half? Even the half-stadium was too big for some of the bulls, who came out and didn't quite know when to turn back.
Final Verdict: It was a simple, straightforward event that most everyone seemed happy enough with. Some good rides. Some good bulls. A near-miss on Asteroid. No one got hurt. Chris Shivers won.
Quotes of the night:
"Oooh-hoo-hoo!" J.W. Hart when it looked like Stormy Wing was going to make the whistle on Asteroid.
"That's the longest eight seconds I've ever had in my life." Guilherme Marchi after getting bucked off Riggin Slinger at something like 7.98 seconds.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Bull Talk
Last weekend, with its great bull pen, sent me into a philosophical mood and I began to ponder these questions about bulls' performance and judges' scoring.
I've had some of these questions before, and I'll have them again. Bottom line is: I like high-jumping, arm-jerking bulls. Dirty bulls are fine with me. I think spinning is overrated. Don't shoot me.
- I'm not talking about bulls that just romp down the arena in a straight line, but when a rider gets a re-ride because of a bull he can hardly stay on, just because the bull doesn't turn back, doesn't it make you wonder if spinning is overrated?
- Is spinning overrated?
- In the battle between "dirty" bulls vs. "honest" bulls, who wins? Why do people talk about honest bulls as if they were morally good and about dirty bulls as if they were dishonest? Isn't getting a rider off your back the honest point, no matter how you do it?
- Does judging penalize the so-called dirty bulls?
- Where have all the high-jumping, arm-jerking bulls gone? How would they be scored today?
- How do "styles" of bucking come into fashion and how do they go out of fashion?
- Why is it that some bulls that are almost never ridden - I'll use 136 Silver Wings (D&H Page) as an example - get only average bull scores? (Career buckoff average: 98.28%. Ridden once in 38 Built Ford Tough outs. Average score: 42.78.)
- Should a bull be penalized for not having the "wow factor" even if no one can ride him?
- What about 5171 Pretty Boy made him a bull some riders (in a non-PBR event) once voted not to get on?
- What was it about the bulls this weekend that made them so exciting? There were no particularly astonishing outs, no 46-47 point outs, only four 45+ outs, but these bulls were fun to watch. Why?
- Before this weekend, when was the last round in which no Jeff Robinson bulls went out?
I've had some of these questions before, and I'll have them again. Bottom line is: I like high-jumping, arm-jerking bulls. Dirty bulls are fine with me. I think spinning is overrated. Don't shoot me.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
OKC by the Numbers
I had collected some very cool quotes about math and numbers, but none of them quite worked here and then I lost them anyway. In spite of that, here are some numbers that interest me about the Oklahoma City PBR.
47+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 2)
46+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 4)
45+ bulls: 4 (Shepherd Hills Tested, Pure Smoke, Smackdown, BigTexTrailers.com AKA Moon)
44+ bulls: 14 (Last week - 16)
90+ rides: 2 (J.B. Mauney, Ryan Dirteater)
89+ rides: 1
88+ rides: 2
What surprises me about the 89 and 88 point rides: That there are always so few of them.
Overall riding percentage for the event: 31.45
Riding percentage in OKC last year: 42.75 (It was the 6th event of the year, as it was this year.)
Number of short rounds so far this year: 11
Most short rounds ridden in by any one rider: 6 (Ty Pozzobon, Luke Snyder, Ryan Dirteater)
Number of short round bulls those three have ridden, in order: 0, 1, 2
Most money won in 8 seconds this weekend: $4,700 (J.B. Mauney and Rubens Barbosa)
Highest riding average so far this season: Still Silvano Alves - 70.59% (down from 78.57 last week) (12 out of 17 bulls attempted)
Second highest average: J.B. Mauney and Valdiron de Oliveira - 70% (14 out of 20 bulls attempted)
Number of bulls ridden by J.B. Mauney in the last two events: 6 out of 9 attempted
Number of bulls ridden by Luke Snyder in the last two events: 1 out of 7 attempted
Number of people wondering if all that riding around America in a Ford truck might not be a good idea: At least one.
Number of points Oliveira trails Mauney in the world standings: 39.25
Rides in each regular round: 11 /10 / 3 / 12 / 3
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 3
Riders with two rides: 5
Riders with one ride: 15
Riders with no rides: 10
Number of tweets I promised to make this week: 3
Number of tweets I made: None. I am fairly certain this trend will continue.
47+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 2)
46+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 0, year to date: 4)
45+ bulls: 4 (Shepherd Hills Tested, Pure Smoke, Smackdown, BigTexTrailers.com AKA Moon)
44+ bulls: 14 (Last week - 16)
90+ rides: 2 (J.B. Mauney, Ryan Dirteater)
89+ rides: 1
88+ rides: 2
What surprises me about the 89 and 88 point rides: That there are always so few of them.
Overall riding percentage for the event: 31.45
Riding percentage in OKC last year: 42.75 (It was the 6th event of the year, as it was this year.)
Number of short rounds so far this year: 11
Most short rounds ridden in by any one rider: 6 (Ty Pozzobon, Luke Snyder, Ryan Dirteater)
Number of short round bulls those three have ridden, in order: 0, 1, 2
Most money won in 8 seconds this weekend: $4,700 (J.B. Mauney and Rubens Barbosa)
Highest riding average so far this season: Still Silvano Alves - 70.59% (down from 78.57 last week) (12 out of 17 bulls attempted)
Second highest average: J.B. Mauney and Valdiron de Oliveira - 70% (14 out of 20 bulls attempted)
Number of bulls ridden by J.B. Mauney in the last two events: 6 out of 9 attempted
Number of bulls ridden by Luke Snyder in the last two events: 1 out of 7 attempted
Number of people wondering if all that riding around America in a Ford truck might not be a good idea: At least one.
Number of points Oliveira trails Mauney in the world standings: 39.25
Rides in each regular round: 11 /10 / 3 / 12 / 3
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 3
Riders with two rides: 5
Riders with one ride: 15
Riders with no rides: 10
Number of tweets I promised to make this week: 3
Number of tweets I made: None. I am fairly certain this trend will continue.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Extended Pedigree: 789 Bad Blake
"Extended Pedigree," a new weekly feature on Rank, begins today by following 789 Bad Blake's bloodlines back three generations. Many pedigrees show two generations, but taking it one more step will usually get you back to the foundation herds. In Bad Blake's case, you see the foundation herds Katich (Brahma over Red Angus) and Naccarato (Oscar-based).
Tahonta's Back (Girletz Breeding)
Sire: Tahonta
HRC 512 (Katich Breeding)
Whitewater (Oscars Velvet / Naccarato cow)
Dam: MO 135
MO76 (Typhoon (Naccarato) / Moreno breeding)
Another interesting note on Bad Blake is that he is a half-brother to AR532 Paycheck on the sire side.
Extended pedigrees will be published on Fridays and will feature one of the weekend's Built Ford Tough event bulls.
Tahonta's Back (Girletz Breeding)
Sire: Tahonta
HRC 512 (Katich Breeding)
Whitewater (Oscars Velvet / Naccarato cow)
Dam: MO 135
MO76 (Typhoon (Naccarato) / Moreno breeding)
Another interesting note on Bad Blake is that he is a half-brother to AR532 Paycheck on the sire side.
Extended pedigrees will be published on Fridays and will feature one of the weekend's Built Ford Tough event bulls.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Photo of the Week: Bulls in Winter
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| The Katich breeding program has produced some of the great bulls in bull riding history: Doctor Proctor, Major Payne, Yellow Jacket Jr., Smackdown, Wild & Out, K9 Dogface, Rapid Fire, and others. This is the Katich ranch in northeast Washington. Photo: Melissa Katich |
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Baltimore by the Numbers
47+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 2)
46+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 2)
45+ bulls: 1 (Gunpowder & Lead) (Last week - 4)
44+ bulls: 9 (Last week - 16)
On the other hand, re-ride options offered: 3 (Last week - 8)
90+ rides: 2 (both by J.B. Mauney)
89+ rides: 2
88+ rides: 3
Overall riding percentage for the event: 43.43
Number of riders who rode in both short rounds: 7
Number of short rounds so far this year: 9
Most short rounds ridden in by any one rider: 6 (Ty Pozzobon)
Number of short round bulls Ty Pozzobon has ridden: 0
Number of riders who have ridden all of the short round bulls they have attempted: 6 (Marchi, Meier, and Oliveira have each ridden 3 out of 3. Nance, Nunes, and Hupp have ridden 2 out of 2.)
Highest riding average so far this season: Still Silvano Alves - 78.57 (11 out of 14 bulls attempted)
Second highest average: J.B. Mauney - 68.75 (11 out of 16 bulls attempted)
Number of weeks Valdiron de Oliveira and Austin Meier have had the same riding average: at least 3
Rides in each regular round: 17 / 6 / 16 / 4
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 5
Riders with two rides: 6
Riders with one ride: 12
Riders with no rides: 16
New tweets from me this week: 0
46+ bulls: 0 (Last week - 2)
45+ bulls: 1 (Gunpowder & Lead) (Last week - 4)
44+ bulls: 9 (Last week - 16)
On the other hand, re-ride options offered: 3 (Last week - 8)
90+ rides: 2 (both by J.B. Mauney)
89+ rides: 2
88+ rides: 3
Overall riding percentage for the event: 43.43
Number of riders who rode in both short rounds: 7
Number of short rounds so far this year: 9
Most short rounds ridden in by any one rider: 6 (Ty Pozzobon)
Number of short round bulls Ty Pozzobon has ridden: 0
Number of riders who have ridden all of the short round bulls they have attempted: 6 (Marchi, Meier, and Oliveira have each ridden 3 out of 3. Nance, Nunes, and Hupp have ridden 2 out of 2.)
Highest riding average so far this season: Still Silvano Alves - 78.57 (11 out of 14 bulls attempted)
Second highest average: J.B. Mauney - 68.75 (11 out of 16 bulls attempted)
Number of weeks Valdiron de Oliveira and Austin Meier have had the same riding average: at least 3
Rides in each regular round: 17 / 6 / 16 / 4
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 5
Riders with two rides: 6
Riders with one ride: 12
Riders with no rides: 16
New tweets from me this week: 0
Monday, February 6, 2012
The Baltimore Report: The Cut
Usually I say that every bull riding has one main story, but this one had two. J.B. Mauney and the cut. Watching J.B. regain some of his old magic, but do it with a new maturity, that was good. And watching other riders struggle and fail to make the cut, or struggle and succeed, was like watching a very minor epic.
The cut in a nutshell:
This is my understanding of how the cut works:
Who's in, who's out:
Sadly, I don't have a database, so this is what I have gleaned from the numbers I do have:
Lastly, most of us can be grateful that our ability to continue in our workplace is not determined by one weekend's work. And fortunately, I am not about to be cut from anything, as far as I know, because if it all came down to one event, I'm pretty sure I would choke. So hats off to Stormy Wing and Dakota Beck and Jory Markiss, and to J.B. Mauney, too, because when it was all on the line, they had what it took.
The cut in a nutshell:
This is my understanding of how the cut works:
- After this weekend, the only riders who are assured of a place in the BFT tour are those in the top 25 of the world standings. The rest will be cut.
- Then the top five Touring Pro riders will be invited to join the BFT circuit to fill spots 26-30.
- The last five riders will be returning riders with injury exemptions, and alternates.
Who's in, who's out:
Sadly, I don't have a database, so this is what I have gleaned from the numbers I do have:
- Backs to the wall, a few guys rode their way into the top twenty five. Stormy Wing went from #30 last week to #17 this week. Jory Markiss went from #28 to # 23. Dakota beck went from #40 to #25. Adrenaline, determination, sheer will - I don't know, but whatever it was, it worked and was inspiring.
- Sean Willingham came very near to falling out of the top 25, going from 19th place to 24th.
- Riders who were in the top 25 last week and fell out of it this week: Harve Stewart, Dusty Ephrom.
- Other riders who were below the 25 mark last week, and still are: Dustin Elliott, Douglas Duncan, Ben Jones, Colby Yates, Elton Cide, Cody Campbell, Elliott Jacoby, Douglas Ferreira, Beau Hill, Reese Cates.
- Riders who were cut, but whose Touring Pro standings might get them back into the rotation right away: Douglas Duncan, Dusty Ephrom, Harve Stewart, Elton Cide.
- The other Touring Pro rider who may now be on the BFTS circuit: Chance Roberts.
- Riders who didn't make the cut but have injury exemptions: I'll tell you straight up that I can never keep track of this, but I'm pretty sure this category includes Cates, Yates, Hill, Skeeter Kingsolver, and Cody Campbell, and that any of those guys who are currently unable to compete will be replace by alternates until they can.
- Rider who is kicking himself this morning: Josh Faircloth, who declined a re-ride on Friday and missed making the top 25 by two spots and 74 points. I didn't think that he made a bad decision to turn down that re-ride. It almost worked. But if he'd taken the chance on Carillo Cartel and made anything more than 73 points, he would have been in.
Lastly, most of us can be grateful that our ability to continue in our workplace is not determined by one weekend's work. And fortunately, I am not about to be cut from anything, as far as I know, because if it all came down to one event, I'm pretty sure I would choke. So hats off to Stormy Wing and Dakota Beck and Jory Markiss, and to J.B. Mauney, too, because when it was all on the line, they had what it took.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Flanks
Flank straps, for those who don't know, are a soft rope that is tied around the bull's flank by the stock contractor just prior to the out. For those who are really new to the sport, it does not constrict the bull's genitals or hurt him in anyway. The tightness of the flank depends on the contractor. Some bulls seem to buck better with a tight flank, others better with a loose one.
Here is part of a conversation I had with Lance Bloyd, a bull breeder who also has a business making flanks. Check out his company Bucking Bull Pro to learn more about his business. Read about his breeding program in an earlier interview on Rank.
How did you get started making flanks?
It started as a way to supplement my income to help pay to feed my cattle and my bulls. I made a decision here a couple of years ago that I was going to make this business pay for itself. I opened a separate checking account just for the ranch, for the ranching operations, and I said, either I’m going to be able to fund this completely off of the cattle and the business itself or I’ll have to sell animals to pay for feed because I was using my income to feed animals.
So you’ve stuck to that?
It’s done very well. All of the cattle I’ve bought have been purchased from either selling cattle or from flanks. All this has been funded by a business that has really turned into a full time job for me.
How many different kinds of flanks are there?
There’s solid cotton rope and there’s a cotton polyester blended rope. People will use all the way to 7/16 diameter all the way up to ¾ inch diameter rope. There’s flat nylon braided rope and round nylon braided rope. There’s just the regular old twisted cotton rope.
Why would someone use one over another?
On the west coast a lot of guys use the flat nylon 1” braided nylon flank. A lot of people in the Northwest and Canada use pull flanks. A lot of it is regional. It’s what they have seen and what they’ve been brought up.
Pull flanks are the ones where they go out and you see them letting go of the tail of the flank?
They’re holding onto a strap and it’s tightening as they go out. If you‘ve got a bull that starts getting really bad in the chute when you tighten the flank up on them, one of the ways to combat that is to use a pull flank.
What’s your biggest seller?
What I sell most of is a half inch flank with a steel ring in it.
A round flank?
A round, twisted nylon or twisted cotton rope. My ropes are a fairly soft cotton poly blend.
How much does a flank cost?
The cheapest one is about $12 all the way up to about $23 depending on options. A white cotton flank with a ring in it is $12. But hardly anyone buys a white cotton flank with a ring in it. People want colors, or they want their name on the end of it, or their brand on it. A lot of people want something customized. We cater to that. We customize them and if you know anything about cattle people or horse people, they’re really big into customized. I’m the same way. There is isn’t a guy in the bull business that doesn’t have a coat that has their brand on it or their logo, same with any ranch. I can put your brand on the end of your flanks and it’s a permanent deal. What’s the biggest seller in colors?
Probably black and white, more than any. But everyone wants something different. In fact, I just had a spool of rope custom made for a guy. It’s black and lime green. It’s a really neat looking rope and I told him that if he promised to buy 64 flanks, I’d pay to have a whole spool made up for him. So that rope is going to be only for him and he’s probably going to be the only person in America that has that color of flank. That’s what he wanted, and like I said, that’s part of where we’ve been successful. We cater to people’s needs and we do whatever we need to do to make it work.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Sacramento Report
This bull riding was complicated: four ways to watch/listen, two events (the real one and the event-within-the-event), several forms of media (Twitter, Facebook), the LEC (which all by itself has audio/video/live photographs, leaderboards, live scoring, detailed scoring). It was a combination of attention deficit disorder, an arcade game, and the kind of carnival ride that leaves you dizzy and slightly nauseated.
Note: That is not a complaint.
Is is an excuse, though, for why I seem unable to say a whole lot about this event. A few things that stood out:
1. Seven 90 point rides in the 15/15. I listened to it on the LEC, and ended up disappointed in the actual televised event. This led me to feel that the scores were inflated. The rides were good, but not quite that good. The other thing this taught me is that "radio" and "bull riding" and "I liked it" can co-exist in the same sentence.
2. Marco Eguche is the new Silvano Alves.
3. Cord McCoy is the new Luke Snyder. Or maybe he's just the new Cord McCoy.
4. Chris Shivers making a ride is still an exercise in perfection.
5. I'm worried about Douglas Duncan and Dustin Elliott, two really good riders in danger of being cut from the tour after Baltimore.
6. That image of Guilherme Marchi picking up his rope and watching the arena replay video with blood streaming down his face - well, that kind of told the whole story.
7. Great to see Mike Lee, J.B. Mauney, and Jordan Hupp, all with 58.33% riding averages.
8. You can tell when J.B. Mauney is going to make the whistle right at the beginning of the ride by the way he moves his free arm. I've been watching this for a while, and I assure you, it is true.
9. I hate Twitter less than I used to.
Sorry, that's all I've got this week. My excuses: The ADD and whiplash rides are getting to me. The dog ate my homework. I didn't wear a helmet.
Note: That is not a complaint.
Is is an excuse, though, for why I seem unable to say a whole lot about this event. A few things that stood out:
1. Seven 90 point rides in the 15/15. I listened to it on the LEC, and ended up disappointed in the actual televised event. This led me to feel that the scores were inflated. The rides were good, but not quite that good. The other thing this taught me is that "radio" and "bull riding" and "I liked it" can co-exist in the same sentence.
2. Marco Eguche is the new Silvano Alves.
3. Cord McCoy is the new Luke Snyder. Or maybe he's just the new Cord McCoy.
4. Chris Shivers making a ride is still an exercise in perfection.
5. I'm worried about Douglas Duncan and Dustin Elliott, two really good riders in danger of being cut from the tour after Baltimore.
6. That image of Guilherme Marchi picking up his rope and watching the arena replay video with blood streaming down his face - well, that kind of told the whole story.
7. Great to see Mike Lee, J.B. Mauney, and Jordan Hupp, all with 58.33% riding averages.
8. You can tell when J.B. Mauney is going to make the whistle right at the beginning of the ride by the way he moves his free arm. I've been watching this for a while, and I assure you, it is true.
9. I hate Twitter less than I used to.
Sorry, that's all I've got this week. My excuses: The ADD and whiplash rides are getting to me. The dog ate my homework. I didn't wear a helmet.
Sacramento by the Numbers
Numbers. Endlessly fascinating. If I had more time, you'd be in for a lot more of them. If you read the ones I do post, I salute you.
Most money won so far this year: $84,409.06 (Eguche)
47+ bulls: 2 (Smackdown - 47 - and Asteroid 47.50)
46+ bulls: 2 (Smackdown - 46.25 - and Buckey - 46.25)
45+ bulls: 3
44+ bulls: 16
Asteroid buckoff time this weekend: 1.8 seconds
Smackdown buckoff time: 1.68 seconds
90+ rides, regular rounds: 2 (both by Eguche)
90+ rides, 15/15 round: 5
89+ rides: 3 (all rounds)
Last time there were five 90+ rounds in a short round: Just a guess: never.
Overall riding percentage for the event: 46.67 (includes the 15/15 round)
Rides in each regular round: 20 / 19 / 3
Rides in 15/15 round: 7 (5 of those were for over 90 points)
Number of 90+ rides so far this year: 10 (7 of them occurred in Sacramento)
Alves re-ride options offered/taken: 1/1 (compared to 2/0 last week)
Out of a possible 7 short rounds so far this year, number Alves has been in: 2
Number of times I have tweeted (lifetime): Approximately 5
Most money won so far this year: $84,409.06 (Eguche)
47+ bulls: 2 (Smackdown - 47 - and Asteroid 47.50)
46+ bulls: 2 (Smackdown - 46.25 - and Buckey - 46.25)
45+ bulls: 3
44+ bulls: 16
Asteroid buckoff time this weekend: 1.8 seconds
Smackdown buckoff time: 1.68 seconds
90+ rides, regular rounds: 2 (both by Eguche)
90+ rides, 15/15 round: 5
89+ rides: 3 (all rounds)
Last time there were five 90+ rounds in a short round: Just a guess: never.
Overall riding percentage for the event: 46.67 (includes the 15/15 round)
Rides in each regular round: 20 / 19 / 3
Rides in 15/15 round: 7 (5 of those were for over 90 points)
Number of 90+ rides so far this year: 10 (7 of them occurred in Sacramento)
Alves re-ride options offered/taken: 1/1 (compared to 2/0 last week)
Out of a possible 7 short rounds so far this year, number Alves has been in: 2
Number of times I have tweeted (lifetime): Approximately 5
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
PBR's 15/15 Bucking Battle
The 15/15 Bucking Battle is a face-off between the top fifteen riders in the world and the top fifteen bulls at an event. Nine events this year will include a 15/15 round. The first is this weekend.
Think of the 15/15 round as a separate "event" within the regular event.
The scoring does not affect the scoring of the regular event at all. Any rider scores earned during the 15/15 contribute only to the rider's season total, not to the event total.
The sequence of rounds is:
How the riders are determined:
This weekend the top 15 riders have been determined as follows:
First, the top ten riders from last year. That will be Alves, Oliveira, Marchi, Meier, Jenkins, Mauney, McConnel.
Palermo, Proctor and Vieira would be on that list too, but they are out with injuries or visa issues (Vieira). Last year's #11, 12, and 13 will take their spaces. That will be Roy, Sanderson, and Snyder.
Then the top five riders in this year's standings who were not already in the above-mentioned 10 spots. That will be Hupp, Eguche, Nance, Pozzobon, and Nunes.
In the future 15/15 rounds, the riders will be the top fifteen in the current standings.
This weekend's match-ups:
Silvano Alves vs. Asteroid
Valdiron de Oliverir vs. Buckey
Guilherme Marchi vs. Smackdown
Austin Meier vs. Shepherd Hills Trapper
J.B. Mauney vs. Larry the Cable Guy's Git r Done
LJ Jenkins vs. Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey
Ryan McConnel vs. Highway 12
Aaron Roy vs. Southern Wine
Luke Snyder vs. Black Attack
Caleb Sanderson vs. Cowboy Cassanova
Cody Nance vs. Jack Daniels After Party
Ty Pozzobon vs. Mellow Yellow Jacket
Eguche vs.Speckled Ivory
Hupp vs. Lincoln Electric's Bring It
Nunes vs. Shepherd Hills Sod Buster
Think of the 15/15 round as a separate "event" within the regular event.
The scoring does not affect the scoring of the regular event at all. Any rider scores earned during the 15/15 contribute only to the rider's season total, not to the event total.
The sequence of rounds is:
- Round One: Regular round, forty riders
- 15/15: Points earned do not go towards the event totals.
- Round Two: Regular round, forty riders
- Championship Round: Riders with the top ten combined scores from Round One and Round Two. The 15/15 round does not affect this round at all.
How the riders are determined:
This weekend the top 15 riders have been determined as follows:
First, the top ten riders from last year. That will be Alves, Oliveira, Marchi, Meier, Jenkins, Mauney, McConnel.
Palermo, Proctor and Vieira would be on that list too, but they are out with injuries or visa issues (Vieira). Last year's #11, 12, and 13 will take their spaces. That will be Roy, Sanderson, and Snyder.
Then the top five riders in this year's standings who were not already in the above-mentioned 10 spots. That will be Hupp, Eguche, Nance, Pozzobon, and Nunes.
In the future 15/15 rounds, the riders will be the top fifteen in the current standings.
This weekend's match-ups:
Silvano Alves vs. Asteroid
Valdiron de Oliverir vs. Buckey
Guilherme Marchi vs. Smackdown
Austin Meier vs. Shepherd Hills Trapper
J.B. Mauney vs. Larry the Cable Guy's Git r Done
LJ Jenkins vs. Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey
Ryan McConnel vs. Highway 12
Aaron Roy vs. Southern Wine
Luke Snyder vs. Black Attack
Caleb Sanderson vs. Cowboy Cassanova
Cody Nance vs. Jack Daniels After Party
Ty Pozzobon vs. Mellow Yellow Jacket
Eguche vs.Speckled Ivory
Hupp vs. Lincoln Electric's Bring It
Nunes vs. Shepherd Hills Sod Buster
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Portland Report
Portland was already a good bull riding, but when it got won on that crazy trip Jordan Hupp had on Bring It, it went right into the realm of excellent.
Only one night was televised, and a malfunctioning Live Event Center threw a little bit of panic into Saturday night, but the PBR eventually got it locked in and all was well. I have a new-found appreciation for the LEC and its every-ride, every-bull-score. I like watching on television, but sitting in the living room with the LEC, Twitter, and Facebook on the laptop has turned me into some kind of techno-social-networking-multi-tasking junkie.
So here's what I thought about Portland:
Last thing #1: Every time I heard "Bad Boy Lead Dog Jordan Hupp"...I kind of thought my brain was going to implode. It was wonderful. Ridiculous. Curiously addictive.
Last thing #2: Follow J.W. Hart on Twitter. It will make you happy.
Only one night was televised, and a malfunctioning Live Event Center threw a little bit of panic into Saturday night, but the PBR eventually got it locked in and all was well. I have a new-found appreciation for the LEC and its every-ride, every-bull-score. I like watching on television, but sitting in the living room with the LEC, Twitter, and Facebook on the laptop has turned me into some kind of techno-social-networking-multi-tasking junkie.
So here's what I thought about Portland:
- It was another down-to-the-last-ride event. All the better that it was won on Hupp's completely improbable ride. At pretty much every split second during that ride he wasn't going to make it. But he did make it. Big try. Way to go.
- It was an event that had a really big final round. J.B. Mauney picked Asteroid and smiled like a little kid when he got bucked off him in a couple of seconds. Not to mention he picked Train Wreck, in the second round, and rode him without getting fallen on. "It was a little hairy at the beginning, I'll give him that," he said, and won the round on him. Gotta like a guy who admires the bulls that beat him.
- Not sure what Marco Eguche was thinking when he picked Buckey, but I know he wasn't thinking that anything like what happened would happen. Total dust bath, with Buckey a big whirling sumo tornado.
- The other interesting thing about the championship round was that Silvano Alves wasn't in it. He turned down two re-rides and kept scores of 73.75 in the first round and 79 in the second round. Douglas Ferreira followed suit, keeping an 80 in round three and declining the re-ride. I know it worked for Silvano last year, but it's starting to look...bad. I don't care, hate me if you want to, I say it looks bad and if this was baseball he'd be getting booed. Where did that baseball comparison come from? I don't know. But he would be getting booed, I can tell you that.
Last thing #1: Every time I heard "Bad Boy Lead Dog Jordan Hupp"...I kind of thought my brain was going to implode. It was wonderful. Ridiculous. Curiously addictive.
Last thing #2: Follow J.W. Hart on Twitter. It will make you happy.
Portland by the Numbers
One of my favorite moments of the week: Looking at bull riding through the lens of math. I will start with a few interesting stats:
Valdiron de Oliveira's and Austin Meier's world rankings: 1 and 2
Their riding percentages: 70 and 70 (7 out of 10 bulls ridden)
Silvano Alves' world ranking: 14
His riding percentage: 87.50 (7 out of 8 bulls ridden)
Number of re-rides Alves has turned down this year: 3. So out of his seven total rides, three were declined re-ride options.
Scores of Alves' 7 rides so far this year: 83.5 - 84.50 - 85.50 - 81.25 - 84.75 - 73.50, 73.75, 79
Out of a possible 6 short rounds so far this year, number Alves has been in: 1 (no score)
Make of all that what you will. Now onto the Portland numbers.
46+ bulls: 1
45+ bulls: 4
44+ bulls: 12
Number of times J.B. Mauney has attempted to ride Train Wreck: 4
Number of times he has ridden him: 2
Number of times Train Wreck has fallen on him: 2
Scores when J.B. has made the whistle on him: 88.50 and 89.50
90+ rides: 1
89+ rides: 3
Number of riders that have placed in the top five in more than one event: 2 (Oliveira and Meier)
Overall riding percentage for the event: 42.42
Rides in each round: 13 / 2 / 23 / 4
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 4
Riders with two rides: 6
Riders with one ride: 14
Riders with no rides: 15
Number of 90+ rides so far this year: 3
Number of 90+ rides Chris Shivers needs to reach ninety 90+ rides: 4
Number of tweets from riders, announcers, PBR folk during the event: This is a guess, but maybe 200 over the two days, maybe even more. I tell you, these guys take tweeting seriously.
Valdiron de Oliveira's and Austin Meier's world rankings: 1 and 2
Their riding percentages: 70 and 70 (7 out of 10 bulls ridden)
Silvano Alves' world ranking: 14
His riding percentage: 87.50 (7 out of 8 bulls ridden)
Number of re-rides Alves has turned down this year: 3. So out of his seven total rides, three were declined re-ride options.
Scores of Alves' 7 rides so far this year: 83.5 - 84.50 - 85.50 - 81.25 - 84.75 - 73.50, 73.75, 79
Out of a possible 6 short rounds so far this year, number Alves has been in: 1 (no score)
Make of all that what you will. Now onto the Portland numbers.
46+ bulls: 1
45+ bulls: 4
44+ bulls: 12
Number of times J.B. Mauney has attempted to ride Train Wreck: 4
Number of times he has ridden him: 2
Number of times Train Wreck has fallen on him: 2
Scores when J.B. has made the whistle on him: 88.50 and 89.50
90+ rides: 1
89+ rides: 3
Number of riders that have placed in the top five in more than one event: 2 (Oliveira and Meier)
Overall riding percentage for the event: 42.42
Rides in each round: 13 / 2 / 23 / 4
Riders with four rides: 1
Riders with three rides: 4
Riders with two rides: 6
Riders with one ride: 14
Riders with no rides: 15
Number of 90+ rides so far this year: 3
Number of 90+ rides Chris Shivers needs to reach ninety 90+ rides: 4
Number of tweets from riders, announcers, PBR folk during the event: This is a guess, but maybe 200 over the two days, maybe even more. I tell you, these guys take tweeting seriously.
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