45+ bulls:
13/6 Bushwacker – Moreno - 47
601 Shepherd Hills Trapper – Circle T – 45.50
K55 Smackdown – Berger – 45.25
44+ bulls
10-5 Crosswired – Page – 44.75
924B Immigrant – Circle T – 44.75
K41 Wild ‘n Out – Berger – 44.75
T29 Josey Wales – New Frontier – 44.75
563 Hee Bee Gee Bee – Boyd/Floyd – 44.50
861 Speckled Ivory – Circle T – 44.50
23S Stretch Armstrong – Page – 44.50
59 Whiskey’s Rebel – Boyd/Floyd – 44.50
61 Moon – Robinson – 44.50
-8 Bring It – Berger – 44.25
868 After Party – Circle T - 44
315 Another One – Robinson - 44
433 T-Rex - Circle T - 44
P6 How We Roll - Berger - 44
683 Motown Magic - Circle T - 44
296 Sancho - Circle T - 44
They got the bull scores up there. Nicely done. And see? Not so hard.
Ty Murray is getting the bucking patterns for the bulls and talking about them. He is giving as much time to the bulls as he is to the riders, and it makes the broadcast about 100% better to have both sides of the equation in the conversation. Ty, you cannot see this, but I do some kind of little kowtow in gratitude.
Best bull moment:
Bushwacker was great, but okay, I'm giving it to Whiskey's Rebel. I've been watching him since San Antonio when Josh Faircloth rode him for 88.25 and the bull almost ran him over afterwards. And I thought then: That bull's got the fire in the belly. Lo and behold, yes he does, and is smart in the bargain. He came this close to jumping out of that bucking chute on Saturday. And the thing about it was that he didn't look mad, he just looked really...smart. Which leads right into Kent Cox's handling of him. I mean really. That's a bull man right there. I dare say you don't see that much.
Worst bull moment:
So, I get it, Movin' On is a hard bull to get out on and Silvano Alves isn't the first person to have had a problem with him. There's a boatload of conversation going on about whether he took too long in the chute trying to get out on this bull. I'm hyper-alert to the amount of time Silvano takes in the bucking chute, and I'm not the only one to have criticized him for it. But in this instance, I've gotten some comments that have made me willing to say that I don't know how justified the time was, or how long it actually took. I will say that that by the time that bull got out of the chute, for the eight seconds that mattered, he was out of fight.
Bull of the weekend:
This one goes to Bushwacker, clearly. He did his thing and got the score to prove it.
In case you missed it on Friday:
Here are five bull pedigrees picked at random from the Wichita bull roster.
