Bull Notes - Monroe, LA
Ark-La-Miss Stampede Days Rodeo
February 2001

Herd: Auger - Harper

Notes: I grew up in West Monroe and watched Don Gay, Denny Flynn, Charles Sampson, and other greats ride at this rodeo. It used to be a four perf rodeo. By 1998 and 1999 attendance had fallen off, and in 2000 they dropped it and replaced it with a one perf PBR Touring Pro. This year, it's back to three perfs, good crowd, drew the top guys, and added a first class hospitality room for the contestants. A step in the right direction.

Monroe is the closest city to where the Augers live, and so I suspect they would like to bring this rodeo back. They did a good job with it this year, and in years to come... look for this rodeo to increase the added money. West Monroe is building a brand new indoor facility, and I would be surprised if they didn't move this rodeo across the river and make it a bigger one. More rodeo fans on the west side of the river.

Lots of bulls got rode here - at least on Friday and Saturday night. Plenty of good bull riders.

One of these days, I'm going to make it by somebody else's rodeo and have a look at some different bulls.

Perf 2 Friday Night-------------

Bulls - Jockeys (delivery)

29 Orange Crush - Buskin Wilson (L)
YOWZA... Buskin took him to the reverse and then got sailed. Managed to avoid getting crushed. Orange showed no signs of slowing down. I wonder if this bull is good on good dirt... I've seen him stop twice on bad ground indoors. Bucked hard here... but won't on TV.

X66 Dez - Rene Tate (L)
Not-so-hot. A user.

116 Yellow Dog - Chris Coody (R)
Yellow Dog = What-a-Dog.... 71 pts

1 Friday Night Live - Adam Wood (R)
Adam rode this big brindle easy. Bull was just good - turned back to the left I think. Stayed hooked - 80 pts. Nothing wrong with that... good one to have.

74 Challenger - Flint Mask (L)
A big roan muley that does about the same deal everytime they turn him out, sometimes with a little more spunk than others. He bucked as good as ever here and Flint was 87 to win the rodeo. Sometimes the judges don't like this bull as well. He's a little droppy, and will turn back- jump out of it. Notches up a lot of quick buck-offs because he gets cocked in the chute and really leaves there. It's hard to get a fair shot at him. They always buck him left and he's harder on right handed guys.

387 The Jackal - Lamar Duren (L)
Pretty hard to twist + not many points = not the one you would want to have. One of those bulls that hangs around the let out gate the whole eight.

98 Bubba - Michael Riggs (L)
Boy is this a cool bull... about three and to the left, stayed hooked, kicked good the whole way... real catty. The judges thought he was a little too nice. 79 points. Add a couple of big horns and you'd be 5 more at least. Worth going to get on. Nice ride.

532 Raspberry Wine - Matthew Weber (R)
Plenty of juice + zero kick = Copenhagen Butt Dragger. Looked VERY hard to ride, and this guy really tried hard.

-1 Showtime - Wayne White (R)
Little bull had a lot of kick. Wayne had to slap him, and wasn't too happy about it. Looked like a good one to have... turned back both ways. Don't know what the judges thought of him.

73 Rampage II - Will Hines (L)
73 BUCKED about as good as he did in Baton Rouge... which was pretty good. Got Will at the corner to the right. Will probably would have been 104 points if he would have rode him - considering Flint was 87 on 74.

Perf 3 Saturday Night----------------

41 Bandelero - Travis Askew (L?)
Geez, this bull has gotten worse every time I've seen him. He really dragged here and I'm pretty sure Travis got a re-ride on him.

139 Marantha - Ethan Russell (R)
Bucked harder here than he did at Baton Rouge. Got Ethan pretty quick.

4W Firecracker - Beau Hill (L)
Yuck-O + Delivery switcheroo = Just as Yuck-O. Bull bucks hard, but is just not quite enough when they ride the better ones. One to have at a weak rodeo. 75 here

08 Candy Man - Jackie Patton (R)
Was a little better here than at Baton Rouge. Came around to the left. A great draw in this herd.

11 Jigger - Bryan Richardson (L)
I figured this to be a good matchup. This guy rides good, and this little red bull usually bucks pretty hard. The Jigger turned back hard and launched Mr. Richardson this time... he might not do it twice in a row. He would have been some points.

89 Valline - Blu Bryant (L)
Bull looks like X66 Dez. He circled around and was pretty average here. Blu rode him, but I can't remember the score.

J783 Red Baron - Jeremi Kirkland (L)
I go around telling people this is a pretty good bull to have, but he wasn't here. He turned back and spun, but got real draggy. No kick.

N56 Helicopter - Josh O'Byrne(R)
Little red muley that has helped a lot of guys win a lot of money. He came over from Jason Brumley Land with his "N" branded buddy (N9 Turbo) several years ago. He had a real good day here, and so did Josh. Didn't look like the easiest of the 80 pointers they called out. Josh worked for it. Bull stopped just after the whistle - probably docked him a point or two, though they shouldn't have. Never hurts to have a strong finish.

196 Batman - Jay Henderson (R)
Fat black muley that got it in the gate both ways. Great bull to draw, and they called out an 80.. I should have looked at the sheets... I didn't pay enough attention to the scores. I seem to remember seeing Jay buck off one time, but it was a long time ago...

112 Becachah - Myron Duarte (L)
A yanker. Big old red bull with a star in his face. Yanked on Myron, but he hung tough... 81 (I think)

009 Tarzan - Ash Potter (R)
Rangy Brahmer that bucked just like a rangy brahmer, Not too hot. Kinda resembled a Water Buffalo.

20 Resistol Hats - Clint Solomon (L)
Black Horned bull that was a Hunk-O-Junk. Scattered off down the front of the bucking chutes. Made a pretty waspy corner at the far fence, and Clint got to play Bull Rider for about one jump. 72 pts. This guy apparently has his own fan club that follows him around.

77 Soul Train - Bryant Pierce (L)
To give you an idea where Bryant is from... I live so far south in Louisiana that people go crabbing NORTH of my house. This dude lives 40 miles south of me. This big brindle bull got into the wall... they bucked him too far up in the corner, and he wanted to go right. Ended up stopping. Had Judge Dewitt Forrest in a bad predicament for a few tense moments. Bryant got a RR.

100 Snowman - Bryant Pierce RR (R)
Swamp Boy strikes again. Little Charolais turned back and stayed, but weak. Only 67 pts.

217 Justin Boots - Cody Hancock (R)
Red bull with a white face that bucked like a pretty fair bronc horse. Straight down the pen... He got some air, but didn't kick every jump, so it would have been tough to win the bronc riding on him. Skoal's Crow Hopper. He actually would have been pretty salty if have if only he would have SPUN. No problem for the champ.

Slade Long
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