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.One hundred sixty-five of the horses perform in rodeos, and the busiestof those, approximately thirty of them, may be on the rodeo road.The mostany horse will buck is about fifteen times.Colts are not moved to rodeosuntil age five, though they may be ridden twice a year at age three or four.The top-end horses, such as the famed Grated Coconut, Papa Smurf, andGuilty Cat, are bucked a maximum of three times during the Stampede. GLEN MIKKELSEN 213In appreciation of stock contractors efforts to produce unrelentingmounts, at every Stampede rodeo performance the horses and bull carryingthe day s winning rides and the animals judges deem as the rankest on theirscorecards are each awarded $500.On the final Sunday, one bareback bronc,one saddle bronc, and one bull are crowned the overall Calgary StampedeChampion Stock.The contractor receives a bronze trophy, and the animalsare let loose in the infield to receive the crowd s praise.These ChampionStock trophies have been awarded since 1979.In addition to Stampede week, the Calgary Stampede rodeo office pro-duces several rodeos each year in Canada and supplies stock to about twentyother rodeos in western Canada and the United States.It also provides buck-ing horses for one-day convention rodeos in Calgary and sends its youngerstock to rodeo schools and college rodeos.The longest road trip Stampedehorses make is to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas each December.As any cowboy could tell you, riding a bronc is no tea party.The force of abronc s first jump out of the chute compares to that of the whiplash incurredin an average car accident.Bronc riding hurts.There are reasons why a buck-ing bronc s saddle is called a hurricane deck, yet bronc riding has a power-ful mystique and pull, as former Calgary Stampede Rodeo Director WinstonBruce, a world champion saddle bronc rider, explains:You arrive at the rodeo about a hour to an hour anda half before the ride.You start gathering your equip-ment together, and your mind changes.It goes to heavyconcentration to what you re going to do.As the animal isbrought into the chute, you start preparing, putting yoursaddle and your tack on, becoming more concentrated.The outside world starts to shut off more all the time.By the time you get on the animal, it s almost like being ina trance.You re totally alert, really alert, but only alert tothe things that matter at that moment; things like wherethe pick up men are, where the chute gate openers are,where the judges are, where the photographer may be.Youget that fixed in your mind.And then you feel the animalunderneath you.He s usually quiet at that time becauseexperienced horses are probably thinking the same thingsas you, only in reverse. 214 A SPURRING SOUL: A TENDERFOOT S GUIDE TO THE CALGARY STAMPEDE RODEOBy the time the chute gate is opened, the outside world istotally cut away.Your senses are really limited to only whatmatters at that moment in the arena.As you re riding theanimal, you re aware of any movement around you, likethe pickup horses or something flickering in the stands,because that could change the direction of the animal.You can usually sense a change of direction in the animalas it s happening.When you get off the animal, your adrenaline is reallyrunning high and you feel good.And because of that,your alertness is on high.So there s a high to that in thesense of satisfaction.It s always a personal contest againstyourself really.Everybody, I m sure, has the same goal,and that goal is to make the perfect ride.That s what yourgoal is.You may never achieve it, but if you ever do, you reprobably finished, because what would you want to do the14next time?Rodeo s SeductionFor horses, bulls, and men, an underlying Stampede rodeo theme is the threatof injury or death.As sixteen-time world champion cowboy Jim Shoulderssaid, People don t want to see a rodeo cowboy die, but they want to be there GLEN MIKKELSEN 21515when he does. The Stampede rodeo emphasizes human frailty and thepower of nature on a perilous stage; people are drawn into the grandstandlike passers-by to an accident.The first Stampede rodeo of 1912 set the tragic legacy.While preparingstock a few days before the show, cowboy Joe LaMar was trying out buck-ing horses in the evening arena.Red Wing, a big sorrel from Medicine Hat,fell while bucking.LaMar s chap belt caught on the saddle horn, and Red16Wing kicked him.LaMar died en route to the hospital, inciting the first,but not the last, public outcry about the sport s brutality but also piquing theaudience s curiosity about cowboys bravado and dangerous ambitions.Rodeo fans can determine what events cowboys compete in simply bylooking at their injuries.Bareback riders deal with painful elbows fromabsorbing the pounding shock of riding and sore knees from awkwardly spur-ring.Bronc riders have knee problems from constant spurring and kinkednecks from flying dismounts.Bull riders limp with strained riding arms andpulled groin muscles (the wide backs of bulls are not designed for riding).Steer wrestlers hurt their knees when they jump to the ground from horsesgoing twenty-five to thirty-five miles an hour [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.One hundred sixty-five of the horses perform in rodeos, and the busiestof those, approximately thirty of them, may be on the rodeo road.The mostany horse will buck is about fifteen times.Colts are not moved to rodeosuntil age five, though they may be ridden twice a year at age three or four.The top-end horses, such as the famed Grated Coconut, Papa Smurf, andGuilty Cat, are bucked a maximum of three times during the Stampede. GLEN MIKKELSEN 213In appreciation of stock contractors efforts to produce unrelentingmounts, at every Stampede rodeo performance the horses and bull carryingthe day s winning rides and the animals judges deem as the rankest on theirscorecards are each awarded $500.On the final Sunday, one bareback bronc,one saddle bronc, and one bull are crowned the overall Calgary StampedeChampion Stock.The contractor receives a bronze trophy, and the animalsare let loose in the infield to receive the crowd s praise.These ChampionStock trophies have been awarded since 1979.In addition to Stampede week, the Calgary Stampede rodeo office pro-duces several rodeos each year in Canada and supplies stock to about twentyother rodeos in western Canada and the United States.It also provides buck-ing horses for one-day convention rodeos in Calgary and sends its youngerstock to rodeo schools and college rodeos.The longest road trip Stampedehorses make is to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas each December.As any cowboy could tell you, riding a bronc is no tea party.The force of abronc s first jump out of the chute compares to that of the whiplash incurredin an average car accident.Bronc riding hurts.There are reasons why a buck-ing bronc s saddle is called a hurricane deck, yet bronc riding has a power-ful mystique and pull, as former Calgary Stampede Rodeo Director WinstonBruce, a world champion saddle bronc rider, explains:You arrive at the rodeo about a hour to an hour anda half before the ride.You start gathering your equip-ment together, and your mind changes.It goes to heavyconcentration to what you re going to do.As the animal isbrought into the chute, you start preparing, putting yoursaddle and your tack on, becoming more concentrated.The outside world starts to shut off more all the time.By the time you get on the animal, it s almost like being ina trance.You re totally alert, really alert, but only alert tothe things that matter at that moment; things like wherethe pick up men are, where the chute gate openers are,where the judges are, where the photographer may be.Youget that fixed in your mind.And then you feel the animalunderneath you.He s usually quiet at that time becauseexperienced horses are probably thinking the same thingsas you, only in reverse. 214 A SPURRING SOUL: A TENDERFOOT S GUIDE TO THE CALGARY STAMPEDE RODEOBy the time the chute gate is opened, the outside world istotally cut away.Your senses are really limited to only whatmatters at that moment in the arena.As you re riding theanimal, you re aware of any movement around you, likethe pickup horses or something flickering in the stands,because that could change the direction of the animal.You can usually sense a change of direction in the animalas it s happening.When you get off the animal, your adrenaline is reallyrunning high and you feel good.And because of that,your alertness is on high.So there s a high to that in thesense of satisfaction.It s always a personal contest againstyourself really.Everybody, I m sure, has the same goal,and that goal is to make the perfect ride.That s what yourgoal is.You may never achieve it, but if you ever do, you reprobably finished, because what would you want to do the14next time?Rodeo s SeductionFor horses, bulls, and men, an underlying Stampede rodeo theme is the threatof injury or death.As sixteen-time world champion cowboy Jim Shoulderssaid, People don t want to see a rodeo cowboy die, but they want to be there GLEN MIKKELSEN 21515when he does. The Stampede rodeo emphasizes human frailty and thepower of nature on a perilous stage; people are drawn into the grandstandlike passers-by to an accident.The first Stampede rodeo of 1912 set the tragic legacy.While preparingstock a few days before the show, cowboy Joe LaMar was trying out buck-ing horses in the evening arena.Red Wing, a big sorrel from Medicine Hat,fell while bucking.LaMar s chap belt caught on the saddle horn, and Red16Wing kicked him.LaMar died en route to the hospital, inciting the first,but not the last, public outcry about the sport s brutality but also piquing theaudience s curiosity about cowboys bravado and dangerous ambitions.Rodeo fans can determine what events cowboys compete in simply bylooking at their injuries.Bareback riders deal with painful elbows fromabsorbing the pounding shock of riding and sore knees from awkwardly spur-ring.Bronc riders have knee problems from constant spurring and kinkednecks from flying dismounts.Bull riders limp with strained riding arms andpulled groin muscles (the wide backs of bulls are not designed for riding).Steer wrestlers hurt their knees when they jump to the ground from horsesgoing twenty-five to thirty-five miles an hour [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]