News and Notes from the Rodeo Trail, June 18
PRCA Stat of the Week
The nine Wrangler Tour rodeos that will take place in July will payout nearly $3 million dollars in prize money to PRCA competitors. Of that money, almost $900,000 will be paid out the weekend of July 18-22, between the Snake River Stampede (Nampa, Idaho), California Rodeo Salinas and the Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo.
WranglerNetwork.com will livestream the remainder of the Reno Rodeo, June 18-23 at 7 p.m. (PT) each day. The official livestream landing page can be found at www.wranglernetwork.com/events/reno-rodeo.
On June 19, tune in to Episode 2 of the Mesquite (Texas) Championship Rodeo, only on ProRodeoTV.com. Catch the action weekly now through August at www.prorodeotv.com. Also, mark your calendar for the free livestream broadcast of Prescott (Ariz.) Frontier Days. ProRodeoTV.com will be broadcasting June 29 at 7:30 p.m. PT.
The next PRCA Rodeo Camp will be Aug. 11 in Cascade, Mont. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (MT). Registration is required at www.prorodeo.com/prorodeo/rodeo/youth-rodeo.
The Pendleton (Ore.) Round-Up and Happy Canyon Hall of Fame announced its 2018 inductees recently. This year’s honorees include bareback bucking horse Smith & Velvet, tie-down roper Brad Goodrich, long-time Round-Up volunteer Bill Dawson, and Native American Janie Pond, who twice served as a Happy Canyon Princess. Smith & Velvet made his last appearance at the Round-Up in 1982, when he carried world champion J.C. Trujillo to the bareback championship. In 1983, he was killed in a truck and trailer accident, along with several of the Christensen Brothers top rodeo NFR bucking stock. Smith & Velvet was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2017. Goodrich, of Stanfield, Ore., was the all-around and tie-down roping champion at the 2004 and 2008 Round-Ups. Goodrich made the finals 25 of the 30 years he competed in Pendleton. Dawson has been a Round-Up volunteer for more than 50 years, beginning on the hay crew and later working on telecommunications. The majority of his volunteerism, however, has been in maintaining the historic wagons and stagecoaches used in the Westward Ho! Parade. The late Pond grew up in eastern Oregon and spent most of her life on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
Steve Kenyon and ProRodeoLive.com will broadcast the Clear Lake (S.D.) Division 2 X Bulls event, June 20 at 8 p.m. (CT) and the Clear Lake Crystal Springs Rodeo, June 21-23 at 8 p.m.
Courtesy of PRCA