SweetPro’s Bruiser Enjoying his Time on Ranch
When you’re one of the baddest bucking bulls on the planet life is good.
That is the case for Powder River Rodeo’s SweetPro’s Bruiser, owned by H.D. Page of D&H Cattle but who competes in the PRCA under Powder River’s umbrella.
SweetPro’s Bruiser, 9, lives on the D&H Cattle Ranch in Dickson, Okla., with about 700 other bulls.
Cash Roberts, H.D. Page’s stepson, is a handler of SweetPro’s Bruiser, and he talked to ProRodeo Sports News about what SweetPro’s Bruiser does on the ranch.
“He looks in about as good of shape as he has been in, in a long time,” Roberts said about the 1,800-pound beast. “He hangs out here at the ranch. He has a big ol’ sandbox he gets in, and he plays on a big ol’ sand hill. We call it the exercise pen and let him out there once or twice a day. You have to tie up the gate because he will end up all over the place if you don’t tie up those gates.”
SweetPro’s Bruiser is a highly decorated animal athlete.
SweetPro’s Bruiser was the 2017 PRCA Bull of the Year and was second in 2018. Bruiser also was top bull of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
At last year’s Wrangler NFR, he was voted bull of the night for Round 8 after teaming with six-time reigning world champion Sage Kimzey for a 94-point ride to win the round.
“He knows he’s Bruiser, 100 percent,” Roberts said. “He knows he’s the (baddest bull at the ranch). He has a really cool attitude. He likes getting rubbed on, scratched on and loved on. But he still has a little bit of vibe to him that he will bluff at you and make you jump a little bit sometimes just to keep you on your toes and to let you know he’s bigger than you. He’s an ornery sucker.”
The last two times SweetPro’s Bruiser competed in PRCA events were at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, Feb. 20 and the Division 1 Xtreme Bulls in San Antonio, Feb. 22.
Bruiser bucked off reigning all-around champion Stetson Wright on Feb. 20 and did the same to Ruger Piva in the Xtreme Bulls.
“He will be back out at PRCA rodeos,” Roberts said. “We will just have to see where he goes when the rodeos resume.”
Courtesy of PRCA