Gold buckles come to town
In early December, two young Boerne residents realized the highest honors offered in the professional rodeo world...For those of you not familiar with the world of rodeo, here's some basic info about barrel racing and saddle bronc riding.
At the National Rodeo Finals in Las Vegas, Callie duPerier won the 2015 Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Champion Barrel Racer competition, and Jacobs Crawley came away with the 2015 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider gold buckle.
And here's videos of Callie and Jacobs.
FWIW,I have a few gold buckles of my own. They're for Team Roping.
No, I'm not a roper. I won the buckles in a Calcutta - an auction where you bid on the roping teams, and whichever team wins the event also wins the pool of auction funds for the winning bidder. In our case, we get a big gaudy western belt buckle to go along with the $$$.
Yee-haw, y'all!
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Back in our NM days, my kids did 4H horse shows and rodeos. Those were some fun times.
Team roping. Circa 1978, two friends drove 800+ miles to a team roping event. Drew "first to go". Waiting along side the railing for the Grand Entry, one of the flag girls caught her stirrup on one of their ropes jerking it out of the roper's hand and tangling with her horse's legs. Said horse started bucking. Ghastly wreck. After all that drama the healer missed and they ended up with "no time". No buckle or them.
Name dropping. Friends with Charles Sampson. He has some nice buckles!
BB - our kids and grandkids did the $H thing for a while - mostly goats. Baahhh...
WSF - Wow, Charles Sampson. I'm impressed. I'll bet he's got some nice buckles ... to go along with his impressive collection of broken bones.
"his impressive collection of broken bones."
Not to mention his Prosthetic ear. Had a bull step on his ear in Reno.
My 43-y-o son has a scar under his eye from when a bull stepped on him back in his youth. The same bull also stomped his shoulder, but fortunately there was no permanent damage.
Those critters are dangerous...
Amazing skills, and I had more sense than to try that... Got my ass bucked off a couple of times as a kid, that convinced me Rodeo wasn't in my future!
NFO - I gave up my dreams of being a rodeo champion when I discovered that saddles don't come with drink holders... :-)
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