Grated Coconut won his fifth Bareback Horse of the Year award. The Calgary Stampede stallion, shown here in San Juan Capistrano with Kaycee Field aboard, is halter broke and the future of the Stampedes breeding program.
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It the roughstock end of the arena, a familiar champion, a repeat
winner and a shared title highlight the 2008 PRCA Bucking Stock of the Year
awards.
The winners, voted on by the top 30 contestants in each event as
of Sept. 1, included bareback horse Grated Coconut, who won for the fifth
time.
The honor for the Calgary Stampede’s stallion ties the achievement
by Bernis Johnson’s Sippin’ Velvet, a five-time bareback horse of the year and
member of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, who won titles in 1978, 1983-84 and
1986-87.
Descent, the great saddle bronc of Beutler Brothers and Cervi
Rodeo, holds the overall PRCA record with six Saddle Bronc of the Year titles in
the 1960s and 1970s.
In the bull riding, Beutler & Son Rodeo Company’s Voodoo Child
won for the second consecutive year. The bull was ridden once in the PBR for
94.5 points by Justin McBride and averaged a 23.14 mark, out of 25, in 2008.
In the saddle bronc riding, Cool Alley from the Kesler
Championship Rodeo string shared top honors with Burch Rodeo Company’s Blood
Brother.
Cool Alley was voted Bareback Riding Horse of the Year in 2001 and Saddle
Bronc Riding Horse of the Year in 2004. It was the first honor for Blood
Brother.
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