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lazier and won’t try to buck
the rider off their backs.”
This can happen with any
bull which is over used, and
is almost certain to happen
to a horse which is less than
five years old.
“Unless they are old and
set in their ways, they get
broke after being ridden in a
couple of rodeos, and that’s
how you lose money,” he
explains.
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for several years, however.
Bulls, especially, learn
what’s expected of them and
can become real opponents
in the arena.
“After you’ve worked with
a bull for half a year or a
season, they leam that their
job is to buck and get the
rider off as quickly as
possible,” states Martin.
“And, when you ride a bull
that’s been hauled to rodeos
for three to five years, it gets
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to be a real battle of the
minds,” he continues.
Rodeo riders will ask each
other for tips on the bucking
patterns of the experienced
animals, and then try to
compensate for the bulls’
moves by leaning and
shifting their weight. If an
experienced bull feels the
rider doing this, he will often
make an entirely unexpected
turn designed to catch the
rider off guard, and throw
him to the ground. And, often
times, once he has done his
job and thrown the rider off
his back, the bull will head to
the gate knowing he’s done
for the event.
“They know they’re going
to be fed when the event is
over,” remarks Martin,”
because, just like most
athletes, the animals aren’t
fed or watered for two to four
hours prior to performances.
To get this type of good
bull, Martin has to go
through an extensive hand
picking process, because
only certain bulls will work
out.
“If you get a bull that’s a
fighter, most times he won’t
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buck, and a lot of the times
an-animal that buck won’t
fight,” says Martin. He
experienced this with his
first group of bulls.
“They were so wild that
they’d injure themselves in
the pen before the rodeo, so
we had to get rid of them,”
he noted. Out of the original
16 he got from Florida, only
three remain. He didn’t do
badly, however, because he
could resell them, many
times, for more than he had
paid.
At present, he has several
noteworthy bulls. One is
Bonecrusher, a Hereford and
Brahma crossbred from
Texas who is nine years old
and weighs in the vicinity of
1600 pounds. Bonecrusher
has bucked out over 174
times and has rarely been
ridden for the qualifying
eight seconds.
Another is a Charolais who
bucks to get the rider off, but
is a pet before and after the
rodeo.
According to Martin, the
best animals are Brahmas
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crossed with either Angus,
Charolais, or Hereford.
“Oh, you always have to
have a couple purebred
Brahmas in your string so
the spectators are satisfied,
but really, they don’t make
the best bulls,” says Martin.
Instead of bucking, Brahmas
will run from one end of the
arena to the other, which
does not provide an exciting
show.
“The best bull is a spin
ner,” says Martin. When a
bull spins, centrifugal force
throws the rider out from the
animal, and if it stops sud
denly and changed its
direction of spin, the rider is
in for a surprise - one that is
often to his downfall - quite
literally.
“If they’ve been hauled to
enough rodeos, they’re
expert on what verbal
signals mean,” explains
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Martin. So, they’re ready for
any move the rider makes
from the time he climbs on
the bull’s back.
There are a few problems
that go along with owning
these ornery animals, ac
cording to Martin. For one
thing, they have a tendency
to tear their living quarters
apart.
“Nineteen bulls can get to
fighting each other, and it’s
just not feasible to house
each one separately,” he
commentedd.
A second problem is that
they get loose and can take
weeks and months to find.
And, when a person uses
these animals in a rodeo, the
Humane Society is a con
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