KILLER BEE Livestock Inducted 2026 Killer Bee had a unique start for a bucking horse. At two months old, she lost her mother to colic and became an orphan bottle baby on the Beutler Ranch. She would stand for scratches and rubs and come in to be fed. She followed whoever had the...
Livestock • Inducted 2000 Skoal Sippin’ Velvet originally named Abdallah, was sired by a direct descendant of the famous Man O’ War named Grand Admiral and the NFR bucking mare named Sweet Thing. He was born on the Hoss Inman, Flying I Ranch in Lamar, Colo. Abdallah became an outstanding bucking...
Livestock • Inducted 1999 Perhaps no bucking bull in ProRodeo history was as feared as Bodacious, a 1,900-pound cross-bred charbray that burst upon the scene in 1992. In four years, Bodacious was virtually unrideable. All muscle, the bull with the distinctive yellow coloring bucked off 127 of his 135 riders and...
Livestock • Inducted 1998 Miss Klamath is remembered as the undisputed queen of saddle broncs in the early 1950s. An unknown when she first started bucking, Miss Klamath soon developed a reputation for unseating all riders. Bronc riders of the era wondered if anyone would ever make a qualified ride on...
Livestock • Inducted 1996 The name is an apt description of the legendary barrel horse whose AQHA name is Gills Bay Boy. Purchased for $1,000 by owner/rider Charmayne James, Scamper began his record-setting career as a rookie in 1984. He took James past the $1 million earnings mark and to 10...
Livestock • Inducted 1993 A direct descendent of the legendary race horse Man O ’War, High Tide was a part of the Flying U Rodeo Company until he was 38 years old, the equivalent of 105 human years. He made his first trip to the National Finals Rodeo in 1967 and...
Livestock • Inducted 1990 Red Rock, owned by Growney Brothers Rodeo Company, started bucking in PRCA rodeos in 1983. He retired from the arena after the 1987 National Finals Rodeo, unridden in 309 attempts. His retirement was brief. In 1988, John Growney created the “Challenge of the Champions.” This seven-ride match...
Livestock • Inducted 1990 Crooked Nose may be the most famous fighting bull in rodeo. Rodeo fans loved him and bull fighters dreaded him. He was born in 1977 on the Harry Vold Rodeo Ranch in Fowler, Colorado. His mother was a Mexican crossbred fighting cow and his sire was the...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 During a 14-year period, Tornado, a Hereford-Brahma cross-breed, bucked off every cowboy – all 220 of them – who tried to ride him. Owned by legend Jim Shoulders, the 1,800-pound bull met his match, however, at the 1967 National Finals Rodeo where he was paired with ProRodeo Hall...
Livestock • Inducted 1979 Tipperary was credited with dumping 80 riders before Yakima Canutt made a qualified ride in 1920. Canutt also rode the famed bronc a second time in Belle Fourche, S.D., in 1921. The colt, which hailed from a band of thoroughbreds in the Northwest, first gained attention at...
