Livestock • Inducted 2017 Bareback horse Smith & Velvet was the definition of a late bloomer. The horse, which was honored as the PRCA’s top bareback horse four times (1977, as Mr. Smith, and then 1979-80 and 1982, as Smith & Velvet), didn’t become an award-winning bucker until he was into his 20s. When...
Livestock • Inducted 2017 Star Plaudit holds a very unique record in the world of professional rodeo, one that is not likely to ever be duplicated. The sorrel gelding by Oklahoma Star Jr., out of Sunshine Plaudit, won two World Championships in the sport in a single year and contributed to a...
Livestock • Inducted 2016 Scottie, who was owned by Walt Linderman, carried three different cowboys to four world championships – Harley May in 1965, Jack Roddy in 1966 and ’68, and John W. Jones Sr. in 1970, when he rode Scottie as one of his mounts during the regular season. The chestnut gelding...
Livestock • Inducted 2016 Gray Wolf never went to the NFR, but he was among the best sires owned by the legendary Tooke family. Gray Wolf produced the most award-winning horses that can still be seen today in strings from Vold to Beutler to Sankey and Rosser. Horses that go back to Wolf are:...
Livestock • Inducted 2015 Travis Tryan’s Precious Speck, best known as “Walt,” is widely recognized as one of the best horses ever to carry a team roping header into an arena. Walt was voted the American Quarter Horse Association/PRCA Team Roping Head Horse of the Year four times, in 2003 and then from...
Livestock • Inducted 2014 Along with Kingsway Skoal and Lonesome Me, Big Bend Rodeo Company’s legendary mare Spring Fling is the only horse to be honored by the PRCA as both a Bareback and Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year. Spring Fling started out on the bareback side and received the PRCA’s...
Livestock • Inducted 2012 Khadafy Skoal was the first Wyoming-born-and-raised horse to be voted PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year in 1990 and went on to win the award twice more for Powder River Rodeo in 1995 and 1996. Starting in 1989, the blue roan gelding went to the Wrangler National...
Livestock • Inducted 2011 War Paint, the product of a registered Quarter Horse stud and a wild pinto mare, was raided by Orie Summers on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon and became the greatest saddle bronc horse of his generation. As part of the Christensen Brothers string, War Paint was voted...
Livestock • Inducted 2008 The pride of the Oral Zumwalt rodeo string out of Missoula, Mont., Trails End was the 1959 Bucking Horse of the Year and was three times recognized as the top saddle bronc of the national Finals Rodeo in Dallas (1959-61). The chunky 15-hand, 1,200-pound sorrel gelding appeared in...
Livestock • Inducted 2007 Skoal Pacific Bell was raised on the Russell Ranch in Folsom, Calif., and earned the name Pacific Bell shortly after he became a bucking bull at age 4 when it became apparent that he liked to throw back his head while bucking as if he wanted to...
