Contract Personnel • Inducted 2023 Kenny Clabaugh has had many names over his nearly forty-year career as a rodeo pick-up man. “The Invisible Man” and “Mr. Smooth” have been two of the most popular. Clabaugh has earned these monikers due to his uncanny ability to be in the right place at...
Steer Wrestler • Inducted 2023 Luke Branquinho was raised on a seven-generation family ranch in Los Alamos, California. John and Brandy Branquinho’s third son followed the lead of big brothers, Tony and Casey, and grew up roping. He started wrestling steers at 11, with the help of family friend John Black,...
Livestock • Class of 2022 For an unknown horse that was brought to a steer wrestling school, no one would have guessed how tough a rodeo competitor he would turn out to be. AQHA registered Mighty Eye “Whiskey” would turn out to be one of the toughest horses three-time Steer Wrestling...
Livestock • Class of 2022 Medicine Woman, a bay mare out of Big Medicine (sire) and Showtime (dam), is the second most decorated bucking horse to date. Only Descent has more titles than she does. Born in Freedom, Oklahoma, in 2003, this ranch-raised mare never had a bad day. She was...
Contract Personnel • Class of 2022 Raised on his family’s Appaloosa horse ranch near Tickfaw, LA, Rick Young did not set out to become a rodeo clown and bull fighter. He really wanted to be a colligate football player after earning All-State accolades in both football and basketball. However, the 5’9”...
Notable • Class of 2022 Cindy Rosser joined the Girls Rodeo Association (GRA) now the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) in 1969 and served 20-plus years on the Board of Directors. The daughter of ProRodeo Hall of Fame stock contractor Cotton Rosser, she grew up horseback and rodeo has remained her life’s...
Notable • Class of 2022 It is a long way from the cranberry bogs of Wisconsin to the roping arenas of Arizona, but Mel Potter has found a way to make it work. Potter’s grandfather established his Wisconsin cranberry bog in 1880 and it is now one of the largest Ocean...
Bareback Riding • Class of 2022 Bobby Mote’s parents would have preferred that he went into raising and training cutting horses, but barback riding captured his attention. Mote’s first bareback ride was at 15 using a rigging that he purchased for $60 in the school cafeteria. And the rest, as they...
Team Roping • Class of 2022 Bobby Harris always knew he was going to be a World Champion Roper. He started by becoming the youngest Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Steer Roping Rookie of the Year in 1978 at the age of 15. His first professional title would come four years later...
Rodeo Committee • Class of 2022 Started in September 1921 by Homer C. Stokes, Nebraska’s Big Rodeo has celebrated the Spirit of the West ever since. The rodeo was held in conjunction with the Garfield County Fair in Burwell. That first year the committee paid a new pair of spurs and...
