Do You Dream Of Having a Little Team of Bucking Horses?
Welcome to Open Range, I’m Susan Allen. Spring time in the horse industry means futurities, opportunities to showcase athletic young horses be it racing, cutting, showing and now bucking horses. Yes there are bucking futurities and one of the few in the Northwest is scheduled for Sat. May 12 in Ellensburg, Bares and Broncs. If you love rough stock you won’t want to miss this event. I’m Susan Allen welcome to Open Range. Today’s rodeo bronc‘s are a far cry from the days when bucking horses were simple saddle horses that couldn’t be ridden. Breeding bucking horses has become big business with bloodlines, registries and futurities designed to showcase up and coming 4 and five year olds. I caught up with stock contractor Daniel Beard who is putting on one of the few in the Northwest called Bares and Broncs May 12 in Ellensburg. I asked him about how the futurity concept was catching on:
Daniel Beard:
“Bares and Broncs is actually the second futurity that was started in the country. Now the event has grown so that there are bucking horse associations being formed and events being scheduled not only out west but throughout the whole country. It’s becoming enough of an event that people are actually gathering up little teams of bucking horses and traveling down the road to a series of futurities.”
Traveling down the road with my own little team of rodeo broncs sounds like an adventure in itself but events like the upcoming Bares and Broncs in Ellensburg May 12 help to increase the value of bucking horses. It’s working at the World Futurity Bronc Final in Vegas last year the top horse a filly brought $100,000 and the sale itself topped 1 million. For More information http://www.baresandbroncs.com/
