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Show WEEKLY I REFLEX-DAV- NEWS JOURNAL. JUNE 30. 1977 IS odeo NOT ONLY does each event have to be By ROSELYN KIRK For a man who had never rodeoed in his life and had never seen a rodeo except from the bleachers, Udell Kynaston, 1098 Weaver Lane, Layton, has learned a lot about rodeoing since he bought out a rodeo in November 1975 and became a rodeo producer. RODEOS LIKE any other kinds of entertainment, cannot be produced without a dress rehearsal When the rodeo opens at Lagoon on Monday, July 4, Udell and his rodeo crew will have staged their dress rehearsal and run all stock through the chutes and catch pens prior to the show. rodeo, one big double During a two-dadecker truck will pull into the rodeo grounds on Thursday night. The second load will arrive on Friday morning All the stock will be run through the shoots prior to the performance so the animals will be familiar with the layout. y Ed Johnson, right hand man for the Udell Kynaston Rodeo operation, LK Rodeo Company, demonstrates his skill at calf roping. EACH NIGHT the stock must be fed and cared for, making the rodeo producers day last from about 5 a.m. until 12 midnight. In order to provide enough stock for the rodeo events, Udell must have about 200 head of rough stock. In addition to the rodeo events that are seen by the audience rodeo, other events are during a two-da- y held during the morning of the second day to allow all the entries to participate in their categories. THE STOCK must not only be able to buck, but must also look the part, Udell said. Just like any show, the biggest part of a rodeo is class. The bull riding event, which provides the climax and is the concluding event in the show, must be carefully staged. Usually only bulls with big horns are chosen as bucking stock. Udell said, I just look at them first and see if they are the right type. Then I try' them. If they dont buck the first four or five times, theyll never buck. I sell them back for meat prices. Hereford bulls dont buck. The best bulls are the Hereford cross with a little Brahma orCharlois. Swamp bulls that live in the swamps in Texas are also good bucking stock." PART OF the show business involved in The stock truck used in the transportation of animals for the L K Rodeo Company has several layers and compartments. Bulls are placed in the lower level and the horses in the top. The calves are housed in the compaitment in the front. staging a rodeo requires that the bulls have such colorful names as Freckles, Sea Foam, Timber Wolf, Smokey and Frosty. But Graveyard is the bull that looks the most ferocious and makes rodeo clowns Dari Allred of Hooper and Curt Buhler, Clearfield, get ready for a workout. A rodeo, like any other production is organized into acts, or events as they are called in rodeoing. The timed event stock, which includes the calves for roping, the g larger animals for team roping and are placed in one. sej of chutes. The rough stock or the bulls and the horses are run into pens and chutes organized in the bucking area of the arena. AFTER THE grand entry, the rodeo begins with bareback riding, according to Udells schedule. This is followed by and the scene shifts to the timed-stocpens. The second bareback riding section in the rough stock area follows and shifts to the timed-stocwith the steer bulldogging event. The saddle bronc event or posse is followed usually by the barrel racing. Then the focus returns to the rough stock area for the first section of bulls. Team roping and the second section of bull ridcalf-ropin- g k k ing concludes the rodeo. The hulls, are rounded up and herded into the truck to be driven to the rodeo grounds. Udell Kynaston, Rodeo Manager, says they must look mean as well as providing a rough ride. Bill Montalvo demonstrates a saddle bronc ride while Udell observes from opens the gate on the right. PHOTOS BY FRED WRIGHT the left of the chute and Gene Allred carefully staged, but each animal must appear in the order that it has been drawn. In the calf roping event, cowboys draw their calf one hour before the show. The drawing determines each cowboy's position in the roping order and the calf that he will rope. The job of having all the calves in the right order is handled by Eugene Allred of Stockton, Utah. Like most rodeo people, Gene has supported himself at another job, but has been rodeoing most of his life. His son Dari is the clown and a bronc rider also. AS EACH calf is placed in the chute at the Lagoon in preparation for the calf roping, a gate is drawn and bolted behind it. The calves used for roping are between 200 and 350 pounds. On the side of the calf roping chute, the calf roper waits for the red flag to be dropped signaling that the calf will be released from the chute. THE CALF chute is rigged with ropes start that the calf is given a before an intricate system releases the carrier so the cowboys on a roping horse can race after the calf. In the team roping event, one cowboy tries for the head and the other attempts to catch the heels of the animal. If both the header and the heeler succeed, the flag goes down and the teams roping time is recorded. This time competes against the roping time of another calf roping team. In addition to coordinating the calf roping and team roping stock. Gene also places the dogging steers, w hich weigh over 300 pounds and have a good horn base, in the chutes. The dogging steers come from Coreena, Mexico and are purchased for about $225 to $240. so UDELL SAID that as the steers grow, they usually become too large to be used for dogging stock and have to either be sold back for less than half their cost or in some cases may be used for the team roping event the following year. The regulations for size of the stock is governed by the Rocky Mountain Rodeo Association (RMRA). That association also correlates all rodeos and places cowboys in the events at the rodeo of their choice. On Monday morning the cowboy calls the KMRA office and indicates what event he is interested in entering and to participate m the what rodeo he following weekend. ALL OF the cowboys have another job to support them. Usually they ride, knowing that they cant beat the top man. The cowboys must also supply most of their own equipment. Those w'ho ride the rough stock, the bulls and broncs, are d shirt and required to wear a No a one and is allowed in the hat. chaps arena without a cowboy hat, Udell said. In addition they must bring their own saddle if they are riding a saddle bronc. long-sleeve- BRENT CLAWSON showed the County Clipper Davis photographer and reporter how the bull riding was done. Two ropes are placed around the body of the bull while he is in the chute. One is the flank rope, which is tightened around his flanks to make him buck. The other, the bull rope, is a braided rope placed around the belly of the bull and pulled tight. The rider places his right hand through the loop and wraps the rope around his glove. Prior to getting on the bull, Brent placed rosin on his glove to make it easier to hold on. As the bull leaves the chute, his left hand must remain in the air, providing the balance necessary. If the rider should touch the bull with his left hand, he is disqualified. AS THE bull leaves the gate, the clowns in their big levis and bright socks are ready. One of the jobs of the clowns is to keep the bull away from the cowboy after the ride. Dari worked with the bull Snowbank, keeping him at arms length. A bull is like a wheelbarrow. He moves in a circular pattern and you cant let him get set up. THE OTHER rough stock or the bucking horse string is sired by one stallion and four mares. All of the bucking horses are out of that cross. Udell often places one of the bucking mares in one stall, with the colt in the chute next to the mother. After the mare bucks, the colt is released from the other stall to meet its mother in the arena. We let the colt out for show. Bill Montalvo of Sandy was there on Thursday to demonstrate the art of bronc riding. Bill, who lives in Sandy, has been riding broncs for seven years. He works as a forklift driver for a local paper company, but rodeos on weekends. Riding broncs is just like an alcoholic. You hae a craving to keep getting on the horse. THE FLANK rope is also used on a bucking horse. When the rope is pulled tight, it causes the horse to buck. In addition, each cowboy must privide his own saddle or bareback rigging and rig his horse. Bill said the bronc saddles cost about $100. The saddle conforms to the withers of the horse. Bill mounted the horse and rode it, but came back to the chute doubled with pain. He had broken his ribs several weeks ago, but continued to ride. Last year he made $1,500 riding broncs, but some years just makes his expenses. RODEOING IS a family affair with the Kynaston family. Udells wife Char and their two sons, Brian 5, and Dustin 4, help with the stock. In addition to the family and to Gene, the timed stock man, many other crew members are needed for each rodeo performance. One flank man, two men on gates, one on the gate on the pickup pen, two men in the chutes and two in the back of the pens, sorting stock. IN ADDITION to the men who run the rodeo from the background, out front are the clowns, the announcer, two judges, the secretary and two timers. In the men who pick up the arena, two pick-urider after the ride. Ed Johnson, who works for Udells operation, helps with the rodeos and feeds and trains the horses. He said some of the horses can be ridden as bucking horses and saddled up and ridden as pick-uhorses. The rodeo string includes about 2? head of bucking horses and 16 bulls Ed said. Troy Clawson, 14, works with the animals as does Brent. Both have had experience as rodeo riders, Troy in the little buckaroo rodeos. p p BUT IN spite of all the work, Udell says much of the success of a rodeo depends on showmanship. He insists that all the rodeo personnel wear matching vests to distinguish them as men part of the operation. The pick-umust also wear padded chaps to protect them from the horns of the bulls. When Udell and company ride into the rodeo ring in the grand entry, flying the colors, few members of the audience are aware of the rehearsal that has proceeded that grand entry. Rodeo is all class, Udell says, and mounted on his Appaloosa stallion, he gives his audiences that class. behind-the-scen- e p As the bulls are herded from the truck into the catch pens and chutes, they are placed in the order of the draw. Most bulls are a hereford cross and all have horns. |