San Angelo Sam is a homegrown, National Finals caliber bucking horse of Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s. With the lineage to back it up, the paint is all buck and all business when it is his time to shine in the arena and a true testament to Carr’s Born to Buck program.
With both his sire and dam making trips to the National Finals Rodeo, being competitive horses in both bareback and saddle bronc, San Angelo Sam was destined for greatness. He takes after his sire, Korczak, with his looks. While his mother, Take The Plunge, had an outstanding career herself.
Pete Carr Pro Rodeo Operations Manager, Billy Jones, remembers the first time they ever bucked San Angelo Sam and he described it with one word. Badass. They knew he was going to be a top-of-the-pen kind of horse from the very first jump.
San Angelo Sam proved them right when he was marked 24 points across the board, by all judges, during his first ever out at the NFR in Las Vegas.
“Usually, in bareback, if a guy dominates the horse that is how they get high scores. But San Angelo Sam gives it right back. They might ride him, but they don’t kick his ass,” Jones said.
Some of San Angelo Sam’s most memorable moments alongside his first NFR include two-time World Champion Tim O’Connell’s trip on him at that San Angelo Cinch Chute-Out in 2021. The stout paint also picked up a win with the current No. 1 bareback rider in the World, Leighton Berry, in Weatherford, Texas when the duo put a 91-point score on the board.
“That horse is big, strong and gives his all every time. There is nothing dirty about him, you just know when you crack it around that there is a fight about to take place. That’s all you could ask for in a bucking horse,” O’Connell said.
Although he is a powerhouse of a bucking horse for eight seconds when his name is on the draw, when he is at home and on the road, San Angelo Sam’s demeanor is easy going in every way. He is the calm in the storm as he sets himself up to follow in his parents’ footsteps with an unforgettable career.