Only two bull riders made the eight seconds Friday afternoon in Calgary and it was two of the best bull riders in the world turning in matching 85-point rides.
First, it was World No. 3 Josh Frost on Vold Rodeo’s By the Batch.
“I’m really happy (with what I drew today), he did something a little different today, every video I had seen he just faked left and was around the right, he went ahead and made a couple of rounds to the left before he switched directions.”
Then it was Stetson Wright, the World No. 2, just barely getting to eight seconds on Outlaw Buckers’ 2 Guns.
“It felt like a hard day (on that bull), there was a lot of tracking going on, they told me he was going to be 86 on a good trip or 90 on a hard trip,” Wright said. “I guess I got the hard one today.”
With ground money, both cowboys added almost $12,000 to their already eye-popping season earnings. They will each compete on more time in Pool C Saturday afternoon at 3 PM ET on The Cowboy Channel and Cowboy Channel+.