In bull riding, the rider can earn up to 50 points, and the bull can earn up to 50 points. Out of the 50 bulls that qualify for the finals, only one gets the bull of the year nod each year.
The Premier Bulls Tour runs about 30-35 events each year through the southern states, with about 45 riders competing and bulls coming from 10 different stock contractors.
He roots for them, does what he can to help and enjoys seeing how they progress every year. In a way, he said, it’s like watching his children play sports. I’m a farmer that raises bucking bulls,” he explained. Minor has always loved agriculture, and he views this as an extension of that. He works for Minor Insurance, his dad’s company, which gives him some flexibility when he needs to haul bulls back and forth between Ohio and Florida. At any given time, Minor has some of his bulls in Ohio, resting, and some of them in Florida, bucking at events. Minor supplies bulls from his farm to 5s Bucking Bulls, owned by Robert Swint Jr., in Florida, for shows. They’re booked every weekend, for shows all over the East Coast. But, now, its basically a second full time job. At the end of the day, they’re like people, and we work out our differences, and we’re all good.”Īt first, he looked at raising bucking bulls as a hobby. “They always still had a soft side, to me,” he said. To some people, they seem scary and mean. Still, Minor was always fascinated with how bulls handled themselves and interacted with things. Minor grew up on his family’s cattle farm, but his dad never let them keep a bull at the farm. “These animals are, you know, they’re athletes they’re superstars, and I like to see the ones that turn into the Michael Jordans,” Minor said. This year, one of his 4-year-old bulls, Slamming Gears, won the 2020 Bull of the Year award at the Premier Bulls Tour Finals, in May, in Marianna, Florida. Minor didn’t have any more, so he went out and made a few more deals to get more. He built relationships with other stock contractors and started getting his bulls into shows. He got the chance to buy a few bulls that were still active, and he took it. “You’re going to want to see your bulls on TV one day,” Minor remembers them saying. They told him he wouldn’t be able to stick with retired bulls for long. He figured his farm could be a place to let bulls live out their lives, and for people to come and see some of the legends that couldn’t buck anymore.Īfter getting a couple of bulls, he started hanging out with some of the stock contractors who raised bulls for competitions. He grew up watching bull riding and always enjoyed it. He wanted to make his farm, Minor Family Farms Bucking Bulls, in Rogers, Ohio, a retirement home for bucking bulls. Jeremy Minor wasn’t planning on becoming a stock contractor for bull riding shows.
0 kommentar(er)
