BAREBACK RIDING

BAREBACK RIDING

I. Time Limit:

1. Horses must be ridden for 8 seconds.

2. Time to start when the animal’s inside front shoulder passes the

plane of the chute.

II. General Rules:

1. Contestant is not to use sharp spurs.

2. Contestant will have the right to call judges to pass on whether or

not animal is properly flanked to buck the best of his ability.

3. Fall—If any part of rider contacts ground, animal has fallen.

4. No contestant will ride two head in the same event during a performance

except for rerides.

5. Contestants may pull riggings from either side.

6. Contestant must compete on stock drawn for them. In the event of

a mistake, stock drawn for must be run during that performance and

only that time or score taken.

III. Event Rules:

1. This event is open to boys only.

2. To qualify, the rider must have spurs over the break of the shoulders

and touching horse when horse’s front feet hit the ground on its initial

move out of the chute.

3. Contestants will have the right to call judges to pass on whether or

not horse is properly flanked and cinched.

4. Rigging must lie flat on horses back while rigging is being cinched.

5. Stock contractor may call on judge to pass on whether rigging is

being set or cinched in a manner that might hurt horse’s back.

6. Judges may require contestant to take his hand out of rigging after

a horse is cinched. If handhold is too tight, rigging will be declared

illegal. Stock contractor may request to take such action.

7. One arm must be free at all times.

8. The judge on the latch side of the chute gate shall serve as a backup

timer in the bareback riding event or a person assigned by the

Arena Director may serve as the back- up timer. The judge’s stopwatch

reading shall be used as a means of verification when the length of the

qualified ride is in question. The judge shall stop his watch when, in

his opinion, the contestant has been disqualified for any reason, or

when he hears the whistle or horn, whichever comes first. In either

instance, the judge will refer to his watch for a time verification on

each ride. In any instance where the time is eight seconds or more on

the judge’s watch, the contestant shall be entitled to a marking without

penalty. In the instance the whistle blows before the eight seconds,

the judge must go with the whistle.

IV. Scoring and Penalties:

1. Ride and animal to be marked separately.

2. Mark the ride according to how much the contestant spurs the animal.

3. Figures used in making the riding events shall range from 1 to 25

on both bucking animal and contestant and use the full spread.

4. If a horse stalls coming out of the chute, either judge may tell contestant

to take his feet out of the horse’s neck and first jump qualification

will then be waived.

5. Contestant shall receive no score for not following judges’ instructions

to take feet from neck of horse stalled in chute.

6. If the rigging comes off horse, touching anything with free hand or

if contestant is bucked off, contestant will receive a no score.

7. In the opinion of the judges, if a contestant is riding with rowels too

sharp or riding with locked rowels, he will receive a no score.

8. Contestant will be disqualified for taking any kind of finger tuck, or

finger wrap.

9. Judges may disqualify contestant who has been advised he is next

to go if he is not above the animal with his glove on when previous

horse leaves the arena.

V. Rerides:

1. The matter of rerides shall be decided by the judges.

2. Contestants shall not influence the judges by asking for a reride at

any time.

3. If reride is given, judge shall inform the contestant immediately of

his marking and an option of a reride.

4. Contestant may refuse reride and take his marking.

5. Contestant must make his decision immediately.

6. No reride will be given due to faulty or broken equipment furnished

by contestant in any event.

7. If an animal that is drawn for a reride is already drawn for another

contestant in the same go- round, the contestant with the animal

drawn will take it before the man who draws the animal for a reride.

8. If animal that is drawn for a reride is already drawn for another

contestant in a later go- round, the contestant with the reride in the

prior go- round will take the animal first.

9. When a final head is to be ridden in the riding events, at least two

additional head of stock will be available for rerides.

10. Rerides may be given only when stock fails to break, stops, or fouls

the rider.

11. If, in the opinion of the judges, a rider makes two honest efforts to

get out on a chute- fighting animal and is unable to do so, he may

have a reride drawn for.

12. Contestants who are fouled at chute and declare will be entitled to

reride at judge’s discretion, or the spurring out rule may be waived.

13. If animal falls down out of chute, contestant will be entitled to a

reride at the discretion of the judges.

14. If animal loses flank, fails to break, stops, or fouls rider, rider may

take same animal back, providing stock contractor is willing, or he

may have reride drawn.

15. If an animal that runs off is already drawn for another contestant,

that contestant must take the animal already drawn.

16. If that is the second consecutive time the animal has run off, he

must be taken out of the draw and an animal drawn for the contestant

out of the rerides.

17. If the pickup man or horse comes in contact with bucking horse

before qualified time has elapsed, reride will be given on same animal

drawn. Only exception to this rule is if it is that rodeo’s last day. The

last day, contestant may have same animal back if stock contractor is

willing, or reride drawn if requested. If stock contractor is not willing,

reride will be drawn.

18. A contestant will only have the option of a reride if the flank comes

off the animal and the contestant did not complete a qualified ride

but was qualified up to the point of the flank coming off.