BULLRIDING

BULLRIDING
I. Time Limit:
1. Bull will be ridden eight 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. No part of spur may have
sharp edges including rowels and wire locks.
2. Contestant will have the right to call judge to pass on whether or
not animal is properly flanked to buck the best of its 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 re- rides.
5. Contestants may pull ropes 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. Bell must be under belly of bull.
3. Riding is to be done with one hand and loose rope, with or without
handhold.
4. No finger wraps, no knots or hitches to prevent rope from falling off
bull when rider leaves him.
5. No more than two men may be on the chute to pull contestant’s
rope.
6. The judge on the latch side of the chute gate shall serve as a backup
timer in the bull 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 marking the riding events shall range from 1 to 25
on both bucking animal and contestant and use the full spread.
4. No bell—no marking.
5. If contestant makes qualified ride with any part of rope in riding
hand, he is to be marked.
6. Contestant will receive no score for any of the following offenses.
a. Being bucked off.
b. Touching animal, equipment or person with free hand.
c. U sing sharp spurs.
d. Placing spurs or chaps under the rope when the rope is being
tightened.
7. Judges may disqualify a bull rider who has been advised he is next
to go if he is not above the animal with his glove on when the previous
bull leaves the arena.
V. Rerides:
1. The matter of the 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
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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 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 an 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 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
a reride at judges’ discretion.
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 bull before qualified
time has elapsed, reride will be given on the 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.