View Full Version : Palm Spring Westfest: March 12 to 14
maduro_1
02-12-2010, 11:17 AM
This will be a blast... PRCA rodeo, food, music... yessss!
http://www.palmspringswestfest.com/
wagonwheelfestival
02-12-2010, 11:40 AM
Gonna be a great event... everyone should go!
wagonwheelfestival
02-12-2010, 11:40 AM
The promoters are great people and I think will take good care of everybody!
gaypalmsprings
02-15-2010, 04:47 PM
The promoters are great people and I think will take good care of everybody!
Oh yeah, baby!
Flying U Rodeo (PRCA, PBR)
In some of these scenes you see two men behind the bucking horse, and one in front on horseback. The man on horseback is Cotton Rosser, owner of the Flying U rodeo company. The rodeo clown in the green shirt is Seth Ryan "Shorty" Gorham. Mr. Gorham is using an electric prod to shoot the bucking horse with over 5,000 volts of painful electricity. The prod has the desired effect, and the horse bucks.
Besides being obviously cruel, shocking rodeo animals to make them "perform" is illegal in California, where this rodeo was shot. Both Mr. Rosser and Mr. Gorham know it. That's why Mr. Gorham tries to hide it. The question is -- why does Cotton Rosser do nothing about it?
In fact, Mr. Rosser's rodeos are often filmed shocking animals. Reno Rosser (Cotton Rosser's son) has also been filmed illegally shocking animals in chutes.
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Kymery
02-15-2010, 05:10 PM
I have attended so many of Cottons rodeos over the years. I have also always said that I do NOT like the way he runs his rodeos. Several times riders have been down, and when they are and the Ambulance is with that rider and then takes them away, you are not allowed to buck anyone out of a chute until an ambulance is at the ready... and he makes the riders buck out!! It is all about the money for him. His stock MUST perform or he gets pissed.
He does not have a very good, infact a horrible reputation in the rodeo world. But then again, he gets a lot of the rodeos and many of his stock to go to the NFR.
Go figure.
Teacher_Sam
02-15-2010, 05:45 PM
Kymery, I disagree. I've been to tons of Cotton's rodeos over the last 10 years or so and they have always been well run. Cowboys are taken care of. Very few accidents during rodeos. Always very professional. Cotton takes his rodeo seriously. Just be careful....if you're standing around doing nothing at the end he WILL put you to work haha
Kymery
02-16-2010, 03:30 PM
Kymery, I disagree. I've been to tons of Cotton's rodeos over the last 10 years or so and they have always been well run. Cowboys are taken care of. Very few accidents during rodeos. Always very professional. Cotton takes his rodeo seriously. Just be careful....if you're standing around doing nothing at the end he WILL put you to work haha
Well, I guess I just have had bad luck. He was even the subject of talk the last time I went out. I have been going to rodeos for the past 18 yrs. But hey, maybe he has changed is ways in the past year.?? ;) I was at the even that rodeo my friend was the EMT at and he made the rider chute out when that ambulance was gone taking another rider. He knows that isn't right to do, but time is money.
Hey, I know it is hard to run all that rough stock. I was married to a bull rider and team roper, so I know what goes on behind those chutes...and I just have my opinion of him.:(
I agree he will put you to work, He is hard core and serious, but I just wish he would not put that before the safety of the riders.