![]() ![]() He initially rose to his feet, waving at Tuff Hedeman for help. ![]() The bull turned and hit him in the back with his horn (although he was not gored), breaking several of his ribs. On July 30, 1989, at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after completing a successful 85-point ride on a Brahma bull named Takin' Care of Business, Frost dismounted and landed in the dirt. The event was titled the "Challenge of the Champions." Red Rock was brought out of retirement and Frost finally rode him to the eight-second whistle for a scoring ride for 4 of the 7 matches. It was decided that Frost and Red Rock would have seven showdowns at different rodeos in states across the West. Sometime in 1988, John Growney pondered a special competition between the two 1987 Champions. He went on to compete at the Rodeo '88 Challenge Cup held as part of the Cultural Olympiad in association with the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. In 309 attempts, no one had ever ridden him, and in 1988, at the Challenge of the Champions, Frost rode him in seven exhibition matches and was successful in four out of seven tries. Rodeo Company, was voted Bucking Bull of the Year. That same year, the bull Red Rock, owned by Growney Bros. In 1987, he became the PRCA World Champion Bull Rider at age 24. On January 5, 1985, Frost married Kellie Kyle (born 1965), a barrel racer from Quanah, Texas, west of Wichita Falls.įrost joined the PRCA and began rodeoing full-time after graduating from high school in 1982. He was the Bull Riding Champion of the first Youth National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982. In Oklahoma, he was the National High School Bull Riding Champion in 1981. The family then moved to Oklahoma and he attended Atoka High School in Atoka. He also competed in wrestling in junior high school. His first rodeo awards were won when he was 10, at the "Little Buckaroos" Rodeos held in Uintah Basin: first in bareback, second in calf roping, and third in the "bull riding" (calf riding) event. įrost started riding dairy calves around age 5–6. He had an older sister, Robin, and a younger brother, Cody. ![]() His mother, Elsie, went to stay with her parents in Kim, Colorado, and he was born in the hospital in La Junta. His father, Clyde, was on the rodeo circuit as a saddle bronc and bareback rider. At the time of Lane's birth, his parents lived in Lapoint, Utah. ![]()
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