Stampede Announcer, Steve Kenyon
Pendleton, Oregon
Steve Kenyon will be spending this year sharing the story of Professional Rodeo with hundreds of thousands of fans in rodeo arenas across the country,on the radio and on the internet with Steve’s website, rodeoprofiles.com.This is Steve’s 11th year behind the microphone at the Elgin Stampede.
He has been selected for the fourth straight year and the fifth time overall toannounce the Dodge Columbia River Circuit Finals in Redmond, Oregon. This December for the second straight year Steve will host the radio and internet broadcast of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo on the ProRodeo Radio Network. Last year that broadcast reached more than 300 cities across the world.
You can check out Tracy and Phillip’s website, kenyonbarrelhorses.com. For the latest news about the world of Professional Rodeo, log on to Steve Kenyon’s website: rodeoprofiles.com.
Stampede Stock Contractors
Flying 5 and Big Bend Rodeo Company
Sonny Riley
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Don Hutsell
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For over 30 years Don Hutsell and Sonny Riley have been partners, owning and operating two very successful Northwest rodeo stock contracting companies: Flying 5 Rodeo, Inc. and Big Bend Rodeo Co. They are members of the Columbia River Circuit - one of 12 PRCA circuits in the United States. Those on the rodeo circuit know the main function of the stock contractor is to provide skilled and capable arena help; to insure the rodeo runs smoothly and
safely; and to supply the rodeo with healthy, tenacious animals. “Our main goal is to raise livestock that challenge these contestants,” says Sonny Riley.
In order to continue to provide their award-winning stock, known through the industry for its “determined bucking ability,” Don and Sonny participate in the “Born to Buck” program, raising about 50 colts a year. The “Born to Buck” program is a breeding program that takes hereditary traits from great breeding stock and passes those traits along. Other family members have started a bull breeding program and are selling bull semen through Bucker, Inc. out of Fort Worth,Texas.
Even though much of the rodeo season ends near mid-September for many other stock contractors, Big Bend and Flying 5 are busy leasing stock for the San Francisco “Cow Palace” in October. Then in December, as they have done for the past 25 years, they are on their way to National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. “When rodeo season hits, I figure we put in over 10,000 miles a year... up and
down the highway setting up rodeos,” says Don Hutsell. “Every year, it’s great to get out there and see old friends ... but it’s even nicer to know that the riders want to draw our stock, because when they qualify, they’re sure to pick up a winner’s check."
Stampede Clown/Barrelman Randee Munns
Garland, Utah
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You’ll enjoy the unique comedy acts Randee Munns brings to the Elgin Stampede (Munns Moonshine, Clarabella the Cosmic Cow, Cowboy Piink Cadillac, Scare West Airlines, Hair Replacement, Martha the Mule Deer?, Hooter the Trained Lion, Bullwinkle the Jumping Moose, Maytag Mule Wash, Bill & Hillary, Burrito ...!!) — along with his expertise as a rodeo clown, barrelman and funnyman.
For over a quarter of a century Randee has been clowning around at rodeos! His love for rodeos has been shared with fans from Minnesota to Hawaii and from
Washington to Arizona!
When not in the arena, Randee teaches welding at Bridgerland Applied Technology Center in Logan, Utah, is a brand inspector for the State of Utah, and breaks and trains horses and mules at his home in Garland, Utah, in addition to such activities as: “Showing up to work on time, shoeing my wife’s barrel horse, chasing cows, building trailers, hunting, fishing, pack tripping into wilderness areas, faking antiques, verifying computers, programming robots, running governments, starting revolutions, fighting wars, experiencing whiskey, manure, nails and fly swatters!”