CBR: GREAT BULLS A’FIRE
Bull Team
Challenge Heads
to Cheyenne
(Shouldn’t they
call it
‘The Superbull’?)
ABOVE: Highest marked ride of the season, 93 points, by Elliot Jacoby.
BELOW (l-r): Brett Barrett of Championship Pro Rodeo. Corey Melton
of Melton Bull Co.
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
back to Cheyenne this year after winning the final BTC final event in
Del Rio. “Some of our best friends are our competitors and when we
all work together to make the events successful, it happens for everyone, the bull guys, the riders, and especially the fans.”
For the fifth year, bull owners and investors have seen what an
opportunity CBR offers to make an impact on the sport, combining the
best bucking bulls with the top bull riders riding professionally today.
HOW DID THEY DO IT?
From North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico, 48 franchise teams have
spent the last 12 months competing to earn the valuable points needed to receive the coveted invitation to Cheyenne.
While money is the allure, it is the points earned along the way that
get you to the finals. Twelve points per team are available at each
event as twelve teams comprised of three bull teams each compete
JUNE 2015
BY MELISSA MOORMAN
Aiming to make their mark on the dirt
in front of the historical Cheyenne Frontier
Days Grandstands, 22 professional bucking bull teams will head north and west
this summer to Wyoming to compete for
$335,000, including a $107,500 bonus
check to the winner competing in the
fifth installment of the CBR Million Dollar
Bull Team Challenge (BTC) World Finals
held in conjunction with the legendary
Cheyenne Frontier Days on July 20 and
21, 2015.
According to Brett Barrett, a partner in
three different CBR bull teams, the excitement, energy and competing on the big
stage is all part of the experience you
feel bucking your bulls during Cheyenne
Frontier Days. “You have made it when
you drive through the livestock entrance at
Cheyenne”, said Barrett.
Championship Bull Riding first embarked
on a partnership franchise league with
stock contractors in 2010 to build an
organization that allowed bull owners to
compete for record setting amounts of
money while providing competi F