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Nashville, tenn. – Friday evening at PBR Stock Exchange Days, more than 50 bulls were on site at Bridgestone Arena. If it looks like many animals, it is because it is – but for a good reason. No bull has mounted more than once a night, which means that each animal works as many eight seconds every day. It’s a good job if you can get it.
It is an incredible operation to load them and go out every evening. And although runners can get most of the spotlights, these bulls are also athletes.
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Professional bull roller (PBR) 2025 Unleash the Beast Bull Riding Event at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, United States on February 1, 2025. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu via Getty Images)
“These bulls must be physically in shape to withdraw with so much intensity,” said Dr. Douglas G. Corey, president of the animal protection committee of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. “These bulls pass to stand in a chute to immediately pull their hind legs and turn, twist and head, and they keep it until the rider is off the back. It is, for me, real athletics.”
And like any athlete, appropriate training is crucial.
Lucas Manning, an entrepreneur in stock of Myakka City, Florida, knows exactly what it takes to bring a bull on the big stage.
“A large part of the training is done on the calves with the model of the box, you know, then they somehow learn a routine with that,” Manning told Outkick on Friday. “And then when we start putting the runners there, it will take them [not] very long to adjust. And then the best, they come here, and we continue to ride with them. “”
The diet is also important, but it varies from one ranch to another.
“Mine is nothing too crazy. I feed them really well, try to make them eat whatever they want. And they are also on the grass, where I am,” said Manning. “Some people do it a little different. Some people are on earth rocks, so they feed them hay and grain. But mine, they get a lot of grass and cereals. So I just try to give them as much as possible, where they become large and big, and it works well for me.”
While Manning takes care of all his bulls, he has had more than a few favorites over the years. Buffalo Heifer, he said, was quite special. He also loved Kickin ‘Chicken and Satan’s Seed.
As for the way he presents these names?
“Oh, shoot, I don’t know. We are just thinking,” said Manning. “You hear cool things, you watch a film or a song, you hear something cool, and you just, I write it in my notes, and when I find a bull that suits it, then I use it.”
PBR cattle athletes benefit from first class treatment
A Professional Taureau Cavalier sets up a bull in the Rodeo PBR at Madison Square Garden on January 05, 2025 in New York. (Spencer Platt / Getty images)
Dr. Corey said it frankly: “A bull of 1,200 to 2,000 pounds which can withdraw 4 feet in the air, turn around and make six or eight rotations in a period of 8 seconds is an athlete.”
And as is the case with elite athletes, the red carpet is deployed for them.
PBR is quick to remind fans that safety and well-being are the priorities, and it should be noted how well treated these animals are. The bulls live in tentacular ranchs, travel in comfort and withdraw in an easy life on the farm – often as a reproductive animals, sometimes as pets.
“If one of my bulls arrives at the PBR, then he won the right to live on my ranch as a reproductive bull,” said the late bull breeder Bucking Kaycee Simpson. “And when he dies, we give him a tombstone.”
As another equity entrepreneur said, JW Hart, “probably 95% of the bulls that are withdrawn, they enter, I suppose, the retirement program … And if we love their reproduction and their pedigrees quite well, we will start to reproduce towards them.” It was then that they manage to “live simple life with the ladies”.
Win – Good job if you can get it.
The injuries, on the other hand, are rare. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association, a Bucking Bull has only 0.004% chance of undergoing a potentially fatal injury during a PBR event. And any injured bull receives first -rate veterinary care.
“My son is playing football, and I will say that,” said stock entrepreneur Matt Scharping. “Bulls are injured much less than football players.”
At the end of the day, Bull Riding takes two athletes: one on top, and a section. And PBR does not exist without doing their job.
After watching her bulls perform in Nashville on Friday evening, Manning was satisfied with what he saw of his cattle athletes.
“We did quite well,” he said. “I am proud of everyone.”
