DULUTH, Ga. ― The week leading up to the Built Ford Tough Series event in Duluth, Ga., is PBR Livestock Director Cody Lambert’s busiest week of the regular season.

Lambert was in Denver Monday through Wednesday at the Touring Pro Division Finals, an event which he selected the bulls for. While he was there he also put together a pen of bulls to appear tonight at the Pueblo, Colo., TPD event before he’s off to Duluth for the weekend.

“It’s a pretty hectic week,” Lambert said. “Denver is the biggest Touring Pro level event we have. Whoever wins it is likely to get out of here with $30,000. It’s a big event, and a lot of the Built Ford Tough Series riders are here. For the riders it’s a shot at a lot of money and it’s happening Monday through Wednesday when nothing else is going on. I’ll be taking some of the bulls here to the one-day event in Pueblo Thursday, but none of these bulls will be in Georgia – that’s a whole different set. It’s pretty challenging to come up with enough quality bulls to go to Chicago, Denver, Pueblo, Duluth and then turn around and have a three-day event in Oklahoma City just a week later.”

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One of the bulls we’ll see in Duluth’s short round on Sunday is Danny Reagan’s Wipeout – the big white bull that J.B. Mauney rode for 93 points in the championship round at the 2013 Built Ford Tough World Finals. Wipeout is the only bull Reagan owns that was selected to go to the World Finals. He had two impressive outs there, finished as the seventh-highest marked bull at the Finals and he surprised Lambert a little with his performance there.

“Going into the Finals, I thought Wipeout was a good bull, but I thought he was at the bottom end of the ranker set of bulls,” said Lambert. “I had him in the Top 35 bulls, but I would have guessed him to be around number 30 in that group. In the second round, when those bulls went for the first time, he was definitely in the Top 15, so he went on to the short round. By the end of the week, he was one of the Top five bulls of the week I think. Personally, I think the best ride of the whole Finals was when J.B. rode him in the championship round.”

A couple of bulls making their way up to the short round are Jeff Robinson’s Fire Rock and J.D. Nix’s Panda Tracks. Both bulls are moving up based on strong showings at their last events.

“Fire Rock missed the Finals, but he was really good in New York,” Lambert said. “He was a Top-10 bull there, and was out in two long rounds. Panda Tracks did go to the Finals, and he was really outstanding in two outs there.”

PBR stock contractor Jerome Davis has a pair of bulls in the short round that happen to be father and son. Davis and PBR rider Brian Canter co-own Superfreak – a bull that won nearly $100,000 as the ABBI’s American Heritage Futurity Champion as a 2-year-old in 2008.

“Superfreak is the bull that Jerome won big with when he was a 2-year-old,” said Lambert. “Now he’s got a calf – 918 Freakster – who is coming on strong, and they will both be in the short round in Duluth.  It’s a little rare when that happens – that a bull will appear alongside his calf in the same short round.”

Among the long-round bulls in Duluth is the calf of another famous PBR bull. Torres Brothers Bucking Bulls’ 8439 Hidden Pressure is a son of Jerry Nelson and Tom Teague’s 942 Here’s Your Sign.

“Here’s Your Sign is the little black bull that Adriano Moraes rode to win his last World Championship in 2006, Lambert said. “Hidden Pressure looks just like him and bucks just like him, and he should be exciting to watch.”

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