NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – Sky Harbor came out of the AT&T Stadium bucking chutes lunging toward the right and started to gain steam once he gained his traction.

One jump. Two jump. Three jump. THUMP.

Three-time World Champion Silvano Alves was hitting the dirt in 2.44 seconds and was folded over like a lawn chair during the WinStar World Casino & Resort Iron Cowboy, powered by Kawasaki, last weekend.

Reminiscent of his father, Pearl Harbor, Sky Harbor tried to make daddy proud by elongating his body on his fourth and final jump before taking a small victory lap. 

Pearl Harbor, who would go on to tie with reigning World Champion Bull SweetPro’s Bruiser for top bull honors (46 points) in Arlington, Texas, can certainly be proud of his son so far.

The out was Sky Harbor’s second consecutive 44.5-point bull score after bucking off Wallace de Oliveira in 1.92 seconds in Kansas City, Missouri.

Sky Harbor also head-butted Cody Nance during his 1.88-second buckoff in Oklahoma City for 42.5 points.

The ABBI Classic Bull has a long way to go to live up to his father’s reputation, but the 3-year-old son of Pearl Harbor is starting to show flashes of his dad in the arena.

“This bull really leaps and cracks his back feet over the top of his head,” CBS Sports & Ridepass commentator J.W. Hart said prior to Sky Harbor’s buckoff of Alves.

Reigning Stock Contractor of the Year Chad Berger officially acquired the 3-year-old bull from T-Ray Bulls and Paradigm Bull Company earlier this week.

Walker will continue to care and haul Sky Harbor for the remainder of the season, especially with the hopes of winning the 2018 ABBI Classic title.

Sky Harbor is set to square off against Oliveira again Friday night in Round 1 of the Bad Boy Mowdown. Fans can watch Round 1 exclusively on Ridepass beginning at 8:30 p.m. ET.

“We have been getting him in shape and getting riders on him,” stock contractor Jeremy Walker said. “He has progressively gotten better. When he first started, he didn’t really know what was going on, but then he figured it out before he wasn’t taking any crap. He started getting to where he wants to get them off a little quicker and you can really see his dad coming out in him. It is pretty cool.”

Walker was unsure if Sky Harbor would even make it to a PBR when he first saw the bull a year and a half ago.

Toby Floyd was bucking young bulls at the Lone Star Arena in Stephenville, Texas, with some bucking dummies on their backs when Walker decided to head out to the arena to watch. While there, Sky Harbor erupted out of the bucking chutes before the dummy malfunctioned and didn’t release on time. For roughly a minute, Sky Harbor continued to buck with everything he had to try and get the dummy off his back.

“I didn’t know what he was out of,” Walker said. “It kind of made me sick. You are thinking that calf had a lot of talent and that probably screwed him up because he was young.”

The dummy was eventually taken off in the back pens and Sky Harbor was fine. Floyd then joked that the bull was out of a black, bald-faced bull called Pearl Harbor.

Walker, who had yet to sell Pearl Harbor to Berger, knew immediately he wanted to one day get his hands on Sky Harbor.

“I knew at that point it was time to start shaking the change cup so we can get him back at the house when he came up for sale,” Walker said.

Walker wound up purchasing Sky Harbor a year later and for the last six months he has begun to notice how similar he was to his Pearl Harbor.

Both bulls are unridden in 2018.

The way he plays in the dirt, stands in the bucking chute and his quirky standoffishness all are similar to that of his dad.

Sky Harbor’s bloodlines goes back farther than just Pearl Harbor though. He is also the grandson of three-time PBR World Finals qualifier Black Pearl and a grandson of 2009 World Champion Code Blue.

Coincidentally, Berger has not had a World Champion Bull since being co-owners of Code Blue with Rick Wagoner and Clay Struve.

Pearl Harbor leads the PBR with two 46-point bull scores and is one of the frontrunners in the 2018 World Champion Bull race. Pearl Harbor and reigning two-time World Champion Bull SweetPro’s Bruiser are set to buck Saturday night in the championship round.

Bruiser bucked off Joao Ricardo Vieira last year in Little Rock for a 46-point bull score as he continued his push to becoming one of four back-to-back World Champion Bulls in the PBR’s 25-year history.

Walker can only hope that Sky Harbor can join Bruiser in the ABBI record books and become a force like his father Pearl Harbor.

There is even the possibility of father and son sweeping the two prestigious bull titles together.

“We are going to try and win a Classic title with him and then he will leave Vegas with Chad,” Walker concluded.