FORT WORTH, Texas – Forgive HD Page for not being too excited, but he’s been here before.

His prize bovine athlete Cool Whip is approaching a historic milestone – the record for most consecutive premier-series buckoffs, 42, set by three-time YETI World Champion Bull Bushwacker.

But Page has had bulls get close before and watched them fall just short of the venerated milestone.

“Heartbreak Kid was a couple trips away from the record, and (Jess) Lockwood cracked him twice,” Page said. “I had Silver Wings, a little Hotel California son, years ago that was right there, and Ednei Caminhas cracked him right there before he broke the record.”

So Page is intimately familiar with the agony of defeat, but he still watches Cool Whip with pride.

“It’s a neat deal. He’s had a pretty great career,” Page said. “He just missed winning (the world title) last year and had a really good ABBI career as a Futurity calf. So he’s been special to us since day one. He’s bucked hard, and he’s still bucking hard. But he’s developed a little move out of there during the last probably six or eight trips that’s really getting tough on them to get by.”

While Page is pragmatic, Staci Addison, one of Cool Whip’s owners, is his beaming opposite.

After his out in Round 2 of the 2024 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast – Eliminations at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, Addison said she was grinning so much her cheeks were beginning to hurt.

Cool Whip extended his premier series buckoff streak to 41 on Friday night, dispatching Boudreaux Campbell in 1.58 seconds.

“He’s a big bull,” Campbell said. “He doesn’t really have the same trip every time. He’s strong. He’s what we call not too rider-friendly, but at the end of the day, I’ve still got to do my job. He’s beaten me now four times, but I can’t wait to get on him again. He’s a great bull – hard to get by.”

You don’t have to tell Addison that Cool Whip is a great bull. Wearing a hat and t-shirt emblazoned with the bull’s name, she proudly refers to herself as Cool Whip’s mom.

“I’ve always said that Cool Whip has more heart than any bull I’ve ever known, and he has consistently and continually found a way to stay relevant,” Addison said. “Quietly, that bull has been taking every step he needs to to stay relevant, even though he’s not a Man Hater, he’s not a Flyin Wired, he doesn’t have the big, flashy outs. He’s 6. He’s been on the trailer a lot, yet he still finds a way to be relevant. I love it. It just speaks to how big his heart is to me. I think it’s so cool.”

Cool Whip may have a big heart, but he has some nasty moves to go with it.

“He’s just big, and he’s got a big forward move and a lot of rare and a lot of kick,” Page said. “And now he’s got to where he’s really dropping his left shoulder when he’s leaving there and kind of rocking them into towards the left side of him. And now he’s kind of doing that left turn, and he’s rolling to the right, so he’s giving them a big roll this way and a roll that way. And he probably weighs 1,800 pounds. And he’s just a big, massive bull. The way his front end gets up off the ground – he’s just really tough to ride.”

“I would say the vast majority of the guys, they don’t like him,” Addison said. "But if somebody would ride him – after he gets buckoff No. 43 – it’s going to be a big score. And huge bragging rights. Oh my gosh.”

Campbell, for one, hopes he gets the chance.

“That’s awesome,” he said of Cool Whip approaching Bushwacker’s buckoff streak. “I wish I could’ve stopped it, but that’s awesome. Hopefully I get on him next weekend and stop him there, but to get close to Bushwacker’s streak with the talented guys we have in this field is pretty extraordinary. So that bull, he’s done his job. There’s two jobs in bull riding. There’s the bull’s job to buck us off, and it’s our job to ride. So he’s doing his job, and he’s doing it well, and he loves it, too.”

Cool Whip will have one more out at Eliminations on Sunday, May 12. Any future outs are yet to be determined, but there’s a good chance he could be bucking again on Championship Sunday, May 19, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“I really hope it happens on Championship Sunday,” Addison said. “That would be the cherry on top of the icing on the cake on the whipped cream and all that stuff. On top of cool whip!

“I’m just super, super excited that, again, he’s found a way to stay relevant. I will go meet with him. We will talk about it. I’ll show him the video. He can break down his out and if he thinks he did well or not. Either way – let’s say he gets rode next time. It’s still Cool Whip. He’s still a fabulous bull. He’s still the No. 2 buckoff king of the world. And he’s golden.”

Page is a bit more reserved in his predictions, given the strength of the field, but his money – as always – is on his bull.

“I’m not going to say he’s going to buck them off,” Page said. “More than likely, he is. Unless he gets in the short round and one of them best guys doesn’t have a great pick, then he’s probably not going to get No. 1, 2 or 3. So I’m not going to get that matchup, but any of the Top 45 guys could ride any of them. They’re not here by accident. So it’s not a gimme by any stretch at any time. The 45^th guy can ride the best one here at any time.

“If they had odds on it, I would take Cool Whip.”

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