Cool Whip’s historic buckoff streak ends at 48 in a row
Sandro Batista rode Cool Whip in Sacramento to end the longest consecutive buckoff streak of all-time.
By Darci Miller
FORT WORTH – In May, we crowned a new all-time buckoff king as Cool Whip eclipsed Bushwacker’s streak of 42 consecutive buckoffs.
As of this past weekend, at the Wrangler Long Live Cowboys PBR Sacramento, presented by Cooper Tires, the new bar has officially been set.
Cool Whip’s streak ended at 48 buckoffs in a row when Sandro Batista rode him for 89.75 points.
“This bull is hard to get by, and Sandro had an answer for everything he was dishing out today,” 2016 World Champion Cooper Davis said after the out. “You can’t expect a guy to put out more effort, either.”
It took every bit of effort Batista had, and he celebrated accordingly as he became the first rider since Joao Ricardo Vieira in 2022 to make the 8 aboard the stout bovine.
In his nearly three years of being unridden, Cool Whip bucked off four World Champions, current world No. 1 Brady Fielder, and Batista himself twice.
“He has that record forever,” co-owner Staci Addison said at the 2024 PBR World Finals. “Not that it can’t be broken, and I can’t wait until the day it is broken, because that’s why we keep track of stuff. But until then, he’s the most buckin’-off bull ever. It’s unreal. I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around it.”
Addison acquired Cool Whip at the 2019 World Finals as a yearling. It was a mediocre season for him, but she knew he had potential. He improved during his futurity year and then won his derby year. As a classic bull, when he was 4 years old, he won the 2022 ABBI Classic Championship.
As a 5-year-old, he was in the running for the 2023 YETI World Champion Bull title, ultimately fading down the stretch and finishing fourth.
Cool Whip may not have the same accolades as three-time World Champion Bushwacker, but he’s been getting the job done all the same.
“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 in May. “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.”
Incredibly, Cool Whip’s streak is already in jeopardy. Magic Potion, who has never been ridden since debuting on the premier series in 2021, has a buckoff streak of 44 – already past Bushwacker’s iconic mark. We could have a new all-time leader before the end of the season. It is an incredible possibility, considering the fact that Bushwacker’s record stood for 11 years.
Cool Whip secured his place in the history books at the 2024 PBR World Finals: Unleash The Beast – Championship last year, bucking off Claudio Montanha Jr. in an astonishing 1.18 seconds in the very first out of the day.
“It was almost surreal because the show must go on,” Addison said. “The next rider was out. The next bull was bucking. We’re onto the next thing.”
Such is life, and such is bull riding.
“I think that that’s one of the things that strikes me about this achievement is, in life, and certainly in the sport of bull bucking, we’re always onto the next thing,” she said. “We have another event. We have another out. We have another buckle to get, another check to cash. Whatever it is. And this right here stands in time, and I can pause time anytime I want and go back and watch the video of him bucking and the video of my reaction to him, and have that vivid memory seared in my head of he and I spending time together privately the day before. And that is a frozen-in-time moment for me that will be cataloged under the most buckoffs in history, and I’m really glad I have that.”
