I recently met a young bull rider that is 15 years old by the name of Rhett Braham. He did not decide to start riding bulls until around nine months ago,and began practcing at his home on a bucking barell that he and his dad built in the back-yard. After a couple of weeks of practice he decided to enter his first bullriding event in Hazel Kentucky where he actually won 1st place in the event on a bull reverend owened by Brandon Gasper a stock contractor that actually has bulls that buck in theBuilt Ford Tough Series or the PBR as we call. He has went on to place in the money in many more of the local bullridings in the local area. Rhett entered A Firecracker Series this summer put on by Nance Roughstock Productions which he is in the lead for the Buckel with one more event to go next month. This young guy has a not give attitude and constanely works on getting better and he is already good. To add to it all the last event he won was on a great bull named Shorty v owned by Mitsy Miliam of Puyear Tenessee witha a score of 79 and with that win got an invetation to ride in the Dynamite Series that is a pro rodeo that Gasper Bucking Bulls puts on with the SEBR Association out of Arkansas. The guys that ride in that series range in age from 21 to on the 30′s well guess what happened at that event, Rhett won and made it to number 25 in the standings in that association with only winning that one big pay-out. A 15 year old boy riding against grown men went and won the whole thing now that shows what kind of rider he is at the age of 15. There has already been two Paris Tenessee boys on the PBR at one time I guessing that here in a few years there might be thee of them from one little small town here in Tenessee, would that be not something special.
Rhett will be starting his high school rodeo career in September in Mephis Tenessee and the Delta Fair and I for one can not wait to see what he does in that two day event, Young riders like rhett are the futhure of the sport and get no publicity or big sponsors but in my opinion and others we need to get these young bullriders that acomplish so much at their young age some support, not just from the parents that put out the enty fees and hotel room and gas money that it takes to
get them from event to event it would be great if Rhett and other young riders gould get sponsors from companies like the PBR and CBR guys get. I et on the phone almost every day trying to get sponsors but if you don’t know someone they will not give you the time of day. Rhett is a good Christian young man that will go far in the sport of rodeo and I wish him all the luck one can wish.
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