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Famous for his blazing starts, Robinson outdid himself last week. In his semifinal heat, he stomped so hard on the accelerator that his super-powered racer reared like a rodeo bronc into a disastrous "wheel stand," thus costing him a few precious fractions of a second that he was unable to make up. The new "Top Eliminator": California's Jim Nelson, 34, a mechanic who has been racing dragsters since 1948, has never before won a major competition. Nelson's winning time for the quarter-mile sprint was 8.7 sec., and his gold-and-red, Dodge-powered Dragmaster...
Draped across the bars of chute No. 3 at the National Finals Rodeo in Dallas, the cowpoke stared coldly at a mottled grey bronc, puffed an inch-long butt, and spat contemptuously into the dirt. "Keep your eyes open," warned a bystander. "That Blue Boy's a rank old s.o.b." Nodding brusquely, Kenny Mc Lean hiked up his scuffed leather chaps, swung over the rail, settled gingerly into the saddle, and in the awkward tradition of rodeo riding, he dug his spurs hard into Blue Boy's neck...
Split Teeth. The score was short of perfect, but the fact that he rode at all reflects the skill and daring that make Kenny McLean, at 22, the Rodeo Cow boys Association's Rookie of the Year, and the hottest young bronc rider ever to crash the big-time rodeo circuit. In almost any other sport, McLean would have been riding the bench. The night before, he split two teeth and was carted to the hospital unconscious after tumbling heavily from an evil-tempered bronc. "Ken ny's horse took a run from the gate," says fellow bronc...
Unorthodox Style. Part Indian, raven-haired Kenny McLean busted his first bronc-and took his first fall-at eleven on his father's cattle ranch in tiny (pop. 500) Okanagan Falls, B.C. "There wasn't much to do in 'Okay Falls' except hunt and fish,", Kenny explains, "so my brother and I built a chute and started riding." A natural athlete with superb coordination and balance, Kenny quickly learned to keep his feet loose in the stirrups, developed an unorthodox, righthanded riding style * that scores points with the judges and -baffles his fellow cowboys. Surprise...
...Rules permit saddle bronc riders to keep one hand on the rein; most use the left, claim it gives them better balance and control. Conditioned to lefthanded riders, some horses depart from their normal bucking pattern, behave unpredictably when ridden by a righthander...