Tonight is shaping up to be an action packed night. For it is the night of the “rank pen”. Meaning these are the bulls who have come to play and play hard. The ones who are famous for not keeping a rider on their back for very long. Usually under 5 seconds.
Just look at some of the names and statistics: White Magic has a career total of 5 rides out of 36 attempts. Fan favorite Troubadour is sitting at 9 out of 24 and Chicken on a Chain, who has Larry the Cable Guy as one of his owners, he is 13 out of 45. Not good numbers for a rider to see. However, the ones who DO make it on for a full eight seconds, the bull rewards them with some very high scores. Usually near 90. And that’s almost perfect.
With half the score being from the bull’s performance and half from the rider… we are expecting some rides with high scores as well as a lot of no rides.
