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LUCKNOW DISTRICT COMMUNITY • CENTRE Saturday, August 8 Glen Gibson/Cathy Smutty P�..DA'WS• AUGUST • Fri 7-14.21-2S: Sat, 15 CAU.I,,528".3322 Uvextasting. (:lowers & Guts '3574221 eerish � ��, °'�r�'11F71- ,1rt^y► � "ft '1�"�� 715►'f�':'y` • . by Scott Ifilgendorff At speeds of 30 miles an hour, it's the rush that makes Kevin Green jump off the back of a moving horse onto a 550 pound steer in an, effort to wrestle the animal to the ground, "It's just an adrenaline rush," said Green of RR f, Wingham.' He will' becompeting in team roping and steer wrestling events at the. Lucknow Stampede on Aug. 29 and Aug, 30 when A -K Rodeo and the Dodge. .R.cideo Series come to town; He said it's just too hard - tv:explain the feeling be gets competing in an arena iii front of 2,000 people, hearing the crowd cheer a ,goad catch or time and the announcer calling; out his name:. The place just starts rocking," he said, "When you get a four second run, it's like poetry, a turd motion, you and your horse and your hazer are just in synch together," he said. • • • Anything less than a six second run will likely i0MOST . CA WANTS YUKKWA � '„ Put,yukkioa in tlwk p4rCst. r BeckyCampbell • Registered Massage Therapist: Lucknow; Medical. Clinic Tues. & Wed,-, ,s45/hr. s$0./hhr.` 528-281.0 "WE HAVE ri;AU. FOR' GREAT CASU$ UVINQ" • For Outdoors; • Pooh, • ,• Qatden'Areas • Sunuoom* mt co"u1.rILKILI N Cf ok Oikt N lio PURA MR. 111.4 QUALITY 11,t A LASTING 44:t ykl� IMPRESSION place a cowboy out of the money for that weekend: The competition, .is tough and while Green works' to stay in the top he knows it can't always be that way, "I can .win ,rodeos. There's 30 other guys out there who can humble you just as quick," he said. But winning each: rodeo isn't•what's necessary. • That's his strategy; to stayin the top six or seven where he cansecure him- self a win'in the Dodge Rodeo Series: finals and tater, a place at the Ontario- Rodeo ntarioRodeo Association. Finals. . Riders at Lucknow are 'competing for points in the Dodge series and to be in the top seven after the final weekend of regular rodeo action in September. Those in tho top seven go on to compete in the finals, where Green has had some experience. A cowboy •who takes down his steer in a four 'second, run may win that rodeo' but Might miss -his steer an; the next five or Six TMS, That isn't going to Se's. enough points for a spot in • the finals, • Green tries. to consis- teritly lay each steer down keepingin those top spots, while he may not always win the rodeo. cinch "Week- end. "I'M quitr often in the hunt," he said; • . • • That also .makes abetter show for; the spectators so even if it's. going to 'take hirci ,20 sccondS.; Green' is determined to lay that steer down each time. ' When you weigh 175 • pounds and try to throw down a .snore than 500 pound- steer; Green said, split seeond• timing is a: big :pant of the event, • And it takes much -More than just brute{ strength, • The steer,is given 4 short, head start; and is fol-, loved into the arena by the wrestler and his hazer, a partner on horseback who tries to guide that steer in a straight line. Speeds can reach ;about 30 noises an. hour as the wrestler* in Meer seconds, gains on the steer, Green said when he comes along side the hip of the steer, he sl:tdes down in the saddle; par- tially off his horse, "That's called getting in the pocket," he said. By then, he's at about. the middle of the steer, drops the reigns and; hold- ing on to the saddle by the . horn with one hand, he reaches around the steer with his free arm, Again, allof this in a matter of seconds at about 30 miles ani hour. Lettinggo of the saddle horn, he grabs the. steer's horns while his feet are still in the saddle's s.tir- rups. As the horse goes by the steer, his feet come down in front of the animal: .. `w ou crank-his-Iheal4' tcF"- the left and push down on theinside horn," he said.: 'lust like you're going to put the horn in your pock-. et, That's called 'shaping the steer,'" With' the; momentum of coming. ;off the horse and turning the steer's head, in ,,,14 good situations: the steer oos'S:its. footing and Lays on its side with: all four legs in sight 9f theejudge. That's when the timer stops and the cowboy - hopes only four seconds' have gone by to place him.. in or close to the top for some money and ,'points that day. Miss •rue any 'ofthe movements and the .cow. boy, grabs stir; finding him- self on the ground, without a sore, • "You don't have time to. think. ft'sgot to, be total.` talent, reflex and • tutting;••" Greer said. . It also takes a. good horse hazer: Green said: a' steer. vi wrestler is nothing, without. a good horse and hazer. Usually hazing for Green is either Mac Anderson or Dwayne }lodgins (better known as Duey in the rodeo circuit),, Hodgins is the reigning -steer wrestling champion. Green's •own horse, Roaney,-is used for team roping, the second event in which he competes. For steer wrestling, Vern Steiifier, also from the Wingham area, went out • - west to buy a steer wrestling :horse,. which: he and Greeen•have shared. They both 'reached the. finals last year where they had to steer wrestle three times each. - "We threw all six of our steers on the ground at the finals," said Greens. He finished in third *lace for the season. mark- ing a successful comeback after a. knee injury the year before. - Green, .who grew up with horses,, was first introduced to the rodeo sports through .. Mac: Anderson, a close family friend, who got him start- ed in roping in "He taught me how to rope," said Green. Through roping, he met up with a couple' rodeo cowboys, Earl Foster and - Keith Baile y who .were ' putting on . a steer wrestling school: Andersen and Green' .. had roped at• a .couple rodeos by thistime and. were competing, to a rop, ing association, at which Green made the finals: in 1992,. In,1993, he :became thee reserve ehainpion•Steer •wrestler;in.the association • By 1996, 'he made it; to. the finals . with the Ontario Rodeo Association and finished there- as reserve champion after hinting his knee. He was the top wrestler' • twrn:to page 10 .' the• f 11mate, in EIeg.nt. Outdow Cuing..:. naFLQWER$ •�, sn490 triisr,s. !ACCT? $ORld . A rrttair on in Wrought fro* \it .lilt •\\t I.Ift GRANri BEND' ' 238-21141. Hwy. 83 E f2 mU M&crony the Water pipet) Men.-Thurs, 9-5 • Fri,% 94 • 41o;4 Wtf: r45O MANi1F71CiU A Kenn Green (lett) and Mao Anderson • durin•g' �I •team roping event. The two men Will be in Lupknolilt'tor, the Stampede Aug.. 29 and 30 (Hlgendorff- photo)