The Coconino sun., 1912-03-15
ARIZONA BOYS
 AT RODE0 CONTEST

AngeleS dld nOt open untll MOn- day on account of rain, although an unofficial exhibition was given Sunday before several thousand spectators.
 Such gathering of men and riders has never before been seen in the west, even at Cheyenne or Denver, and the class of horses, riders and ropers is without doubt the best in the country, and the only possible feature which should prevent the winner of the bucking contest from being world cham piou would be the poor class of bucking horses. No doubt the promoters have done their best to gather in bad horses but the re- suit shows that the outlaws are not in 1t with some of the Chey- enne and Denver bad horses. The boasted Cyclone has more repu- tation than anything else.
 The exhibition Sunday showed Wild Horse Hill of the Colorado river and the saddle horse Pimo as the fastest things on the track in the regulation COW puncher line. Hill ambled through a stake riding contest, was the leader in the maverick race, and Hill and Lindsey, using the former Pickett horse as a runner up and Pimo as buster and herder, changing each time, took first and second in the bull logging contest, Hill making the time of 20 seconds. The two bulls-Jim Jeffries, a big Jersey, and Sharkey, a large black animal-threw all riders who tried them Sunday and Mon- day. Jefries laid down b u Sharkey got his man as usual. Monday resulted in fast time on slow track of 45 seconds in the half mile COW pony race. Hoxey, Verdugo and Pegg were the only men to bull dog steers, but the best time was I min. 5 secs. by Pegg, or 45 seconds slower than Hills time the day before, un- officially.
 The roping contest proved failure, as the best men had ar ranged to enter later, and the moving picture rope twirlers can't run on to the fast Mexican steers. Wild Horse Hill rode Cyclone, the boasted outlaw, to a finish Monday afternoon and this is the second time Hill has ridden the same horse. It is claimea that Cyclone has never before been rode successfully and since kill ing Dick Stanley, the world cham pion, and hurting Acord, throwing Happy Jack, and others, some riders were afraid of him. Hill rode him without effort and even Blanchard, Cyclones owner, who hung close and tried some rather ques tionable moves, saw that Hill played with Cyclone as the child does with a hobby horse.
 Harry Knight of Arizona got his rope on the maverick Monday with Hill close second.
 There are top horses from all parts of the west now at the meet, and some horses deserve more credit than the men, and some are rather famous. Flag the champion rope horse of seven states and many conflicts, owned by Jack Hoxie has shown to advantage although Pimo, the Flagstaff horse, in all trials so far has shown to much advantage, as a rope horse and is about the only animal on the track which can lay up against wild Mexican steer without effort. The bay Picket horse always used formerly by Pickett, the negro who throws bulls with his teeth, and later injured in Mexico when Pickett and his horse fought the wild bull in the City of Mexico, is also horse with a national re- pution and is being used by Hill
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