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LAS VEGAS — For the past two years, the Professional Bull Riders circuit has used a draft system that allows each rider to pick the bull he will face in the upcoming round.
And that often means riders will bypass the unusually rank bovines and settle for less challenging animals. But that wasn’t the case when a rookie named Pete Farley made his selection for the Saturday night performance of the PBR World Finals. Farley, 20, an Australian who lives near Mineral Wells, courageously asked for a fire spinner named Bones, the 2008 PBR World Champion Bull. "In the position that I was in [in the draft], he was the bull that I could be the most points on," Farley said. "He was the best one in there and that’s what I had to look at. I’m looking at winning every round that I can." Farley won the second round with a score of 93.5. It’s the highest marked ride of the opening weekend (the first three rounds) of the Las Vegas championships. Rounds four, five and six are scheduled for Thursday through Saturday. Rounds seven and eight (the 15-man short round) are scheduled during the Sunday performance and they will be broadcast on KXAS/Channel 5. Farley’s future appears to be bright. He’s the 2008 PBR Australia champion and he represented Australia at the PBR World Cup in 2008 in Chihuahua, Mexico, and in 2009 in Barretos, Brazil. Farley’s success in Australia helped him earn a spot on the PBR’s Built Ford Tough Series. During the regular season, he competed in 23 shows, appeared in the final round six times and had three round wins. All that helped him advance to the 40-man World Finals. And after pocketing $25,000 for winning Round Two, Farley ranks second in the PBR’s Daisy Rookie of the Year title race with $84,618. Lostroh riding toughKody Lostroh strengthened his lead in the PBR world title race by finishing second in the third round Sunday night with a 92 aboard a bull named Copp Hou. The Longmont, Colo., cowboy has 12,188.25 points, 126.25 ahead of No. 2-ranked J.B. Mauney of Mooresville, N.C. Lostroh and Mauney have stayed on all three bulls they have faced. Meanwhile, defending world champion Guilherme Marchi, who is ranked third in the world standings, has bucked off in the first, second and third rounds. In the world standings, Marchi, a Brazilian who lives near Dallas, has 11,646 points and trails Lostroh by 542 points.CBR updateJarrod Craig of Hillsboro finished second in the Championship Bull Riding title race after competing in the association’s 2009 Tour Finale last weekend in Kansas City, Mo. Craig finished the year with 1,496.5 points. Chad Castillo, who lives in Lipan, finished third with 1,222. Hugo Pedrero, who is from Mexico, won the 2009 CBR title after finishing the year with 1,565. J.W. Harris of May won the average at the Kansas City championships and finished 2009 ranked fourth with 1,070.
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