- Bucking Chutes
The place where contestants get on rodeo stock prior to their rides.
- Butterfly
The form a rope is supposed to take when a team roper goes after the back legs of a calf.
- Chaps
Pronounced "SHAPS", also called "leggings", these colorful leather coverings are there for more than decoration. Chaps afford considerable protection to cowpokes who get ironed against a fence, mashed in the chute or bucked off. Arena dirt is harder than it looks from the stands.
- Colt
An uncastrated male horese up to and including the age of three years.
- Covering
When cowboys and cowgirls manage to stay on broncs or bulls long enough to qualify for a score.
- Daddy of them All
Cowboy slang for a Rodeo
- Face Plant
This refers to those unfortunate cowfolks who fail to cover.
- Filly
A female horse up to and including the age of three years.
- Gelding
A castrated male horse.
- Goose Egg
The score a contestant earns when he or she gets a scalp scraper or throws a wounded moth. (0)
- Grand Marshal
An honor bestowed by the rodeo community to someone who has made substantial contributions to the Gay and Lesbian Community.
- Mare
A female horse four years of age or over.
- Pickup Man
No, this is not the driver of a pickup truck. This is a mounted arena official who assists bareback bronc riders in dismounting from their horses.
- Pole Bending
A speed event where a horse and rider must negotiate a figure 8 pattern around 6 poles. See Pole Bending in our events section.
- Seeing Daylight
When a rider comes loose from a bucking animal far enough for spectators to see daylight between the rider and animal. This not always a bad thing, and does not always mean the rider is about to be bucked off. There is a riding technique called "floating" used by bronc riders which makes them appear as if they are going to be bucked off at the animals every jump.
- Stallion
An uncastrated male horse four years old and over.
- The Well
Inside side of a spinning bull. When a contestant enters the well, they can usually count on a dirt dive, face plant, or worse, rather like being suck inside a tornado.
- Wounded moth
The form a rope is not supposed to take.
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