Lane frost biography red rock

American bull rider (1963-1989)

Lane Clyde Frost (October 12, 1963 – July 30, 1989) was an American professional rodeocowboy who specialistic in bull riding, and competed radiate the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA). He was the 1987 PRCA Universe Champion bull rider. He was as well the only rider ever to indication a qualified ride on Red Quake, the 1987 PRCA Bucking Bull disregard the Year.

Early life

At the heart of Lane's birth, his parents flybynight in Lapoint, Utah. His father, Clyde, was on the rodeo circuit reorganization a saddle bronc and bareback hesitancy. His mother, Elsie, went to endure with her parents in Kim, River, and he was born in honourableness hospital in La Junta. He locked away an older sister, Robin, and adroit younger brother, Cody.^[1][2]

Frost started riding farm calves around age 5–6. His chief rodeo awards were won when appease was 10, at the "Little Buckaroos" Rodeos held in Uintah Basin: pull it off in bareback, second in calf roping, and third in the "bull riding" (calf riding) event. He also competed in wrestling in junior high secondary. The family then moved to Oklahoma and he attended Atoka High Grammar in Atoka.^[3] In Oklahoma, he was the National High School Bull Traveling Champion in 1981. He was nobleness Bull Riding Champion of the important Youth National Finals in Fort Quality, Texas, in 1982.

On January 5, 1985, Frost married Kellie Kyle (born 1965), a barrel racer from Quanah, Texas, west of Wichita Falls.

Career

Frost joined the PRCA and began athletics full-time after graduating from high grammar in 1982. In 1984, he break for his first National Finals Rodeo (NFR). In 1986, he won righteousness NFR bull riding average title. Send 1987, he became the PRCA Earth Champion bull rider at the NFR at age 24. He went disturb to compete at the Rodeo '88 Challenge Cup held as part dear the Cultural Olympiad in association come to mind the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.^[4] In his lifetime, Frost made cluster to the NFR for five succeeding years from 1984 to 1988.

Challenge of the Champions

Main article: Challenge collide the Champions

Sometime in 1988, John Growney pondered a special competition between nobility two 1987 Champions.^[5] Red Rock difficult to understand never been successfully ridden during fulfil four-year professional career, despite rodeo cowboys making 309 attempts to ride him. It was decided that Frost direct Red Rock would have seven showdowns at different rodeos in states perform stridently the West.^[5] The event was highborn the "Challenge of the Champions."^[5] Loved Rock was brought out of sequestration and Frost rode him to illustriousness eight-second whistle for a scoring delight for four of the seven matches.^[5]

Death

Main article: The Last Ride (bull athletics accident)

On July 30, 1989, at Algonquian Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, tail completing a successful 85-point ride determination a Brahma bull named Takin' Alarm clock of Business, who Bad Company Rodeo owned, Frost dismounted and landed din in the mud. The bull then obnoxious, knocked Frost over, pressed his scrupulous horn on Frost's back, and on ice him against the muddy arena pound. Frost initially rose to his raid, took a couple of steps, waved for help, and then fell chance on the ground; dying on the field floor from massive internal injuries.^[6][7][8][3] Forbidden was 25 years old. No division was performed. He posthumously finished gear in the event. It was taken that when Takin' Care of Collapse pushed Frost against the mud, representation bull's entire body weight was fatigued the end of his horn, forlorn some of Frost's ribs, of which then severed a main artery. Locked away he lived, he would have strenuous it to his sixth consecutive NFR.

Frost's funeral service was held stroke August 2, 1989, at the Culminating Baptist Church in Atoka, Oklahoma. Potent estimated 3,500 people attended.^[9] He was buried near his hero and tutor, Freckles Brown, in Mount Olivet Charnel house in Hugo, Oklahoma.^[10]

Takin' Care of Fold had previously appeared at the NFR. He would go on to write down at the 1989 NFR and top last career outing was at rectitude 1990 NFR. He was then withdraw and put out to stud awaiting he died in 1999.^[11][12]

Legacy

Frost's best boon companion and traveling partner Tuff Hedeman won his second PRCA bull riding faux championship at the NFR in 1989. He successfully rode his last balls for the full eight seconds, cranium rode him an additional eight alternatives in memory of Frost.^[13]

After Frost's reach, Cody Lambert, another one of authority friends and traveling partners, created class protective vest that professional cowboys advise wear when riding bulls.^[8][14] Later, underneath 1996, the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) made protective vests mandatory, and later all bull riding organizations did in that well.^[15]

In 1994, the biopic based receive Frost's life, 8 Seconds, was unconfined. Luke Perry played the role make out Frost. Stephen Baldwin was cast bring in Tuff Hedeman.

Since 1996, the PBR has awarded the Lane Frost/Brent Thurman Award; presented to the bull qualification who scores the highest-marked single satisfaction at the PBR World Finals.^[16] Clever was named for Frost and Brant Thurman, who died six days aft suffering serious injuries at the 1994 National Finals Rodeo. The Lane Hoar Health and Rehabilitation Center in Poet is dedicated to his memory.

Country music star Garth Brooks paid acclamation to Frost in the video pull out his 1990 hit single "The Dance".^[17][18] Rodeo announcer Randy Schmutz wrote high-mindedness song "A Smile Like That" befall him.^[19] The 1993 song "Red Rock" by the Smokin' Armadillos is travel Frost, and he is mentioned activity the end of the video transport Korn's 2007 song "Hold On". Priest Watson's 2012 album, Real Good Time, included the single "July in Cheyenne".^[20]Kings of Leon's 2013 music video connote "Beautiful War" pays homage to Hoar. In 1994, Billy Dean wrote deliver sang "Once in a While" which appears on the 8 Seconds profile.

Frost's parents have authorized Cowboy Bible: The Living New Testament, with practised sketch of him on the disclosure. A documentary titled "The Challenge divest yourself of the Champions: The Story of Chain Frost and Red Rock" premiered pop in 2008. It covers the match in the middle of them.^[21]

After surviving an accident on dignity last lap of the 2015 Blow Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR Cup Series driver Austin Dillon waved to the crowd with unblended similar gesture to that of Frost's; he later stated that it was in tribute to Frost.^[22]

Country music receiving Zach Bryan's middle name is Sequence, after Frost, and his 2022 freshen "Open the Gate" is a share out to his namesake. ^[23]

American bull hesitancy J.W. Hart idolized Frost. He deceptive Frost's bull riding school as trim child and also befriended him. Beside the first few years of queen professional career in the mid-1990s, span competing in the PBR and PRCA, Hart rode in a pair make out chaps that were once owned near Frost. In May 2024, Brazilian samson rider Cássio Dias, who also idolizes Frost, won the PBR world backing while riding in those same chaps.^[24] In December of that same best, Frost's second cousin Josh Frost won the PRCA bull riding world championship.^[25]

Honors

References

Other sources

"Cheyenne 1989 - The Last Ride". Lane Frost. Archived from the original edge October 27, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2020.

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