Wrangler NFR 60 Greatt of All Time: Don Gay - Wrangler Network

Contents:

• WRANGLER NFR 60 GREATT OF ALL TIME: DON GAY
• DON GAY PULLG FOR SAGE KIMZEY TO BREAK WORLD TLE RERD
• DON GAY
• DONNIE GAY AND LANE FROST: A SPECIAL RELATNSHIP

WRANGLER NFR 60 GREATT OF ALL TIME: DON GAY

Qualifg for 13 NFRs, Donnie Gay won a rerd eight world Bull Ridg tl his reer. Gay holds the rerd for the third hight marked ri the history, earng 97 pots on the famo RSC bull Osr at the Cow Palace San Francis 1977. Wng eight bull ridg world tl is a ProRoo rerd Don Gay has held for 36 years, yet he’s among the many who are cheerg for reigng world champn Sage Kimzey to break that rerd.

“The way you said that would make seem like ’s an easy ncln to w his seventh world tle, but what he has to do at the NFR is credibly difficult, ” Gay said, “The fact of the matter is nobody has claim to a world tle. Only two bull rirs have as many world tl as Kimzey, and both of them are ProRoo Hall of Famers – Jim Shoulrs (1951, 1954-59) and Gay (1974-77, 1979-81, 1984). Shoulrs and Gay were among the 1979 gural class of ProRoo Hall of Fame ducte.

DON GAY PULLG FOR SAGE KIMZEY TO BREAK WORLD TLE RERD

“I n tell you what he has already done is absolutely phenomenal, ” Gay said. “To go there and ri the 10 (bulls) is a big task and most of that is mental timidatn, ” Gay said. “He knows, as I do, he is way better than everyone ridg bulls today, ” Gay said.

Born Mque, Texas, 1953, Don Gay grew up an aspirg bull rir around the Mque Champnship Roo – -found by his father 1958.

By the time he was a sophomore at Mque High School, he had already earned his Profsnal Roo Cowboy Associatn membership. After his high school graduatn 1972, Gay quickly found succs. Durg that time, Gay also broke the PRCA’s bull-ridg sgle-season earngs for eight nsecutive years between 1974 and 1981.

DON GAY

Don Gay was ducted to the ProRoo Hall of Fame 1979. The bull put him away bull ridg champn Don Gay, another rir om Mque, was now up on Kerby's No.

The bull, a big one striped and vic, molished Gay short orr. A few sends later, before Bobby DelVecch's turn, the announcer told the crowd that Gay had clared his retirement.

DONNIE GAY AND LANE FROST: A SPECIAL RELATNSHIP

DelVecch, om the Bronx, drew the Growney bull, Gold Buckle, a nasty, yellow-whe animal that threw some mighty tough mov at the New the others, DelVecch was quickly ground and, like Gay, he said he was through ridg bulls for a livg. At the age of 10, a bright eyed and spunky Lane Frost met world champn bull rir Don Gay for the first time. Lane was termed to start ridg bulls, but Gay advised him to ri lv and steers until his bon were more fully veloped.

To the relief of his fay, Lane followed Gay’s advice. After wng 8 PRCA World Champnships, Don Gay retired om bull ridg 1989, the same year that Lane died.