1. Lane Clyde Frost was an American professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding, and competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
18 Facts About Lane Frost
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Lane Frost was the 1987 PRCA World Champion bull rider.
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Lane Frost was the only rider ever to score a qualified ride on Red Rock, the 1987 PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year.
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Lane Frost's mother, Elsie, went to stay with her parents in Kim, Colorado, and he was born in the hospital in La Junta.
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Lane Frost had an older sister, Robin, and a younger brother, Cody.
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Lane Frost was the Bull Riding Champion of the first Youth National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982.
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Lane Frost joined the PRCA and began riding full-time after graduating from high school in 1982.
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Lane Frost went on to compete at the Rodeo '88 Challenge Cup held as part of the Cultural Olympiad in association with the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
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On July 30,1989, at Cheyenne Frontier Days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after completing a successful 85-point ride on a Brahma bull named Takin' Care of Business, who Bad Company Rodeo owned, Lane Frost dismounted and landed in the mud.
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The bull then turned, knocked Lane Frost over, pressed his right horn on Lane Frost's back, and pushed him against the muddy arena floor.
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Lane Frost initially rose to his feet, took a couple of steps, waved for help, and then fell to the ground; dying on the arena floor from massive internal injuries.
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Lane Frost was buried near his hero and mentor, Freckles Brown, in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma.
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Lane Frost would go on to appear at the 1989 NFR and his last career outing was at the 1990 NFR.
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Lane Frost was then retired and put out to stud until he died in 1999.
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Lane Frost successfully rode his last bull for the full eight seconds, and rode him an additional eight seconds in memory of Frost.
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Lane Frost's parents have authorized Cowboy Bible: The Living New Testament, with a sketch of him on the cover.
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Lane Frost attended Frost's bull riding school as a child and befriended him.
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In May 2024, Brazilian bull rider Cassio Dias, who idolizes Lane Frost, won the PBR world championship while riding in those same chaps.