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January 2010 American Cowboy Magazine 78 February/March 2010 AmericanCowboy.com Harry Vold Taking Stock The land of opportunity lured Canadian auctioneer and rodeo stock contractor Harry Vold to make a name for himself south of the border 40 years ago. Today, Vold is a recent inductee into the National Cowboy Rodeo Hall of Fame and a recipient of a ProRodeo Legend Award. America has been good to the man known as the Duke of the Chutes. By Tracey Feist Photography by Carmel Zucker AmericanCowboy.com February/March 2010 79 he walls in Harry Vold’s trophy room are filled with photos of the world’s best cowboys who’ve ridden his bucking horses to eight seconds: Jim Shoulders, Casey Tibbs, Larry T Mahan, and Ty Murray among them. Leather halters from world champion horses, identified by the Bar HV brand, hang prominently above those glossy 8x10s. Sterling silver trophy buckles are displayed under glass in a custom-made wagon wheel bar table. And news- paper articles, weathered by time, tell the tale of the 86-year-old rodeo legend who is Harry Vold: auctioneer, Wild West show performer, rodeo promoter, and eleven-time recipient of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys’ Association (PRCA) Stock Contractor of the Year award, the most of anyone in the history of North American rodeo. His daughter Kirsten sums up the black. It’s acts of solidarity like these that as a stock contractor. In 1959, he was hardware best: “I would hate to even have made him a central force in rodeo awarded one of the livestock contracts for guess how many [awards] there are.” Per- for 60 years, revolutionizing the industry the first National Finals Rodeo (NFR), haps his most recent honor, an October of stock contracting in the process. And though he lived in Alberta. 2009 induction into the Rodeo Hall of as I found out, with talk of cloning and “The first National Finals I went to paid Fame at the National Cowboy and West- other new methods of producing superior me $75 an animal. I had seven head to ern Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, bucking stock, Vold isn’t ready to hang up haul, with no freight paid,” says Vold. tops them all. Vold himself called it “the his spurs just yet. The Harry Vold Rodeo “And from Ponoka to Dallas, it was about icing on the cake.” Company seems poised to continue lead- 2,200 miles. It barely paid the expenses of From Ponoka to Pendleton and Hous- ing the field for years to come. the trip.” But he knew it was a good busi- ton to Las Vegas, the Harry Vold Rodeo ness opportunity. Today, Vold is one of Company has supplied livestock for the only two contractors who have supplied biggest rodeos across North America. I orn in 1924, Harry Vold grew up stock for the NFR’s entire 50-year histo- traveled to his 32,000-acre ranch in Avon- dirt poor, living the cowboy life ry. “Now they pay me $5,200 an animal,” dale, Colo. to see and report how this un- B on his family’s ranch in Ponoka, he says. assuming grandfatherly figure could have Alberta, Canada, where auctioneering and It was at the first NFR in Dallas where horse trading fed the family during the Vold was lucky enough to meet Lynn ‘I’ve been a vagabond all Depression. Horses were the main form Beutler of the Beutler Brothers Rodeo my life—I could never of entertainment for him and his three Company, from Elk City, Okla. brothers. To produce their first rodeo in “Each year they would come up to Great stay in one place. When 1944, all four boys helped build a 30,000- Falls to put on a rodeo, and I would bring the phone rings, you’ve square-foot arena in Asker, Alberta. [them] a load of horses from Canada,” got to go.’ Later, Vold made a name for himself Vold explains about how his relationship as one of the best auctioneers in Canada, with Beutler evolved. “One day Mr. Beu- working for both the Edmonton and Cal- tler said to me, ‘You know we’re probably gary livestock yards. “They sent me all ready to hire someone to run this thing or the business acumen to rival the sharpest over the country,” says Vold. “I’d get on sell it.’ It was probably the busiest, best New York executive. And though I’d heard a train at night and be there the next day, company I could think of in the United from enough sources that this man—who sell the sale and come home. I had a wait- States at that time.” has done as much for the sport of modern ing list of sales to sell.” He and silent partner Mike Cervi rodeo as anyone—is a humble cowboy to “I’ve been a vagabond all my life,” he bought the Beutlers’ company in 1967, the core, I was still more than a little in- continues. “Ever since I was a kid, I was prompting Vold to move state-side and timidated to sit at his kitchen table. on the go. I was told I was like my grand- settle in Colorado. Vold has pulled competitors out of father on my mother’s side, who was a “I’ve always sensed in him a dream to bankruptcy—then sold their companies sailor in Norway—I never could stay in get bigger, and he’d fulfilled all those ac- back to them once they were flush; when one place. When the phone rings, you’ve complishments in Canada,” says Winston the PRCA was $250,000 down, he drove got to go, because if you don’t, you’re go- Bruce, who competed at that very first to Colorado Springs for the better part of ing to lose the job.” NFR held in 1959. “In order to grow, he a year, eventually helping rodeo’s most im- While Vold was on the road auction- had to move.” portant association to get $800,000 in the eering, he was also earning a reputation By 1970 the partnership had fulfilled 80 February/March 2010 AmericanCowboy.com The buck starts here: (Clockwise from top left) Harry Vold aboard a bucking bronc; Vold (right) and the boys from the Claggett Wild West Show, 1947; Vold (right) with Shirley Hussey (center), and Fred Galarneau (left); Crooked Nose, feared by many a bullfighter because of its crossed eyes, peers down at Vold in his trophy room; Horses have free rein on the Vold Ranch in Avondale, Colo.; Vold auctioneering a sale in the 1980s; The welcome sign from “Marshall” Harry Vold reads: “There is no other place quite like this.” management philosophy. “You try to breed the best [stud] to the “I never buck a horse more than twice a best [mare] and hope for the best, because week,” he says. “If a horse bucks 20 times they don’t always turn out,” says Vold of in a year, that’s a lot. That’s why I take so his standard-bred, Clydesdale-cross horses. darn many of them!” “Some just want to buck, and other horses, well, you can’t make them. In this busi- ness, it’s the consistency that counts.” he Vold bucking horse breeding Billy Etbauer also benefited from Vold’s program is one of the most respect- breeding program at the 2009 Cheyenne T ed in the business. A 1972 bay stal- Frontier Days, winning the only award lion named Custer originated many of the that had eluded him his entire rodeo ca- bloodlines on the ranch today. Although reer: the coveted gold buckle in saddle ‘There were more oppor- Vold eventually sold the stud to fellow bronc. The 47-year-old rodeo veteran stock contractor Ike Sankey, his daughter made an 89-point ride on Painted Valley, tunities down here in the Kirsten says, “Ike would probably be the an eight-year-old horse that Kirsten cur- U.S. by a long shot. This is first to admit it was that horse that put him rently owns. a fabulous country. ’ on the map in the rodeo business.” In just “It is the highest score that’s been on one year, more than 30 direct descendents him yet,” she says proudly of the stud she of Custer qualified for the NFR. raised in her backyard. Bobby Joe Skoal, a son of the Custer “I think my ridin’ always needs work, 20 rodeo contracts originally signed by the stud, won Vold the world saddle-bronc but I knew the horse was going to be Beutlers, and Vold and Cervi had decided championship three years in a row, from good,” says Etbauer. “After 22 years of to part ways. Vold had to start over from 1990 to 1992. “There were several guys going to Cheyenne, it’s awful nice to have scratch. His saving grace? The original that rode him—Ty Murray being one,” one of those buckles. I’m sure Harry was 40 Canadian horses he had brought with says Vold. “He wasn’t impossible to ride, bubblin’ as much about it as I was.” The him to Colorado when he moved—and but they scored so high when they did.” PRCA named Painted Valley the third his optimistic attitude. Even though Bobby Joe is now retired, best bucking bronc in 2009. “There were just more opportunities Vold hopes to keep his legacy alive by clon- down here [in the U.S.] by a long shot,” ing the horse he calls “a dream to handle says Vold.
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