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00 Super Dave
Buckin' Stock Magazine - 01/05/2008
by Angie Gentry
00 Super Dave
by Angie Gentry
Look in the pedigree of many of today's great bucking bulls and, if you go back far enough, you'll likely find the name 00 Super Dave. Dillon Page once said, "There are two bulls that we built our foundation on. One was Super Dave and one was Broke Back V."
Dillon Page purchased Super Dave as a young calf from Punk Carter. Punk raised Super Dave out of one of his Park breed cows and a half Watusi, half Brahma bull. Interestingly, the sire to Super Dave was also the sire to Kidd Rock's sire, Alligator. "I think they were even born in the same calf crop," Punk said. "The mothers to those bulls were Plummer-type cows. I wanted the black nose and ears and I didn't want anything to look too Longhorn. At the time I had about 50 of the prettiest cows you ever seen. Then I had to sell out because I had back surgery and I couldn't take care of my cows. I was down for a year and we made the decision to sell out. Dillon bought three or four bulls, Roy got some bulls and heifers, including the dam to Kid Rock and Gator, and Hargis bought 15 or 20 cows off me."
Punk said, "Dillon had somebody come down and deliver something and they saw those bulls in a pen. He called Dillon and told him he should buy them."
Dillon said, "We started him when he was a two-year-old and that was back when I was helping Larry Kephart with stuff and we hauled him to a bunch of his rodeos."
According to Dillon, Super Dave was a very good bucking bull. "He wasn't a rank bull but he was real good. We bred to him for the first time when he was two. That was pretty close to the first set of bulls that we started raising to buck," he said.
After hauling Super Dave for a while, Dillon sold him to Sammy Andrews, who hauled Super Dave to PRCA rodeos. Sammy hauled Super Dave for three or four years, during which time he qualified for the National Finals Rodeo.
"He was bull rider friendly and guys liked to get on him. He was just a good rodeo bull because he flat bucked. He didn't have any belly rolls or try to jerk you down or anything like that," Sammy said.
"We got one set of calves out of him before I traded him back to Dillon. I don't think we got but eight calves by him," Sammy said. Sammy later hauled Super Dave sons like Body Works and Wilson Trailers.
While Sammy was hauling Super Dave, the bull's oldest calves were showing Dillon what they were made of. Included in this group of bulls were Page 01, Western Wishes, Fandango, Cool Hand and Knothead. All made PBR bulls, with the exception of Page 01, who was injured as a three-year-old. "There was a whole bunch of them that were real good," Dillon said.
Western Wishes is probably the most well known Super Dave son. In 114 outs on the Built Ford Tough Series he was only successfully ridden 36 times, usually for about 90 points. He was selected for the PBR Finals an amazing seven times and if you can name a top PBR bull rider, he probably bucked them off.
Another Super Dave son, Fandango, has been to the NFR and PBR Finals. Fandango was also named PRCA Texas Circuit Bucking Bull of the Year.
Cool Hand and Knothead, both sons of Super Dave, were also selected for the PBR Finals.
