![]() Rodeo announcer Randy Schmutz wrote the song "A Smile Like That" about him. The Lane Frost Health and Rehabilitation Center in Hugo is dedicated to his memory.Ĭountry music star Garth Brooks paid tribute to Frost in the video for his 1990 hit single " The Dance". Since 1996, the PBR has awarded the Lane Frost/Brent Thurman Award, given for the highest-scoring ride at the PBR World Finals. Stephen Baldwin was cast as Tuff Hedeman. In 1994, the biopic based on Frost's life, 8 Seconds, was released. Later, in 1996, the PBR made protective vests mandatory. Legacy Īfter Frost's death, Cody Lambert, one of his traveling partners, created the protective vest that professional cowboys now wear when riding bulls. įrost is buried near his hero and mentor, Freckles Brown, in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Oklahoma. He was then retired and put out to stud until he died in 1999. Takin' Care of Business appeared at the 1990 National Finals Rodeo. He posthumously finished third in the event. Frost was rushed to Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He initially rose to his feet, took a couple of steps, waved for help, then fell to the ground, causing his heart and lungs to be punctured by the broken ribs. The bull then turned and pressed his right horn on Frost’s back and pushed him against the muddy arena floor (although he was not gored), breaking several of his ribs. On July 30, 1989, at the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming, after completing a successful 85-point ride on a Brahma bull named Takin' Care of Business, Frost dismounted and landed in the mud. The event was titled the "Challenge of the Champions." Red Rock was brought out of retirement and Frost finally rode him to the eight-second whistle for a scoring ride for 4 of the 7 matches. It was decided that Frost and Red Rock would have seven showdowns at different rodeos in states across the West. Sometime in 1988, John Growney pondered a special competition between the two 1987 Champions. He 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. In 309 attempts, no one had ever ridden him, and in 1988, at the Challenge of the Champions, Frost rode him in seven exhibition matches and was successful in four out of seven tries. Rodeo Company, was voted Bucking Bull of the Year. That same year, the bull Red Rock, owned by Growney Bros. In 1987, he became the PRCA World Champion Bull Rider at age 24. On January 5, 1985, Frost married Kellie Kyle (born 1965), a barrel racer from Quanah, Texas, west of Wichita Falls.įrost joined the PRCA and began rodeoing full-time after graduating from high school in 1982. He was the Bull Riding Champion of the first Youth National Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1982. In Oklahoma, he was the National High School Bull Riding Champion in 1981. The family then moved to Oklahoma and he attended Atoka High School in Atoka. He also competed in wrestling in junior high school. His first rodeo awards were won when he was 10, at the "Little Buckaroos" Rodeos held in Uintah Basin: first in bareback, second in calf roping, and third in the "bull riding" (calf riding) event. įrost started riding dairy calves around age 5–6. He had an older sister, Robin, and a younger brother, Cody. His mother, Elsie, went to stay with her parents in Kim, Colorado, and he was born in the hospital in La Junta. His father, Clyde, was on the rodeo circuit as a saddle bronc and bareback rider. Early life Īt the time of Lane's birth, his parents lived in Lapoint, Utah. ![]() He sustained severe injuries at the 1989 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo when the bull Takin' Care of Business struck him after the ride, and he died at a local hospital. He was the only rider to score qualified rides on the 1987 PRCA Bucking Bull of the Year and 1990 ProRodeo Hall of Fame bull Red Rock. He was the 1987 PRCA World Champion bull rider and a 1990 ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee. Lane Clyde Frost (Octo– July 30, 1989) was an American professional rodeo cowboy who specialized in bull riding, and competed in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).
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