Rocker Steiner and Jacek Frost strike gold in California on Big Bucks ProRodeo broncs during Old Santa Ynez Days Rodeo
Santa Ynez, California – (June 26, 2025) top ranked contestants and elite bucking horses matched up during the Old Santa Ynez Rodeo in California June 21-22, 2025 to win big. The Big Bucks ProRodeo bareback horses finished first and second respectfully with cowboys Jacek Frost riding What’s Crackin’, and Rocker Steiner riding Kahlula. The 87.5-point rides split the win, with each cowboy earning $2,989.
Old Santa Ynez Days 2025 Rocker Steiner and Big Bucks ProRodeo Kahlula 87.5 points first place tie. Photo credit Andrea Kaus/PRCA
Old Santa Ynez Days Jacek Frost and Big Bucks ProRodeo What’s Crackin 87.5 points first place tie. Photo Credit Andrea Kaus/PRCA
The photographs by Andrea Kaus/PRCA are worth a thousand words with action captured to match the rhythm and focus of both athletes.
World bareback riding leader Bradlee Miller from Huntsville, Texas finished third with 86 points, on Empire Rodeo’s Brenda’s Boy. He snagged $1,918 in prize money adding to his $151,573.35 earnings. Steiner is second in the world with $120,370 heading into the Fourth of July lineup and the lucrative Cowboy Christmas run.
Twenty-two-year-old Darien Johnson from Tremonton, Utah scored 83.5 points finishing fourth with $1,241 on Big Buck’s Rodeo’s Dakota Diamond.
Three-time Wrangler National Finals Qualifier Cole Franks finished sixth with 79, on Big Bucks Rodeo’s Dreams End. Louisiana cowboy Waylon Bourgeois finished seventh with 78.5 on Empire Rodeo’s Smoke Stack and the 2019 PRCA World Championship Bareback Rider Clayton Biglow rode Big Bucks Rodeo’s Shaboom for eighth place splitting it with Colton Clemens, for 76.5 points. Clemens rode Empire Rodeo’s Uptown Funk.
Big Buck ProRodeo’s Saddle Bronc horses Freckles and Keoki fire hard securing first and second place in the classic event.
Old Santa Ynez Days Jasper Frost matched up with Big Bucks ProRodeo Keoki for 86 points to win the saddle bronc. Photo Credit Andrew Kaus/PRCA
The bronc Keoki matched up with Jasper Frost for 86 points and $3,384. Queensland cowboy Warwick Southern, scored 83.5 on Big Bucks Rodeo’s Freckles for $2,594; Jake Barnes from Stephenville, Texas also collected a check on Heart N Soul of Big Bucks ProRodeo string for fifth place.
The unridden bull, Jimmy Hoe, continues his streak after 11 trips during the 2025 season. For complete results visit www.prorodeo.com
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Editor’s Notes:
About Big Bucks ProRodeo: It began in 2024, but its history goes back to 1940. Big Bucks ProRodeo carries two legendary bucking horse bloodlines, bred to buck from two different families in two different rodeo circuits. Cody Flitton partnered with Jody Burnside, to purchase the Mosbrucker Rodeo Company. The Burnside family, with four generations of PRCA competitors, have competed in bull riding, steer wrestling, team roping, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, and calf roping.
Flitton’s great grandfather, D.A. Swanny Kerby wrangled wild horses from the slick rocks of Moab, Utah. Swanny had a dream of putting on wild west shows. He became part of the PRCA in 1940 with his bred to buck horses and bulls. Kerby’s livestock selection dates back to the first National Finals Rodeo in 1959. Flitton was born and raised into the Kerby rodeo company.
Editor Note: Photography credit to Andrea Kaus/PRCA.
Kaus is a freelance sports photographer based in Southern California, specializing in horse and western-based events. She has photographed all her life and started Kaus Photos in 2006 (originally as Chaos Graphics) to assist local community events with their media promotion. Since then, she has photographed for a wide range of sport events and organizations and obtained her PRCA photographer’s card in 2019.