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If you haven’t been there, you can’t fathom what Mr. As soon as the audience is gone, the announcers, the lighting guys and laser guys, we’re all rehearsing for the next night. Everything is scheduled, from our 45- or 75-second acts to when the pickup men change horses. Rodeo is hard to predict, but (General Manager Shawn) Davis runs it like a scripted show. I work events across the country, and there’s nothing like that place – there’s something electric. “And to be at the Thomas & Mack reminds me of everything my dad taught me about hard work and doing my best in every situation. “The relationship I have with my dad and with God has a lot to do with the person I am,” Anthony Lucia said. “I am very proud to represent my tradition in this manner.”Īs one of four sons of three-time PRCA Specialty Act of the Year Tommy Lucia, known for his shows with Whiplash the Capuchin monkey herding sheep aboard a border collie, Anthony Lucia never had any illusions about the glamour of rodeo life.

“I consider myself an ambassador of my own tradition, to carry forward this charro tradition in my specialty act,” says Garcilazo. They practiced to classical music, moving the 65- to 120-foot ixtle (“eeks-lay”) ropes slowly and with tremendous control over their bodies and horses as well as the ropes. He started twirling ropes as a young boy, with the encouragement and constructive criticism of his maternal uncles, all practitioners of the arts of charreria. So Tomas Garcilazo flew back to California three days before the first NFR performance, tuned up his horse and made his PRCA debut at rodeo’s “Super Bowl.” He has been nominated as PRCA Dress (Specialty) Act of the Year several times, winning the award in 20. He saw an American charro – a performer in traditional Mexican cowboy events – and invited him to perform at the openings of three rounds of the Wrangler NFR that year. Shawn Davis, long-time general manager of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, went to Germany in 1997 to present awards to members of the European Rodeo Cowboy Association. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Mike CopemanĢ012 Wrangler NFR Specialty Acts Tomas Garcilazo

SPECIALTY ACTS Charro Tomas Garcilazo has thrilled audiences around the world – including 10 Wrangler NFRs since 1997 – and in 2012 won his second title as PRCA Specialty Act of the Year.

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