One of Burch Rodeo’s most iconic paints in their herd was the one and only Lunatic From Hell. Known for his big jump right out of the chute and the big scores that would top the leaderboard, Lunatic From Hell left his mark on professional rodeo.
“2024 started off rough by losing my grandma and then to turn around two months later and lose Lunatic on the way to Clovis was completely devastating. It just left a huge, open whole in our hearts and our trailers and, I mean, he’s un-replacable,” Bailey Burch said.
With a personality like the best bucking horse tend to have, Lunatic had a confidence that the Burch’s said made rodeoing fun. He was the 2018 PRCA Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year with a decade of National Finals Rodeo selections to his name.
“Honestly, any stock contractor would probably agree when you said you wish your whole herd was made of a string of horses like him. They just do their job, they make rodeoing fun, guys don’t want to turn them out. It’s just one of a kind. You wish they were all that way,” she said.
The Burch family was able to honor Lunatic From Hell at his hometown arena in Gillette, Wyoming when they left his ashes in the arena at the New Years Eve Buck & Ball.
“To be able to do that with family, at our hometown rodeo, in the dirt that he’s won that rodeo on multiple times, I mean, it’s where a part of him belonged and every year, he’ll be a part of that arena from now on,” Burch said.
A standing ovation only added to such a special moment as the impact of Lunatic From Hell was praised in Wyoming.
