Kaycee Feild is a five-time World Champion, which has already put him in the same category as a few of the best bareback riders to ever step foot on the legendary yellow bucking chutes at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Feild’s five Gold Buckles match the record, which he shares with Joe Alexander and Bruce Ford.
Alexander holds the record for bareback riding world titles at five. He dominated the bareback riding in the 1970s and at one point held the world record with a 93-point ride on Beutler Brothers & Cervi’s Marlboro. Since Alexander, the riding style and the style of bareback horses has changed. His Gold Buckle years came consecutively from 1971-1975.
Ford was a taller bareback rider with a style all his own that got his name into the history books and his run to bareback riding stardom started shortly after Alexander’s. Ford won four Gold Buckles in a five-year stretch from 1979-1983 and won a fifth in 1987, preventing Kaycee’s father, Lewis, from winning three in a row.
Feild’s Gold Buckles came in 2011-2014 and 2020. He enters this year’s Wrangler NFR No. 5 in the PRCA Bareback Riding World Standings, about $35,000 behind No. 1 Tilden Hooper.
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