“Prime Time”, Owner J.D. Tadlock
Grand Rapids Return or “Prime Time” as he was known among the Cowboys stands 15.2, sorrel and as JD Tadlock use to say, “He makes those calves look like they’re going backwards”!
-1994 AQHA/PRCA Calf Roping Horse of the Year
-1995 AQHA/PRCA Calf Roping Horse of the Year Runner Up
-3 Trips to the National Finals Rodeo – 1992, 1994 & 1995, riders Joe Beaver, Cody Ohl, Jim Bob Mayes, Ricky Canton
-1994 & 1995 won California Rodeo Salinas Calf Roping (Jerry Jetton and Jim Bob Mayes)
-1994 at the Grand National Rodeo in San Franisco Prime Time carried all 4 short-go money earners in addition to 6 of the calf ropers who placed in the average
-1994 Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo, Prime Time mounted 14 calf ropers in the 1st go around of the morning slack. Came back that same day in the afternoon to mount 12 calf ropers to start the 2nd go around. The ropers would say “he had a big engine, the more runs he had on him, the better he worked”
-From June 30th through July 28th 1995, Prime Time ran 94 calves, $67,300 was won on him in that period.
-1995 Joe Beaver won the go-round at the NFR on Prime Time that cinched his first All Around Title
-1994 Cody Ohl won his very “first” of 55 NFR go-rounds on Prime Time
-He not only won Clovis CA, Oakdale CA, Tucson AZ, Kissimmee Florida, Cody Wyoming, he carried many great ropers, Joe Beaver, Cody Ohl, Fred Whitfield, Ricky Canton, Marty Becker, Jim Bob Mayes, Jerry Jetton, Marty Wells, Sylvester Mayfield and many, many more.
