Morning line: San Antonio, Day 1

This event will feature an overall pen of bulls at least as tough as what we saw in Tulsa last week, where riders only managed to get 26 percent of them ridden. There is no ABBI Classic here, so the first round bulls are all veterans and there are not a lot of matchups that look favorable for the riders.

Round 1 Matchups:

Austin Meier on 08 DeWalt Guaranteed Tough:
This bull was formerly known as Ranger Red, and he's been a high difficulty/low points kind of bull his entire career. Meier is the only lefty who has ever ridden him, and he barely got it done, scoring only 82.25 points with a 43.5-point bull score. Despite being a cute little spinning bull, Tough has only been ridden 5 times in 48 career outs. He has just enough forward movement in the spin to make him difficult to ride.

Harve Stewart on +2/7 Red Man:
This is one of the nicest to ride bulls in the PBR, and he's typically worth a lot of points as well. He's a lower flying version of RMEF Gunpowder & Lead. He bucks with a lot of action and good timing, and the riders all get along with him. Great draw for Stewart.

L.J. Jenkins on TD2 Bucking Machine:
Bucking Machine may be the best draw in the pen everywhere he goes. He's not going to overpower anyone, but he does make it easy for guys to fall off. When they open the gate he is going to spin to the left, and never, ever let up. In fact, he appears to get faster the longer someone stays on him. Left-handed guys have had more success on him, and Jenkins has tried him twice this year with no success, but really every guy here is capable of earning a big score on him if they can keep up.

Renato Nunes on 77 Scout:
Chase Outlaw won the first round on this outstanding bull last week in Tulsa. If Nunes can do the same, he'll be looking at Jeff Robinson's Delco in the short round - a bull he's had two big rides on already this season.

Stormy Wing on 704 Pawnbroker:
Only three outs on record for Pawnbroker, but he's had good bull scores in all of them. J.B. Mauney was 85.5 on him in Tulsa, and could have potentially been more. The bull scored 43.25. Typically riders can be a little more than double the bull score on any given ride, or a little less if they get out of shape.

Kody Lostroh on 620 Blonde Bomber:
Blonde Bomber is ridden just about every time he faces an elite level rider, and the last four times he's appeared at a Built Ford Tough Series event he's been ridden for scores of 88 or more points and over $12,000 total in winnings.

Luke Snyder on 702 White Velvet:
White Velvet is always one of the better bulls in the draw. He's a lot like L.J. Jenkins' bull Bucking Machine in that his best weapon is relentlessness. Once he gets into the spin, if the rider falls behind even a tiny bit he won't allow them to catch up. His difficulty factor, intensity and scoring potential are all a little less than what Bucking Machine offers.

Robson Palermo on 64S Flirting With Disaster:
Left-handed riders make the whistle on this bull most of the time, and for an average score of around 87 points. I haven't studied this bull very closely, but his bull scores indicate he may occasionally start strong and finish weak. Bulls that have higher scores on quick buckoffs often have a big moves before they settle into a less difficult spin, or it may be that they have changed deliveries several times and have different trips depending on delivery. The numbers say the first 4 seconds will be the difficult part. If Palermo makes it to the halfway point, he's probably getting a score.

Silvano Alves on 630 Oklahoma Magic:
One of these two is going to break a trend. Oklahoma Magic hasn't been ridden by a right-handed rider yet, and Alves hasn't bucked off three bulls in a row in a ridiculously long time. Alves came down on his last two in Tulsa, so this is number three.

Caleb Sanderson on 766 Tick:
They met in Billings earlier this year and the bull won. Tick is great little bull that came from Canada. He likes to spin to the right, and if he weighed 400 pounds more than he does, he would be an ideal draw for a bigger right-handed guy like Sanderson.

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