Scoop Vessels (left) and Jim Helzer
Former AQHA president Frank “Scoop” Vessels III was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 11. Vessels, friend Sam Cannell and reportedly a third person were flying from Montana to Redding, Calif., returning from a fishing trip, when the plane went down near Burns, Ore.
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According to an article posted on the Humane Society of the United States, an animal welfare group tried to shut down a rodeo in Colorado because the "steer tailing" event. The rodeo was not cancelled, but the steer tailing event was. Makes one wonder if steer wrestling is next.
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