COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. – Onida native and long time stock contracter Jim Sutton Jr., the patriarch of Sutton Rodeo, will be inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2020. Suttonand he and his wife, Julie, have a six-generation family operation still running strong near Ondia. The Suttons were the recipients of the 2017 PRCA Donita Barnes Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award. Sutton Rodeo has had three PRCA Horse of the Year awards: saddle bronc horse Deep Water in 1979, bareback horse Big Bud in 1985 and saddle bronc horse, Chuckulator in 2012. Chuckulator also was the top saddle bronc horse of the 2012 Wrangler National Finals RodeoNFR. Sutton Rodeo stock has been selected to perform at every National Finals RodeoNFR since its inception in 1959, but one. Sutton’s father, James Sr., was inducted into the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1982. Sutton Jr. became a partner with his dad forming Sutton Rodeo Company in 1968. Sutton and the eight-member class of inductees that will be enshrined in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, August 1.
