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Local company puts on Buffalo Pro Rodeo this weekend
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ABOVE: One of Pickett ProRodeo’s bucking horses gets high off the ground during the Buffalo Pro Rodeo last year. The third annual Buffalo Pro Rodeo, which Mandy and Cullen Pickett put together, will begin today, with performances scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights. Photo courtesy of Helen Pickett -
RIGHT: Cullen and Mandy Pickett of Pickett ProRodeo just outside of Fairfield stand in their backyard with their daughter, 3-year-old Masa Kay. The Picketts had the world champion bareback horse last year in 17-year-old Top Flight. Photo by Skip Leon/The Mexia News
On a stretch of land at the end of a back road off another back road just outside of Fairfield, Cullen Pickett and his wife, Mandy, are raising bucking bulls and horses that are of championship caliber.
In 2018, their bareback bucking horse, Top Notch, was chosen as the best horse at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nev.
Last year, they earned their first world championship. Top Flight…