BLACKSBURG, Va. (August 4, 2010) - Reigning World Champion BullCode Blue received a clean bill of health on Tuesday afternoon following an examination at Virginia Tech.
Rick Wagoner, who co-owns the animal with Jimmy Walton and Chad Berger, said that after veterinarians examined X-rays, “everything looked good.”
The Virginia Tech facility is part of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinarian Medicine. Code Blue was examined in Blacksburg, Va., at the Harry T. Peters Jr. Large Animal Hospital, just over three hours from the ranch that houses him. Wagoner chose it over North Carolina State because of its experience with cattle.
“Jimmy and I are sitting here right now and we’re talking about taking him to Nashville and Memphis [Tenn.],” Wagoner said. “I don’t know, that’ll be 13 or 14 outs, and that should be plenty.”
“We might take him to one more. There’s one in Greenville, S.C., and Charlottesville, Va., but probably those four will be it,” added Wagoner, who has yet to finalize Code Blue’s schedule with PBR Livestock Director Cody Lambert. “I’ll know on Monday. I don’t want to drive back and forth, so you have to have enough bulls to get enough outs to justify your expenses.”
Lambert announced last Thursday during his weekly Podcast that he wasn’t going to use Code Blue until receiving a letter from a vet that medically cleared the bull for competition.
“Jimmy and I have watched that bull six, seven hours at a time and he was acting normal, walking the way he did, trotting the way he did,” said Wagoner. “Since we brought him back home he’s been in the big pen running, he’s been bucking and we didn’t think anything was wrong with him.”
