Details: If you were a calf or team roper in the west during the late 1940s, 50s or 60s, you just weren't mounted if you weren't straddlin' a Lucky Blanton.  The chestnut stallion was a top rope horse himself and probably put as many good rodeo hands horseback as any other stallion in the country.  For example, 13 of the ropers entered at the huge 1954 Salinas Rodeo were contesting on Lucky Blantons.