Logan Medlin needed a change after a no-time in Round 5, and there’s no better option than swapping back to his legendary two-time Heel Horse of the Year, Nita Win Playboy (“Drago”).
Medlin, heeling for Coleman Proctor, stopped the clock in 4.0 seconds, splitting last hole in the toughest round to date at this year’s Finals, worth $2,717 a man. He’s now seventh in the PRCA world standings with $189,504 won, while his header has $202,738 won and is working toward an all-around world title. Proctor has $232,650.35 in the all-around, and has to make up a $62,073.34 deficit behind Shad Mayfield and Junior Nogueira over the last four rounds.
“I just wanted to try a different feel,” Medlin explained. “Now that we are down two steers in the average, we are going to have to go at the rounds for us to get where we want to be. I have a lot of confidence on that horse for those type of situations.”
Nita Win Playboy is a 2009 gelding by High Caliber Kurtis out of Nita Win Freckles by Freckle Image, raised in Hereford, Texas, by Ronnie Mahaley and sold as a yearling through the Clovis Horse Sale to Rusty Henard, a rancher neighbor of the Medlin family. Medlin threw him to the fire back in 2015 in the Northwest, and he’s not looked back since. He qualified for his first Finals in 2020, and he last rode him in Las Vegas in 2022, but got off him when he wasn’t 100%. Drago has subbed in and out for TRR Freckles Hollidoc, Medlin’s new No. 1, at the rodeos all season in 2024, but this is his first Finals appearance since 2022.
