Rodeo Specialty Act

This year’s Sanpete County Fair Rodeo will feature the Whistle-Nut & Ole Rodeo Team as the event’s specialty act.

The Whistle-Nut & Ole Rodeo Team is a professional PRCA rodeo specialty act. Whistle-Nut, aka Jason Dent, is the barrel man and Ole is Whistle-Nut’s trained bull. Together, with a team of fighting bulls, Whistle-Nut & Ole perform in the United States and Canada for some of the most crowd-entertaining shows in professional rodeo.

Jason Dent was born and raised as a southern Iowa farm kid with an extraordinary love for agriculture and animals. He majored in agricultural business and rodeoed at Northwest Missouri State University. He rode bulls for 14 years before meeting his best friend, Ole.

Dent trained Ole, a double-bred, wrangler riverts bucking bull, to ride like a horse. When Ole was a 2-year-old, he wasn’t that interested in bucking, so Dent bought him and spent another two years training him. Dent said he coaxed Ole with wafer cookies during training.

Ole the bull and Whistle-Nut have been performing internationally for years. As a team, they have captured the hearts of everyone they come in contact with.

Dent is a professional athlete, stuntman, comedian, jokester and former semi-pro bull rider. On top of that, he’s a farmer, family man, auctioneer, celebrity and former reality show contestant, having been featured on CBS’s reality show “Big Brother 19” in 2017.