Skip to content

The Museum will close at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 for an event.

National Rodeo Hall of Fame
Inducted in 1979
Andy Jauregui

Andy Jauregui

1903-1990

California

EVENTS
Rodeo Livestock Contractor
Steer Roper, Champion, 1931
Team Roper, Champion, 1934

Born on a ranch near Ventura, California, in 1903, Leandro “Andy” Jauregui grew up breaking and training horses. In 1918, at age 16, he won his first saddle-bronc contest at Santa Barbara. An active competitor in the 1920s and 1930s, he won the calf roping at Pendleton in 1935 and at Cheyenne in 1939. He captured the RAA steer-roping championship in 1931 and the team-roping crown in 1934.

In 1933 Jauregui bought the Jay Spear Rodeo Ranch near Newhall, California, and put together a string of rodeo stock. A contractor for 30 years, he was famous for halter breaking his animals and working them from a picket line, to ensure their health and stamina.

Hollywood called Andy Jauregui in the 1920s, and he doubled for John Wayne, Ken Maynard, Tom Mix, and other actors. Jauregui’s stunt work included the Academy Award winning film Cimarron (1931), starring Richard Dix. The Virginian, starring Joel McCrea, was filmed on Jauregui’s Jay Spear Rodeo Ranch. Andy Jauregui retired to his Newhall spread in 1976. He died in 1990.

More to Explore

Stay Connected

Sign up for our e-newsletter