The Team Roping Journal

The Team Roping Journal magazine educates and entertains readers who actively participate in the sport. We help you to obtain the best results with step-by-step instruction in how to perform at a higher level and win more often

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SEPTEMBER 2022 • VOL. 6 NO. 1 Editor Chelsea Shaffer Senior Editor Kendra Santos Art Director Eva Young Sr. Managing Editor G.R. Schiavino Digital Editor Jenna Link Proofreader Jen Sullivan Prepress Manager Brad Burleson Publisher Benjie Lemon blemon
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That's Two
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VAN AKEN & DUNNING PAIR UP FOR FIRST-EVER WSTR AMERICAN RODEO QUALIFIER WIN
| industry news | new products | Arizona youth standout Denton Dunning just happened to be in Wyoming for the National High School Finals Rodeo, and a slight detour south to Cheyenne got the 16-year-old 9.5 heeler a chance at a piece of The American
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Fay Ranches Becomes Official Real Estate Sponsor Of Ariat Wstr
Fay Ranches was founded 30 years ago by Greg Fay and is one of the top real estate companies in the United States, and now the company is the official sponsor of the Ariat World Series of Team Roping. The Montana-based company focuses on large huntin
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Calgary Stampede Crowns First Team Roping Champs
In the first year of Calgary’s Rocky Mountain Cup, the team roping paid out $100,000 across three rounds and a sudden-death finals, bolstering the NFR hopes of teams that qualified to the invitational event, like champions Clint Summers and Ross Ashf
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Hirdes and Pearce are NFR Open's National Champs
Blake Hirdes and Dalton Pearce won the 2022 Pikes Peak or Bust NFR Open for the National Team Roping Championship after clocking a 5.3-second run during the sudden-death Gold Buckle Round on Saturday, July 16, 2022. The win—at what used to be the Ram
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At The Barrier New Products
yeti.com, $500 The Roadie 60 Wheeled Cooler is a maneuverable beast. With enough room for more than 50 cans and wheels to navigate bumpy terrain, this was made for hauling and areana-side adventures with the entire crew. Built with the same durabilit
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(At Home With)
| at home with | Jake Barnes | Clay O | icons | veteran salute | US programs Q: You come from a very close family, don’t you? A: Yes ma’am, and it’s the best thing. My Grandpa Victor and Grandma Myrtle (Begay) live really close to us, so I grew up wi
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Changing Times On The Scoring Front
When I first started rodeoing, the scores were longer and you had to give steers bigger head starts than they do today. We also gauged our starts a little different than they do now. Most everything was in relation “to the pin”— halfway to the pin, f
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So Long And Thank You, Cotton Rosser
I grew up in Southern California, and when I started rodeoing, a lot of the rodeos we went to were in California. Cotton Rosser ruled California, so that meant a lot of Rosser rodeos. Cotton was famous for barking orders and telling the timed-event g
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She-wolf
Tammy West-White is the co-owner of Best Ever Pads. She’s also the winningest female team roper in the history of the PRCA. According to White, it was never her intention to break the mold and, even today, you won’t hear her talk about her roping car
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Tour De Force
Bill Force is a Texas Senior Pro Rodeo Association team roper—the No. 2 header at time of print—who dreamed of playing professional tennis in his younger years. Instead, he joined the Marines. “My military career was a combination of active duty and
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Weston Baucom Makes Resistol Jr. Top 5
On the July 25 reporting, header Aiden Perrett maintained his lead with 74 points, while Walker Guy held onto second place with his 56 points. But Weston Baucom led the charge on a Top-5 shake-up for the No. 3 spot with 34 points, while Cole LeMaster
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HEADER SHAWNEE MURPHY & HEELERS SALLY BALL & TAYLOR PROESCH BECOMES TOP 5 CINCH LADIES
On the heading side of the USTRC’s Cinch Ladies standings, the Top 5 standings remain well in place with Texas’ Glover Coats maintaining her lead position with 32 points. New to the group as of the July 25 reporting, however, is Shawnee Murphy of Iow
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5 FLAT with Kaleb Driggers & Junior Nogueira
5 flat Brazile freeze frame inner strength game plan horsepower Nobody has ever had a more dominant regular season than reigning World Champions Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira have had in 2022. By the end of July, they'd already surpassed the reg
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Headers: How To Finish A Run When The Roping Is Flagged On The Heels
Please: Don’t stop forward motion or turn up the arena to the catch pen. The #8.5 is now the highest-paying, largest division in the Ariat World Series of Team Roping. And in June, the association announced that the #8.5 and the #7 will be flagged on
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Freeze Frame
Freeze Frame with Clay Tryan Photo by Tanya Hamner SITUATION: First Round, Sheridan WYO Rodeo RESULT: 6.5 seconds to win third in the round, worth $1,250 a man, and win the average with a 12.4 on two head, worth $2,862 each. STEER I knew they were 4.
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INNER STRENGTH with JD Yates
Time to Change? There are two schools of thinking on the start: The old-school method, where your horse is rolling from the corner, full-speed to the cow; and the newer style of throttling across the line. I’ve always preferred the old-school style,
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Lucky Bucky Lives Up To His Name
Just when we thought reigning World Champion Team Roper Junior Nogueira's horse herd couldn’t get any better, he buys Lucky Bucky from nine-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo heeler Cesar de la Cruz and steps up his already dominant game. Nogueira a
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What Makes A Winner?
"He wins every week." "That guy never misses." "She’s a great run in the #8.5." At every jackpot, big or small, you’re bound to notice someone who stands out. Someone who, more often than not, has a callback or two in the short round and walks to the
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When Team Roping Was Team Tying
Practically no one under 70 has seen it. It’s not on Wikipedia. Google’s never heard of it. But team roping was team tying in most of the country from the 1930s through the 1972 NFR. Like rodeo’s current events of steer and tie-down roping, it evolve
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No Wolves Allowed
Kirchenschlager. Harrison. Brazile. Richard. Yates. Those names have all dominated the futurity headlines since the sport exploded onto the scene back in 2017. Rope horse futurities have, without a doubt, been a game changer for the Open guys, the br
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NEW KID ON THE BLOCK: RIATA BUCKLE & ITS $2-MILLION PAYOUT
While the ARHFA has five years’ worth of history and the Royal Crown has two, the Riata Buckle is a brand new stallion incentive futurity program from Lance Robinson, Chad Beus and Denny Gentry. Robinson and Beus led the charge in the barrel racing i
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The Score
“When I started, there were really, really good horses because the steers were big and the scores were long. You didn’t rope as fast because those steers didn’t handle as fast. It was a different time—it was more about catching than it was about how
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Dear Roper
Dear Roper, The ProRodeo Hall of Fame’s Induction Ceremony took place during the production of this issue, a subject which Kendra Santos and I have both covered already on these pages. Trevor Brazile gave the last speech of that event, and in it, he

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