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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The Team Roping Journal
Editor, Publisher Chelsea Shaffer Senior Editor Kendra Santos Art Director Eva Young Sr. Managing Editor GR (Schiavino) Farthing Sr. Content Manager Lauren Feldman Digital Editor Taylor Vollin Proofreader Jen Sullivan Prepress Manager Brad Burleson A
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National Champs
Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira won the 2024 NFR Open in Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 13, stopping the clock in the final round in 4.4 seconds, pocketing $16,000 each for their efforts over the week. This came one week after they won $47,250 a
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KALEB DRIGGERS & JUNIOR NOGUEIRA SHATTER COWBOY CHRISTMAS TEAM ROPING RECORD WITH $47K IN 2024
Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira once again wear the Kings of Cowboy Christmas crowns, smashing the record they set in 2022 after raking in $47,275 a man in 2024. The 2021 and 2022 World Champions were the top money earners in the team roping this
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| At The Barrier | New Products
fastbackropes.com; price varies Available to the public beginning this September is Fast Back’s newest rope, The Hombre. A four-strand crafted with a core, the Hombre stands out with its vibrant orange color, ensuring exceptional visibility in any ar
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(At Home With)
Q: When did you start roping, and who got you started on the right track? A: I’ve been around it my whole life. My dad (Bucky) used to trip steers, and was 16th a time or two. My whole family—my mom’s side, too—ropes calves. So I grew up in it. I’ve
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Pay Day
Mario Licon and Jorge Hawkins roped four steers in 37.42 seconds to win $15,340 in Andrews, Texas, at the Ariat World Series of Team Roping qualifier produced by Mathews Land and Cattle. The event, held July 12-14, paid ropers some $408,050. ■
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Dear Roper
Dear Roper, You’re getting this issue as ProRodeo’s fourth quarter kicks off in the Northwest, as your kids go back to school and as you all enter up to get those last-minute Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale qualifications in. But as we’re wr
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Real Deal
JohnRyon Foster and Smoke And Glitter (by Big Bucks To Cash out of Big Smokin Otoe by Big As I Am) won the Cowtown Classic Futurity Intermediate Heeling July 7 with a score of 696.23 on three head, worth $3,960. They came back and made another jam-up
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Turning The Struggle Bus Around
Every team starts the year off with the game plan of setting the world on fire. The seasons of the year also apply to our sport, and there seem to be a wave of partner swaps after each one. Some of the teams that struggle in the winter make a change.
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Header Shawnee Murphy Claims No. 1 Spot On 2025 Ustrc Cinch Ladies Standings
As of July 24, 2024, Iowa’s Shawnee Murphy moved to the top of the Cinch Ladies Year-End Award heading race with 38 points while, in the heeling, Colorado’s Jimmi Jo Montera’s 17 points are safe for first, for now. Shawnee Murphy, 17, first dipped he
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Roping Can Be Hard On Your Head
Roping for a living is a different life, and every season—winter, spring, summer and fall—is important. It’s feast or famine, and controlling your emotions and sticking to your game plan are important. It’s a mind game out there, and sometimes that’s
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5 FLAT with Billie Jack Saebens
Billie Jack Saebens and The Notorious BIG stand out for their big stops, but how does Saebens make it happen on the 2018 son of CD Lights out of AQHA/PRCA Horse of the Year DT Sugar Chex Whiz? And, more importantly perhaps, how does that slide help S
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Next Level with Joseph Harrison
Think you’re going to lose a leg? Here’s one way it happens and how Joseph Harrison hangs on. This is a futurity run on my 5-year-old, Copperton. On the back side of the turn, the steer took his head away from Blake (Hughes) and got flat. When he doe
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Next Generation Perspective
I can see that now, but I couldn’t see it then because I just wanted to do well. I made it to Nationals one time in the team roping and lost my rope, and I never made it in the calf roping. It’s two and a short. If Greeley was Nationals, did Kaleb Dr
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Freeze Frame
Freeze Frame with Cooper Freeman Photo by Hailey Rae Copy by Taylor Vollin SITUATION: Cody Stampede TIME: 4.2 seconds PAYOUT: $6,657 a man We hadn’t been making very many good runs. Then we went up there and checked the draw and we knew we had a pret
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JUST MEANT TO BE: COLEMAN PROCTOR & JESSE JAMES
How many cowboys can relate to what Coleman Proctor went through when his horse Jesse James never took a lame step until he priced him for big money? This one was supposed to be a barrel horse, not a head horse. Then he was supposed to be someone els
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Fight For the NFR Finish Line
Here comes the 2024 regular-season finish line. One last mad dash for the weary rodeo road warriors who’ve been out there all year working toward the golden Top 15 ticket to rope at the Thomas & Mack Center in December. Ever seen someone who’s just r
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Gone D'Arc
One year ago, Tierney Perkins was closing the gate to the horse pasture on her Clarksville, Texas, ranch when a violent wind blew in, snatching her long, dark hair off her shoulders and lashing it northward. She shielded her face from the suddenly st
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RIATA: 2024's Richest Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale Qualifier
Riata began as a vision to bring together team ropers—who make up the largest recreational market in the horse industry—and the breeding business. In just three short years, Riata has doubled in size, all while maintaining entry fees that are a fract
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All the Pretty Horses
A DASH TA STREAK A CAT WITH SWAGGER A GUY WITH PROOF A STREAK OF FLING AINT SEEN NOTHIN YET ALONE DRIFTER BADBOONARISING BAMACAT BET HE SPARKS BET HESA BOON BET HESA CAT BET HESA FRECKLED CAT BET HESA GINNIN BIG LEW BIG MACS MIRACLE BIG SHINE IN COWT
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The Score
WHY IS NOW A GREAT TIME TO PICK HORSE TRAINING INSTEAD OF RODEOING? “The horse market is as strong as it’s ever been—I think everybody would probably agree with that, surely. It’s just a good time, you know? If you get something trained up and he’s g
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Cheyenne Wstr Super Qualifier "The Daddy" Pays $1.7 Million
The Ariat World Series of Team Roping’s Cheyenne, Wyoming, Super Qualifier “The Daddy” hosted a record 4,531 teams and paid out $1,760,000 July 18 to July 23, 2024. The event, in its 18th year, was also a Riata Mini Qualifier, with $30,000 going to r
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Ustrc Resistol Jr. Heelers Surge In Latest Standings Update
Missouri header Wyatt Walker maintained his lead in the USTRC Resistol Jr. race by a narrow margin. Meanwhile, North Carolina heeler Cole Shook is still in the No. 1 position, but he now shares the spot with Alabama’s Brit Smith. This is month, Diamo

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