Clay Smith and Paul Eaves reclaimed their spot on top of the 2018 PRCA world standings in Round 5, winning the day-money with a 3.8 second run, worth $26,230.77. Smith and Eaves also moved from sixth to fifth in the average, with a 17.40 on four head. "I'm just trying to take a ...read more
Utah's Hank Robins, 33, and Kycen Winn, 21, dominated in the #13 YETI World Series of Team Roping Finale after knocking down four steers in 29.03 seconds, worth $234,000. "We just got good cattle and just roped them," Robins said. "We had about a full second. It took a lot of ...read more
There's just something about a buckskin. And there's really just something about a buckskin that runs and faces like Rhen Richard's Pepinic Buck, better known as Festus, who has helped Richard to fourth place in the average heading into Round 4 of the 2018 Wrangler National ...read more
Kyla Stamps, 15, sums it up pretty good after her release from the hospital last Sunday. “It’s been a great year and a really terrible year, all in the same boat,” she said. On the terrible side, just about a week before the family was due to pack up the trailer for the 20-hour ...read more
Round 5 will see the second run on the second pen of steers. In Round 2, the last time these steers ran, Clay Smith and Paul Eaves won the rodeo with a 4.0 followed by Cody Snow and Wesley Thorp's 4.1. Times jumped to a 4.6 from there. Here's what to expect in the round that will ...read more
No time. No time. No time. Lane Ivy and Buddy Hawkins were about to have to borrow their horses’ earplugs, so they wouldn’t have to listen to the announcers here at Rodeo’s Super Bowl repeat themselves like that. Lane and Buddy definitely did not come to Vegas with goose-egg ...read more
Round 4 starts the second runs on the first pen of steers. That's the biggest, strongest set, that saw headers like Derrick Begay get a barrier in Round 1 and guys like Riley Minor and Clay Smith take no-times. We asked NFR heeler and world-class horseman Billie Jack Saebens to ...read more
Derrick Begay and Cory Petska made the same run that skyrocketed them to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in just three months of full-time rodeo, making the fastest run of the Finals so far with a 4.0 worth $26,230.77 each. "We watched the video on the steer before the round ...read more
Derrick Begay isn't just riding for his home state of Arizona when he buzzes into the Thomas & Mack each night behind the Grand Canyon State's flag each night of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. What might go relatively unnoticed to television viewers and fans even in ...read more
The third round will give team roping fans the first opportunity to see the best set of steers in the herd of Bobby Joe Hill's M-branded cattle at the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. After the number one and two teams in the PRCA world standings, Kaleb Driggers and Junior ...read more
It shouldn’t be a drawing competition,” Oren Mathews, 54, asserted across the table over Mexican fare at El Rialto restaurant, in the heart of Las Vegas, New Mexico. He’s speaking specifically to drawing steers at a roping, and more broadly about his motivation to produce ...read more
Clay Smith got the first go-round win of his Wrangler National Finals Rodeo career when he and Paul Eaves were 4.0 in Round 2 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, winning $26,230.77 a man. The win got Smith and Eaves back on track in a hurry after they took a no-time in Round ...read more
