The 2026 PRCA regular season ends with a first-ever standalone event: four head, $75,000 added, all of it counting toward the world standings.

With some fighting for a chance at a trip to Las Vegas and some just there to collect as much of the payout as possible, there is one factor that must be considered—the cattle.

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The Last Hoorah runs Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 377 Arena in Stephenville, Texas. PRCA Hall of Famer Tee Woolman, who, along with 377 owner Troy Gibbs, is putting on the roping and supplying the cattle, and has had his hands on this set for more than a year.

Numbers You Need to Know

• $75,000 added ($37,500 per side)
• 90 teams
• 3 head, plus a short round
• 124 steers in the set
• 18 ft: length of the heading box, start will be determined on site
• +/- 500 pounds: what the steers weigh
• $4,194.28: a go-round win, per man
• $8,388.56: the aggregate win, per man
• $22,203.90: a perfect day, per man
• $768.74: gap between No. 15 header Ketch Kelton and No. 16 Nelson Wyatt
• $1,199.69: gap between No. 15 heeler Colter Todd and No. 16 Wyatt Cox
• 1 p.m. Central: first steer, streaming on Cowboy+ and XFactor Roping

The Setup

PRCA team roping event representative Kaleb Driggers sets the barrier. Woolman said Driggers told him it would be one under or even, with the head box at 377 measuring at 18 ft.

The set has 124 head, so every team gets a fresh one in the first round. The cattle are also all branded and tagged and will be drawn, just like at every PRCA rodeo in the country.

Whose Steers

Woolman calls them “our steers,” but they belong to Wagon Road Ranch, Gibbs’ operation.

“We’ve had them for over a year,” Woolman said.

When the steers came in as potentials and after a year of growing, Woolman said they’ll be “pushing 500 (lbs) or touch over.”

How They’ve Been Broke In

“They’ve been circled twice, once around a half head with a knot rope, and once around the horns,” Woolman said.

Tyler Worley helped him circle them, and Andrew Livingston helped with some of the work.

Each steer has had two live runs. The first came at a roping at 377 a couple of weeks ago, and the second was last week at Woolman’s house.

“They got one real run, that’s it,” he said.

On Tuesday, Woolman got them wrapped, penned them and sent them through two or three times so they could see the sights and know where the stripping chute is before it all kicks off.

Bigger, Fresher, Stronger

Just about every team in the fight has a major jackpot or mulitple-head rodeo win under their belt, meaning the setup itself shouldn’t be that big of a factor. Woolman thinks this set of steers will make them rope differently than they would at a jackpot.

“The steers are going to dictate what they can do,” he said. “They’re not like jackpot steers that’s been roped—you’re going to have to help them a little bit. They’re big and they’re strong. Them guys that ride around the end of them and think they’re going to heel them and stop them, it’s not going to happen. They’re going to have to be a little more controlled with it.”

That’s a change for teams that have spent September playing the planes, trains, and automobiles game between rodeos chasing the top 15.

“They haven’t been nowhere like that in the last month,” Woolman said.

Don’t Call It a Jackpot

It happens on a Wednesday afternoon in the Cowboy Capital, but the ropers entered have been clear: this is a three-head rodeo with a short round, not a jackpot.

“It’s not going to feel like a jackpot,” Woolman said. “That place is going to be packed. We put extra bleachers in.”

Why Now

“If I was 15th after the Governor’s Cup, I probably wouldn’t like it,” Woolman said. “But if I was 16th, I would be loving it. It’s good no matter what. It’s $75,000 they’ve never had before.”

Woolman said the reason for putting it on the last day of the season came straight from Gibbs.

“Troy wanted to make a difference in the standings,” Woolman said. “He loves rodeo.”

The 16th-Place Game Plan

If Woolman were sitting just outside the top 15, here’s how he’d play it:

“I’m going to try to win the first-day money. I’m not going to go stupid, but I’m going to try to win the first-day money, and then I’ve got the ball in my court. When you’re behind, you’ve got to catch up. You’re going to have to press a little bit.”

As for who he’s pulling for, he isn’t saying.

“I just want my roping, rodeo, whatever you want to call it, to be good,” he said. “Everybody has a fairly legitimate shot.”

More Last Hoorah Coverage

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• Spoiler Alert: The NFR Veterans With Nothing to Lose at the Last Hoorah
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