Jackpots

In Denver, each new year kicks off with the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, a Colorado tradition since 1906. It’s a tradition that team roper Dr. Jason Stoneback has taken part in since he began working with the Justin Sports Medicine Team in 2011. Getting to work behind ...read more

Horse trainer Casey Hicks’ winning weekend started off after he heeled four steers behind Dick Yates in a time of 33.12 to earn $4,300. He then went on to dominate in the #12 where he roped with Jimmy Suggs to take home first in the average with a 30.46 on four head worth $19,260 ...read more

There’s really nothing like the creek of the swing of the back gate of an old steel stock trailer as it bangs against the pipe alley it’s backed up to, followed by a few whoops and hollers, and then the clambering of hooved feet as they jump off the trailer into their new ...read more

Team roper Jeff Busby, 55, of Brock, Texas, spent his early years chopping weeds in cotton fields for $1 an hour. As an engineer in his garage some years later, he began what would become Av-DEC, a company that specializes in anti-corrosion aviation technologies and caters to the ...read more

Q: What does it mean to you to end the year in the #1 spot?A: It means quite a bit, even though it wasn’t anything like battling out to the last round. I had a big enough lead that I kind of had it sewn up before I even got there. The gap was big, but it’s still awesome. I ended ...read more

Jaxson Tucker, 16, dominated both the Open and #15 at the South Georgia Classic in Perry, Georgia, December 29, 2017. In the Open, Tucker headed for partner Ty Ethridge to turn in a time of 32.74-seconds on four head worth a total of $3,030. Not long after, Tucker roped in the ...read more

At the Journal, we’ve attempted to corral all of the fuss on these pages. That’s an impossibility, but we’re hoping this package is an entertaining and resourceful glance at snowbird paradise, whether you’ve already nabbed a second home in the Valley of the Sun or are taking your ...read more

W.T. Ridings was going to school at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater when he got a letter May 20, 1958, from then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, telling him his service was needed in a conflict on the Korean Peninsula, some 6,614 miles away. "I had never even thought ...read more

Doug Rich began college with a rodeo scholarship to Western Oklahoma State College after taking the all-around, tie-down and team roping titles at the 2013 Illinois High School Rodeo Association State Finals. Rich is in his final semester at University of Tennessee at Martin, ...read more

It would be understandable for a couple of brothers, busy starting families and running the companies they founded, to let their team-roping hobby slide. After all, who has time while scouting projects, managing businesses, and building custom homes to work the arena, saddle the ...read more

Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira won the United States Team Roping Championships Cinch Jeans National Finals of Team Roping Open and $53,400 by roping five steers in 32.05 seconds, including a 5.54-second short round run. Nogueira won $50,000 earlier in the day with partner ...read more

Texas' Cooper Hatley and Brazil's Junior Nogueira roped four steers in 27.2 seconds to win $50,000 at the #15 Shoot-Out at the United States Team Roping Championship's Cinch National Finals of Team Roping. Hatley also placed fourth with Louisiana's Jonathan Torres with a time of ...read more

Number and End  I’m a 5 heeler.  Louisiana Ropings We can go to a roping every weekend. We don’t have the little jackpot ropings during the week. When you get east of the Mississippi, you’re dealing with the blue collar people that work eight to 10 hours a day, Monday through ...read more

Colorado’s Jessica Amicarella and Hawaii’s Riley Pedro took home the number-one spot in the #13 at the World Series in Gill, Colo. Their team turned in a time of 36.96-seconds on four head to split $3,069. “The steers were strong—our first two steers were really strong,” Pedro ...read more

Ree Dees and Joe Mike Clem teamed up for the #12 World Series of Team Roping qualifier produced by Mathews Land & Cattle in Las Cruces, New Mexico, last month, turning in a time of 33.5 seconds on four head to take home $7,490 and a trip to the WSTR Finale. Dees works for Joe ...read more

Originally from New Jersey’s farm country, Bob graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in animal sciences before taking a livestock management job on an Angus ranch in Montana. Colorado called to him next, where he wrangled a dude string for Sombrero Ranches’ Rex ...read more

Garrett Rogers had a stand-out year in 2016, qualifying for his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, winning the Canadian Finals Rodeo with Jake Minor and winning the Mike Cervi Memorial with Cory Petska. But it was the lessons he learned in 2015 that set him up for the big year ...read more

Northern ExposureGrowing up in Canada, you get six months a year to rope. Then it’s very cold, and it’s not very fun to rope in the winter. You might not have an indoor arena close by, and a lot of guys just turn horses out. In Stephenville (Texas), you rope 365 days a year. ...read more

Maddy Deerman won the breakaway roping at the Sandhills Stock Show and Rodeo’s Invitational, a jackpot held the Tuesday before the rodeo. Her time of 8.6 seconds on three head earned her a $2,500 scholarship to Odessa College. ...read more

I don’t know if you’re ever really ready to rodeo. It’s tough, and you have to have an open mind. Very few people make the NFR their first year because there’s a lot of learning curves in rodeo. You have to learn how to enter, how to win and how everything works. But there are a ...read more

The Women’s Professional Rodeo Association’s roping division amended its rules for 2017, allowing girls under 18 years old to join their mothers, sisters and friends as full roping members, a move that looks to expand the association for the “wolfie” young guns, roping director ...read more

Jade Corkilllives in Stephenville, Texas, with his sons, Colby and Kelton, and wife, Haley.You have to put in the effort. Work ethic matters. If this is all we do, there’s no reason to not put as much work into it as we possibly can. You go through good times, bad times, ...read more

Photo by Jennings PhotographySafety First The first thing for sure is safety. I want to know that they’re safe. I want to know that if I’m not out there with my kid, they’re not going to get in a wreck. I want my kids to be able to ride a lot and get used to saddle time, and the ...read more

Number and End: I’m a 7 heeler and a 6+ header, but I primarily like to heel. Association of Preference: My favorite association is the World Series of Team Roping. It pays really well, and the ropings are enjoyable to go to. Rope of Choice: I use the Heat Classic medium. ...read more

Give your practice a purpose. To do this you must know what you need and your horses need to get better. XFactorRoping.com provides you with specific drills and training techniques from the best ropers and horse trainers in the industry. Transform your training at ...read more

Get SpecificWhen I’m practicing, instead of just having a good day and thinking everything feels good, I want to know exactly what I am looking at, what I am seeing, what steps I’m executing to make everything feel good. When you get to a high-pressure situation, all of the ...read more