Round 10 of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is setting up to be a shootout between Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira, Clay Smith and Paul Eaves, Derrick Begay and Cory Petska and Aaron Tsinigine and Trey Yates. [LISTEN: Begay and Petska on The Short Score, Round 9] ...read more
When Main Street Boon was born at Phil Rapp's Ranch in Weatherford, Texas, the National Cutting Horse Association's all-time leading rider had some big dreams for the sorrel colt. Out of the second-all-time leading mare in the cutting business Playboys Ruby, "Street" was by the ...read more
Round 9 is the last run on the best set of steers in the bunch. It's the same round in which Chad Masters and Jade Corkill broke the world record in 2009, and it's do-or-die time for everyone who wants a shot at a gold buckle Saturday night. Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira ...read more
Texas' Hondo Fryar and Luke McClanahan hung on to their second call-back position from the first rotation coming into the short round, where they roped their last steer in 7.70 seconds to win the #11 Boehringer Ingelheim World Series of Team Roping Finale with a time of 31.88 ...read more
Bubba Buckaloo and Chase Tryan won Round 8 of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a 3.6-second run, the fastest time of the week, worth $26,230.77. "We found out we had the steer that they were 3.6 plus 5 on in Round 5, and we were really excited to have him," Buckaloo, ...read more
Caden Tinsley and Tate Thompson won the Junior NFR #10 2018 World Championship and Finals average and $2,680 a man for their time of 49.38 on five head at the Las Vegas Convention Center December 11-13. They banked a total of $3,685 each for their week's efforts, including a ...read more
The race for the world standings is as tight as ever, with Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira battling it out with Clay Smith and Paul Eaves for the leaders of the pack. Sleepers like average leaders Aaron Tsinigine and Trey Yates and number-three-heeler Joseph Harrison are all ...read more
Derrick Begay has regretted missing two steers in his entire life: One to win the George Strait with Cory Petska in 2016, and the Round 6 steer at the 2018 Wrangler NFR. So it's no surprise he came with it in Round 7, tying Luke Brown and Jake Long with a 3.9-second run worth ...read more
Oklahoma's Bob Freeman and Nick Sartain came from fourth callback to win the #12 Ariat World Series of Team Roping after roping four head in 30.23 seconds, worth $272,000. "We prayed on the way around there and I said I want to do a good job for him," Sartain said. "He turned him ...read more
Paul Eaves is leading the PRCA team roping world standings after six rounds of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, sitting second in the average with partner Clay Smith with a 21.90 on five head. So far, Eaves has won $81,782.05 in Vegas, and he's done it aboard a horse ...read more
Round 7 of the team roping will feature the third run on the strongest set of steers. After a disastrous Round 6 in the team roping, everyone is looking for a bit of redemption in Round 7, and lots of teams are out of the average going for first every night. Nine-time NFR header ...read more
Tyler Wade and Cole Davison got their first paycheck of the week in Round 6 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a 3.9-second run, worth $26,230.77 a man—enough to help them breathe a sigh of relief after a week of misses and legs. Their win came in a go-round that saw ...read more
Round 6 will feature the best pen of steers at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. The round should get fast, and Dustin Bird, who has $953,269 in PRCA career earnings and five NFR go-round wins to his name, knows a thing about fast rounds in the Thomas & Mack. Bird breaks down ...read more
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 ...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
In their first time roping together, Arizona's Chad Smith and Texas' Steve Purcella won the Priefert #14 World Series of Team Roping Finale from ninth callback after roping four head in 30.11 seconds, worth $178,000. "Chad did a good job of sticking it on the horns and making it ...read more
Lane Ivy and Buddy Hawkins put themselves on the board in a big way with a win in Round 4 of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, stopping the clock in 4.1 seconds worth $26,230.77 a man. The win came after Ivy missed his first three steers in his first appearance in the Thomas ...read more
In just five short years, Junior Nogueira has amassed $1 million in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association earnings, rolling over the coveted mark in Round 4 of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a 4.3-second, fourth-and-fifth-place winning run worth $8,884.61 a man. As ...read more
Kaleb Driggers has found success through the first three rounds of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo aboard perhaps one of the most prolific head horses of the last five years. Yahtzee—registered as Bar Z Nickel Olena, a 14-year-old grandson of Doc Olena out of a Colonels ...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
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
Jade O’Brien Smith could have cared less when his world heading standings leader dad, Clay, missed the first steer on opening night at the $10 million 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo for partner Paul Eaves. After Clay and Paul rallied in 4-flat to win Round 2, seven-month-old ...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
Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira jumped out ahead of the pack with a 4.2-second run in Round 1 of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Round 2 will feature a medium pen of steers not all that different than in Round 1, with some teams looking to throw it over the gates to ...read more
Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira won Round 1 of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, stretching their steer in 4.2 seconds to add $26,230.77 to each man's PRCA world standings total. The win was a tick of the clock off their 4.1-second run that won Round 1 in 2017, and ...read more
The first round of the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo will feature the strongest set of steers in the team roping, and ropers are just dying to get that first one down clean. Here are some team roping tidbits to look for as you prepare to watch Round 1 of the 2018 Wrangler ...read more
Wesley Thorp was afoot come the end of ProRodeo's 2018 regular season, after his great brown horse, Lex, was sidelined by a torn meniscus at the Cheyenne Frontier Days. Heading into his third consecutive Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Thorp sits eighth in the PRCA world ...read more
During the American Rope Horse Futurity this past October, I crashed at Ryan and Courtney Motes' house in Weatherford, Texas. Getting in late one night, I sat on the couch and worked on some stories for The Team Roping Journal's special Arizona Guide. After roping all day, Motes ...read more
There are five returning team roping world champions headed to the 2018 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo: Clay Tryan (2005, 2013 and 2014), Chad Masters (2007 and 2012), Aaron Tsinigine (2015), Erich Rogers (2017) and Cory Petska (2017). No world championship team exists in the ...read more
The United States Team Roping Championships completed its 29th offering of the Cinch National Finals of Team Roping in Oklahoma City on October 27, paying out $3.7 million as the second-richest team roping in the world. Some 9,000 teams competed during the event making this once ...read more
The Team Roping Journal was built around good story telling, and it's something our stand-out staff strives for every single day on this website and every month in the print magazine that arrives in your mailbox. These are just a few of the stories that come to mind when I think ...read more
Reigning World Champion Header Erich Rogers of Round Rock, Arizona, and his first-time NFR heeler partner Clint Summers of Lake City, Florida, won the first-ever World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) Jackpot at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma, with a time of 32.10 seconds ...read more
Karen Hering, 67, spent her life in the saddle—whether she was moving cows on her family's ranch near Alvin, Texas, or heading and heeling in the Coors Original Team Roping Association with her friends. But after years battling degenerative conditions in her hips brought on by ...read more
When Derrick Begay, Erich Rogers, and Aaron Tsinigine devised a plan to host a roping school for Native American youth, 2015 World Champion Header Tsinigine had something to say about how the school would be funded. "As a kid I never had the money to go to a roping school," ...read more
Texas' Jeffery Parsley and Billy Tosh won the #8 Shoot-Out after roping four head in 36.44 seconds, worth $34,000 at USTRC's Cinch National Finals of Team Roping. "I just told Billy that we just need to try to be clean and don't break the barrier," Parsley said. "My horse kind ...read more
Texas' Clay Emmons and Doug A. Miller won $25,000 and $10,000 Ram Truck vouchers after winning the #8 RAM Exclusive with a time of 41.05 seconds on four head. "We didn't know," Miller said. "We just knew we'd be up there a little bit but we had no clue that we'd be high team. We ...read more
Texans Steven and Shayne Bomar roped four head in 35.85 seconds to win the #9 Shoot-Out, worth $42,000. "We were like a 14.90-something," son Steven said. "I was eighteenth callback in there too and I missed that one. I just roped the back of his body. When I came back around ...read more
Oklahoma's Justin Turner and Nelson Taylor won the #9 RAM Exclusive roping after roping four head in 38.13 seconds, worth $29,000, Bob's Custom Trophy saddles, $10,000 RAM Truck vouchers, and more. "We roped in the #10 and didn't do any good," Turner said. "We had a couple of ...read more
AUSTIN, TEXAS and PUEBLO, COLO.—Seeing strong growth in the number of western sports fans in Chicago, PBR (Professional Bull Riders) and World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) today announced a major western sports weekend in the city, combining the two sports in three days of ...read more
Texas' Jeff Anderberg and New Mexico's Butch Whitten came from fourth callback and made a 6.96-second run to move them to the top of the leaderboard at the #12 USTRC/WSTR Finale Qualifier held at the Cinch National Finals of Team Roping. They won the average with a time of 30.93 ...read more
Missouri's Brian Sellers and Marty Claiborn won the #10 Ram Exclusive after roping four head in 31.88 seconds, worth $33,000 and each roper received a $10,000 RAM truck voucher. "Our short round run was good," Sellers said. "I think we were about a 6-second-run–I don't recall ...read more
Missouri's Jack Foster and Jason O'Brien banked $47,000 after roping four head in 29.68 seconds in the #10 Shoot-Out at USTRC's Cinch NFTR. They roped three head in 21.16 seconds to put them in the number-one spot going into the short round. While the short round began Foster and ...read more
Oklahoma’s Joseph Harrison has qualified for his second trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo come December with header Chad Masters. Harrison banked $104,515.04 during ProRodeo's regular season, putting him fourth in the standings. Harrison's mare, Lula Dual, was also ...read more
Missouri's Cody Stutenkemper and Chris Pomeroy won the #12 Exclusive after roping four head in 30.23 seconds, worth $33,500, plus $10,000 Ram Truck Vouchers, at the USTRC Cinch NFTR. "We just tried to be focused," Pomeroy said. "We kept telling each other that for every steer we ...read more
There are good days in team roping, and then there are great days. And for Oklahoma's Colton Scott, Tuesday, October 23, was a great day. Scott first won the #12 Shoot-Out heeling for family-friend Briar Teague, stretching four steers in 29.65 seconds worth $45,500. Just hours ...read more
Texas header Hali Williams now has back-to-back #11 Shoot-Out wins under her belt, last year with Garrett Chick and in 2018 with Colorado's Bodie Hine. Williams, daughter of eight-time PRCA world champion header Speed Williams turned four steers in 28.96 seconds for Hine, who ...read more
