Jesse and Reed Boos placed in all three rounds and the average at the North American Championship Rodeo in Louisville, Kentucky, to walk away the 2025 Great Lakes Circuit year-end champions.
The brothers from White Cloud, Kansas, took home $8,040 apiece for their time in Louisville and solidified their spot at the 2026 NFR Open in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
All or Nothing
The Boos brothers came into the Great Lakes Circuit Finals sitting first and second in the standings, respectively, setting them up to lay it all on the line on three head.
Their 6.8-second first-round run, good for $2,193 a man, kicked off their weekend right—something Jesse had been craving in that arena.
“I’ve never done any good there, ever,” Jesse explained. “I don’t know why, but that’s just how it works. But Reed wanted to go at all of them. We were at a rodeo; we needed to take it just one steer at a time, go as fast as we can and just be smart, but not just back off and go catch. I knew Reed was a couple thousand behind the lead guy, Cooper Bruce, and I knew that Dylan Breitsprecher, he was second by a couple hundred bucks.”
“I’ve been second in the average the last three years,” Reed added. “I just told him, man, as a team, we’ve never been good at just catch. You bomb, and I just catch—that seems to work best for us. Our plan was just to win as much money as possible, and if we won the circuit, great.”
The plan was in play after the first steer. The second round was faster, but the brothers answered the call with a 5.6-second run for another $2,193-a-man payday.
“On the second one, Jesse does what he does, drills the barrier and throws his whole rope and ducks him, and I was like, I better just catch,” Reed said.
They held on to tie for last hole on the final steer with their 10.6-second run for $365 each, a run that won them a $3,289-a-man average check for their 23.0 seconds on three head.
As far as horsepower goes, Jesse started out on his 13-year-old gelding DRB Pocos 2—“Woody”—before switching to a grade mare he calls “Gracie.”
Reed stayed on Reys Time—“One Time”—the same 5-year-old gelding that has been getting the call since he sold his good horse in the spring.
Great Lakes Success
Jesse and Reed’s work in Louisville secured their 2025 Great Lakes Circuit year-end title and capped a year of capitalizing on the bigger rodeos.
The plan was never to rodeo full time this year, but after picking up some wins, it was hard for them not to keep going.
“When we decided to rope at the beginning of the year, my plan was really not to rodeo,” Reed told The Team Roping Journal back in September 2025. “We really weren’t going to go at all. But then we were like, man, we might have a chance. The next thing you know, August is over, and we’ve got almost $30,000 won. But it was not the plan to win.”
“We had very good luck at the bigger rodeos,” Jesse said of their year. “The small rodeos helped a lot too, but we’ve done good at the bigger ones, and that really helped us a lot.”
Looking forward, the brothers are, at the very least, going to head to Colorado Springs in the summer—but the rest of the plan is up in the air for now.
“I want to get more into the futurity stuff, but now that we made the NFR Open, I will at least go to that,” Reed said.
“He wasn’t going to buy his card,” Jesse admitted about his older brother. “I’m sure I’m going to go to a handful of rodeos, maybe try to do the same things we did this year.”
The 2026 NFR Open is set for July 14–18 during the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo in Colorado Springs.
