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Individual stories of personal triumph, evolution and horses are hidden in the history books of the longest-running open roping of its kind—the Bob Feist Invitational. From baby-faced, young champs who’ve cashed big checks to legends who’ve won back-to-back titles at the Feist, lives have been changed over the long scores and strong cattle of the BFI.

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Brooks Dahozy breaks down the second round from the Open Title Fights in Wickenburg, Arizona.

Brown and Corkill win the 2019 Broc Cresta Memorial Open roping from second call-back.

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Cody Snow breaks down his and Wesley Thorp's winning run from the 27th Annual Invitational Open Team Roping Jackpot in Odessa, Texas.

Stran Morris and Dustin Searcy win $11,000 in #15.5 at the Wildfire Roping in Hamilton, Texas.

Stamps’ first year as a card-carrying USTRC member finds her at the top of the ladies’ leader board, as well as in a 50-point tie for third in the Junior NFR #10.

Up-and-comers lighting up the Junior NFR ranks.

After deciding to get focused and get serious about winning, Swayze took the #1 spot in the Cinch Ladies Standings and is currently in second.

Sterlin English, 15, of Benen, New Mexico, won first and second in the average at the Junior NFR Open qualifier at the Downs’ Classic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this February, giving him an early lead in the Junior NFR points standings for the event’s $100,000-added finals in Las Vegas this December.

Clay Smith has led the PRCA World Standings since the season began in October 2017. He and heeler Paul Eaves have a $10,000 lead on the rest of the pack with $56,537.02 won as of Friday, June 15. Smith and Eaves will start their assault on the regular season in Reno, Nevada, first at the Bob Feist Invitational, then at the Reno Rodeo and on to the Fourth of July run.

The Bob Feist Invitational’s six-head marathon on a long score with fresh cattle is just as much a mental test as it is a physical feat. Clay Tryan, who has won the Bob Feist Invitational three times and amassed $214,111 in earnings there alone, has built up the kind of mental endurance it takes to battle the best in the business in Reno’s Livestock Center the third Monday in June and come out on top, time and time again.

Now tied for second, Outlaw was tied with Jo Ann Merritt for the top spot when she won the WPRA All-Girl at the Patriot in February and took home a cool $10,000.

After Jason Smith’s hall of fame college football career at Baylor University, the St. Louis Rams used their second overall pick to select him in the 2009 NFL Draft. The native Texan played five seasons—2009-2013—as an offensive tackle in the NFL, with the Rams, the New York Jets and the New Orleans Saints. Smith, who turned 32 on April 30, first picked up a rope in 2003, and has been at it ever since. He now lives with his wife, Dacie; 3-year-old son, Jate; and baby girl, Drue, in Fairfield, Texas.

How carbon monoxide poisoning took the life of one of team roping’s bright young cowboys, and why it should never, ever happen again.

Denny Gentry joined RFD-TV's The American's Randy Bernard May 29 to announce a partnership between the World Series of Team Roping and The American.

Wengert, a horseshoer and owner of Wengert Land and Cattle, heeled four steers in 31.80 seconds behind fellow Arizonan and truck driver Brady Alexander to win the #11 Boehringer Ingelheim Finale from third callback with a short-round run of 7.79 to take home $309,000.

Randy Brooks has never missed a World Series of Team Roping Finale, despite serious injuries.

Smith and Nokes roped four steers in 31.10 seconds to win $290,000 in the World Series of Team Roping's #12 Ariat Finale.

Lewis runs West Texas Equine Clinic in Abilene, Texas.