Kash Bonnett and Logan Cullen have stayed steady in 2026, with Bonnett’s $17,603.68 won on the head side and Cullen’s $18,717.21 on the heel side leading the Maple Leaf Circuit.

For Alberta’s 25-year-old Bonnett and 23-year-old Cullen, their success has come from the same thing they have been doing for years: roping together every day.

“We rope every day here and rope every day in Arizona,” Cullen said. “I know what he’s going to do every time, and it just makes my job easy.”

That familiarity has become one of the biggest advantages for the 2025 Canadian Professional Rodeo Association champions, who are in their second season rodeoing together.

Bonnett and Cullen spend their winters in Arizona, where they are next-door neighbors. Back home in Alberta, they live only a few miles apart and continue practicing together throughout the year.

“We rope every day all year long pretty much,” Bonnett said. “I think our horsepower fits pretty good. We both have two pretty good horses and they match up pretty good. We’ve been getting it up a lot and our styles fit.”

Their first win of the season came at Falkland, British Columbia, in May, where they were 4.4 seconds to take home $4,194.

“That was the first place we did good at,” Cullen said. “Kash did a great job and got on the steer fast and made my job easier.”

From there, they went to Red Deer, Alberta, and ran one in 4 seconds to win $7,537.

“It’s an inside rodeo, so it’s a lot easier to try to go fast and just catch,” Bonnett said. “That has seemed to be fitting our style here lately.”

The pair also picked up a third-place check at Marwayne, Alberta, and a second-place check at Brooks, Alberta, before adding another win at Rocky Mountain House in less-than-ideal conditions.

“It was really muddy and raining and gross,” Bonnett said. “I kind of hit the barrier and sent it and got a neck and gave a little bit of a whip, and Logan kind of pulled off a Hail Mary heel shot and it all worked out.”

For Cullen, one of the biggest keys to their success is the type of look Bonnett gives him on the head side.

“He gets it on the head and then normally he just rolls them out of there,” Cullen said. “I can send my horse to the same spot every time and the cow is normally right there every single time.”

Bonnett, who lives in Ponoka, Alberta, farms and ranches with his family when he is not rodeoing. His main rodeo horse is Joe, registered as Boy Wrangler Lark, and he also has a 7-year-old gray horse, Greg, registered as Sabres Top Gun.

Cullen, who also lives in Ponoka, trains futurity horses outside of rodeo. He has been leaning on his bay horse, Whiz, registered as CB Flashin Wizard, while also starting to rodeo some on Tee, registered as Royal Tee.

While both cowboys have their eyes on the Maple Leaf Circuit title and a trip to the circuit finals, the strong spring has also opened the door to more rodeos south of the border later this summer.

“Canadian title is the main goal for us,” Bonnett said. “But our spring has went well enough that we’re going to cross the border and start at Sheridan and Casper.”

For Cullen, the goal is to keep using the momentum through the busy summer.

“I try to set goals just to keep myself working at it in the practice pen,” Cullen said. “There’s always stuff to learn. I try to keep working on something every day.”

So far, that approach is working.