a) Game Plan

We hadn’t been making very many good runs. Then we went up there and checked the draw and we knew we had a pretty good steer, so we just kind of erased all the runs we had been making and decided to start fresh at Cody. It worked out.

b) Steer

He was a little bit slower, and he took the handle pretty good and fast. A lot of the steers kind of ran pretty good and ran left. Ours was just straight and pretty slow and so it helped us out a lot.

c) Handle

This steer came out and he kind of lowered his head, but Kreece did a really good job getting it on him. Kreece has a really good horse, and that horse got the steer legal to heel really fast. Then whenever he was legal to heel, I just cut it down there at him.

d) Horse

Kreece had just turned that steer here, and my horse did a really good job reading the corner and got me in a really good spot. Obviously, I was delivering my rope, so it was honestly just a really good, timed run. My horse felt good and everything was just perfect.

e) Delivery

That steer, whenever he hit, he kind of hit out to the right of me just a little bit. I knew whenever I went to deliver my rope, I was going to hang on to it as long as I could and try to get my bottom strand all the way on the ground.

f) Body language

When that steer kind of hit out to the right, I knew that I was going to have to follow my bottom strand all the way to the ground and make sure I got enough tip through there.

—TRJ—