2019 NFR Qualifiers

Chad Masters and Joseph Harrison won Round 5 of the 2019 Wrangler NFR with a 4.2-second run, and stopped by to talk about it on The Score right after their run.

Chad Masters and Joseph Harrison won Round 4 of the 2019 Wrangler NFR with a 3.7-second run, and stopped by to talk about it on The Score right after their run.

Three-time World Champion Header Clay Tryan on The Score, brought to you by Fast Back Ropes.

Three-time NFR qualifier Chase Tryan on The Score, brought to you by SmarkPak.

Learning to reach takes a lifetime’s worth of practice and requires better horsemanship than some people realize.

Last December, Hunter Koch attended his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas as a spectator, thanks to a ticket given to him as a gift from his grandma. While standing in the shuttle line to leave the Thomas & Mack Center after the rodeo, Koch snapped a shot of the building. He set the goal right then and there to rope at the Finals, and has since used that picture as the screen saver on his phone as a daily reminder. Koch, who’s a 22-year-old native of Vernon, Texas, will heel at his first NFR next month.

The unofficial list of team roping's top 15 headers and heelers who will be roping at the 2019 Wrangler NFR.

A breakdown of the breeding of each of the 2019 NFR qualifiers’ main horses' papers, and what trends that uncovers in top-level rope horses.