Professional Team Roper

Everyone faces the highs and lows of team roping. Clay O'Brien Cooper shares his survival strategies that helps him deal with the successes and failures. Here's how.

Five professional team roping headers break down what to do to keep a hot horse cool in the heading box.

Bobby Hurley is a two-time world champion header who qualified for 15 Wrangler National Finals Rodeos between 1986 and 2001. Now 56, Hurley and wife Trish live in his native Clarksville, Arkansas, after spending 18 years in her California home country. The Hurleys have four now-grown kids, Brooke, Brittany, Blake and Bob, and two grandkids, who call Bobby “Poppy.”