Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2016 i The Team Roping Journal

After the inaugural Elite Rodeo Association (ERA) stop in Redmond, Ore., (May SWR), the eight-stop tour continued in Nampa, Idaho, and Salt Lake City. Each stop features two distinct performances. In the team roping, the times have been blazing fast. At the Nampa stop, Derrick Begay and Clay O’Brien Cooper won the first day with a 4.29-second run. The next night, Clay Tryan and Jade Corkill won after getting a flag in 3.42 seconds. As was the plan with the ERA’s Premier Tour, big names top the leaderboard every night. The very next weekend, in Salt Lake City, 2015 PRCA World Champion Aaron Tsinigine and his partner, ERA front man Ryan Motes, won with a 4.11-second run. The best night of team roping on the ERA tour thus far, however,…

Position Work The key to developing your heeling is position. That’s pretty much the most important thing about heeling. I track the sled out of the box every time. Very seldom do I rope it while tracking it around the arena. I want to get in the box as soon as I can on a horse because I want my pattern leaving the box and getting into the left lead. If you can’t do it on the Heel-O-Matic leaving the box, you can’t do it tracking a steer. I make the sled go left like the steer is going left, and I work on my position around the corner. I like to stay six to eight feet wide, with my horse riding around the corner without cutting in or getting…

PROFESSIONAL COWGIRL To get to a point in your life where some little girl looks up to you, that’s what it’s all about: to have kids influenced by positive people and good people. I hope people consider me to be one. I try to put more back into the sport and evolve it in a positive way and be someone parents can tell their little girls—and even little boys—to look up to. I hope that I’m doing that and representing women and inspiring little girls to find a goal of their own and a dream of their own and know they can achieve it. I really, really, really hope that me and others are blazing a trail that will see a woman in the top 15 in team roping. It’s…

Winning the 2016 RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo changed everything for Jake Orman and Tyler Domingue. The two 24-year-olds had planned to work more than play cowboy this year. Then they dominated the team roping at the RNCFR, and $26,601 a man later decided to take a shot on the big trail. Orman and Domingue weren’t actually on the original RNCFR roster, which is reserved for the year-end and circuit finals champs of each of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s 12 circuits. They rolled up from third in the year-end Texas Circuit standings. And they made that unexpected turn of events pay with a dominating performance April 7-10 at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Fla. They won the first of two long rounds in 5.3. They were 7.2 on…

Derrick Begay and Clay O’Brien Cooper are thriving in the gunslinging set-up of the ERA Premier Tour. They won the third event of the tour in Nampa, Idaho, with their 4.29-second run worth $3,625 a man, after taking a first and second in Redmond, Ore., in March. The weekend after Nampa, they stopped the clock in 3.42 seconds to win another second-place check behind Clay Tryan's and Jade Corkill’s 3.37-second run. Begay and Cooper lead the ERA standings by 350 points at press time.…

Jerold Camarillo, 1969 team roping world champion, joins four other world champions in this year’s ProRodeo Hall of Fame induction class, including Dave Appleton (all-around, 1988), Arnold Felts (steer roping, 1981), John Quintana (bull riding, 1972) and Bud Linderman (bareback riding, 1945). Also voted in by the selection committee were rodeo notable Myrtis Dightman, announcer Phil Gardenhire, renowned steer wrestling horse Scottie, celebrated saddle bronc horse and sire Gray Wolf, and committees for Spanish Fork (Utah) Fiesta Days Rodeo and the Redding (Calif.) Rodeo. “I’m honored, and I’m almost speechless,” Camarillo said. “I couldn’t believe it.” Camarillo followed his 1969 world championship by winning the average at the 1975 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Okla. He was the first in the family—he grew up roping with older brother Leo…

KENDRA SANTOS: Can you rattle off your partners from every NFR off the top of your head? DAVID KEY: John Paul Lucero in 2000, Dugan Kelly in 2001-02, Clay Cooper in 2003-04, Clayton Grant in 2005, Kory Koontz in 2006-07 and Rich Skelton in 2009. KS: The 2016 College National Finals Rodeo is this month in Casper, Wyo. You were the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association team roping titlist in 1988, and as a heeler, right? Who were you heeling for? DK: Yes, back then it was go twice in college rodeo, and the regular season carried over and counted for the national championship. I actually roped with four different guys that year. KS: When did you swap boxes and become a header, and why?…

“ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS IS POSITIONING AND GIVING A HORSE A CHANCE TO WORK AND TO BE WHERE YOU WANT HIM TO BE.” -AQHA Champion trainer Robbie Schroeder A “Green Card” refers to the legal process of becoming a permanent resident of the United States. If you heel steers for a living in America, that’s the last thing you want Junior Nogueira to have. In just two years on a sports visa, the kid from Brazil has qualified two times for the Wrangler NFR, been the runner-up NFR average champion, and been the runner-up at RFD-TV’s The American. Then, in February 2015, he did get a Green Card—but it has four legs. In December 2014, Nogueira borrowed Allen Bach’s palomino gelding, Jaguar, for the NFR but otherwise had nothing…

Since 1948, the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association has sanctioned barrel racing and worked closely with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association at ProRodeos across the country. In September 2006, though, all of that changed—if only for a little over a year—thanks to the creation of the PRCA’s own Professional Women’s Barrel Racing (PWBR). The PRCA’s formation of its own barrel racing association would result in a loss in court to the WPRA and would ultimately cost the association $2.6 million in settlement money to the oldest women’s professional sports association in the country. In early 2005, PRCA Commissioner Troy Ellerman began making every effort to cut costs for the association, reducing the staff and the number of telecasts, selling a variety of the PRCA’s TV licensing rights and reworking the relationship…

THE SCENARIO This is Red Bluff, Calif., and I think we were sixth callback. Our first three steers really ran. We went and knocked them down, and this steer was supposed to be pretty good. Jake (Cooper) wanted to take an aggressive start and get it on him fast. In this scenario, I’m just trying to stay up and around him like I’m doing pretty well right here. HORSE I’m riding Skeeter. He’s old—he’s been there and he’s super fast. At Red Bluff, a heeler wants to be careful to not go too far left. So I could let the steer start and then gas Skeeter up around there and keep him in the middle of the arena. I didn’t have to just jump him right at the gate. I…

Since its inception in 2008, the Wiley Hicks Jr. Memorial Roping has raised some $200,000 for charities in the Texas Panhandle, and in 2016 paid out some $207,200 to World Series of Team Roping contestants. This year’s roping was again a special fees, $500-per-roper jackpot complete with big payouts in the Amarillo National Center, with proceeds going to the Hope and Healing Place, a center for children and families grieving from the loss of a loved one. James P. Hicks produces the roping in memory of his late father. #15 HEADER: SHANE SENA HOMETOWN: SAPELLO, NM FULL-TIME JOB: HORSE SHOER, JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER CELEBRATION: "I WENT BACK TO THE HOTEL, KNELT DOWN AND THANKED GOD FOR WHAT HE'D BLESSED ME WITH." HEELER: BUBBA GARCIA HOMETOWN: PORTALES, NM FULL-TIME JOB: DAY WORKER…