Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2022 i The Team Roping Journal

Dear Roper, This editor’s letter is going to be… different. I hope you give me the grace for a little personal note. I have a story to tell you about the universe or God or a Higher Power—take your pick. In 2013, I’d been working for Spin To Win and was afoot. I was living in a tiny apartment in Boulder, Colorado, and Nick Griggs, our longtime account exec, was helping me look for a horse on a shoestring budget. Nick drove me across New Mexico to try this 14.1-hand roan mare of Tauna Alcorn’s, who, he’ll happily tell you, promptly dashboarded me on the first barrel in that first practice run I made. I wanted her, and this guy I’d just started dating drove me to Santa Fe for…

National Team Roping (NTR) and CINCH announce a new multi-year partnership with CINCH taking the lead as the presenting sponsor of the association and the official apparel of the NTR. Since 1996, the CINCH brand has been creating quality jeans and shirts for men and women for both in and out of the arena. CINCH is the leader in premium western clothing, inspired by the attitude and values of the cowboy lifestyle. Their unique patterns and iconic prints speak for themselves. “We started as a small company with big dreams,” said CINCH Marketing Manager Jessica Wahlert. “We are pleased to be partnering with National Team Roping. Their membership consists of cowboys and cowgirls from all walks of life—all chasing their own dreams—and united by a common passion for the sport…

With the last day of the regular rodeo season being September 30, guys who rope for a living are either glad or sad right now. Some punched their tickets to the 2022 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Others had their bubbles burst down the backstretch. I was fortunate enough to qualify for the NFR 27 times before Clay (Cooper) and I switched gears a few years ago to focus on roping schools. I’ll say up front here that I was flat lucky to never have experienced not making the NFR cut in all the years I tried. Thank God that I never experienced the bubble. I was close that first year I made the Finals with Junior (Nogueira in 2014), but we ended up jumping up the ladder at the end…

| Ropers | military salute "It’s different than California, but at least I’m getting to rope.” Chief Warrant Officer Mike White, a 22-year Marine, is on the seventh deployment of his career, serving at the U.S. Department of Defense headquarters. He’s five weeks in and seems to have the situation dialed in. “I’m hanging out in my Bloomer trailer at an alfalfa farm, roping on the weekends, teleworking a few days a week and going into the Pentagon two days a week,” White, 45, said, explaining that he’s less than an hour from the weekly PRCA rodeo in Pilesgrove, New Jersey. “We got here on a Saturday morning and then we went to Cowtown that night, and we won the rodeo. That was kind of cool. Like, welcome to the…

Competitive Edge 5 flat|archives|Brazile|freeze frame|inner strength|roping.com|horsepower Rhen Richard has been 2022’s Head Horse Master at the rope horse futurities, having won $126,044 at the three Royal Crown events alone. He’s pinging the barrier and getting his rope around the horns fast on horses like Chics Magic Corona, Hankies Version and Rubys Rollin. His horses let him get out front flat and quick, ready to throw when the steer is in range. Plus, he won California Rodeo Salinas on one of his futurity horses—home-raised Rubys Rollin by Reys Smokin Dually out of Rollin by Brookstone Bay—proving that this training holds up in the most grueling setups in the sport. 1 I want my horses mentally thinking about me rather than what's going on in the arena, in the stands, in the…

| Competitive Edge | horsepower Coleman Proctor considers every run on his palomino ace, Admiral, a gift. After a year on the injured reserve, he got six glorious weeks out of Lena Spark Dunit earlier this year. Sadly, a second related injury this summer sent the talented 13-year-old back to the sidelines for another round of extensive rehab. “I bought Admiral in 2019, and rode him toward the end of that year and in 2020,” Coleman said. “I hurt him at the end of the season in 2020, and (Dr.) Charlie Buchanan (of Signature Equine Hospital in Stephenville, Texas) operated on him. He spent a year there at the vet.” A little over a year, actually Buchanan operated on Admiral in October of 2020, and Proctor didn’t nod his head…

At the Barrier | industry news | new products | The Ariat WSTR historically has been a pick roping with qualified teams moving on to the Finale together. Numerous ropers nation-wide have discussed and requested a draw-in option, and the WSTR and its producers have landed on the best solution to create a win-win: The successful argument presented to WSTR was that, since ropers qualify as individuals, and entry fees are based on each roper’s circumstance, if you win with a draw partner, you can push it to Vegas or split and pick up your regular partner. Being in the draw, either as a roper needing a partner or opting out of the draw because you don’t want to rope with someone you don’t know, is 100% voluntary. How the…

Handling steers is critical to a team’s success, and it’s not the sole responsibility of the header. If a heeler helps a header out, it’ll pay off when it’s time to throw his rope. You need to communicate with your partner. If a steer goes hard to the right, your heeler needs to haze him. If a steer goes hard to the left, your heeler needs to back off. Point 1. Handling cattle is an art. A big part of your success in handling a steer is predetermined by three things: The kind of horse you’re riding, the steer you’ve drawn and the pattern your heeler makes the steer run. All three factors are in my favor here, thanks in part to my heeler, (threetime world champion team roper) Allen…

Talent Isn't Everything How Martin Lucero outworked the rest to get to 16 National Finals Rodeos and millions in team roping earnings. Earlier this summer, we were talking about the numbers game in rodeo, because, back in the day, we always said that it took averaging $1,000 per rodeo to make the Finals. While I might be semiretired, I think that’s still the case. It breaks down like this: I wasn’t really all that talented, but I was disciplined. That’s how I was able to win: I couldn’t outrope everybody, but I didn’t beat myself. I don’t have Junior Nogueira talent and a lot of people don’t. But you can still win by not beating yourself. And that was my logic. There’s more than one money to be won at…

The American Rope Horse Futurity Association has already paid out some $506,450 to ropers of all levels in 2022 across just four events, with a predicted purse of over $850,000 at this month’s ARHFA World Championship. With entries up 15% across the association’s regular season events in 2022, the futurity game is inarguably growing, with even more futurities planned in 2023. Thanks to the American Quarter Horse Association’s QData Performance Tracking, we're able to tell you which horses have earned the most at the association's regular season shows and which horses lead the all-time ranks. These are the elite few who stand out. 2022'S TOP HORSE DUAL OAK E 2017 gelding SHOWN BY: Steve Orth OWNED BY: Sara Hudson PEDIGREE: Olena Oak × Jasons Rey Of Light × Dual Rey…

HEELER'S EDITION “They must have his number wrong.” “It’s like her headers pull them into her loop.” “How many Legend ropings can one guy win in a year?” Last month, we tapped team roping experts to find out exactly why some lower-numbered headers keep winning while others can’t seem to catch a break. This month, we called up some heeling experts to tell us what the best lower-numbered ropers on the back side do so differently than their lesser-winning counterparts. Denny Gentry, Founder USTRC, WSTR & Riata Buckle The secret: Patience with angles and position. Why? Unlike low number headers, low number heelers will not get high number headers to rope. So they have to find a way to be consistent in the bottom divisions. That is tough because the…

4-&-Under Heading Meradas First Diver First Prize Diver x Smooth As A Merada x Smooth As A Cat Tate Kirchenschlager won the 2022 Royal Crown 4-&-Under Heading Futurity on Meradas First Diver, worth $9,300 for owners Lindsey and Brent Bartlett, plus $1,800 for breeders the Flag Ranch and $1,800 for owners of Royal Crown Sire First Prize Diver. 4-&-Under Heeling CR Woody Be A Dual Woody Be Tuff x ARC Catty Dual x Dual Pep Rhen Richard and CR Woody Be A Dual were a 488.12 on four steers, winning $8,700 for A&C Racing and $1,392 for the owners of Royal Crown Stallion Woody Be Tuff and the same for breeders at the Center Ranch. 6-&-Under Heading Chics Magic Corona FuryoftheWind x JRS Chics Smart Lena x Chics Magic Poion…

Ropers | at home with | Jake Barnes | Clay O | military salute | US programs | Q: What was it like being the oldest of Glenn and Hazel Motes’s five kids growing up in Mesa, Arizona? A: It was a great life. I enjoyed all of it, and the way my dad instilled a good work ethic into us. I grew up driving trucks and tractors starting when I was 12 years old. Our family farmed cotton, and us kids were free labor. Q: Your dad was an NFR qualifier. Did he head or heel? A: Dad headed, and when he roped with Gilbert Nichols at the 1960 NFR, the NFR was held in Dallas, Texas, and the team roping was held in Scottsdale, Arizona. (The first three NFRs…

As of Sept. 1, 2022, Clay Tryan has won $3,073,681 in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association competition—a new ProRodeo record for team ropers. This puts him inside the top 10 alltime PRCA money earners behind Trevor Brazile, Cody Ohl, Fred Whitfield, Joe Beaver, Kaycee Feild and Tuf Cooper, surpassing eight-time World Champion Rich Skelton who’s won $2,990,270 and seven-time World Champion Clay O’Brien Cooper, who’s won $3,009,776. “Passing Clay Cooper and Rich Skelton, man, those guys are legends,” Tryan, with three gold buckles to his name, said. “I don’t look at myself like that at all. I try to keep things in perspective, because once I’m done, I’m done, and the younger guys will pass me pretty quickly, too. They need to, because the rodeos need to keep paying better and…

Time with a solid horse trainer is one of the best investments you can make in this business. Everyone wants to talk about how high horse prices have gone, but what I don’t hear is people talking about the price of horse training going up. Training costs have stayed close to the same, while the opportunity for those types of young head horses and young heel horses has gone up tenfold. What does that mean? It means buying a well-bred 2-year-old didn’t make sense seven or eight years ago, but it might make sense today. As an amateur roper, you’ll be money-up on a horse by paying a trainer to make him solid. If you start with a handy-broke 3-year-old for $12,000, I believe you should see an amazing transformation.…

On July 31, 2022, Erich Rogers delivered a $14,800 head loop from two coils back at the finals of ol' Cheyenne. But alas, reaching that far only works if the steer maintains the same path it was on at delivery. The phrase “live by the sword, die by the sword” may have come from the Gospel of Matthew, but it certainly applies to reaching. And to the outlook of the world’s first renowned reacher, a Californian who changed the game as seven-time World Champ Jake Barnes witnessed it as a kid. “That was unheard of, what H.P. Evetts was doing,” Barnes said. “Nobody had ever seen anything like that before.” Evetts had grown up in the ’60s watching guys like jack Gomez throw a long way. He started roping off…

“I got a magic seat tied on my right thigh. When I put my foot in the stirrup, I tie a string to the D-ring of the front cinch to keep it from moving. Then I tie another string [from] the back cinch to the side of that stirrup that kind of opens my foot up, so my toes are little bit more turned out because that feels pretty comfortable. My toes turned in doesn’t feel real good. So I turn my toe out. I got string on both sides of the stirrup to keep from fl opping and keep my toe turned out, and I’m kind of tied in there, too, a little bit.” — Two-time World Champion Clay Smith, on returning to ProRodeo just five weeks after breaking…