Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2024 i The Team Roping Journal

U.S. Army veterans Rocky Gaudious and Jon Kelly are the champion team ropers of the Military/First Responder Open Roping after besting a field of 260 teams with a time of 37.82 on four head over two days of roping in the American Hero Celebration with Charly Crawford, a Liberty & Loyalty Foundation event. Gaudious, who turns 35 in February and served in the Army between 2008 and 2014 before continuing his service in the National Guard for another two years, hails from New Jersey, where he was raised by his barrel racing mom and calf roping dad. He's been roping as long as he can remember, and got back into it when he returned to New Jersey after his service. Guadious first attended the American Hero Celebration (formerly the American…

Brothers Joel and Seth Fuchs of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, won the Ariat World Series of Team Roping #11.5 Gist Key Card Advantage with four steers in 30.87 seconds to take home $67,770. Typically a heeler, Joel, 29, turned them for Seth, 27, who roped hocks instead of horns in the #11.5. The switchender strategy worked, and the team was second callback in the short round, where they clinched the win with a 7.43. “Seth heeled ‘em good,” Joel joked during his Priefert Sports Desk interview. “He had a great teacher.” Under Joel's tutelage, Seth took sure shots every round, handily surpassing his goal to “not fall off in the short round.” “That happened one time in Andrews, Texas,” Joel noted, laughing. “I like to give him a hard time…

At the Barrier association news The Key Card Max is a single membership that spans the Ariat World Series of Team Roping, USTRC, Roping.com and USRoper, providing the single best value in all of team roping. The Key Card Max allows you to rope at all USTRC and WSTR-sanctioned ropings, allows you to accumulate double earnings toward unrestricted discounted entries at the USTRC's Cinch NFTR and Ariat WSTR Finale and allows unlimited entry fee discounts at the USTRC's NFTR (if all timelines are met). Since 2022, the Key Card Max also allows access to all pay-per-view and run delivery for the Ariat WSTR Finale and USTRC NFTR, allowing your family at home to watch you rope and making it so your family can focus on cheering you on rather than…

FIRST ROUND RUNS ON FRESH CATTLE Bubba Buckaloo has won two Ariat WSTR Finale Opens to the World, including this Riata Buckle Open to the World at the 2023 Finale. Here's how he approaches his first-round run on fresh cattle. For the first round of the day in any higher-numbered roping, the cattle are usually on the fresher end. I like to ride a horse I know is fast enough to let me score and catch up, and I want to be sure I'm riding a heads-up corner to give my partner the best possible chance to catch two feet. 1 I'm riding a Brookstone Baybred horse, which means he's got a lot of run. My horse was fast enough to catch up to the steer, so I wasn't worried…

Jason Foegelle and Troy Luevanos won the Ariat World Series of Team Roping #13.5 Bloomer Qualifier with four steers in 28.41 seconds, taking home $52,660. Luevanos who has attended the last five out of seventeen Finales was relieved, “I've never won anything here,” the 40-year-old Austin, Texas, heeler said. “This roping can be tough - I've always wanted to win something here.” That's especially true in the notoriously competitive #13 ropings, where the field is stacked with strong ropers and plenty of them. But with four textbook-clean and quick-out-of-the-barrier runs, the duo held their own. As the high call team in the short round, the two needed a 9.18 to defend their position and stopped the clock at 7.46 seconds. “We were very blessed to draw four good cows,” said…

Jamie Mitchell and Ron C “RJ” Johnson won the Ariat World Series of Team Roping #10.5 Roping.com Key Card Advantage with four steers in 31.69 seconds, taking home $73,970. Even a broken barrier on a sticky second steer couldn't stop the team from making—and winning—the money round. They were seventh callback in the short go, where they more than made up for the penalty with a blistering blink-and-you'll-miss-it 5.69-second run. In a deep field of ropers, hundredths of seconds can mean the difference between money in the bank and walking away empty-handed, and Johnson's 0.03-second breakout in the short round (TKTK double check this time TKTK) set the duo up for success. “With this many ropers, you have to rope on the offense,” Mitchell, 50, a cutting horse trainer from…

Ropers | at home with | military salute | Q: You and your dad seemed to have a pretty consistent run across the four rounds in this year's #9.5. I know you work with your dad; do you also get to practice together often? A: We practice as much as we can. If we can do it every day, we do it every day. When he wants to go practice, I ride with him to work, so we just get in the same truck and go get the horses and go practice. Q: Did your dad also grow up roping? A: No. He grew up around horses [in Mexico], and when he came here to Arizona before I was born, he started learning how to rope and he just stuck…

Texans Alfonso Macias and Eric Guevara left Las Vegas with a check worth $53,540 for their win in the Ariat World Series of Team Roping #8.5 USRoper Key Card Advantage Add-on Roping, making the most of the opportunities at the South Point Arena through the Key Card program. “I feel great,” Guevara said. “I'm excited. We've been here all week, and it was great to be able to get a big check out of the week.” Macias and Guevara finished with a time of 36.19 seconds on four head in the roping held after the main Ariat WSTR #8.5 Apex Finale. This was their first time roping with one another, but Guevara picked up smaller checks throughout the week with other partners. Guevara headed in the #12.5 Ariat Finale, picking…

AGGREGATE 2023 Derrick Begay and Colter Todd decided to ‘rodeo a little’ in the winter of 2023, and somehow, someway, they left the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo later that year as the NFR aggregate champions, roping all 10 steers in 69.00 seconds. They left the Finals $131,009.65 per man richer from their 10 days’ work, including the $78,747.07 a man they won for their average title. Begay, 40, of Seba Dalkai, Arizona, finished the season fourth in the PRCA world standings with a career-high $269,125.06 won, while Todd, 39, of Willcox, Arizona, won $284,292.26 in 2023. Todd's earnings are $197,121.26 higher than what he won at his first NFR heading with Cesar de la Cruz in 2006, and still $118,502 more than when he and de la Cruz finished third…