Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2024 i The Team Roping Journal

Dear Roper, You’re getting this issue as ProRodeo’s fourth quarter kicks off in the Northwest, as your kids go back to school and as you all enter up to get those last-minute Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale qualifications in. But as we’re writing this, we’re in the middle of the summer run, hiding from the Texas heat in our offices or zipping back and forth across the country with our new teammate, Amy Wilson, hosting sideline shows from events like The Patriot and The Daddy in Cheyenne. This is my semi-regular reminder of just how much our crew is producing for you to enjoy. If you’re a visual person, we’ve got ropings—everything from old-school Mo’Betta calf roping matches to the BFI and the Cinch Timed Event Championship—streaming 24/7…

Competitive Edge 5 flat | next level | Trevor Brazile | freeze frame | horsepower Billie Jack Saebens and The Notorious BIG stand out for their big stops, but how does Saebens make it happen on the 2018 son of CD Lights out of AQHA/PRCA Horse of the Year DT Sugar Chex Whiz? And, more importantly perhaps, how does that slide help Saebens catch two feet more often? 1 CORNER As this horse gets further along—he’s still a little green to rodeo on, but I can kick him down the arena and get him in more of a vulnerable spot—he locks onto the cow and has gotten to where he gets to the inside good. 2 TURN He’s riding all the way to the steer’s hip and, when the corner…

One year ago, Tierney Perkins was closing the gate to the horse pasture on her Clarksville, Texas, ranch when a violent wind blew in, snatching her long, dark hair off her shoulders and lashing it northward. She shielded her face from the suddenly stinging sands and made her way to the house to check the weather as a tremendous rain released from the sky. It was all over in a few minutes, but Tierney sounded the alarm in a text to her husband, Kolt, who was taking a rare break from the ranch to enjoy the lake with his father-in-law and his sons, Bleu, 13, and Burr, 2. “A storm is coming,” she warned. TO KNOW KOLT PERKINS When, at 15, Florida girl Tierney Willis first laid eyes on 17-yearold,…

At the Barrier association news | industry news | new products The Ariat World Series of Team Roping’s Cheyenne, Wyoming, Super Qualifier “The Daddy” hosted a record 4,531 teams and paid out $1,760,000 July 18 to July 23, 2024. The event, in its 18th year, was also a Riata Mini Qualifier, with $30,000 going to ropers riding and winning on Riata stallion incentive-eligible horses, too. “Our slogan is it’s ‘The Best Event of the Summer’, and it sure lived up to its namesake,” JX2 Producer and USTRC President John Johnson said. “We grew 670 teams and paid out over $300,000 more back to ropers. It has definitely become one of those destination ropings you don’t want to miss.” Headlining the winners at The Daddy was Colorado switchender and horse shoer…

Ropers at home with | Jake Barnes | Clay O | USTRC Q: When did you start roping, and who got you started on the right track? A: I’ve been around it my whole life. My dad (Bucky) used to trip steers, and was 16th a time or two. My whole family—my mom’s side, too—ropes calves. So I grew up in it. I’ve always ridden a horse, and started roping competitively when I was 6 or 7. Q: When did heeling become job one? A: I actually headed all the way up to high school. I roped with Cody Doescher in high school, but as soon as we left the (National) High School Finals my senior year, I decided I wanted to try the heeling side. By my freshman year…

BARELY HANGING ON Think you’re going to lose a leg? Here’s one way it happens and how Joseph Harrison hangs on. SITUATION This is a futurity run on my 5-year-old, Copperton. On the back side of the turn, the steer took his head away from Blake (Hughes) and got flat. When he does that, the only option Blake has is to dump over the front and pull the cow to get back into control. So you can see there, where the steer is taking a big, open jump, Blake’s pulling on him pretty hard. NORMALLY… Ideally, when the steer is moving pretty round at the end of the rope (rather than flat like this one is), he’ll pull the tip through for you. But when he planes out, having good…

How many cowboys can relate to what Coleman Proctor went through when his horse Jesse James never took a lame step until he priced him for big money? This one was supposed to be a barrel horse, not a head horse. Then he was supposed to be someone else’s head horse. But fate was having none of that. Coleman’s wife, Stephanie, bought Mabee Jessy Can, who’d been started as a racehorse on the track, in 2016 as a 4-year-old barrel-horse prospect. “Here comes Bruce Bell pulling a stock trailer one cold day, and he unloads this sorrel with a huge head and a small body,” remembers Coleman, who’s on track to this year make his ninth Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. “He hands her the lead rope, and she hands him…

Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira once again wear the Kings of Cowboy Christmas crowns, smashing the record they set in 2022 after raking in $47,275 a man in 2024. The 2021 and 2022 World Champions were the top money earners in the team roping this Cowboy Christmas, surpassing their 2022 record by $12,000 and beating the 2024 field by more than $25,000. “Records are meant to be broken,” Driggers, 34, said. “As rodeo grows as it has been, it will continue to be broken. But that is a very positive thing. A lot of times you hear about how great the NFR is— and by no means am I saying that it isn’t because it is a blessing to us who rodeo— but I would like to focus on the…

1. YOUR HIGH SCHOOL CAREER DOESN'T DEFINE YOU. I can see that now, but I couldn’t see it then because I just wanted to do well. I made it to Nationals one time in the team roping and lost my rope, and I never made it in the calf roping. It’s two and a short. If Greeley was Nationals, did Kaleb Driggers or Tyler Wade win it? That’s just what it is. We all know the good guys don’t always win. In Texas, when I was a kid, I think I won my region every year, but it’s a heavily weighted two and a short rodeo, and I didn’t get it done. 2. WHAT KETCH KELTON AND DENTON DUNNING DID WAS IMPRESSIVE. That second steer they ran was a risky…

WHY IS NOW A GREAT TIME TO PICK HORSE TRAINING INSTEAD OF RODEOING? “The horse market is as strong as it’s ever been—I think everybody would probably agree with that, surely. It’s just a good time, you know? If you get something trained up and he’s good, somebody’s going to give you some money for him because they can go to Vegas and win that kind of money back. They can see that, or the Riata deal—all that stuff. Everything in team roping is just getting better.” —World Champion Nick Sartain on “The Score,” The Team Roping Journal’s podcast, available anywhere you stream. Listen to “The Score” anywhere you stream podcasts, and find every episode on teamropingjournal.com.…