Indholdsfortegnelse for January 2024 i The Team Roping Journal

1. Cat Man Do $138,635 2005 gray stallion High Brow Cat x Some Kinda Playgirl x Freckles Playboy Owned by W.T. Waggoner Ranch 2. Bet Hesa Cat $129,778 2006 red roan stallion High Brow Cat x Bet Yer Blue Boons x Freckles Playboy Owned by 6666 Ranch 3. Mia Browbeater $123,870 2009 sorrel stallion High Brow Cat x Quejanamia x Son O Mia Owned by Pitzer Ranch 4. Smart Chic Olena $121,814 1985 sorrel stallion (deceased) Smart Little Lena x Gay Sugar Chic x Gay Bar King Owned by Trevor & Tiffany Bond 5. Travelin Jones $116,842 2008 bay stallion Smart Chic Olena x Travelin With Sass x Travelena Linda Mars & Dawson Performance Horses 6. Metallic Cat $110,095 2005 red roan stallion High Brow Cat x Chers Shadow x…

After three rounds of battle beginning Thursday, Nov. 2, and culminating on Saturday, Nov. 4, in Clovis, New Mexico, the team of BJ Garcia and Clint McMurtry were crowned the 2023 PAFRA World Champion team ropers. “Clinton and I were fortunate enough to win the first and second round, the short round and the average,” Garcia, who retired in 2018 after a 20-year career with the Air Force, said of his runs. “Then I won third in the first round with my son, and fourth in the average.” It was a big event for the team, as Garcia and McMurtry, who performed aircraft maintenance on A10s for the Air Force, also each won Rookie of the Year titles, though neither are new to team roping. “Clinton and I roped together…

The Riata Buckle will move to Oct. 2 to Oct. 5, 2024, at the Lazy E Arena, switching from a guaranteed money format to an added money format. “Unpredictable team growth and fluctuations in team counts created disparity between divisions that added money will solve moving forward,” founder Denny Gentry said. “Cash incentives will be added to six major team ropings this year for ropers riding Riata Buckle horses, not to mention a potential second Riata event. Riata Buckle is top five in team roping payouts in the world and when it crosses the $3 million checkpoint it will rapidly begin to rank against some of the largest horse events in the country.” The event had a 205% payback in 2023, adding over $1 for every dollar of entry fees.…

A lot has changed for team ropers since I made my first National Finals 44 years ago in 1980. Team roping became a standard event, which means it's mandatory at every professional rodeo, and more rodeos than ever add equal money. More people are making a living with a rope than ever before in 2024, and that's progress. But make no mistake, it's still a tough way to go financially, whether you're a professional team roper or just rope for fun. Why not do whatever it takes to give yourself the best chance at winning? What hasn't changed over time is the commitment it takes to make it team roping. That statement stands at the highest level, and actually also applies to ropers at the recreational level, who rope as…

Just a short month after a heated USTRC Resistol Jr. standings report, only Canutillo, Texas' Callahan Taylor and Guymon, Oklahoma's Kale Roark were able to make moves in the Top 5 of the heading and heeling. TOP 5 RECAP - HEADING Taylor, who turned 13 in November, had an effective trip to the Mesilla Valley Classic after a few quiet months. There, he went to work heading in the #11.5 USTRC to win the roping, worth 10 points and maybe a reason to extend the birthday celebrations. The win gave Taylor just enough to edge up a place in the standings, bumping Tyler Mota from the No. 3 position by a single point. Taylor now follows No. 2 Aiden Perrett by an even 10 points and No. 1 header Colt…

When it comes to raising horses, technology has given us many options, from traditional methods to sub-fertile mares producing foals by long deceased stallions. The natural versus artificial breeding process It's not uncommon for larger ranches to turn a stallion out with a specific band of mares for pasture breeding, simply letting mother nature take its course. Hand-breeding, careful preparation of the mare and stallion for monitored live cover is largely exclusive to the Thoroughbred racing industry; however, it's often the method of choice for “local” stallions that only cover a handful of outside mares each year. The most common method today is artificial insemination via cooled or frozen semen. For this process, the stallion's semen is collected and shipped to the mare's location. It's important to note that stallions…

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When I started roping—watching the best ropers' every move, and entering at a very young age—I was always studying styles of ropers. Within those styles, you had naturally aggressive guys who tend to compete that way. They sometimes run over themselves, and shoot themselves in the foot. The upside of that cavalier attitude, though, feeds into being a winner. At the other end of the mindset spectrum, you have guys who are a little more conservative minded in their approach to competing. On the heading side, the guys who could reach wanted to utilize that asset. Others who weren't reachers had a really good, snappy head loop. They scored great, ran in close and used their horses better. Guys like Charles Pogue, Matt Tyler and Clay Tryan really used those…

TOP 5 RECAP - HEADING After entering into the Top 5 for the first time last month, Holly Childers, of Fairmount, Georgia, holds onto her No. 3 position with a total of 50 points now—just a single point behind No. 2 Aubrey Trujillo. To continue her upward climb, Childers headed to the Northwest Georgia Classic, where she took third place in the #9.5 Legends, worth 8 points. In the No. 4 spot, Gracie Drake also holds her position, but is now closely trailed by newcomer Brandy Black, who hails from Adairsville, Georgia. Black rounds out the Top 5 now with 34 points after also attending the Northwest Georgia Classic and filling the first and second holes in the #9.5 Legends to earn 19 points. She won another 9 points for…

Freeze Frame with Douglas Rich Photo by Andersen/CBarC Photography SITUATION Short round, 2023 Riata Buckle Open TIME: 5.60 seconds AVERAGE: 34.8 seconds on five head PAYOUT: $33,660 { Vital Stats } AGE: 28 ROPE: NV4 HM by Classic PARTNER: Jake Smith HOME: Herrick, Illinois a) STEER: That steer was slower and hung on the end of the rope pretty good. b) HORSE POSITION: I got tighter than I had been because of how that steer hung, so for me to feel like I was getting him backed off, I'm sort of leaning back and creating the separation with my body. That was a safety measure, really, because that horse will stop on his own and I should have known that. c) REIN CONTACT: I have contact on the reins to feel like…

It would make sense that, over the grueling conditions of team-roping futurities all season, 6-year-old horses would have the most success. But Bama Fury and Nu One Time Blues do not make sense. They are 4. And they are freaks. Each earned more than $67,000 in 2023 at the hands of Trevor Brazile and Joseph Harrison, respectively, to rank in the top five of all futurity money-winners in 2023—against 5- and 6-year-olds. In fact, Brazile's and Miles Baker's Relentless Remuda owned the two winningest horses of the season in head horses Step N Small Town (“Kobe”) and Bama Fury (“Bugatti”). And, listen: Bugatti is now healed up, but in August he took a bad step at Rock Springs' Royal Crown Futurity and never even got hauled to the last three…