Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2024 i The Team Roping Journal

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Looking back to years and years ago, I don't remember anybody pointing out different strategic things about riding heeling position. You just kind of knew you needed to be there at the corner, then when the steer turned you needed to ride your horse and try to get a shot. That observation made me know that even if it wasn't talked about much, I needed to figure out how to get a throw like the best guys who were winning. My focus went to learning to time the steer, so I could throw a good loop and throw it on time. Still, riding position wasn't one of the main things I started thinking about until I started rodeoing. Mike Beers was one of the first guys I saw having a…

As of Aug. 28, 2024, Florida's Lexi Andrews took over the top spot in the Cinch Ladies Year-End Award heading race with 58 points. In the heeling, Colorado's Jimmi Jo Montera throws down with 56 points to remain in first, but heeling phenom Whitney DeSalvo has entered the race chat behind her. THE LEADERS Lexi Andrews Lexi Andrews, 16, reclaimed the No. 1 position she previously held and lost to Shawnee Murphy at last reporting. The Live Oak, Florida native made a notable run when she attended the 25th Anniversary Alabama Championships produced by Allen's Roping Productions in late July. There, she was in the money in the #10.5 and #8.5 USTRC ropings, earning 7 points with her fourth-place finish in the #10.5 and a cumulative 12 points in the…

In the last few years, the Relentless Remuda has evolved. We're still looking for the same end product, but the industry has gotten to the point that Miles (Baker) and I are both riding 3-year-olds and up, and we can't start every 2-year-old we'd like to start. Everyone wants to be a futurity trainer or team rope for a living, but there are way too few people specializing in 2-year-olds. There's a huge market for somebody to take a horse from 2 to 3. There are way more people who can take a 3-year-old on and make him a rope horse. A lot of people can start one, but a lot of horses don't reach their full potential because those trainers don't have the right skills to give a horse…

Joseph Harrison has proven the king of the rope horse business in 2024, entering the American Rope Horse Futurity Association World Championships having won $199,000 at the Old West Futurity in Utah and helping other ropers to another $225,000. Harrison has won $706,042 in ARHFA competition, and he's ridden horses that have sold for hundreds of thousands to the industry's hottest talents, Brazilian investors and everyday ropers. He's set the standard for how people can make money in the new era of the rope horse business, and he's shown a profitable path to success training horses and making a living with a rope—a path that didn't really exist a decade ago. Harrison's template for success isn't the norm, though. But perhaps it's the guiding light that horse trainers, and those…

At the Barrier association news | industry news | new products The Patriot Event and The Ariat World Series of Team Roping will have the largest footprint ever in Las Vegas in 2024, with a stacked lineup of events from the South Point to Horseman's Park to the Plaza. The week will kick off at Horseman's Park on Monday, Dec. 2 with a full lineup of Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale warm-up ropings, all offering qualification spots for the 2025 event, too. Each day the World Series will offer an any-age slide roping as well as an age-protected legends roping. Find the full schedule for Horseman's Park on page 134 of this issue and online at wstroping.com. “We want to offer ropers a place to tune up and…

Hayes Smith and Justin Davis came from 10th high call Sunday, July 28, to win the 2024 Cheyenne Frontier Days team roping—a significant win for many reasons. The team took the win with an 8.3 in the clean-slate short round for $9,200 each, bringing their Cheyenne earnings to $11,925 a man. Because of its prestige, Cheyenne marks one of the biggest wins in any team roper's career and a win everyone dreams of. “It's a dream come true,” Smith, 31, said. “It's just one of them rodeos that we grew up dreaming of winning, roping the Fast Lane when we were kids, letting it out there. It's hard to explain.” For 2009 NFR heeler Davis, the win in Cheyenne was a relief after over 15 years of entering the rodeo.…

Freeze Frame with Hayes Smith Photo by Click Thompson SITUATION: Cheyenne Frontier Days short round TIME: 8.3 seconds PAYOUT: $11,925 a man total { Vital Stats } AGE: 31 ROPE: Spyder PARTNER: Justin Davis HOME: Central Point, Oregon a) STEER'S HEAD I just got his head right there. My horse did a really good job of getting away from the steer right there because a lot of horses would have probably gotten too close and made it hard to head the horns. But when I got there, he got away from the cow where I could cover the horns and then he stepped forward and let me get that steer's head and really round him out in the corner. b) ACCIDENTAL GRIP (RIGHT HAND) I had my slack in between my middle…

I've had a lot of help along the way, and I'll never forget the special people who changed my life and career. I give Popeye and Jan Boultinghouse so much credit. I was just a little country hick college kid from Bloomfield, New Mexico, who didn't have two nickels to rub together when they took me in. We lost Popeye to cancer in August. Jan asked me to speak at his service, and I couldn't stop crying. Popeye was like a father and a brother to me all in one. We were family. When I was graduating from Bloom-field High School in 1977, I was like, “Now what do I do?” I ended up getting a rodeo scholarship to go to Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. I was 17…

As of Aug. 28, 2024, header Lexi Andrews’ 58 points landed her in the lead of the 2025 USTRC Resistol Jr. race after a five-place jump from No. 6 at last reporting. In the heeling, 2023 Resistol Jr. Champion heeler Houston Childers entered into the race for the first time this season, planting himself firmly at the top of the standings with 89 points. THE LEADERS Lexi Andrews With 58 points to her name, Live Oak, Florida's Lexi Andrews, 16, took the lead in the Resistol Jr. heading standings after earning 27 points since last reporting. Whereas she had trailed last month's No. 1 header by 9 points, Andrews now leads the race by 15 points. In late July, Andrews attended the 25th Anniversary Alabama Championships produced by Allen's Roping…

CATCHING CLOSE When you draw a good one and have a chance to run to the middle of him, how can you deliver a crispy horn loop? RIGHT HORN, LEFT HORN I try to rope right horn to left horn when I'm this close. I want to get my bottom strand under right horn and follow through to left horn. HAND POSITION I'm trying to open my hand up when I deliver so I open my loop up. STRIDE FOR STRIDE When I'm this close, it's even more important for my horse to be matching the stride of the steer. He's staying with the steer, and he's not getting away from me so I can finish my delivery before he moves. EYES I think everyone looks at different spots in…

It's hard to say which aspect of J.D. Yates’ career is most Hall-of-Fame worthy. There's the staggering fact he made the first of his 21 NFR appearances as a 15-year-old kid. There's also his horsemanship. Yates has won somewhere north of 47—yes, 47—AQHA world championships, plus multiple futurities. That means he's hired someone to rope the other end countless times and depended on the other guy to finish off the winning run. Nobody got better at choosing good help. Yates relied heavily on his cousin, Jay Wadhams, over the years and, more recently, on his son Trey. Today, good helpers are becoming more and more in demand. We thought it's worth highlighting a few of the best helpers—and help horses—in history. Two horses raised by the Yates family probably took…