The Team Roping Journal

Dear Roper, This month kicks off our most intense season of digital coverage of team roping ever. Expect weekly updates on the Resistol Rookie of the Year race, the PRCA circuit races, the Top 15 and the best horses in the game, and we'll expand that coverage across team roping (teamropingjournal.com), breakaway roping (breakawayropingjournal.com), barrel racing (barrelracingmagazine.com) and tie-down roping (calfroping.com). As if that wasn't work enough, we've also begun behind-the-scenes work on each of those websites with an eye toward elevating your online experience and optimizing your ability to find the content you crave. Hopefully you'll get a chance to poke around and explore the new websites for yourself soon, but we'll be in touch to let you know when to expect those changes. In an era not so long ago, though,…

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The Riata Buckle Earnings Bonus Program will compile results to record earnings from Riata Buckle horses at USTRC, WSTR, NTR and NTRLs. The Riata Buckle has revolutionized team roping's stallion incentive game, offering a $2.5-million roping to ropers of every level this Nov. 2–4 at the Lazy E in Guthrie, Oklahoma, riding horses of all ages enrolled in the Riata program and leveling up with their new—but little known—Riata Buckle Earnings Bonus Program. What Is the Riata Buckle Earnings Bonus Program in 2023? In 2022, the Riata Buckle pumped $2 million in new earnings into the industry's earnings databases QData and EquiStat and, in 2023, the stallion incentive is upping the ante. The Riata Buckle has begun reaching out via text message to ropers who win money at any USTRC or Ariat World…

Derrick Begay and Colter Todd roped two steers in 8.8 seconds at the 2023 Clark County Fair & Rodeo in Logandale, Nevada, to take the win, some might say by fate. The team was not originally entered in Logandale but took the opportunity to fill in when it arose. “We actually got called probably a week before Logandale,” said Begay, who has made nine trips to the Thomas & Mack on the heading side. “They (the PRCA) called and asked us if we wanted to go because some teams drew out.” Begay called Todd but was met with no answer—Todd's ranch in Willcox, Arizona, goes without phone service. They only had 1.5 hours to make their decision, and that time went by before Todd finally gave Begay the go-ahead to enter up. Not…

Andrew Ward and Buddy Hawkins stayed strong on a herd of tricky cattle at California's Red Bluff Round-Up to take home the average win on Sunday, April 23, 2023, with 27.0 seconds on four head, worth $8,510 a man. Age and oft-roped cattle made for a tougher set in Red Bluff. The herd was roped in October of 2022 at The Capitalist and have been going ever since, including being roped at the Broc Cresta Memorial the day before the slack started in Red Bluff. But, at least when the entire herd is equipped with tricks, the field is fair. “It was evenly tricky,” Ward, 32, of Edmond, Oklahoma, said. “So, I don't think anybody was disappointed or anything; we knew what we were getting into. We knew we were going to…

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