Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2021 i The Team Roping Journal

Dear Roper, There’s something about the atmosphere of a Saturday night high school rodeo fundraiser #11.5 slide that I just love. Don’t get me wrong—there’s nothing like a top-notch Ariat World Series of Team Roping qualifier, a USTRC Signature Series roping or an NTR Qualifier in Wickenburg or Rapid City or Mormon Lake. But there’s a whole different vibe to a fundraiser or memorial roping that’s just something to take in every now and again. It’s a perfect cross-section of the team roping community: from high-number, high-roller ropers who come out to support the community and the kids to ex-bull riders without a Global Handicaps number to parents and topnotch high school rodeo talent, the mix of ropers is representative of nearly everyone who swings a rope. Little brothers and…

The World Champions Rodeo Alliance, in partnership with Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo, is excited to announce the format and payout for the 2021 event. The DO47 will play host to the second stop of the WCRA’s Triple Crown of Rodeo (TCR) during the 2021 series and will have a payout of $562,500. Each champion will walk away with a minimum of $25,000 and a coveted DO47 Gold Medal. “WCRA is thrilled to continue our relationship with such an iconic rodeo as we continue to bring marquee events to the Triple Crown of Rodeo,” said WCRA President Bobby Mote. “This event looks to be one of the top 10 payouts of the summer, and we’re extremely fortunate to be able to work with DO47 to bring this opportunity…

There aren’t many secrets to making a broke horse that the majority of average ropers can ride. Ultimately, our whole family spends a lot of time with each horse, getting them ready to haul, putting a solid pattern on them and just using them. But over the years, I’ve noticed some elements of our program that make our horses easy for anyone to swing a leg over. 1 RIDING LIKE THE AVERAGE JOE. I ride more like everyday people. I do my best to ride well, but I ride with my left hand more the way a normal roper does than the top-level show trainers or NFR ropers. Your big-time trainers don’t use their left hand unless they need to, and they make amazing horses. But how many low-numbered ropers…

THE USTRC IS BACK! What began with April showers, ended with a beautiful, sunshiny day in Fort Worth. The final steer of the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII ran down the arena on Sunday afternoon putting a cap on one of the greatest ropings in the history of the sport. Running 6,000 teams the Finals paid out more than $3.1 million in cash and prizes, and had everybody done and out of there in time to enjoy a steak and a Gold Buckle Beer in Cowtown each night. It took ropers 9.5 minutes to go from nodding for their first steer in the John Justin Arena to coiling their rope after the third steer in the Will Rogers Coliseum. This allowed ropers to get "in the groove"…

JX2 Team Roping awarded its first-ever Classic Cadillac and single-horse bumper-pull trailer to Abdiel Zamora for winning the high-point title in the #10.5 Slide at the Georgia Big Dawg April 17 in Statesboro, Georgia. Zamora, of Okeechobee, Florida, won fifth in the roping with Garet Young, sixth with Austin Roebuck (plus the short-go fast time) and ninth with Will Springer to take home the 1975 Cadillac and one-horse trailer, plus $10,500 in prize money. “I’ve given away trucks, Harley Davidsons, everything you can imagine,” JX2’s John Johnson said. “But I’ve never given away a rig like that. I wanted to give ropers who don’t often have a chance to rope for that kind of stuff something special. It was such a cool rig. Next year, I’ve got to come up…

Q: So many ropers around the country know the Stamper family. For those who don’t, who else ropes in your family besides you, your parents and your brother and sisters? A: My grandpa, Zack Stamper, started it all in our family. He was the originator, and all of us roping goes back to Zack, who’s always been known for good horses. A lot of people who rope also know my Uncle Jody, who’s my dad’s brother. Q: You come from a working family that loves to rope. Your mom, Teri Turnage Stamper, is a former Miss Rodeo Oklahoma who then taught eighth grade for many years before finishing her career in academics teaching biology at Oklahoma State University Okmulgee. Your dad’s a retired Tulsa fireman. What about your brother and…

Sonna Warvell hesitates to call herself a team roper. “For me, I have team roped, but I’m a trick roper. That’s my profession.” Warvell is the daughter of the late Jim and Jan Warvell who created a family act of Roman riding, trick riding, dancing horses, comedy acts and jumping a horse without a bridle or saddle over a car that earned the family contracts in professional rodeo throughout the United States and the world in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. The talents of the entire family contributed to their induction into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2010. Warvell herself entered the limelight by the age of 4 astride a pony she would lay down, sit atop, and then jump over obstacles, but the entertainment aspect was only…

Big Reach Headers get plenty of coaching on their reaching. Here’s how heelers can make the hard shots work, with National Finals Rodeo heeler Shay Carroll. SITUATIONS I’ve found myself in two situations that require reaching more than I like. The first situation is if I must ride to the end of the turn at a rodeo, and I don’t cut across and I’m farther behind. I hit the turn at the right spot, but I hit it late and the steer is way out in front of me. I’m OK with reaching when I do that one because I’m riding to a spot, and I know I have to hit that spot to hit the first shot off. All of the top headers right now want their heelers to…

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“Being tender-footed, as soon as she got over the shoeing part, she started walking better in just a few days. Man, I took her off the Legend, off the Adequan, and I just keep her shod with those. She’s as good as she’s been in the last few years.— BOBBY BOYD, DVM, ON THE SUCCES HIS HORSE, DIXIE, HAS HAD IN HER SOFTRIDERS. How Soft Ride’s latest innovation—the SoftRider Arena Gel Shoes—provided relief and upped the performance of Bobby Boyd’s great mare, Dixie. Bobby Boyd has long been a team roping veterinary resource. As an Open-caliber header and a vet, plenty of top talent has leaned on Boyd for advice and aid when their good ones went down. But when Boyd’s 11-year-old mare, Dixie, developed chronic lameness related to navicular…

With only four Ariat World Series of Team Roping Heartland events down in 2021, the association has so far paid out a whopping $524,800, plus a prizeline of Gist Buckles and Cactus Saddles. Eight more Heartland Ropings are on the books for 2021, which should bring the year-end payout to $1.5 million for these premier ropings alone. Just in the last weekend of March, the #14.5 and #8.5 Heartland in Hamilton, Texas, paid $286,400 for the two divisions. The winners of the #14.5 Heartland were Joshua Bray, Midwest City, Oklahoma, and Montrel Gilder, Frankston, Texas, with a time of 32.02 seconds on four head, and they took home $23,850. The winners of the #8.5 Heartland were Carl Marsh, Fredonia, Texas, and Kenny Meeks, Lometa, Texas, who walked away with $40,000…

The good news out of Nevada for professional team ropers is the state has announced it can hold the 2021 Reno Rodeo. BFI owners plan to simply build on the momentum of their March event in Guthrie, Oklahoma, to again host “the most anticipated Monday of the year” in Reno this June. “We wouldn’t even have entertained the idea of moving the BFI if the Reno Rodeo hadn’t been cancelled last year,” said BFI co-owner Daren Peterson, who was forced to relocate to Guthrie’s Lazy E Arena to have a 2020 BFI due to COVID-19 protocols. “Last October, when we met with Nevada officials, there was a 25% chance it would happen this summer and, as of March 1, there was only a 50% chance, so we took the guaranteed…

York, Nebraska’s Annsley Vernon, 16, put all her eggs in the #9.5 Shootout basket at the 2021 Cinch USTRC National Finals XXXII on Friday, April 30. Heading for Cooper Mendenhall, the 4 roper turned four steers in 37.35 seconds, earning the team third place out of the 473 teams that competed, just 0.7 seconds behind the first-place team of Mason Mcrae and Ron Johnson and 0.36 seconds off the second-place team of Colton Clayton and Kaitlyn Torres. “We were 20th high call,” explained Vernon, who had two partners unable to make it to the Finals and had to replace wheels after blowouts on two different trailers in the past month. “It was kind of an adventure to get down there … then my heeler legged in the first round, so…

Question: How do you work on your mental game? What tactics do you think a person should use to improve their confidence and focus? —Samantha Williams; Chattanooga, Tennessee Answer: This isn’t the easiest question to answer, because it’s like teaching someone how to dally: You’ve got to find the groove that works for you. But, I can say what works for me. When I was rodeoing, we talked a lot about having a short memory as the key to my mental game. For some people, that comes naturally. Others must work at it. I like to focus on what I can control. I like to work hard on my craft. How hard I work is on me, so it helps me, mentally, to know that I put in the time…

When your horse gets on the muscle in the box, your chance to win money gets just as tight. Is your caballo kicking its rear end out of the corner, forcing you to stuff it back into place? Squatting or leaning back into the corner? Simply tightening head to toe like a bow string before you nod? Those things are certain to either get you out late or get you the penalty buzzer. Luckily, some of the best hands in the business have insights on what to do. Clay Tryan knows something about keeping a head horse cool in the corner, considering he dominates the longest scoreline in the game as the BFI’s career earnings leader. “The tough thing about no heeling barrier is that the head horse gets to…