Chad Masters breaks record in Team Roping

By Brett Hoffman
Column

Chad Masters has broken the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association team roping regular season earnings record.

His total of $114,573 surpasses the $110,626 won by Speed Williams and Rich Skelton in 2000. It also keeps Masters on pace to win his second world championship in three seasons.

Masters, a header from Clarksville, Tenn., broke the record after he and his partner, Jade Corkhill, each earned $6,689 at three PRCA shows the weekend of Aug. 21-23.

Masters won PRCA rodeos in Odessa and Denver with partner Michael Jones early in the season. Since settling into a partnership with Corkill, they have won eight rodeos, including the renowned Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days.

Moseley in the money: Last year, Cassie Moseley commanded respect among pro rodeo fans by qualifying for her first National Finals Rodeo in barrel racing and earning more than $96,000 at the Las Vegas championships. (read more)

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World leader scores top ride at Horse Heaven Round-Up

By Annie Fowler, Herald staff writer

KENNEWICK — Clint Cannon is due for a little luck to go his way.

On the PRCA circuit since 2003, the bareback rider from Waller, Texas, just missed the National Finals Rodeo in 2007, finishing 16th. In 2008, a shoulder injury cut his season short.

This season, Cannon is making up for lost opportunities. He leads the bareback world standings ($162,004) by almost $30,000 over Bobby Mote, and if his 81-point ride on Orphan Annie on Wednesday night at the Horse Heaven Round-Up stands up for a little money, he should cruise into his first NFR atop the event.

“I’ve never won a check here,” said Cannon, 30, who played fullback at Stephen F. Austin for two years before hitting the PRCA circuit full time….(read more)

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Fifty years of success at stake

A half-century of Canadian consistency in professional rodeo is in danger of collapsing.

With a month left in the season, there are no Canadian cowboys on the 15-man leaderboard in the world saddle bronc riding standings.

If that remains the case, it will mark the first time Canada hasn’t been represented in the event at the year-end National Finals Rodeo since it was created in 1959.

“We’ve talked about it,” said two-time Canadian champion Dustin Flundra. “It has come up more than once.”

The 28-year-old Pincher Creek bronc rider, trying to crack the NFR lineup for the first time in his eight-year career on the world stage, is Canada’s best hope at this time.

He’s 18^th in the world rankings with $41,000 in earnings, a tad more than $9,000 out of the last qualifying hole. But, his task is much more formidable than that.

It took more than $61,000 to survive the 15-man cut last year and it might take as much again this year.

Flundra is well aware of what he’s up against.

“We’re entered in everything for the next month,” he said, referring as well to his veteran traveling partner Rod Hay.  (read more)

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Crash and Burn **Video**

Tracey Goodman and Biscuit

Well, we went to a PRCA on Aug 22nd in Imboden, Ar. The rodeo season is kinda winding down some (the close ones atleast) and I am really looking to make some good runs and pull checks even though I’m too far out of the standings. You still like to finish out with a bang, right. Biscuit has been working pretty good for me. He never ceases to amaze me!! So here we go, just my cousin, my dog, Biscuit and myself, headed for Imboden. We get there and get ready. He warms up GREAT!! Oh yeah!! Now I’m really pumped. I had heard that the night before the ground was really slick but it should have dried out some since slack had already ran on it and it had all day Saturday with the sun on it. We were 2nd out but I couldn’t see the girl that ran before me to see how the ground held. “Heck, Biscuit takes care of me. I’ll just run him and he will be the judge!” Those were my last thoughts as I was entering the arena at a wide open run. ha! This arena has a side gate from the right, so as he is running in, I’m picking him up and moving him over to get a good run at the 1st. He listens fairly well and moves over. You have to understand, he isn’t the type of horse you go in and “set-up”. 🙂 The stretch to number one felt pretty good. He was running HARD it felt like. All of a sudden, about 2 strides to #1, his back end goes down. Then the front, then he hits the ground and gets back up all in, what felt like one motion. I guess the impact of his fall jolted a VERY relaxed me and I went head over heels. Now I don’t mean for this to sound ugly, but in the short 18 years that I have been barrel racing, I have NEVER come off of one during a run. It was one of those crashes I didn’t even see coming! Back to the run…Biscuit gets up and takes off to the run out. The guys catch him and here I come to get him back. Already back to my feet! All was fine. Biscuit was ok! I was ok. The most perfect song was playing when I get to my knees. WILD THANG! Now we are just waiting on the next run to try to redeem ourselves! 🙂      

 

 

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Brian Massey, 3X IFR Champion reminisces about an odd experience while “on the rodeo road”

Brian Massey

 

Indianapolis, IN after the rodeo, a gentleman came up to us and started a conversation, probably about what a big rodeo fan he was, or something like that.  He then invited us to his home to eat.  Since he was of Hispanic descent, he promised us an authentic Mexican meal.  Although we were a little suspicious of his motives, far be it from us to turn down a free meal.  So off we go, our crew consisting of one bareback rider, one barrel racer, and a few bull riders (who’s counting, right?).  It was a little nerve racking since none of us had been to the bank in a while and it was a prime opportunity for an ambush.  But as it turned out, the guy really did cook a great meal for the whole lot of us, and showed us great hospitality.  Good Times!!!

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Trevor Brazile doesn’t miss a beat at Caldwell Night Rodeo

CALDWELL – Another rodeo, another title. Trevor Brazile from Decatur, Texas, captured the tie-down roping title Saturday at the Caldwell Night Rodeo.

Brazile, who is first in the Pro Rodeo all-around standings, finished Saturday with a time of 9.4 seconds, which combined with his previous times was good enough for a first-place finish of 25.6 seconds.

“Man, I got kind of surprised right off the bat,” Brazile said. “That calf, I knew he went left, but I didn’t know he can could go that hard.”

So far in 2009 Brazile has won 41 titles – 20 in all-around, 11 in tie-down roping, (including at the Snake River Stampede last month in Nampa), seven in team roping and three steer roping.

Still all those numbers don’t mean anything to Brazile. He just wants to keep a good thing going.

“Just because you win one two weeks ago, it doesn’t help with your confidence for next week. You have to just keep going or you’ll get passed,” he said.

Five other individual titles were handed out Saturday, as well as the team-roping champions. Here are the winners.

Bareback: Clint Cannon from Waller, Texas, stole the show with an 86 to give him an overall score of 172 points – one point ahead of Bobby Mote..(read more)

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Tracey Goodman IPRA Rodeo Update…New Albany, MS *video*

Tracey Goodman at Fort Smith

This is a rodeo that I think I run every year and wind up one hole out! lol. Well, I sang the same ole song again this year. We had a really nice run. He worked great considering we were on the very bottom of the ground and that pen gets really deep! Our time held for either 2nd or 3rd the first night but we wound up getting bumped to either 4th or 5th and they only paid 3 holes!! This is why I would rather NOT run IPRA. 3 holes paid!! lol. 

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change good for clint cannon, and danyelle campbell comes back and places 4th

Mike Stetson
mstetson@idahopress.com
Updated 5 hours 54 minutes ago

CALDWELL — Something changed for Clint Cannon as he sat at home last season, recovering from a injury that sidelined him for nearly nine months.

The 30-year-old bareback bronc rider, who had never been to the National Finals Rodeo and had only won about $175,000 in his PRCA career, was nursing a torn rotator cuff, a torn labrum and even needed a bone graft in his shoulder to recover from an injury.

“It changed my mental state more than anything,” the Waller, Texas, cowboy said. “I sat at home and I trained and trained and trained and just thought about being on the road so much…(read more)

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Rodeo Cowboy Has Won Buckles In All Events

RICHARD REEDER, The Cody Enterprise
CODY, Wyo. (AP) ― Paul Peterson is a true cowboy, and he has the hardware to prove it.

“I’ve never known of anyone who has one a buckle in every rodeo event,” Nite Rodeo contractor Maury Tate said. “But Paul has, and he’s done it at a high level.”

Peterson said it took awhile to amass all his buckles.

“I finally won a team roping buckle by winning the Nite Rodeo monthly title in July,” he said. “But I’m not aware of too many cowboys who have done that.”

The Lubbock, Texas, native has great memories of his rodeo journey.

“I beat Micky Gee in steer wresting right after he won the world title,” Peterson said. “I always like rubbing that in when I see him.”

Peterson’s rodeo career includes stops at the highest levels.

“I finished second in bull riding at the College National Finals,” he said. “I lost to Jim Sharp, who was a pretty good hand.”

His favorite times were in saddle bronc riding…(read more)

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Ropes, reins, joys, pains: Rodeo time in San Juan

By PETER SCHELDEN

The Orange County Register

It’s hard to find anything left of the Old West in Orange County, unless you know where to look.

On Saturday and Sunday, sawdust, cowboys and bucking broncos will come home to San Juan Capistrano during the ninth annual Rancho Mission Viejo Rodeo.

As always, the nation’s top 30 competitors in riding and roping contests will be among some 200 cowboys entered. Like in years past, competitors will get one shot at $200,000 in prize money — the richest two-day stakes in American rodeo.

“Everyone gets just one shot,” said Gilbert Aguirre….(read more)

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