The Team Roping Journal

Dear Roper, As we were planning this issue, I heard one of the best guys in the world theorizing on retirement. He asked what I thought made guys with all the talent in the world step away from rodeo, go home, get a job or just ‘do something differen

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at home with | Jake Barnes | Clay O | military salute | USTRC Q: Who taught you to rope, and what's been that person's most important piece of advice to you? A: My grandpa, Kevin Blackwell, who's my mom's dad, taught me how to rope. Probably the most

Time To Glo, the 2019 son of Hickory Holly Time who's earned $140,000± in just 18 months of competition and is now owned by Time To Glo Partners under the guidance of Ty Smith, will join the elite Solo Select Stallion lineup. Time To Glo is the 2023

One of the best parts of rodeoing is all the people you meet and all the friends you make. You get to know people all over the country, and a lot of them open their doors to cowboys as they come through. It might be a fairgrounds that keeps the gates

One of the most common things that lower-numbered heelers have trouble with is the angles of their delivery. It can start in the swing, because the swing sets up the delivery. But the most critical time is when you come out of the swing and you're st

In November 2023, Delane Haynes made his Cowboy Channel debut. “I wear a Gus hat with a mule-kick and my bright shirts, and my dad said, ‘I wasn't even close to the TV, and I seen you,”’ Haynes said. Haynes, 56, had earned three berths into Fort Wort

Derrick Begay and Erich Rogers have long been an inseparable duo in ProRodeo, having grown up near one another on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. When Derrick Begay and Erich Rogers were in the truck together this summer, it was decided (at the su

If you draw good steers throughout the day, you should be able to start your roping and rope your roping the way you plan on it—regardless of what mistakes you have with your partner. You should be able to make a game plan, draw medium steers and sta

Freeze Frame with Jake Clay Photo by Phil Kitts Copy by Taylor Vollin SITUATION: Woodward Elks Rodeo TIME: 4.6 seconds PAYOUT: $3,655 a man AGE: 25 ROPE: S Powerline by Classic PARTNER: Trey Yates NFR QUALIFICATIONS: 1 HOME: Sapulpa, Oklahoma I want

Douglas Rich has been to the Big Show before. He wore his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo back number heeling behind Coy Rahlmann in 2021. Herrick, Illinois native Rich, who now has a second home in Weatherford, Texas, has been having a record y

For the first time in history, lucrative paychecks await ropers based on judges’ opinions. Inevitably, then, eye appeal plays into the score. That's why futurity trainers are doing what it takes to spit, shine and polish (plus work on a horse's condi

The Patriot Event, now owned by The Equine Network LLC, relaunched its Reno event June 24-28 in the Reno-Sparks Livestock Event Center, beginning with a $30,000-added Open Roping and wrapping up with an Open Breakaway. Those Open events book-ended a

Professional rodeo is a grind—one that requires complete dedication to the craft. The hours in the practice pen, the time away from the wife and kids and the stress of needing to win all make rodeo not for the faint. The pursuit of a gold buckle—and

WHAT DOES THE A&C RACING AND ROPING PROGRAM PUT INTO A HORSE THAT CAN MAKE CARTERS WON TIME OUT GO FROM FUTURITY HORSE TO RODEO HORSE SO QUICKLY? The whole program over at A&C Racing and Roping is kind of cool, from Trinity (Haggard) putting the feel