The Score from The Team Roping Journal

We first got to know Kelsie in her capacity as a top heeler in the all-girl ranks from Oklahoma, long before the breakaway explosion rocked the roping world.  Now, Kelsie is on the trail shooting for her first National Finals of Breakaway Roping berth. She’s got eight WPRA world titles to her name already, and she is one of the most respected teachers and competitors in the sport. She was get...

In true Derrick fashion, in this episode brought to you by Manna Pro, he wanted this to be good, and he wanted what he had to say to be helpful to the bulk of the ropers out there. So we spent a lot of time talking through his mental strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After coming off of a big win with Dustin Egusquiza in the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping's Gold Buckle Beer Open, Levi Lord joins "The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave for a quick phone call interview after winning the Guymon (Oklahoma) Pioneer Days Rodeo with header Nelson Wyatt. They roped three head in 21.3 seconds, worth $3,416 a man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

Shada, Treston and Style Brazile join "The Score" co-host Kaitlin Gustave after the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping's #7 Championships Saddle Roping was complete, which was the final roping of the week in Fort Worth, Texas, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with the #9.5 Ram Truck Roping Champion Shaneece Coffman after she placed third and 10th in the #9.5 Ram Truck Roping and drove off with a new Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII wrapped Ram truck.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Cody Johnson episode. "The Score" co-host and producer Kaitlin Gustave had the opportunity to sit down with singer-songwriter and Resistol endorsee Cody Johnson at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping. In this bonus episode of "The Score" Cody Johnson talks about his love for music and team roping, his mental strategy, road shows, new music updates, career ventures and his hot line o...

Dru Stewart and Kaitlin Gustave discuss hot topics from the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII after Day 5, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with Dru Stewart and Ben Clements to go over the latest at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII.  Plus, we have a special segment brought to you by Resistol with the 2019 Resistol Rookie Heeler of the Year Paden Bray, who is hot off his first Wrangler NFR in 2020 and his most recent win at RFD-TV's The American. Hosted o...

Paul Eaves is a two-time and reigning PRCA World Champion Heeler, and he’s never been on The Score—except for during our NFR special edition after his go-round wins and world titles. In the span of my career first at  Spin To Win  and then at  The Team Roping Journal,  Paul went from a 19-year-old kid from Missouri to a 31-year-old husband and father of two with two gold buckle...

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with Ferron Lucero. Lucero shares what's been going on at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII in Fort Worth, Texas. Plus, we have a special segment brought to you by Resistol with the Resistol #14.5 Shootout champions Kreece Thompson and Jeff Hilton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day two of the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII is said and done. In this episode, brought to you by RidePass, we cover who won the Resistol #14.5 Shootout, the #13.5 Shootout and the YETI Jr. Open. Plus, we have a special segment from the US Finals with Resistol Endorsee Joseph Harrison and his partner Bobby Joe Hill, which we recorded after they tied to win the #16.5 Shootout. Ho...

Day one of the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII is in the books and champions have been crowned. In this episode you will hear a wrap-up on the day from the Gold Buckle Beer Open, the #16.5 Shootout and the #15.5 Shootout followed by a special interview with the Gold Buckle Beer Open Champions Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Brad Barkemeyer is one of the founding experts of the Horse&Rider OnDemand horsemanship and training videos. He's an NRCHA trainer, he shows in the cutting and the reining, he works with NonPros and he also team ropes. Barkemeyer's background is very diverse and that makes him an awesome teacher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dru Stewart joins "The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave to cover the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping news updates. They discuss roping information, accommodations, stalling, entries and more. Brought to you by RidePass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miles Baker has drawn the attention of the team roping world as Trevor Brazile’s partner on many-a-great horses, and two weeks ago he shared with us an explanation of the foundation he puts in the head horses he and Brazile ride.    This week, Baker is back with his cowboy-style heel-horse training insights, straight from his Oklahoma ranch. Baker—who headed for Brazile at this year’s BF...

The weekend at the Lazy E Arena started off with the 37th Annual Cinch Timed Event Championship. After the final round was complete on Saturday, March 13, Poplarville, Mississippi’s Marcus Theriot was crowned the Cinch Ironman after knocking down 25 head in 322.4 seconds, worth $100,000 Then we watched as some of the elite ropers in our sport piled into the Lazy E to compete at the 44th annual Bob...

Miles Baker was Trevor Brazile’s partner on the head horse, Smartys Dunny,  that just sold for $250,000 last weekend at the Horse Sale at Rancho Rio, and he’s partners with Brazile on many of the top-tier horses you’ve seen the King of the Cowboys on everywhere from the BFI to the American Rope Horse Futurity Association’s World Championship. He’s part of the secret sauce for Trevor Brazile,...

Paden Bray is our special guest on this episode of "The Short Score". This is the first time we've had Paden on the podcast. While these interviews are usually pretty short on "The Short Score", this one, we got a little lengthy because we had a lot to talk about. He just won $100,000 heeling for Erich Rogers at RFD-TV's The American, and he took time out of his day to chat with Chelsea Shaffer ab...

With the rodeo season once again up in the air thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like as good of a time as any to have a light-hearted episode about the good old days on the rodeo trail in a different era. So to do that, we racked our brains for the best cowboy travel stories we've ever heard told, and we called up the guys who lived to tell the tales so we could all have a good la...

"The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave talks with the Mike Cervi Jr. Memorial Pro Classic Open Champions Cody Snow and Jade Corkill and the America's Team Roping Challenge Tour Stop 1 Champions Dillon Holyfield and Jaylen Eldridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the last two decades, the staff at  The Team Roping Journal  has written both in passing and in earnest about Patrick Smith’s life story.  But we don’t take for granted that everyone listening to "The Score"—especially the next generation of ropers—has read every word we’ve ever written or heard every story we’ve ever produced. So this is the first time Smith and "The Scor...

Co-host Kaitlin Gustave talks with the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Title Fights XI Open Champions Derrick Begay and Trey Yates on the first episode of "The Short Score". This episode is brought to you by the Cinch Timed Event Championships. ____ Did you miss their win? You can read about it here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 3 in our series on the horse market, we talk to our round-table of experts on the trends and challenges facing the breakaway horse market.  In this final part of our horse market series, host Chelsea Shaffer talks to Trevor Brazile, Lari Dee Guy, J.D. Yates and Jann Parker about the breakaway horse business and where it’s heading at a time when organizations like the  WCRA &nb...

While Part 1 of this series discussed the forces driving the rope horse market from the sellers perspective, Part 2 breaks that down even farther with  J.D. Yates ,  Lari Dee Guy ,  Bert McGill  and  Dean Tuftin .  These four—uniquely connected through the  American Rope Horse Futurity Association  market one way or another—talk with host Chelsea Shaffer abo...

If one good thing came out of 2020, it's the price of a good rope horse continues to climb—allowing more people to train horses for a living and support the sport of team roping as a whole.  So to kick off Season 4 of  " The Score", we want to talk about the trends driving the industry forward with wide slice of influencers. In this first part of our series, 26-time World Champion Trevor...