The Score from The Team Roping Journal

The 2025  Cinch Timed Event Championship  kicks off inside the Lazy E Feb. 27-March 1, with five rounds of Ironman competition. While the event can be streamed on  Roping.com  for free, we break down the need-to-know information for this year's CTEC on  The Short Score.  Timed Event contestants Marcus Theriot, Kyle Lockett and Nelson Wyatt also share how they're prepa...

The Royal Crown took on Buckeye, Arizona, for the roping portion of its 2025 futurity Feb. 5-10.  The team roping kicked off with  Miles Baker  and Relentless PYC winning the 6 & Under Heading. Relentless PYC is the richest futurity rope horse mare of all time, and she and Baker won the average with a 616.26 after four rounds to add another $21,095 to her life time earnings.&nbs...

Luke Brown  and  Trey Yates  won the 2025  National Western Stock Show and Rodeo  win Jan. 26, after a 4.2-second run in the short round to pocket $11,718 a man. For Yates, three-time NFR heeler and 2018 NFR champion, the win was an emotional one. Yates joins  The Short Score  to talk about the emotion behind the win, his partnership with 14-time NFR header Brown...

We're back with our eighth year of The Score Podcast from The Team Roping Journal, and we're kicking it off with a bang with Coleman Proctor and a recap of his dramatic 10th round of the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in a raw conversation that only Coleman can provide. Proctor missed his Round 10 steer to lose the 2024 PRCA Heading and All Around World Championships, and Proctor's perspectiv...

The  Gold Buckle Futurities  Fall Roping crowned its champions Nov. 14-17, 2024, in Abilene, Texas, and  The Short Score is wrapping up 2024 highlighting a few of their winners. Rhen Richard  won the 6 & Under Heading on  SJR Diamond Bond  for $11,000. They picked up another $19,000 for first in the Elite Stallion Incentive, and the 6-year-old won another $9,...

Ace Ashford’s  death in August of 2024 shook the team roping and rodeo communities to their cores. The 18-year-old young gun, and younger brother to NFR heeler Ross, was known by everyone as a kind, humble and overall good person. But even in death God's hand is present. In this episode of  The Short Score,  Hill Rodeo Cattle’s  Bobby Joe Hill —a longtime friend of the Ashford...

Clint Summers and Jake Long  took home the  2024 NFR team roping  average title Dec. 14, in Round 10. Summers and Long came in second in the average, and their 4.0-second run sealed the deal with a 44.3 on nine head. They picked up fourth in the round for $14,126.88 apiece and $86,391.31 a man for the aggregate title. They join  The Short Score  to talk about their run, th...

Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp  defended their 2023 world titles, winning the 2024 PRCA team roping world championship with $361,480. Wade and Thorp sealed the deal on their consecutive gold buckles after winning second in Round 10 with a 3.8-second run for $26,623.74 a man. The newly-crowned world champs join  The Short Score  to talk about their world titles. __ Designed around cooli...

Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin  are back in the winner's circle after Round 9, this time with gold buckles on the line. Proctor and Medlin won Round 9 of the  2024 NFR  with a 3.8-second run for $33,687.18 a man. Proctor now sits second in the world and Medlin third. After Round 9, the projected world standings have Proctor the world champion header and Medlin the world champion h...

The end of the 2024 NFR is in sight as  Round 8  wrapped with the 2021 and 2022 world champions keeping themselves alive in the world championship race. Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira  entered Round 8 needing to win the round to stay in the conversation, and they did just that, winning the round with a 3.4 for $33,687.18 a man. They now sit second in the world standings. They jo...

Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin  wrapped Round 7 of the  2024 NFR  in a bow as the last team out. Proctor and Medlin took the win in Round 7 with a 3.5-second run for $33,687.18 a man, keeping Proctor alive in the race for the all-around gold buckle. Proctor and Medlin catch up with  The Short Score  to talk about their run and their careers. __ This episode is presented...

Round 6 of the team roping  at the 2024 NFR saw the fastest time of the Finals thus far.  Brenten Hall and Kaden Profili took home the Round 6 win with a 3.5-second run for $33,687.18 a man.  For Hall, the round win is his first since the 2020 NFR, but it's Profili's first at his breakout Finals. Hall and Profili join  The Short Score  to break down their run. __ Designed...

Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp  have raked in $101,061.54 over five rounds at the 2024 NFR, all coming through round wins. Wade and Thorp picked up their third round win of the 2024 NFR in  Round 5  after knocking one down in 3.6 seconds. Wade and Thorp pocketed another $33,687.18 a man to also widened their lead in the world standings. Wade and Thorp once again join  The Short Sc...

Round 4 of the 2024 NFR was busy in the team roping with a four-way tie for first. NFR rookie J.C. Yeahquo and Buddy Hawkins set the pace as the first team out with a 4.1-second run. Clint Summers and Jake Long followed shortly with another 4.1, and so did  Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord  and  Cody Snow and Hunter Koch . All eight men pocketed $23,635.36 to also help Egusquiza and L...

Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira  were back with a vengeance in Round 3 of the 2024 NFR, and  Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord  were right there with them. Driggers and Nogueira took the lead in the round with 3.7-second run, and two runs later Egusquiza and Lord joined them atop the round with their own 3.7-second run. Each man pocketed $30,155.46, and they join  The Short Sco...

Familiar faces took the round win in Round 2 of the 2024 NFR. Reigning World Champions Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp won the second round Friday, Nov. 7, with another 3.7-second run for $33,687.18 a man.  Wade and Thorp took control of the world standings after Round 1, and they've extended their lead to $58,104.22 over season leaders Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord.  Wade and Thorp join&nb...

Reigning World Champs Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp are back to defend their title at the 2024 NFR, winning Round 1 . Wade and Thorp won $33,687.18 a man for the first-round win Thursday, Dec. 5, with a 3.7-second run. The round win also pushed them into No. 1 in the 2024 world standings. On this episode of The Short Score, Wade and Thorp break down their run. __ This episode is presented by Profess...

Solo Select CEO Ty Smith is one of the industry's leading horse brokers, and he's got his finger on the pulse of the rope horse industry's highs and lows. Smith has pulled together a set of superstar prospects, performers, embryos and broodmares for the Thanksgiving Select Online Sale , with plenty eligible for the roping industry's biggest incentives—including Solo's Select's Stallion Incentive f...

The 5-year-old stallion  Pride And Joyy  now has $313,423 in QData earnings, with his latest win at the 2024 AQHA World Show in the Junior Heeling with the Relentless Remuda’s  Miles Baker  Nov. 4, 2024. The win—worth $25,703 for their final score of 231.5—was Baker’s first AQHA World Championship, and it was Pride And Joyy’s second heeling globe, having won the Bronze Globe in...

It's not every day The Team Roping Journal's videos break the internet, but when we catch J.D. Yates stacking coils over his saddle horn heeling to save a placing at the 2024 AQHA World Show, we sort of can't help ourselves. But–more importantly—Yates won the AQHA Junior Heading World Title on Tearney Ranch's Sue C Royalty . The 2020 mare by One Time Royalty out of Sue C Lena marked a 229.0, worth...

Circuit finals season is in full swing as November 2024 marches on. Eight circuit finals are in the books, and the stories continue to intrigue and inspire, from overcoming accidents to going neck-and-neck with family in the standings. On this episode of  The Short Score,  we introduce two circuit stories we've enjoyed so far:  Jared Fillmore's Wilderness Circuit Finals  win an...

Tate Kirchenschlager won the 2024 AQHA Senior Heading World Championship on the stallion Starlight Oak 017, while his cousin Dakota Kirchenschlager won the Senior Heeling on DT Hickorys Playtime. Both men helped each other to win the title in Oklahoma City Nov. 3, with Dakota, 33, winning in a rope-off against Cade Rice and Roll Your Nickles, in which Tate headed for both men aboard Starlight Oak...

The 2024  Riata Championships  crowned numerous winners who all took home their share of a pretty penny. On this episode of  The Short Score , we continue our Riata series with the #10.5 and #9.5 champions.  Tauna Alcorn and Taylor Pettigrew  won the #10.5 on SJR Diamond Metalica and Call Me Mr Jonez for $109,600. Alcorn had a huge week inside the Lazy E winning nearly $15...

The new ProRodeo team of  Andrew Ward  and  Jake Long  survived the pressure cooker of the CoJo Roping high-stakes short round, walking away with new Bill Fick Ford F-350s and stock-combo Bloomer Trailers, plus $60,000 in cash. In a roping that had seen sub 5-second times all day long, Ward and Long just had to be 8 to win it all at high back. Ward got out the barrier, and they...

Kunzler and Celtic Tuff, owned by Bri Wells and by  Woody Be Tuff  out of Sucha Smartlookn Cat, won the Limited Heading title for $7,500, followed by the Intermediate Heading title for $20,000. On this episode of  The Short Score, Kunzler joins us to talk about his win. Episode presented by Fast Back Ropes Fast Back Ropes  is thrilled to unveil its latest innovation in roping t...