The Score from The Team Roping Journal

Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord  took home the 2024 Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo win May 3-5, after roping three muleys in 22.6 seconds for $3,596 a man. Between the rounds and the aggregate, Egusquiza and Lord left Oklahoma with $5,298 each to push Egusquiza to No. 1 in the world standings with $70,234.22 won on the year and Lord to No. 2 on the heel side with $70,234.22 as well. Egusquiza &nbsp...

Andrew Ward and Jake Long won the Yeti US Open at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping April 21, 2024, roping five steers in 29.14 seconds to win $32,300. On this episode of The Score, DruStew sits down with the duo after their US Finals win to talk about the state of open ropings and what it takes to win at the highest level. --- This episode is presented by Cactus Ropes, sponsor of BOT...

Resistol Rookie of the Year contenders were making waves across ProRodeo all weekend, from Clovis, California, to the Lone Star State of Texas. The third-annual Resistol Rookie Roundup was at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, April 26-27. Utah cowboys  Ben Jordan and Scott Lauaki  took home the 2024 win with a 4.5-second run in the four-man Round to pocket $2,500 a man. Chelsea...

Sydney Ball  is headed to her fourth  Women's Rodeo World Championship , this time with the 2023 Challenger world title to her name. The 23-year-old Virginia native, now living in Texas, leads the 2024  WRWC  Challenger leaderboard on the head side heading into the WRWC May 13-28 in Fort Worth. Sydney, 23, and her twin sister  Sally  didn't start roping until they wer...

Though the ProRodeo spring run is in full swing, The Short Score is reflecting on Luke Brown's Pendleton Round-Up in 2008. Back in 2008, Luke qualified for his first NFR where he would place in seven of 10 rounds. But his trip to Las Vegas wasn’t really punched until September that year when he won the Pendleton Round-Up with his regular season partner Monty Joe Petska. On this episode, Chelsea Sh...

Jody Ramer is an American Quarter Horse Association Professional Horseman, World Champion, ARHFA Judge and professional saddlemaker for Genuine Billy Cook Saddles. He's spent a lifetime perfecting all of these crafts, and in this episode he sits down with host Chelsea Shaffer to discuss how he applies all of those skills to his career at Billy Cook . --- This episode is presented by  Genuine&...

The  2024 BFI  took place at the Lazy E Arena March 28-April 6, with the team roping wrapping up April 3.  Multiple champs from  BFI Week  join this episode of The Short Score to talk about their wins, including  The Feist champs, Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira , the 12.5 champs, Cole and Birch Eiguren, and the Charlie 1 Horse All-Girl winners,  Kenzie Kelton...

Kory Koontz  has 22 NFR qualifications to his name, and one thing he credits to his success is horsemanship.  Roping.com  recently released a full youth clinic with Koontz, with a range of videos with great tips, from dummy roping, how to rope the sled, live steers and a lot of focus on the fundamentals. On this episode of  The Short Score ,  Roping.com brings an audi...

Brooke Wilson has established herself as the queen of riding one through the sale ring in the last five years just as the rope horse market has exploded. Wilson, 36, of Canyon, Texas, is a wife, mother and 5.5 header who won more than anyone else at the first Riata Buckle in 2022. She and her husband Rodey have topped the Horse Sale at Rancho Rio the last three years, and they're consistently ring...

The Lone Star Shootout is one of the biggest ropings of the year, and it's notorious for its gunslinging nature. In 2024,  Dustin Egusquiza and Jake Long took the win  with an impressive 11.66 seconds on three steers at the jackpot’s new home in Abilene, Texas. Egusquiza and Long took home $76,000 for the average but pocketed $80,000 on the day, as well as new trailers, saddles and a lin...

JC Yeahquo  and  Buddy Hawkins copped the biggest check of the PRCA regular season, winning the 2024 RodeoHouston for $50,000 a man. Yeahquo and Hawkins are a new team in 2024 and have both jumped to No. 1 in the world standings after taking home $54,375 a man in Houston. Yeahquo now has $65,674.40 won on the year, and Hawkins has $70,240.46 on the heel side. Yeahquo and Hawkins join&nbs...

Patrick Smith has championed Rooster—WSR Hesa Dunofa Lena—since 2018, but now Smith is ready to pass the stud along to someone who will maximize his opportunities in the rope horse breeding business. In this episode, Smith explains his decision to sell Rooster (as well as his Riata Buckle spot) and how time commitments have kept him from focusing on the breeding business. The Select Online Sale is...

Paul David Tierney now has THREE Cinch Timed Event Championships to his name, having won a whopping $388,500 in his career at the Ironman of ProRodeo.  Tierney finished the three-day marathon with a time of 322.8 seconds on 25 head worth $100,000, winning second with a 58.7 in Round 2 worth $2,000, third in Round 3 with a 57.9 worth $1,000 and third in Round 5 with a 60.3 worth another $1,000...

On March 4, 2024, Chris Neal of CN Productions and Rising Stars announced the richest breakaway roping event in the history of the sport—the Kimes Ranch Million Dollar Breakaway Roping. The roping will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona, Nov. 27-30, 2024, and will pay out $1 million across a 10-round Open format. In this Breakaway Breakdown crossover episode of The Short Score, the host of The Brea...

Jeremy Barwick is one of the horse industry's biggest players—selling millions of dollars in performance horses annually through Western Bloodstock and Triangle Horse Sales. He doesn't often do interviews, but when he does, he says what he means and means what he says, dropping the most useful knowledge you'll find on the horse industry anywhere. Barwick's background is in the NCHA, but he's been...

The Relentless Remuda's Miles Baker won three Open Futurities at the Royal Crown in Buckeye, Arizona, outright, and Jeremy Buhler jump-rode Remuda stallion Pride And Joyy for the only other Open futurity there was to win Feb. 8-10. Baker also let Paul Eaves ride Remuda horse Gunners Nite Train for the Open Jackpot win. All told, the Remuda took home over $83,000 in two days, and this episode is a...

The 2023 ProRodeo season didn't end how  Brenten Hall  planned, right outside the Top 15 at No. 16. For the three-time NFR header, it was a wave of emotions, but he's bouncing back in 2024 with a positive outlook, fueled by his faith. Hall and his new partner,  Kaden Profili , are hot off their $15,000-win at The American Contender Finals Feb. 10, in Abilene, Texas. Hall joins The S...

The Henry's 88 Ranch is a six-generation operation in Douglas, Wyoming, where the family raises and trains performance horses that are bred to compete in the richest incentives in the country and work for a living on the ranches of the American West. In its third year, the 88 Ranch's Remuda Sale runs Feb. 2 to Feb 4 online , offering the ranch's finest prospects and a ranch-raised stallion, Roller...

In this episode of The Score from The Team Roping Journal, two-time NFR heeler Billie Jack Saebens delves into the intricacies of rope horse breeding programs, the dynamics of buying and selling rope horses, and the competitive landscape of rope horse futurities. Saebens, drawing from his extensive experience, provides practical insights into the practicalities of rope horse breeding programs. Lis...

The WCRA rang in the new year with the 2024 Stampede at The E at the Lazy E in Guthrie, Oklahoma, Jan. 3-6. In the Progressive Rounds,  Jake Wells and Bryer Hamilton  took the first-round win with an 8.22, and  Heath King and Stephen Britnell  won the second round with a 5.79.  Peyton Walters  and  Joe Mattern  took home the win and $15,000 with a 5.52-secon...

The Ariat World Series of Team Roping XVII wrapped up at the South Point in Las Vegas Dec. 9-17, 2023, paying out over $18 million. The first roping of the week was the Riata Buckle Open, which paid $106,000 to the winning team of  Bubba Buckaloo  and Nicky Northcott. Buckaloo and Northcott were 43.06 seconds on six steers for the win, and they join The Short Score to talk about their wi...

The 2023 NFR is in the books, with world champs and average champions crowned.  It all came down to Round 10, and when it was all said and done,  Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp  held on to the lead in the world standings to clinch the 2023 world title.  Derrick Begay and Colter Todd  went into the tenth round leading the average as the only team to catch all steers. They stay...

Round 9 win. They were 3.5 seconds Dec. 15 to win their second go-round in a row and push them to the top of the world standings.  Wade and Thorp join Chelsea Shaffer on  The Score  to talk about their run, the steers and how they feel heading into the tenth round as the projected world champions. ___ This episode is presented by  Resistol , who have supported us in our multime...

In Round 8 of the 2023 NFR,  Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp  knew they drew a steer they could win on. The money steer of the round, to be exact. And they took full advantage of it in just 3.3 seconds. Wade and Thorp not only won the round, they tied the team roping world record and pocketed $30,706 a man. That $30,706 was good enough to put them back in contention for a world title. On thi...

and went to the lead with a 4.0. Six teams later,  Clay Smith  and  Paden Bray  tied Begay and Todd. Following Smith and Bray,  Clint Summers and Jake Long  joined both teams at the top, taking home their fourth round win of this year's NFR. Chelsea Shaffer sits down with all three teams on this episode of  The Score  to talk about their night.  ____ Th...