The Score from The Team Roping Journal

The 2023 circuit finals have started kicking off across the country, starting with the Texas, Prairie and Badlands.  The  Texas Circuit Finals  ran Oct. 10-13, 2023, in Waco with rounds paying $2,212 to win and the average paying $4,424. in Duncan, Oklahoma, the  Prairie Circuit Finals  kicked off Oct. 13 and ended Oct. 14, paying out $2,149 to win the rounds and $3,223 to...

In golf, you can get power with your torso. Heeling is similar. In this bonus  Roping.com  tips episode of The Short Score,  Rickey Green  explains in a throwback audio how a heeler can use their torso to get more power and speed on their swing. Become a Better Roper: Roping.com  is the online training resource for team ropers. In addition to thousands of videos and exclus...

Clint Summers was outside the Top 15 until the last run of the last rodeo of the 2023 ProRodeo regular season. The NFR switchender needed to spin his final-round steer for Jake Long in 3.6 seconds or less to move into the Top 15 headers in the world, and he had to jump out of his just-use-your-horse-and-catch mindset to lay it all on the line. Lay it all on the line he did, with the flag falling i...

The inaugural WCRA Rodeo Carolina saw a field of IPRA teams and NFR teams, and it made for some interesting rounds. On this episode of The Short Score, we catch up with the Progressive Round winners and the Rodeo Carolina champs. In Progressive Round 1,  Heath King and Stephen Britnell  blasted a 4.58-second run to win the round for $1,500 a man. Progressive Round 2 was won by the Rodeo...

Coleman Proctor  and  Logan Medlin  took home a historic win Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, after winning the inaugural  Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup  in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for $25,000 a man.  Between the rounds and the grand prize, Proctor and Medlin both took home $35,000 and solidified their spots at the 2023 NFR. They each finished the season with $133,487.42...

It's October which means the 2023 ProRodeo season has officially come to a close. And what a way to end the year with $25,000 up for grabs at the Cinch Playoffs Governor's Cup in Sioux Falls and battles from bubble boys NOT in South Dakota. On this episode of The Short Score, we give you a full rundown of what happened in Sioux Falls, touch on how Jake Clay made his first NFR the hard way and what...

Trevor Brazile has $7 million in earnings and 26 gold buckles, but does he still get nervous? Yes, yes he does. But what sets him apart is how he deals with them. In this bonus  Roping.com  tips episode of The Short Score, Trevor explains how he battles the nerves. ___ This episode is brought to you by  Resistol  as part of Women in Rodeo Month 2023. Resistol has joined The Tea...

we've officially made it to the last week of the 2023 ProRodeo season. With one last  big  chance at money left in the season, who sits where and who still has a chance at the 2023 NFR? On this episode of The Short Score, we take a look at the standings, who is going to  Sioux Falls  for the  Governor's Cup , what  bubble guys still have a fair shot at the Finals &nbs...

Barnes  and  Clay O'Brien Cooper  won their world titles?  On this bonus  Roping.com  tips episode, Jake and Clay talk about how they've seen the event become the premier event in Western sports.  More from Jake and Clay The Short Score: Long vs. Short Game Evolution The Short Score: Are Kaleb and Junior the Best of this Generation? Breaking It Down: Understandin...

Pam Minick is an icon for anyone who loves excellence in rodeo, with a career that has spanned the decades with a timeless ability to bring out the best stories in the sport. A team roper and breakaway roper herself, Minick called the team roping play-by-play in the 1980s at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Her longtime knowledge of the sport put her in the role, knowledge gained as a team rope...

As the only true team event in the sport of rodeo, that team aspect is  vital.  Two-time World Champion  Patrick Smith recognizes this and has created an instructional video based around it, and come November 2023, it's streaming exclusively on  Roping.com .  His  new instructional video  by PoleStar Visuals,  Stay Driven , will focus on the team component o...

When  Jake Barnes  and  Clay O’Brien Cooper  first stepped on the ProRodeo scene, the bar was set at four: four world titles. That's what  Leo Camarillo  (in the team roping) had won and so had Jim Rodriguez Jr. Jake and Clay would of course go on to surpass that, eventually becoming seven-time world champs. But how badly did they want an eighth gold buckle? On this b...

Nelson Wyatt, Andrew Ward, Coleman Proctor, Dustin Egusquiza, Tanner Tomlinson, Tyler Wade and Rhen Richard all weigh in on which horses should be in the conversation for the 2023 PRCA/AQHA Head Horse of the Year title—and what makes a true Horse of the Year in the PRCA in 2023. --- This episode is presented by Fast Back Ropes and their Centerfire2 . The Centerfire2 is an all nylon with core const...

Sept. 7-10, 2023, was a BIG weekend in ProRodeo with the Cinch Playoffs having taken place in Puyallup, Washington. With $72,000 added on each end and paying out $13,000 to the winners of the four-man round alone, Puyallup was a major payday for many teams. And don't forget, the top four from Puyallup advance to the Governor’s Cup in Sioux Falls at the end of the month where there’s a purse of $24...

Jake Barnes  and  Clay O'Brien Cooper  are master analyzers of the sport of team roping. Why do they like to break things down so much, and how do they best analyze each run? On this bonus Roping.com tips episode of The Short Score, Jake and Clay explain why and how they analyze runs. _____ This episode is brought to you Nutramax. Cosequin ASU Joint & Hoof Pellets contain q...

Patrick Smith, Wesley Thorp, Logan Medlin, Levi Lord, Buddy Hawkins and Hunter Koch talk to The Score Host Chelsea Shaffer about which horses they believe to be the best horses on the ProRodeo trail in 2023. From Smith's reigning Horse of the Year Kadabra King to Lord's Birdie and Koch's Garfield, these are the horses the other guys are drooling over this year. --- This week’s episode is brought t...

Ellensburg, Walla Walla, Filer, Lakeview—Labor Day weekend in the Northwest was busy, to say the least.  Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira  raked in over $16,000 last week, topping it off with their first-ever Ellensburg, Washington, win. Who else brought in the big bucks last week? Oh, and what's going on in Puyallup this weekend? On this episode of The Short Score, we break down what...

Are Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira the greatest team of this generation of team ropers? The reigning world champs sit No. 1 in the world standings with $136,583.45 won on the year, and their successful careers have people curious. On this bonus  Roping.com  tips episode of The Short Score, Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper weigh in with their opinions. ____ This episode is brought...

With $38,440.31 won in the Resistol Rookie of the Year race on the heel side,  JR Gonzalez  is No. 5 on the heel side with the top spot within reach. The 20-year-old heels for  2018 NFR header Bubba Buckaloo , and on this episode of The Short Score, Gonzalez visits with Lillian Kent, Jr. Western Digital Content Producer for BarrelRacing.com, The Team Roping Journal and The Breakaway...

How did the reaching game develop? And who was responsible?  On this bonus  Roping.com  tips episode of The Short Score,  Jake Barnes  and  Clay O’Brien Cooper  discuss the evolution of heading. Become a Better Roper: Roping.com  is the online training resource for team ropers. In addition to thousands of videos and exclusive roping films in your back pocket...

Futurity greats Andy Holcomb, Trevor Brazile and Jeremy Buhler showed up primed to win at the Royal Crown in Rock Springs, Wyoming, August 16-17. Holcomb showed Fine Vintage Cash to the All-Ages Heeling title, Brazile rode Pride And Joyy to the 4-&-Under Heeling championship and Buhler piloted TWO horses—Heavenly Catt and Hot Smokepack—to first and second in the highly competitive 6-&-Unde...

hen you're hot you're hot, and right now  Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp  are on a heater. Just last week, August 14-20, 2023, Wade and Thorp brought home $13,462 a man after winning the first round and average in Caldwell, Idaho, winning the first round and placing in the average in Canby, Oregon, and taking home some money in Moses Lake, Washington. On this episode of The Short Score, we...

The Royal Crown Futurity in Rock Springs, Wyoming, is a flagship event of the futurity season, and this year Colby Lovell, Tate Kirchenschlager and Rhen Richard came out as the champs of the Open divisions. After each man's win, The Score Host Chelsea Shaffer sat down to talk about the talents of their mounts and their training programs that produced the Royal Crown champs. --- This episode of The...

Hotel rooms were the original perk of making the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. How was making a living as a team roper back in the day? On this bonus Roping.com tips episode of The Short Score, Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper talk about how it was making a living as a team roper back in the day. Become a Better Roper: Roping.com  is the online training resource for team ropers. In addit...

Since the beginning of August, Wyatt Cox from Arroyo Grande, California, and his partner Tanner James have won nearly $12,000, pushing Cox to No. 27 on the heel side of the world standings with $51,404 won on the year. On this episode of The Short Score, Cox and James talk about heating things up the last few weeks, Wyatt's experiences on the bubble and all things rodeo.