On The Rodeo Road

Courtesy PRCA COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Team roping heading horse Precious Speck, owned and ridden by Travis Tryan, and team roping heeling horse, Baileys Cooper Doc, owned and ridden by Randon Adams, both earned their fourth AQHA/PRCA Horse of the Year honors. Precious Speck, “Walt,” has taken top honors in 2003 and from 2007-2009, while [...]

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By BRETT HOFFMAN Special to the Star-Telegram It was one mammoth weekend on the pro rodeo and bull riding circuits. Four prominent western riding associations concluded regular-season competition last weekend and named end-of-the year finals qualifiers. The Heartland Pro Rodeo Championships, which concluded Saturday in Waco, was the high-paying season closing event in the Professional [...]

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Associated Press – October 19, 2009 4:55 PM ET PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – A Fort Pierre man accused of stealing a rodeo horse made his first court appearance Monday and said he will try to hire his own lawyer. Twenty-2-year-old Flint David Dahl did not enter a plea to felony grand theft or a misdemeanor [...]

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Heartland ProRodeo Championships final performance Courtesy PRCA   WACO, Texas — Clint Cannon started the 2009 rodeo season with a win at the Texas Circuit Finals last January at the Heart O’ Texas Coliseum and finished the regular season with a win at the Heartland ProRodeo Championships here. When the Waller, Texas, bareback rider won [...]

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The Etbauer family took a little working vacation this summer to the northwest part of the United States. They packed enough clothes for the children – Kord, Treg and Jacie – some of mom’s horses, and dad’s hand-crafted saddle. Unlike most years when dad is traveling around the country during the summer months, this trip [...]

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Molly Powell was mentally preparing herself to get out of competitive barrel racing. For the past two years, her horse slipped at high-paying winter rodeos, first at San Antonio, Texas, last year and Denver this January. “I started out the past two years with plans to go to the National Finals Rodeo,” Powell said. “But [...]

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JOE KUSEK Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:55 am L.J. Jenkins’ little midweek tune-up almost proved very costly. Jenkins, one of the top competitors in the Professional Bull Riders, will ride in Uncasville, Conn., this weekend for a chance to earn more than $35,000. Two weeks from now, he will [...]

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JOE KUSEK Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2009   Trevor Brazile had some real simple plans at the conclusion of the Justin Boots Championships two weeks ago. “I’m going to get back into a workout regimen,” said the six-time world all-around champion from Decatur, Texas. “Do you know how hard it [...]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — If Grated Coconut could talk, the Calgary Stampede bucking horse could ask for a raise, or at least an extra scoop of oats. The Calgary Stampede stud claimed the U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company/PRCA Bareback Riding Horse of the Year Award for the fourth consecutive year and a record-tying sixth time (2003-04, [...]

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