On The Rodeo Road

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
By REVIS BLAYLOCK
Heath Sanders started riding horses at the age of four, fell in love with the rodeo and travels far and near competing in team roping.Sanders, a cowboy who has won a lot of buckles and saddles for his team roping, loves the competition. On display with some of his buckles [...]

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JOE KUSEK Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 12:50 am
Jess Martin got a package in the mail a couple of weeks ago.
The large box came all the way from Spain. It included Martin’s hand-crafted saddle and other rodeo gear.
When the package arrived, he muscled it through the front door of his [...]

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A few years ago Gaylene Fasselin Buff was at a rodeo watching professional barrel racing. She had done it as a kid and on the Carbon High Rodeo team back in the 1990’s, but had never done it professionally.
“I told my husband I wanted to do it again, but professionally the next year,” she said. [...]

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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. – In his finest season as a touring calf roper, Andy Martin is looking to diversify what it means to be a professional cowboy.
The 33-year-old, who is in the process of moving from Colorado to Hereford, wrapped up the Grand Canyon Pro Rodeo Association’s all-around championship earlier this month.
“Midway through the season, [...]

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“That was so awesome,” Stephanie White enthused after competing in the second division barrel race at the Waimate rodeo yesterday.
Miss White (24), a teacher at Fenwick Primary School in Oamaru, is in her first season of rodeo competition.
At last year’s Omarama rodeo – held as part of the Christmas rodeo circuit – she was a [...]

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William “Bud” Hallman III stands 6-feet-2-inches tall, lives on a sprawling 20 acres, and has the large, callused hands of a native Floridian cowboy. 
He’s at home on the wide, open range, having been raised in a cattle-ranching family whose ancestors were among the early pioneers to Florida in the 1830s. It’s the pull of these [...]

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This is the inaugural year for the Cowboy Christmas Youth Challenge, Sunday through Dec. 31 at the Kirk Fordice Equine Center on the Mississippi Fairgrounds.
Paramount Pictures will have an open casting call there Sunday through Tuesday for the lead role of Mattie Ross in a Coen Brothers remake of the famous John Wayne Western True [...]

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