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Halkirk, Sedgewick events net cowboy cash, aches John MacNeil
Review Reporter On the home stretch of travelling about 15 hours in his camper-truck on the Aug. 22-24 weekend, young cowboy Cody Resch summed up his latest rodeo marathon in one word. “Long,” the Leader, Sask., native said with a smile Sunday in Sedgewick after the second of his back-to-back bronc-riding performances in east-central Alberta, including a Halkirk stop on Saturday. Resch took home $498 from the Halkirk bull-a-rama and $745 from a runner-up finish at the Sedgewick Roughstock Rodeo, after opening the weekend Friday at the Edam indoor rodeo in northern Saskatchewan, five hours from his home in the southwestern part of the province. Including $77 at Edam, he picked up $1,320 on a whirlwind weekend. “It was a good weekend,” said Resch, 19, the Canadian Cowboys’ Association novice saddle-bronc champion last year. “These bronc deals are always a good thing. I love comin’ to em’, no matter how far (away they are). A guy tries to do everything he can to get to them.” Resch gave gutsy efforts in the Halkirk and Sedgewick events, and his winnings were well-earned. He limped off the rodeo grounds Sunday evening after posting matching scores of 74 in Sedgewick’s long and short rounds. He also managed two qualified rides in Halkirk, where all of the bronc- and bull-riders each received a second go. It was a rough-and-tumble night for Resch, who needed help as he left the rodeo arena after his second of two painful — but
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profitable — rides. “Oh, everywhere,” he said of where he had felt the most pain. “The ribs and the hips were the most (painful). And then, the horse before that stepped on my arm and all that stuff. “The (second) horse was buckin’ pretty hard and just kind of threw me down.” It’s been hard to keep Resch down this season as he continues to be one of the busiest and most successful cowboys in the CCA. He’s doing doubleduty in riding broncs in open and novice categories. Leading up to the finals in the fall, Resch is sniffing at the top 10 in the open category and he’s among the top three broncriders in the novice division. “I did both last year, too,” he said. “I feel the more horses you get on, the better it is. More practice. Doing the novice and the open every rodeo, I’m already used to hopping on a bunch of horses. “Last year, I ended up winning every round at the (CCA) novice finals (in Yorkton, Sask.), and took first there.” Resch is making the most of his first year of pro, living the road-warrior lifestyle of cowboys in his trusty 1979 73-Ford truck. On many of those trips, he teams up with fellow Leader cowboy Jarryd Elsasser, who also competed in Halkirk and Sedgewick last weekend. Even before he graduated from high school in 2013, Resch knew the rodeo path was for him. “This is pretty much the summer,” he said. “It takes up most of your weekends. And during the week, you kind of work to pay for the weekends. “You make friends here that you see every weekend. Lots of my friends that I graduated
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