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pring has sprung, and with school nearly out, the rodeo and team roping seasons are about to explode! A simple gander at the event calendar in this month’s issue serves as an indicator of what lays ahead, and if recent, past, events serve as a viable indicator…and they usually do…the season is shaping up to be the best one in recent years.

The recent New Mexico Championships was a hit as always, with the list of USTRC events on tap at a regular clip, from the Panhandle Classic this coming weekend in Amarillo, to the Spanish Trail Classic in Moab the first weekend in May, and the always popular Red Rock Classic in Gallup, the first weekend of June.

Memorial Day is just around the corner and with it a plethora of event choices. For team ropers, there are plenty of choices throughout the southwest, not the least of which are the events in Flagstaff and Show Low, which are perennial favorites.

But even before the first big holiday season of the summer, ropers have plenty of events to choose from.

The Chuck Shepard Memorial in Prescott on May 1113 is one that never disappoints. Whether you’re a team roper, a calf roper, or a bronc rider, this event has it all, and an all around great weekend..

Also for calf ropers, the April 26-29, Joes Boot Shop Calf roping in Clovis, NM is a “can’t miss event,” as well as the May 13 calf roping in Belen, NM hosted by David Chavez and Corky Morrison.

There’s plenty of WSTR sanctioned action on tap as well, including events in Tulsa, Ok, Las Vegas, NM and Globe, AZ in the next few weeks. And …looking at the schedule in Albuquerque…there seems to be

one big event after the other.

Rodeo season is in full swing too, with plenty on the calendar. From now, until the end of the summer, there is no shortage of rodeos, from Jr. events, to NMRA, GCPRA, AIRCA sanctioned shows, and of course some of the best open events in the country.

No question, fuel prices will of course play a pivotal role in the overall event turnout this season, as it always does, but I have to say, given the rumors earlier in the year that diesel fuel would be at six or seven dollars a gallon by summer, the $4.09 per gallon I paid yesterday doesn’t seem that bad…but I guess it’s all relative to your pre-conditioning. Anyhow, if prices stay within reason—and I expect that this being an election year, they will—the cost of fuel should not make hauling to events too prohibitive.

Of course there are always “intangibles” that can wreck a season. Last year, though it didn’t have the early signs of promise that this year has shown, was still off to a pretty hopeful start. That all came crashing down with the EHV-1 virus which seemed to derail the season even as it started. Due to the discipline of event producers and those contestants that haul horses all across the region, it was quelled in reasonably short order, but the damage to the season was done. Things just never seemed to get back on track and I think last year was a disappointment to producers, rodeo contestants, team ropers and barrel racers, alike.

That said, it’s been a few years since the overall vibe felt this positive going into the summer. It seems like everyone is excited to get on the road and get to an event. Though participation at events has been exceptional so far this year, I still think the best is yet to come.

Cover: New Mexico Championships - Open winners, Josh Morris and Brandon J. Gonzales PHOTO COURTESY OF Allen Rodeo Photos

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USTRC New Mexico Championships

Open; Josh Morris (Lazbuddie, TX) / Brandon J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM), 43.32 on 5, $3,034

Story and photos courtesy of Ben Clements and SuperLooper Magazine

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he â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ol Southwest wind blew some team ropers into Eastern New Mexico for the New Mexico Championships in Clovis at the Curry County Special Events Center. The roping action began on April 6 and ended up on the 8.

The Curry County Special Events Center seems to be a favorable location for Josh Morris of Lazbuddie, Texas and Brandon Gonzales of Seboyeta, New Mexico. The pair attended the Southwest Regional Finals last August and won the Open Division. This time the pair teamed up again in the Open Division and they finished in first place. The duo turned in a time of 43.32 seconds on five steers and received $3,034, trophy Gist spurs and ten points for the Priefert Open tour. Second place went to World Champion header Turtle Powell and Travis Graves with a time of 45.75 seconds on five steers. Third place was the team of Roy Montoya and Justin Price. They also won the Incentive Average.

Reno Eddy from Gallup, New Mexico was the star of the #15 Division. The young heeler finished first and second in the Average with partners Chaz Kananen and Cody Mirabal. Kananen and Eddy were 42.71 to win first and they took home $7,072, trophy Gist spurs and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Mirabal and Eddy were 47.11 seconds on five and finished second. Third place was Larry Cohorn from Las Cruces, New Mexico and James Gililland from Tularosa, New

Mexico. Adam Exquibel and Brandon Baca both from Las Vegas, New Mexico finished in fourth place.

Robert Roberson and Eddie Medina both from El Paso, Texas were the champions of the #13 Division. They were 37.51 seconds on five steers and won $8,040, trophy Gist spurs and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place was the team of Logan Harkey and Logan Medlin with a time of 38.12 seconds on five steers. The third place team was Abie Parra from Las Cruces, New Mexico and Erwin Baca from Las Vegas, New Mexico.

The final roping of the first day of competition at the New Mexico Championships was the #12 Division. The team of Casey Ty Tew from Morgan Mill, Texas and Bubba Garcia from Odessa, Texas took the top honors in the roping with a time of 33.17 seconds on four steers. The win gave them $8,016, trophy Martin saddles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the roping was Fermin Bustillos and JoeDan Mirabal.

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Third place went to Tyler Riggan from Snyder, Texas and Roy Shirley from Andrews, Texas. The team of Ryan Vasquez and Aaron Navarrete won the Incentive Average.

Ab Hendley from Friona, Texas and Joey Martin from Slaton, Texas teamed up to win the Average of the #12 Gold Plus Division. They also won the century bonus portion of the roping. The team took home $5,306, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the roping was the team of Ben Pierce from Wolfforth, Texas and Mike Macy from Post, Texas. Third place went to Javier Chavez Minguer and Chance Walker Gomez. The Incentive winners of the roping were Melvin Charley and Kade Elkins both from New Mexico.

Eddie Medina struck again this time heeling for Rex Allen Hawkins from Santa Teresa, New Mexico in the #11 Division.

The team won the Average with a time of 35.29 seconds on four steers and gathered up $7,962, trophy Martin saddles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the ropng was Macy Fuller from Wittmann, Arizona and Daniel Baeza Munoz from Tucumcari, New Mexico.

Roy Quinonez from Odessa, Texas and Toy Littleton from Nogal, New Mexico won third place in the Average. The Incentive champions of the roping were Anthony Aragon and Lance Barka.

The hometown team of Kevin and Brandon Clements won the Average of the #10 Division. The duo caught four steers in 37.88 seconds and secured $9,058, trophy Martin saddles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place was the team of Omar Ramirez and Daniel Baeza Munoz with a time of 39.53 seconds on four steers. Third place was William Klebold and Brandon Clements.

#15: Chaz Kananen / Reno Eddy (Gallup, NM), 42.71 on 5, $7,072 and $3,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings each

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Joe Fuqua and Joe Gallegos won the Incentive Average.

The #9 Division was a tight race, but when all the dust settled, the team of Al Trujillo and Tyler Luce from Clovis, New Mexico were the champions of the roping.

They roped four steers in 44.94 seconds to finish just in front of Jordan Garcia from Wolfforth, Texas and B.J. Conner from Lubbock, Texas who posted a time of 45.56 seconds on four steers. Third place was the team of Rex Allen Hawkins and Fred Lucero. The Incentive winners of the roping was the team of Abel Lucero and Daniel Dismuke.

The final roping of the weekend was the #8 Pick/Draw. Morgan Cripps from neighboring Portales, New Mexico teamed up with Ryder White from Artesia, New Mexico to finish first place in the Average.

They were 27.98 seconds on three steers and won trophy Gist buckles, $3,358, and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the Average was the team of Dameron Dahozy and Kevin Dauphinais both from Tohatchi, New Mexico. The third place team was Nickolas McClelland and Marcos Granados.

The curtain dropped on the New Mexico Championships and ropers and staff headed home, each pleased with a great USTRC event. The Curry County Special Events Center and the town of Clovis were the perfect host for the event.

New Mexico Championships Curry County Special Events Center, Clovis, NM April 4-8, 2012 Total Payout - $215,118 Open - Total Payout: $11,404 Average 1. Josh Morris (Lazbuddie, TX) / Brandon J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM), 43.32 on 5, $3,034; 2.

Turtle B. Powell (Stephenville, TX) / Travis L. Graves (Morgan Mill, TX), 45.75 on 5, $2,276; 3.

Roy J. Montoya (Sapello, NM) / Justin R. Price (La Veta, CO), 45.88 on 5, $1,516; 4. Lane T. Ivy (Amarillo, TX) / Lane Siggins (Ruidoso Downs, NM), 46.46 on 5, $758; 5. Keven Daniel (Stephenville, TX) / Chase R. Tryan (Helena, MT), 31.13 on 4; 6. Colby B. Simmons (Breckenridge, TX) / Zane B. Bowers (Wall, TX), 38.26 on 4; 7.

Lucas G. Screws (Melrose, NM) / Ryan L. Cook (Belen, NM), 42.57 on 4; 8. Jackie D. Gillispie (Andrews, TX) / Zane B. Bowers (Wall, TX), 47.03 on 4 Incentive 1. Roy J. Montoya (Sapello, NM) / Justin R. Price (La Veta, CO), 37.98 on 4, $1,626, 2,000 Flex; 2.

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#13: Robert L. Roberson, Jr. (El Paso, TX) / Eddie Medina (El Paso, TX), 37.51 on 5, $8,040 and $3,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings each

Bowers (Wall, TX), 38.26 on 4, $974; 3. Lucas G. Screws (Melrose, NM) / Ryan L. Cook (Belen, NM), 42.57 on 4, $650 Overall Fast Time 1. Calvin R. Brevik (Durango, CO) / Kory J. Bramwell (Chromo, CO), 5.57, $570 #15 Handicap - Total Payout: $18,610 Average 1. Chaz Kananen (Roy, MT) / Reno Eddy (Gallup, NM), 42.71 on 5, $7,072, 6,000 Flex; 2. Cody J. Mirabal (Grants, NM) / Reno Eddy (Gallup, NM), 47.11 on 5, $5,304, 2,000 Flex; 3. Larry Cohorn (Las Cruces, NM) / James Gililland (Tularosa, NM), 48.39 on 5, $3,536, 2,000 Flex; 4. Adam R. Esquibel (Las Vegas, NM) / Brandon E. Baca (Las Vegas, NM), 51.88 on 5, $1,768, 2,000 Flex; 5.

Cody J. Mirabal (Grants, NM) / JoDan S. Mirabal (Grants, NM), 51.95 on 5, 2,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Cooper Wimberly (Estancia, NM) / Diego Castillo (Belen, NM), 5.77, $930 #12 - Total Payout: $26,912 Average 1. Casey Ty Tew (Morgan Mill, TX) / Bubba G. Garcia (Odessa, TX), 33.17 on 4, $8,016, 6,000 Flex; 2. Fermin Bustillos (Anthony, NM) / JoDan S. Mirabal (Grants, NM), 36.02 on 4, $5,344, 2,000 Flex; 3. Tyler T. Riggan (Snyder, TX) / Roy Shirley (Andrews, TX), 37.26 on 4, $4,230, 2,000 Flex; 4. Megan Burrus (Elida, NM) / Cody A. Wilson (Capitan, NM), 39.01 on 4, $3,118, 2,000 Flex; 5. Dusty W. Leatherwood (Clovis, NM) / Taylor G. Pettigrew (Tatum, NM), 39.02 on 4, $1,558, 2,000 Flex; 6. Karl Rios (El Paso, TX) / Eddie L. Medina (El Paso, TX), 40.63 on 4, $600; 7. Tripp

Townsend (Earth, TX) / Kip Middleton (Levelland, TX), 42.30 on 4, $600 Incentive 1. Ryan Vasquez (Malaga, NM) / Aaron M. Navarrete (Carlsbad, NM), 34.65 on 3, $1,200, 2,000 Flex; 2. Riley Smith (Earth, TX) / Randy Knight (Farwell, TX), 37.06 on 3, $900 Overall Fast Time 1. Casey Ty Tew (Morgan Mill, TX) / Bubba G. Garcia (Odessa, TX), 5.88, $808; 2. Karl Rios (El Paso, TX) / Eddie L. Medina (El Paso, TX), 6.16, $538 #12 G+ Century Bonus Total Payout: $1,680 Average 1. Ab S. Hendley (Friona, TX) / Joey B. Martin (Slaton, TX), 25.27 on 3, $1,200; 2. Ben G. Pierce (Wolfforth, TX) / Mike Macy (Post, TX), 27.71 on 3, $480 #11 - Total Payout: $29,912 Average 1. Rex Allen Hawkins (Santa Teresa, NM) / Eddie L. Medina (El Paso, TX), 35.29 on 4, $7,962, 6,000 Flex; 2. Macy Fuller (Wittmann, AZ) / Daniel Baeza Munoz (Tucumcari, NM), 39.58 on 4, $5,308, 6,000 Flex; 3. Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / Roy K. Littleton (Nogal, NM), 42.80 on 4, $4,202, 2,000 Flex; 4. Dawn L. Higgins (Loving, NM) / Taylor R. Puckett (Artesia, NM), 44.28 on 4, $3,096, 2,000 Flex; 5. David R. McCallister (Bosque Farms, NM) / Brock R. Kipp (Las Cruces, NM), 45.17 on 4, $1,548, 2,000 Flex; 6. Anna M. Gregory (Amarillo, TX) / Jamie D. Pohnert (Amarillo, TX), 45.70 on 4, $900, 2,000 Flex; 7. Rex Allen Hawkins (Santa Teresa, NM) /

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Freddie B. Lucero (Canutillo, TX), 50.99 on 4, $900; 8. Riley Smith (Earth, TX) / Randy Knight (Farwell, TX), 51.94 on 4, $600; 9. Hadley R. Gilbert (Clovis, NM) / Lane T. Flowers (Midland, TX), 55.75 on 4, $600; 10. Ab S. Hendley (Friona, TX) / Randy Knight (Farwell, TX), 27.72 on 3, $600 Incentive 1. Anthony G. Aragon (Peralta, NM) / Lance Barka (Albuquerque, NM), 31.09 on 3, $1,200, 2,000 Flex; 2. Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / Roy K. Littleton (Nogal, NM), 33.37 on 3, $900; 3.

Dawn L. Higgins (Loving, NM) / Taylor R. Puckett (Artesia, NM), 34.30 on 3, $600 Overall Fast Time 1. Riley Smith (Earth, TX) / Randy Knight (Farwell, TX), 7.01, $898; 2. Fidel E. Valdez (Kermit, TX) / Chad Helmer (Clovis, NM), 7.04, $598 #10 - Total Payout: $33,116 Average 1. Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Brandon J. Clements (Clovis, NM), 37.88 on 4, $9,058, 6,000 Flex; 2. Omar Ramirez (Tucumcari, NM) / Daniel Baeza Munoz (Tucumcari, NM), 39.53 on 4, $6,038, 6,000 Flex; 3. William T. Klebold (Lubbock, TX) / Brandon J. Clements (Clovis, NM), 41.38 on 4, $4,780, 2,000 Flex; 4. Jack Wilhite (Ropesville, TX) / Joey B. Martin (Slaton, TX), 42.47 on 4, $3,522, 2,000 Flex; 5. Joe V. Fuqua (Carlsbad, NM) / Joe A. Gallegos (El Paso, TX), 42.84 on 4, $1,762, 2,000 Flex; 6. Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / Luis A. Carrasco (Odessa, TX), 43.49 on 4, $900, 2,000 Flex; 7. Tommy E. Zant (Odessa, TX) / Frank Gardner (Lovington, NM), 44.38 on 4, $900; 8. Madison K. Anderson (Norco, CA) / Joe L. Gonzales I. (Sudan, TX), 44.52 on 4, $600; 9. Sam Loya (Albuquerque, NM) / Julian Lopez (Ponderosa, NM), 45.57 on 4, $600; 10. Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Clinton C. Bilbrey (Portales, NM), 45.65 on 4, $600 Incentive 1. Joe V. Fuqua (Carlsbad, NM) / Joe A. Gallegos (El Paso, TX), 33.36 on 3, $1,200, 2,000 Flex; 2.

Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / Luis A. Carrasco (Odessa, TX), 35.51 on 3, $900; 3. Sam Loya (Albuquerque, NM) / Julian Lopez (Ponderosa, NM), 35.96 on 3, $600 Overall Fast Time 1. Sam Loya (Albuquerque, NM) / Anthony G. Aragon (Peralta, NM), 7.76, $994; 2. Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Brandon J. Clements (Clovis, NM), 7.77, $662 #9 - Total Payout: $30,212 Average 1. Al F. Trujillo (Clovis, NM) / Tyler D. Luce (Clovis, NM), 44.94 on 4, $7,958, 6,000 Flex; 2. Jordan G. Garcia (Wolfforth, TX) / B. J. Conner (Lubbock, TX), 45.56 on 4, $5,304, 6,000 Flex; 3. Rex Allen Hawkins (Santa Teresa, NM) / Fred B. Lucero (Canutillo, TX), 46.12 on 4, $3,646, 2,000 Flex; 4. Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Burl Mardis (Muleshoe, TX), 46.12 on 4, $3,646, 2,000 Flex; 5. Sharolyn K. Johnson (Fort Sumner, NM) / Loren H. Doughty (Portales, NM), 46.99 on 4, $1,548,

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Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / Kevin M. Dauphinais (Tohatchi, NM), 47.33 on 4, $900, 2,000 Flex; 7. Eddie Joe Pearson (Tulia, TX) / Rodney J. Phillips (Wolfforth, TX), 48.65 on 4, $900; 8. J. W. Meyer (Hereford, #11: Rex Allen Hawkins (Santa Teresa, NM) / Eddie Medina (El Paso, TX), 35.29 TX) / Brody on 4, $7,962 and $3,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings each Blissard (Big Spring, TX), 49.81 on 4, $300; 9. Charlie R. 3, $1,772, 6,000 Flex; 4. Tomas A. Vargas (Hobbs, Mathis (Amarillo, TX) / Roberto U. Zapata NM) / Alonso Vargas (Hobbs, NM), 45.69 on 3, (Hereford, TX), 51.41 on 4, $600; 10. Bill R. $1,306, 6,000 Flex; 5. Dustyn Sisneros (Santa Owen (Mountainair, NM) / Rex Allen Hawkins Rosa, NM) / Jerry J. Gonzales (Portales, NM), (Santa Teresa, NM), 53.45 on 4, $600 45.83 on 3, $654, 6,000 Flex; 6. David Incentive Miramontes (Dexter, NM) / Abner Deluna (Clint, 1. Abel N. Lucero (Las Vegas, NM) / Daniel P. TX), 46.11 on 3, $240; 7. Randy J. Green (Hobbs, Dismuke (Sandia Park, NM), 32.11 on 3, $1,200, NM) / Russell J. Vigil (Corrales, NM), 46.59 on 3, 6,000 Flex; 2. Rey D. Quinonez (Odessa, TX) / $240 Kevin M. Dauphinais (Tohatchi, NM), 33.41 on 3, Overall Fast Time $900; 3. J. W. Meyer (Hereford, TX) / Brody 1. Jacob L. Gudgell (Logan, NM) / Lee Glover Blissard (Big Spring, TX), 36.83 on 3, $300; 4.

(Midland, TX), 7.99, $310; 2. Gary T. Trujillo (San Sharolyn K. Johnson (Fort Sumner, NM) / Loren H. Rafael, NM) / Loren J. Willcox (La Veta, CO), 8.21, Doughty (Portales, NM), 37.17 on 3, $300 $206 Overall Fast Time 1. Charles Hammond (Artesia, NM) / Ryder White #13 Handicap - Total Payout: $23,512 (Artesia, NM), 7.00, $452; 2. Gabe Trujillo Average (Peralta, NM) / Julian Lopez (Ponderosa, NM), 1. Robert L. Roberson Jr. (El Paso, TX) / Eddie L. 7.45, $604 Medina (El Paso, TX), 37.51 on 5, $8,040, 6,000 #8 PickDraw - Total Payout: $10,324 Flex; 2. Logan Dee Harkey (Vernon, TX) / Logan J. Average Medlin (Clovis, NM), 38.12 on 5, $5,360, 2,000 1. Morgan Cripps (Portales, NM) / Ryder White Flex; 3. Abie J. Parra (Las Cruces, NM) / Erwin J. (Artesia, NM), 27.98 on 3, $3,358, 6,000 Flex; 2. Baca (Las Vegas, NM), 39.29 on 5, $4,244, Cameron H. Dahozy (Tohatchi, NM) / Kevin M. 2,000 Flex; 4. Logan Dee Harkey (Vernon, TX) / Dauphinais (Tohatchi, NM), 43.16 on 3, $2,238, Chase S. Johnson (Snyder, TX), 42.27 on 5, 6,000 Flex; 3. Nickolas C. McClelland (Roswell, $3,128, 2,000 Flex; 5. Cody W. Jess NM) / Marcos Granados (Hobbs, NM), 44.47 on (Weatherford, TX) / Landon H. Williams (Midland,

#10: Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Brandon J. Clements (Clovis, NM), 37.88 on 4, $9,058 and $3,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings each

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#9: Al F. Trujillo (Clovis, NM) / Tyler D. Luce (Clovis, NM), 44.94 on 4, $7,958 and $3,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings each

TX), 44.42 on 5, $1,564, 2,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Logan Dee Harkey (Vernon, TX) / Chase S. P. O. Box 1368 Johnson (Snyder, TX), 6.72, $1,176 #10 G+ Cent Bonus - Total Payout: $3,480 Crownpoint, NM 87313 Average 1. Robert W. Martinez (Radium Springs, NM) / VSA IN HOUSE PROOF CRX’DTX), 31.40 on 3, Fred B. Lucero (Canutillo, $1,740; 2. Joe B. Dutton (Midland, TX) / Roy Shirley (Andrews, TX), 31.94 on 3, $1,160; 3.

Reyes Marquez (Seboyeta, NM) / Rudy J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM), 34.09 on 3, $580 #12 Gold Plus - Total Payout: $15,208 Average 1. Ab S. Hendley (Friona, TX) / Joey B. Martin (Slaton, TX), 35.14 on 4, $4,106, 3,000 Flex; 2.

Ben G. Pierce (Wolfforth, TX) / Mike Macy (Post, TX), 37.13 on 4, $3,080, 3,000 Flex; 3. Javier Chavez Minguer (Santa Fe, NM) / Chance Walker Gomez (Ruidoso Downs, NM), 38.30 on 4, $2,054, 3,000 Flex; 4. Dick Churchill (Albuquerque, NM) / Patrick Hinds (Tierra Amarilla, NM), 41.48 on 4, $1,026 Incentive 1. Melvin L. Charley (Thoreau, NM) / Kade Elkins (Grants, NM), 33.72 on 3, $2,510, 3,000 Flex; 2.

Kevin Clements (Clovis, NM) / Cavin Jacobs (Estancia, NM), 34.76 on 3, $1,672, 3,000 Flex; 3. Larry Byrum (Lovington, NM) / Frank Gardner (Lovington, NM), 40.16 on 3, 3,000 Flex

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The first specialty #10 Gold Plus roping of the USTRC Gold Plus Pilot Program got off to a great start at the New Mexico Championships in Clovis,

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NM which was held on April 6-8. A total of 13 teams won a piece of the $17,352 cash payout in the new #10 Gold Plus division.

When it was all said and done, Robert Martinez of Radium Springs, New Mexico and Fred Lucero from Canutillo, Texas were CRX’D the champions, roping 4 steers in 40.90 seconds. The team also won the Century Bonus and second place in the #9 Incentive pocketing a total of $6,248 and $4,000 USTRC Flex Earnings. Joe Dutton and Jim Malone of Midland, Texas won the #9 Incentive earning themselves $1,582 and $2,000 USTRC Flex Earnings.

USTRC launched its 2012 Gold Plus Pilot Program in response to a greater demand for a division at USTRC Sanctioned events in which #4’s and #5’s feel competitive. At specified USTRC Sanctioned events, a specialty add-on #10 Gold Plus roping with a #9 Incentive has been added to the schedule for Gold Plus members who are 25 years of age or older. The Specialty #10 Gold Plus roping will be offered at several events across the country, including these in the Southwest: Spanish Trail Classic Moab, UT – May 4-6 Red Rock Classic Gallup, NM - June 1-3 Lasso Del Norte Las Vegas, NM – June 21-24 Turquoise Championships Gallup NM – July 27-29 Pine Country Classic Flagstaff, AZ – September 1-3 For more information on these events or any Gold Pus questions, contact the USTRC office at 254-968-0002.

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Dear Ropers, Do you feel like a million dollars?

That is exactly what the USTRC is about to bestow on all of its competing members in 2012. Not to feel like a million dollars, but to present all of you collectively with an actual million dollars in cash! This is a game changer, as it far exceeds anything that has ever been done at the USTRC since the invention of the Shoot-Out. The consequences are going to be truly revolutionary.

Why? Because instead of you, the roper, contributing added money to the National Finals Shoot-Out Fund, that money will now be provided solely by the USTRC, and it’s guaranteed to be a minimum of One Million Dollars! From here on out, not one dime of your entry fees will go toward added money at the National Finals of Team Roping (NFTR).

For those of you who are unclear on how huge payouts at the NFTR have been previously generated, here is a quick reminder. A critical aspect of USTRC’s success was to create a National Finals event unsurpassed in the amount of money awarded to its National Champions.

That goal has been accomplished, signified by the fact that for the last 11 years, over one million dollars of added money has magnified the incredible purses at the USTRC National Finals of Team Roping.

Until now, a large portion of that money has come from the roper, in the form of a five percent contribution coming

out of your entry fees at every USTRC sanctioned roping. Your contributions helped to build the National Finals of Team Roping into the sport’s premier event – the largest and richest team roping in the world. In appreciation for all you’ve done, the USTRC is stepping up to contribute all of the added money, and we guarantee to add one million dollars to the NFTR purse.

This commitment demonstrates how much faith the USTRC has in this sport and its members. But what exactly does this pledge mean to you? It means cash purses at every sanctioned event will dramatically increase. Based on roper contributions in 2011, over $750,000 more cash will be paid out at sanctioned events per season, without you having to lift a financial finger.

That’s the new deal, the revolution USTRC is initiating right now.

But the roper is not the only beneficiary. The business of producing team ropings is not an easy road to travel. USTRC producers have a substantial commitment in time, effort and money for every roping they put on, with no guarantee to earn a profit. And ropers, they do HAVE to earn a profit, or they will not be in this business very long. So the USTRC further pledges support of the unsung heroes of our business – the producers.

You may not be aware that USTRC producers have also significantly contributed to the National Finals Shoot-Out Fund. In 2011, producers

added over a quarter of a million dollars out of their pocket to the Shoot-Out Fund. In the 2012 season, producers are no longer required to contribute to the Fund. This helps our producers stay in the game so they can continue providing ropers the best productions found anywhere in the sport of team roping.

So, the revolution is upon us. The 2012 season marks a historic juncture in USTRC history as we continue our quest to provide greater value to our members. Now, ropers who cannot attend the Cinch NFTR won’t see their money siphoned off to an event he or she cannot attend. But the NFTR remains intact with the enormous cash purses and nominal entry fees that have made the NFTR the preeminent team roping year after year. Now cash purses at sanctioned events will grow by more than an estimated $750,000. You no longer need a math degree and a Cray computer to figure how much of your entry fees go into the roper’s pot. That number is two-thirds. Period. End of story!

Sincerely,

Kirk Bray

“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.”

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t’s the only event in the world where, in the course of one Saturday morning, nearly three-quarters of a million dollars overall is up for grabs, the winners split over $203,800 in cash ($101,900 per man) for 16.67 seconds of work (that’s roughly $6,112 per second), plus custom Chevy dually trucks, Bruton X-Treme Easy Pull trailers, jackets, rope bags and often round money and other possible prizes as well. In that same time frame, custom saddles and buckles are awarded to runners-up and round winners, Country Music Hall of Famer and host George Strait shakes hands with fans all around the arena, thanking sponsors and honoring dear friends who have passed, American Idol top 10 finalist John Wayne Schultz sings the National Anthem, and $29,000 in proceeds is given to the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund via auctioning off the custom-painted Priefert Chute used throughout the event.

It’s the George Strait Team Roping Classic (GSTRC), held each March at the Rose Palace just outside of San Antonio, Texas. In its 30-year history, it has become the most prestigious open roping in the world, with the most coveted crown in the sport, for obvious reasons. This year, the event celebrated its 30th anniversary on March 9th and 10th with 545 teams, recordsetting payout, the usual sellout crowd, and near record-low temperatures accompanied by a two-day long-awaited downpour mixed with a little hail. But while it was cold outside, the action inside was sizzling hot to watch.

As usual, Friday was elimination day, where teams were broken down into 50 team rotations (two-steer progressive) and the five fastest times in each rotation qualified for Saturday’s finals and the chance to rope for an eye-popping amount of loot. The rotation format is popular, as it allows ropers to just compete within their own rotation of 50 teams, and to know their standing fairly quickly. This is opposed to the old format, where all 500+ teams roped against each other and awaited an outcome that usually wasn’t known until well after midnight.

While Friday is a marathon, with few spectators lasting to the bitter end, Saturday’s action is akin to a one-horse town; blink, and you’ll miss it. It’s a three-

header non-progressive for all 50 teams. Aside from a chance at over $200,000 and new rigs, other incentives abound like round money and “red wrap” steers.

Sponsored once again by Wayne Wright Lawyers, any team that wins a round on a steer with red horn wraps also ropes an additional Heeler Patrick Smith (left) and header Clay Tryan (right) pose with their families, championship rigs, and producer $10,000. If not, that amount George Strait. The duo roped three head in 16.67 seconds doubles each round—potentially during Saturday’s finals to pocket their share of nearly a making a third round “red wrap” half a million dollars in total cash and prizes. steer worth a whopping $40,000.

With so much to shoot at, it’s no biggest team roping there is! It is wonder the roping attracts the sport’s most unbelievable.” elite and showcases some of the fastest “The way the competition is here today, I times around. am so very grateful for the win,” Smith As Saturday’s action drew closer to added. “To God be the glory!” crowing the champs, less than one second Being the thirtieth anniversary, the new separated the top four remaining teams, one victors weren’t the only ones with thoughts of which was header Clay Tryan from on the event; the GSTRC is known as a “life Billings, Mont., and heeler Patrick Smith changer.” Winning it has allowed past from Lipan, Texas. Neither is any stranger to pressure or success; Tryan has crossed the championships to build homes, buy land, pay off debt, and secure their futures. They million-dollar mark in professional team are forever grateful to George and the Strait roping earnings and was the 2005 family for their dedication to the sport and Professional Rodeo Cowboy’s Association the ropers.

(PRCA) world champion header, amidst “Thirty years of the George Strait roping numerous other titles. Smith is also a means to me lots of payouts, lots of trucks, “million dollar man” and two-time world lots of trailers and lots of memories,” said champ. But there’s something about “the last year’s champion header David Key. Strait” that’s always a little special, even to “I’ve been going for 26 years now and those that have claimed about every title finally won it last year (2011). That was the there is. It was no different for Tryan and biggest win of my life. With what George Smith, who stretched their first two in 5.26 gives away, not only does it make a great and 5.84 seconds respectively. As they rode pay, it makes a great year. His roping into the box as the high-call team, the voice of long-time announcer Arkie Kiehne calmly actually changes lives for ropers. George turned this roping into something that reminded them, and a silent, highlyprobably none of us dreamed of it being 20 anticipating crowd, that they needed to be years ago.”

7.68 for first place, $203,800 bucks and the Rich Skelton, eight-time PRCA world trucks and trailers. No pressure there. And, champion heeler, and former GSTRC there in the chute stood a “red wrap steer” champion (1990) also shared some thoughts. good for an extra $20,000 at that point, “I really enjoy the roping because for should they win the round on him—which one, it’s Texas and and two, it’s the best would require roping him in 4.4 seconds or roping going. It’s the roping where you can less. That didn’t happen, but otherwise it win the most money,” Skelton said. “We was just another day at the office; have the greatest ropers in the world and the consistency—not speed—was the game greatest singer in the world. George is a plan, and they stretched steer three in 5.57 great host and a good friend of ours. To me seconds. The celebration was on, hats flew in the air, as both men claimed their first it doesn’t get any better than that,” he added.

GSTRC title. In so doing, Clay followed in Along with loyal participants, sponsors big brother Travis’ boots; Travis Tryan won are an integral part of the success of such a the event in 2008 with heeler Michael Jones. massive event, and most of George’s have Awestruck, Tryan said, “I just won the been with him for the long haul. The

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Celebrating 30 Years of the GSTRC impressive list includes: Bruton Trailers; Wrangler; Frost Bank; Justin; Hill Country Tractor; Montana Silversmiths; Cavender Chevrolet; Capital Farm Credit; Resistol; Cactus; Bill Miller B-B-Q; Classic; Wayne Wright Lawyers; Red Bluff Buckles; Lift Master; Brake Check; Bar G Feedyards; Tractor Supply and Priefert.

At 30 impressive years and counting, it seems the sky’s the limit for the GSTRC and the impact it will continue to have on the contestants and the sport of team roping. As George walked horseback around the Rose Palace arena Saturday morning, introducing the top 50 teams and thanking sponsors for a supportive three decades, a long and prosperous future seemed to be on his mind as well.

“It’s been a great 30 years, and I hope we have another 30 in us,” he concluded.

GSTRC 2012 Results Average 1. Clay Tryan / Patrick Smith, 16.67, $203,800; 2. Casey Hicks / Jake Pianalto, 18.79, $81,520; 3. Casey Mahoney / Joe Espy, 20.74, $56,046; 4. Kaston Peavy / T Luttrell, 20.81, $50,950; 5.

Cooper Wimberly / Bode Baize, 20.99, $40,760; 6. Derrick Begay / Cory Petska, 21.37, $30,570; 7. Garrett Tonozzi / Dugan Kelly, 22.55, $25,474; 8. Cody McMinn / JC Williams, 23.62, $20,380 Go Rounds 1st Go 1. Matt Sherwood / Cory Petska, 4.87, $1,500; 2. Clay Tryan / Jade Corkill, 4.87, $1,500 2nd Go 1. Luke Brown / Martin Lucero, 4.31, $3,000 3rd Go 1. Colby Siddoway / Caleb Twisselman, 3.83, $3,000 Red Wrap Steer 1st Go 1. Matt Sherwood / Cory Petska, 4.87, $10,000 Friday Overall Fast Time 1. Tyler Waters / Wesley Moss, 4.04, Buckles Friday Fastest Time on 2 1. Brandon Beers / Ryan Motes, 9.12, Buckles

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hirty years ago, brothers Buddy and George Strait decided to produce a local event with a simple goal: “Have a good roping, have fun doing it, and try to give good prizes and payout.”

Mission accomplished.

Three decades later, over 500 teams compete for a pot of gold that is closing in on three-quarters of a million bucks grand total.

“I’m proud to be able to say we are the largest open roping event out there and our sponsors are responsible for a major part of that success,” acknowledges George Strait.

And, in addition to sponsors, any event with this type of success has a proven team of dedicated pros working behind the scenes.

“The core team is the same except for the passing of my brother Buddy,” notes George.

“Needless to say, we miss him dearly.

Pete Wright and his incredible team also have worked the roping for years. Collie Webb also has been there from the start and he has always made sure all of the ground work was done. We now have Arkie Kiehne announcing the roping along with his great team of assistants.

Reed Flake also helps him announce, our chute help, flagger Johnny Garcia and the list goes on and on with many more who contribute.”

To this day, even after the gigantic growth spurt, the GSTRC remains a family affair. George’s sister-in-law, Denise Strait, has literally “seen it all” and shared a little extra insight on the past, present and future of the sport’s most coveted event.

Thirty years ago, we know the GSTRC started as a family roping.

How/when did it progress into such a prestigious open roping?

Actually the roping started out for Texas ropers only. It never was an invitational, although Buddy and George did start an invitational roping about the third year that was held the Wednesday before the roping. It started as just a few of them getting together on Wednesday nights to “run” the steers and make sure

they were the quality they wanted. Then they began inviting friends from the area to join them and they eventually even awarded buckles to the winners. I’m not sure of the year they opened it “to the world”, but records show that the entries jumped from 179 in 1984 to 265 in 1985, so I would guess it was around then.

What “roles” do the family members play in the roping each year?

In the Kingsville (Texas) years, Buddy (George’s older brother/Denise’s husband) and George collaborated over the phone over all the details of the roping itself; Buddy actually put them into play, as George had started touring a lot by then. Of course, George and his wife Norma were responsible for bringing the sponsors in and settling the details on that end. I started dealing with the sponsors as they got to town and made sure everything was done per the agreement. I was also responsible for the ticket sales for the roping and concert, the advertising, security, concessions, and generally everything that took place at the event itself. I also made arrangements for everyone’s lodging. Erv and Danny from George’s office took me by the hand and really walked me through everything when we got started, especially the advertising and ticket sales. I also had a lot of help from family and friends starting in the beginning. I don’t know how we would have pulled everything off so successfully without them. My Uncle Butch would get into town on Wednesday and work nonstop from the time he got there until Sunday.

Other friends helped especially with the entertaining of sponsors and friends from out of town. My friend, Penny Pillack, played a large part in overseeing the meals for everyone from friends to sponsors starting from Wednesday and through the concert Saturday night. Of course, Collie Webb has been with us from the beginning; he was president of the rodeo club at Texas A&M when Buddy and George asked him to oversee the arena crew. He has been fantastic the whole time. Since the roping has moved to the Rose Palace,my role now is more limited; partly due to the fact that there is no concert and partly that Norma

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now really has the active role in the planning of everything and that Linda Scales is there full time to do all of the “hands on” things.

What is the most challenging thing about producing this roping, and, what is the most surprising thing to you as you look back over 30 years?

Very hard to say, but for me, the most challenging thing (actually the word is scary) was simply getting started.

Buddy and George just decided to do it and then it was just figuring out how to make it happen. I had very little to do with the planning part the first year. I remember after the roping we all set up tables for the show and then Norma and I took over taking tickets at the door after we noticed the ticket takers letting their friends in for free. Couldn’t afford that!!!

After that it seemed to just grow on it’s own. There have definitely been some unwanted “surprises” that came up at the last minute over the years, but, somehow, we managed to get it to turn out well. I guess the most surprising thing to me was how fast it grew; some of that was, no doubt, due to George’s rising fame, but I also know that a large part of it also was the face that that we as “amateurs”!!! were determined and learning how to produce a first class roping What is your favorite memory, overall, of this roping over the past 30 years? In turn, what has been the HARDEST thing over 30 years.

Hard to pick one, but one of my favorites was the first year our boys roped in it, probably 1997 or 98. It really was satisfying to think we started when they were very young and had lasted this long. Every year has produced so many fun memories with our family and friends; it would take hours to talk about them all. There really hasn’t been anything terribly hard about the production of the roping. Stressful sometimes, yes, but there was so much help and good advice from so many that it made it almost easy. Right now the hardest thing for me is, during the actual event, the realization of the ones who aren’t here anymore.

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I grew up outside Agua Dulce, a small town 10 miles from Alice, on a farm. My Dad was a farmer and a rancher, so I grew up with horses, although I didn’t rodeo. My Dad’s philosophy was that horses were for working cattle, or for buying, training, and sellling, so we seldom had one long enough for me to be comfortable with.

Buddy bought a few horses after we married and George gave the kids one “Nugget.” We all loved him and kept him until he died. I had very seldom “known” a horse that long.

What are your thoughts on sponsors, contestants, future goals, etc.

Also, you have lost some dear people; anything you would like to say about their roles in the success of the roping?

We were sad to have lost Mrs. Bruton and Pete Wright most recently.

The Bruton family have been a huge support to this roping over the years.

They are great people and I feel very fortunate to have known them. Mrs. Bruton was a wonderful lady and was such fun to be around. Pete’s passing was a surprise, as he was still very active. He and the ladies in his crew were a tremendous asset to us over the years. Pete was well known in this area (Robstown, Corpus Christi) for his rodeo work; he devoted a lot of his time to benefit ropings - his absence will be very much noticed. About the contestants; it’s been a thrill to me to know the “stars” of the team roping world. I was new to this until we started our event, and really grew to appreciate the skill and dedication involved in the sport. I really feel honored that I have been able to play a part in the growth of our event, as well as the people I have come to know and appreciate.

I remember in the beginning George and Buddy were against having sponsors. I’m sure it had something to do with an outside entity having an influence that hey wouldn’t want.

Somewhere along the way that changed and we have been so fortunate in the sponsors that have given their support; I’ve thought over the years that it’s such a credit to George that he has formed an association with such fine people and to them for what they have helped us accomplish.

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.B. Mauney posted his third win of the 2012 Built Ford Tough Series on Sunday, March 25 earning $39,150 for his victory at the Ty Murray Invitational presented by Sandia Resort & Casino.

Entering the Built Ford Tough Championship Round in second place, Mauney rode Pure Smoke (Cody Ohl/Ken Beshears/K-C Bucking Bulls) for 90.75 points on the second-to-last ride to take the lead with 351.5 points.

The only rider to cover all four bulls in the event, Mauney finished first in the championship round.

It then came down to the final ride of the event for defending Albuquerque champion L.J. Jenkins of Texico, N.M., who bucked off RMEF Gunpowder & Lead (Jeff Robinson Bucking Bulls) at 7.6 seconds. Jenkins, who won the event in 2008 and 2011, finished third with 261.75 points.

Harve Stewart finished fourth with 261 points, while Justin Koon was fifth with 254.5 points. Stewart finished third in the championship round with 89 points on Meat Hook (Martinez Bucking

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Mauney Wins His Third PBR Event of Year in Albuquerque

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Bulls, LLC), and Koon was fourth with 83.75 points on Lincoln Electricâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bring It (Chad Berger/Clay Struve/Box K Cattle Company).

Valdiron de Oliveira moved into first place in the BFTS standings, 64.75 points ahead of Mauney, who was the leader for the past six weeks. Oliveira, who was ranked No. 1 for three weeks earlier in the season, finished second in the championship round with a 90-point ride on Junior Bonner (Southwick/Crooked Six) to finish second in the average with 265.5 points. He earned 879.5 BFTS points for his average finish, and also earned 249.5 points for his third-place finish in the second PBR 15/15 Bucking Battle on Saturday.

Points in the PBR 15/15 Bucking battle did not count toward the event results, but do count toward the season standings.

Defending PBR World Champion Silvano Alves moved J.B. Mauney rides Pure Smoke for 90.75 and the event title Sunday

up to third place in the season standings, following a second-place finish in the PBR 15/15 Bucking Battle, and a 22ndplace finish in the event average.

RMEF Gunpowder & Lead won the Pabst Blue Ribbon Bull Award for being the high-marked bull of the event, earning 45 points (out of 50) for his buckoff in the championship round.

Nine-time World Champion and PBR co-founder Ty Murray hosts the Albuquerque event each year. The BFTS features the Top 35 bull riders in the world competing against the toughest bulls on the planet.

The next stop for the BFTS is the Kansas City Invitational at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo. Bull riding begins at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 31, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 1. Tickets begin at $10, and are available at www.Ticketmaster.com or by telephone at (800) 745-3000.

Albuquerque was the 12th stop of the 2012 BFTS season, which opened on Jan. 6-8 with capacity crowds at Madison Square Garden in New York. The BFTS will make 28 stops in 23 states before the Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas on Oct. 24-28. The World Finals are where the PBR World Champion will be crowned and awarded the coveted championship buckle and a $1 million bonus. The richest bull riding event in the world, the World Finals has a total purse

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of more than $2 million.

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Sunday’s Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Series Results Ty Murray Invitational presented by Sandia Resort & Casino The Pit in Albuquerque, N.M. Event Leaders (Round 1-Round 2-Round 3-Round 4-Total Points) 1. J.B. Mauney, $39,150; 2. Valdiron de Oliveira, $22,080; 3.

L.J. Jenkins, $12,775; 4. Harve Stewart, $8,620; 5. Justin Koon, $7,850; 6. Douglas Duncan, $7,555; 7. Kody Lostroh, $5,750; 8. Guilherme Marchi, $4,500; 9. Travis Briscoe, $2,220; 10. Renato Nunes, $1,625; 11. Austin Meier, $770; 12. Sevi Torturo, $400; 13. Jordan Hupp, $400; 14. Ty Pozzobon, $3,980; 15. Fabiano Vieira, $1,250; 16. Dusty Ephrom, $1,125; 17. Kasey Hayes, $850; 18/36. Markus Mariluch, Emilio Resende, Chris Shivers, Caleb Sanderson, 23.

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Valdiron de Oliveira rides Jr. Bonner with ease for 90 points Sunday

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USTRC Colorado River Classic Story courtesy of Ben Clements and SuperLooper Magazine

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he USTRC staff rolled into Fort Mohave, Arizona for the Colorado River Classic. The roping action took place at the Mojave Crossing Event Center and the event was March 16-18, 2012. Team ropers enjoyed the wonderful facility.

The Idaho team of Dalton Gunter and Max Kuttler won the Average and the Incentive Average of the Open Division.

They were 48.46 seconds on five steers and won $1,700, ten points for the Priefert US Open tour and $2,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the Average was Ross Gosney and Kyon Sayer.

Cody Davenport from Sierra Vista, Arizona teamed up with Cole Jackson from Animas, New Mexico to win the Average of the #15 Division. They were high team back and finished the roping with a time of 34.75 seconds on five steers. The win gave them $2,508, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the roping was Ross Gosney and Jackson and third place went to Cody Cabral and Max Kuttler.

The #13 Division winners were Tyrell Big and Shane Big from Kayenta, Arizona. They won the Average with a time of 44.44 seconds on five steers and took home $2,186, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings.

Second place was the team of Joseph Savedra from Grants, New Mexico and Jason Yazzie from Vanderwagon, New Mexico. The third place team was Reyes and Justin Marquez.

The Kingman, Arizona team of Bill Fancher and Kolt Campbell teamed up to win the Average of the #12 Division.

They were 31.81 seconds on four steers and won $2,426, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the roping was Ronald Walker and Chad Benson. Dennis Nowlin and Dallen Gunter won third place in the main Average and finished first in the Incentive Average.

On the second day of competition at the Colorado River Classic the team roping began with the Gold Plus

Division. The team of Jeff Davis from LaPlata, New Mexico and Joaquin Huntington came from the second call back position to win the Average. They were 39.28 seconds on four steers and took home $2,182, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings.

Second place was the team of Peg Williams and Sam Hambrick and third place was Russell Schirado and Tyrel Eckroth. Chris Westphal and Cavin Jacobs won the Incentive Average.

David Page from Parker, Arizona and Bub Mays from Blythe, California teamed up to win the Average of the #11 Division. The were 34.87 seconds on four steers and won $4,630, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place in the Average was Jeff Davis and Ty Toledo. Cache and Jody Burnside won the Incentive Average and third place in the main Average.

The New Mexico team of Rudy Gonzales and Lance Barka won the Average of the #10 Division. They were 39.79 seconds on four steers and earned $5,588, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place was Darren Hartwick and Joseph Kimball and third place went to Sierra Stroll and Shawn Connelley. The winners of the Incentive Average were Rudy Gonzales and Lance Barka.

Jeff Davis and Tommy Jackson teamed up to win the Average of the #9 Division with a time of 51.02 seconds on four steers. The won $3,890, trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place was Randy Marshall and Cole Smith and third place went to the team of Michael Wilson and Robert Marshall. Taryn Holliday and Robert Marshall won the Incentive Average.

The final roping of the weekend was the #8 Pick/Draw. Michael Wilson from Henderson, Nevada and Linda Wilson from Cornville, Arizona won the Average with a time of 37.47 seconds on three steers. The win gave them trophy Gist buckles and $6,000 in USTRC Flex Earnings. Second place was the team of Sierra Stoll and Jeff Davis and third place went to Mike Shott and Sheldon Randall.

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Colorado River Classic Mojave Crossing Events Center Fort Mohave, AZ March 16-18, 2012 Total Payout â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $80,228 Open - Total Payout: $1,800 Average 1. Dallen V. Gunter (Mccammon, ID) / Max Kuttler (American Falls, ID), 48.46 on 5, $1,200; 2. Ross A. Gosney (Bayfield, CO) / Kyon L. Sayer (Glendale, AZ), 49.71 on 5 Incentive 1. Dallen V. Gunter (Mccammon, ID) / Max Kuttler (American Falls, ID), 38.02 on 4, $500, 2,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Cody Cabral (Milton Freewater, OR) / Max Kuttler (American Falls, ID), 7.51, $100; 2. Victor T. Aros Jr. (Tucson, AZ) / Cole K. Jackson (Animas, NM), 7.51 #15 - Total Payout: $4,400 Average 1. Cody D. Davenport (Sierra Vista, AZ) / Cole K. Jackson (Animas, NM), 34.75 on 5, $2,508, 6,000 Flex; 2. Ross A. Gosney (Bayfield, CO) / Cole K. Jackson (Animas, NM), 42.96 on 5, $1,672, 2,000 Flex; 3. Cody Cabral (Milton Freewater, OR) / Max Kuttler (American Falls, ID), 44.57 on 5, 2,000 Flex; 4. Dusty N. Penrod (Safford, AZ) / Dallas Odell Reidhead (Queen Creek, AZ), 48.24 on 5, 2,000 Flex; 5. Jay D. McClain (Scottsdale, AZ) / Jess Mann (Miami, AZ), 51.88 on 5 Overall Fast Time 1. Ross A. Gosney (Bayfield, CO) / Cole K. Jackson (Animas, NM), 5.57, $220 #13 Handicap - Total Payout: $4,600 Average 1. Tyrrell W. Big (Kayenta, AZ) / Shane D. Big (Kayenta, AZ), 44.44 on 5, $2,186, 6,000 Flex; 2.

Joseph E. Savedra (Milan, NM) / Jason J. Yazzie (Vanderwagon, NM), 56.65 on 5, $1,312, 2,000 Flex; 3. Reyes Marquez (Seboyeta, NM) / Justin R. Marquez (Kirtland, NM), 64.21 on 5, $874, 2,000 Flex; 4. Joe Campbell (Seligman, AZ) / Hugh R. Campbell (Seligman, AZ), 42.18 on 4, 2,000 Flex; 5. Cody D. Davenport (Sierra Vista, AZ) / Jigger D. McKinley (Morenci, AZ), 44.85 on 4, 2,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Tyrrell W. Big (Kayenta, AZ) / Shane D. Big (Kayenta, AZ), 7.10, $114; 2. Dennis C. Nowlin Jr. (Stanfield, AZ) / Dallen V. Gunter (Mccammon, ID), 7.10, $114 Gold Plus - Total Payout: $8,204 Average 1. Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM) / Joaquin Huntington (Hesperus, CO), 39.28 on 4, $2,182, 3,000 Flex; 2.

Peg J. Williams (Kingman, AZ) / Sam E. Hambrick (Golden Valley, AZ), 39.37 on 4, $1,636, 3,000 Flex; 3. Russell Schirado (Menoken, ND) / Tyrel A. Eckroth (Cave Creek, AZ), 40.23 on 4, $1,092, 3,000 Flex; 4. Buddy Rose (Yuma, AZ) / Duane L. Russey (Chandler, AZ), 41.57 on 4, $546 Incentive 1. Chris Westphal (Ronan, MT) / Cavin Jacobs (Estancia, NM), 34.34 on 3, $1,168, 3,000 Flex; 2.

Scott Hall (Gilbert, AZ) / Duane L. Russey (Chandler,

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AZ), 39.98 on 3, $702, 3,000 Flex; 3. Janet L. Mickelson (Flagstaff, AZ) / Mike Qualls (Hico, TX), 40.00 on 3, $468, 3,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Todd E. Jepson (Las Vegas, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 7.39, $410 Century Bonus - Total Payout: $1,100 Average 1. Buddy Rose (Yuma, AZ) / Duane L. Russey (Chandler, AZ), 31.46 on 3, $660; 2. Reyes Marquez (Seboyeta, NM) / Rudy J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM), 42.22 on 3, $440 #12 - Total Payout: $6,802 Average 1. Bill Fancher Sr. (Kingman, AZ) / Kolt W. Campbell (Kingman, AZ), 31.01 on 4, $2,426, 6,000 Flex; 2.

Ronald Walker (Kingman, AZ) / Chad Benson (Kingman, AZ), 32.97 on 4, $1,818, 2,000 Flex; 3.

Dennis C. Nowlin Jr. (Stanfield, AZ) / Dallen V. Gunter (Mccammon, ID), 35.89 on 4, $1,212, 2,000 Flex; 4. Ronald Walker (Kingman, AZ) / John H. Bassett (Dewey, AZ), 41.29 on 4, $606, 2,000 Flex; 5. Tyrrell W. Big (Kayenta, AZ) / Shane D. Big (Kayenta, AZ), 43.98 on 4, 2,000 Flex Incentive 1. Dennis C. Nowlin Jr. (Stanfield, AZ) / Dallen V. Gunter (Mccammon, ID), 26.71 on 3, $400, 2,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Bill Fancher Sr. (Kingman, AZ) / Kolt W. Campbell (Kingman, AZ), 6.59, $340 #11 - Total Payout: $16,274 Average 1. David W. Page Jr. (Parker, AZ) / Ben Bub Mays (Blythe, CA), 34.87 on 4, $4,630, 6,000 Flex; 2.

Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM) / Ty H. Toledo (Bloomfield, NM), 35.60 on 4, $3,086, 2,000 Flex; 3. Cache Burnside (Mesquite, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 35.90 on 4, $2,444, 2,000 Flex; 4.

James C. Green (Kingman, AZ) / Kolt W. Campbell (Kingman, AZ), 36.22 on 4, $1,800, 2,000 Flex; 5.

Todd L. Delano (Mesquite, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 39.01 on 4, $900, 2,000 Flex; 6.

Sierra M. Stoll (Prescott Valley, AZ) / Troy W. Stoll (Prescott Valley, AZ), 41.31 on 4, $400; 7. Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM) / Joaquin Huntington (Hesperus, CO), 45.79 on 4, $400 Incentive 1. Cache Burnside (Mesquite, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 27.83 on 3, $800, 6,000 Flex; 2.

Mark W. Etter (Desert Hills, AZ) / Shawn C. Connelley (Phoenix, AZ), 29.22 on 3, $600; 3. Chris Westphal (Ronan, MT) / Monte B. Anderson (Clayton, NM), 34.90 on 3, $400 Overall Fast Time 1. James C. Green (Kingman, AZ) / Kolt W. Campbell (Kingman, AZ), 7.14, $488; 2. Todd L. Delano (Mesquite, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 7.36, $326 #10 - Total Payout: $19,078 Average 1. Rudy J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM) / Lance Barka (Albuquerque, NM), 39.79 on 4, $5,588, 6,000 Flex; 2. Darren R. Hartwick (Mohave Valley, AZ) /

Joseph C. Kimball (Higley, AZ), 41.89 on 4, $3,726, 2,000 Flex; 3. Sierra M. Stoll (Prescott Valley, AZ) / Shawn C. Connelley (Phoenix, AZ), 42.62 on 4, $2,950, 2,000 Flex; 4. Darren R. Hartwick (Mohave Valley, AZ) / Joaquin Huntington (Hesperus, CO), 42.73 on 4, $2,174, 2,000 Flex; 5. Tiffany Davis (Adams, OR) / Shawn C. Connelley (Phoenix, AZ), 42.90 on 4, $1,086, 2,000 Flex; 6. Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM) / Tato A. Savedra Jr. (Grants, NM), 43.58 on 4, $400; 7. Justin W. Mays (Blythe, CA) / Ben Bub Mays (Blythe, CA), 44.19 on 4, $400 Incentive 1. Rudy J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM) / Lance Barka (Albuquerque, NM), 29.38 on 3, $800, 2,000 Flex; 2. Trey Robert Narramore (Grants, NM) / Vivian Robinson (Cave Creek, AZ), 31.54 on 3, $600; 3. Darren R. Hartwick (Mohave Valley, AZ) / Joaquin Huntington (Hesperus, CO), 32.24 on 3, $400 Overall Fast Time 1. Chris Westphal (Ronan, MT) / Monte B. Anderson (Clayton, NM), 7.24, $572; 2. Cody Burnside (Mesquite, NV) / Jody Burnside (Mesquite, NV), 7.70, $382 #8 Pick Draw - Total Payout: $5,840 Average 1. Michael Wilson (Henderson, NV) / Linda R. Gibbs (Cornville, AZ), 37.47 on 3, $2,220, 6,000 Flex; 2.

Sierra M. Stoll (Prescott Valley, AZ) / Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM), 38.51 on 3, $1,660, 6,000 Flex; 3.

Mike T. Shott (Mohave Valley, AZ) / Sheldon T. Randall (Dolores, CO), 39.42 on 3, $1,110, 6,000 Flex; 4. Mark W. Etter (Desert Hills, AZ) / Byron K. Gibbs (Cornville, AZ), 43.56 on 3, $560, 6,000 Flex; 5. Shandy Nielson (Thatcher, AZ) / Erickson Littleben (Kayenta, AZ), 50.57 on 3, 6,000 Flex Overall Fast Time 1. Jarod Wright (Golden Calley, AZ) / Ricky T. Donahue (Sells, AZ), 8.12, $290 #9 - Total Payout: $12,130 Average 1. Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM) / Tommy R. Jackson Jr. (Ganado, AZ), 51.02 on 4, $3,890, 6,000 Flex; 2. Randy L. Marshall (Searchlight, NV) / Cole J. Smith (Cortez, CO), 51.10 on 4, $2,920, 2,000 Flex; 3. Michael Wilson (Henderson, NV) / Robert L. Marshall (Searchlight, NV), 51.34 on 4, $1,950, 2,000 Flex; 4. Janet L. Mickelson (Flagstaff, AZ) / Richard L. Mayfield (Litchfield Park, AZ), 51.86 on 4, $970, 2,000 Flex; 5. Rob B. Gerner (Apple Valley, CA) / Terry L. Holliday (Barstow, CA), 54.94 on 4, 2,000 Flex Incentive 1. Taryn R. Holliday (Barstow, CA) / Robert L. Marshall (Searchlight, NV), 34.04 on 3, $800, 6,000 Flex; 2. Michael Wilson (Henderson, NV) / Robert L. Marshall (Searchlight, NV), 40.77 on 3, $600; 3. Bounce L. Chapman (Kingman, AZ) / Sonny M. Cummard (Queen Creek, AZ), 48.84 on 3, $400 Overall Fast Time 1. Mike T. Shott (Mohave Valley, AZ) / David Smith Jr. (Mohave Valley, AZ), 8.23, $600

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Friday High Money, trophy Martin saddle winner, Cody D. Davenport (Sierra Vista, AZ)

Saturday High Money, trophy Martin saddle winner, Rudy J. Gonzales (Seboyeta, NM)

Sunday High Money, trophy Martin saddle winner, Jeff O. Davis (La Plata, NM)

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Growing Up Country

Story and Photos Compliments of Jim Olson

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ou may not know it, but I grew up country. Not country like, my family tree don’t fork, kind of country.

LOL! Not a house per acre in a subdivision kind of country (although there are a lot of great rural folk usually living in these areas). But a down-home, proud-to-be-an-American, from the heartland, own a pickup truck cause a car won’t make it down your road, don’t need any bureaucrat telling you what to do, raise your own food, cowboy hat wearing (to keep the sun off), raising cows, horses, chickens, goats, hogs, dogs and even cats (for chasing mice) kind of country! You know what I mean – Country!

The half-horse town nearest to where I grew up was about two miles distant. It consisted of a Baptist church, about five homes, an old store (closed), a vacant cotton gin and a vacant feed yard. I caught the school bus there. At various times I arrived at the said bus stop by means of walking, riding a bike, ahorseback or driving depending upon what was available and general weather conditions throughout the seasons.

The next town of any significance was another ten miles and consisted of a school (K-12), three churches, a store/post office combination and about a dozen houses (this is where I went to school). I had to ride the bus for an hour,

traveling from farm to ranch, in order for it to pick up enough kids to make a load.

Basketball was the only sport available for boys to play because you needed five people to make up a team (one or two subs were nice) and that was about all we had in the athletics program. FFA was required curriculum. There were only about eight to ten kids in my grade each year.

The town we considered “town” was about fifteen miles the other direction and had 12,000 inhabitants at the time. I say 12,000 because that’s what the sign at the city limits claimed – “Welcome to Portales, New Mexico. A town of 12,000 friendly people…and 3 or 4 old grouches.” People had a lot of fun with that sign, and from time to time, vandals would change the “3 or 4 old grouches” to various other sayings…but it was usually in good fun. The sign was right however, there were (and still are) a lot of friendly people in that part of the world. I think it’s because they are mostly a rural, agricultural type area. As a matter of fact, the prosperity of local business owners was tied (in one way or another) to commodity prices.

Because of my upbringing, I gained unique and useful knowledge such as what it’s like to milk a cow, by hand, at 4:30 a.m., then again that evening taught me about regularity and responsibility. I know how to butcher a chicken and pluck feathers from the warm bird, while it’s still twitching and flopping around. I know what it’s like to mend fence in 100 degree weather, assist an animal with birthing, hang wet clothes

on the line in a steady wind, tromp in muck up to your knees to doctor a sick animal during a storm, get bucked off in a sticker patch, be kicked by a horse or cow protecting their “personal space,” hooked by a bull (whose “personal space” is usually much larger), how to entertain yourself without the aide of “electronic gadgets,” dress in layers so you can bear being outside in a day that starts off in the 30s at daybreak and winds up in the 80’s by afternoon, be both wind-burned and sunburned from working outside all day. I know all that and more…and I love it.

I love it because I also know what it’s like to see mountain views ten, twenty or even fifty miles off on a clear day. I know what it’s like to stare up at the stars with an unobstructed view while hearing a cricket chirp a half-mile off on a clear, still night. I know what it’s like to have a special bond with animals - even if you plan to eat them later, the sight of a colt taking its first suckle, what it’s like to actually know your neighbors, the feeling of independence you get surviving in the country, the pride of raising your own food and yes, me being a male, the freedom to leave my house in any direction and being able to “do my business” outdoors…with worrying about whose around.

Things weren’t always easy growing up this way. Being poor and rural, you had to be tough to survive. If you have ever chopped your own wood because it’s your only source of heat, had to gather a meal before eating it, lived in a house where you could see your breath in the

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un-heated bedrooms during winter, cut weeds in a farm field for minimum wage daylight till dark on a hot summer day, spent a full day in the saddle (working – not pleasure riding), had blisters on your hands, or had to choose between buying gas or groceries with your last twenty dollars because the “harvest check” is not in yet, then you know what I’m talking about.

Growing up country taught me many things. It’s a way of life like no other and I’m glad for it. I learned things like why it’s important to respect God and country, the true value of a dollar (one you earned yourself), how to be responsible (not only for yourself but for animals and others), how to be independent, to really appreciate and respect nature, to work hard, to speak another language (Spanish), to change my own tires, fix a vehicle good enough to get back home with bailing wire and duct tape, basic veterinary skills, to be diplomatic when dealing with animals and people, horticulture and the difference between beast of burden, meat animals and pets

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(and know they all have their own special you know what I’m talking about.

A lot of folks think that growing up place in the world), the value of a friend you could count on when you really need country is a handicap, but pardner, I’m here to tell you, it’s not! Great men like a hand, and, well, you get the picture.

Abraham Lincoln grew up very country I have a lot of fond memories of grow up this way. If you have ever “bobbed for (and poor). Dale Carnegie, arguably one of the greatest writers and speakers of the apples” at a “ Country Jamboree,” rolled your bedroll out and slept under the stars, 20th century grew up on a farm in known the satisfaction of doing a job few Missouri. Canadian songstress, Shania Twain, grew up with nothing, in the others could, watched an animal being rugged wilderness near Timmins, born, smelled fresh-cut hay, danced a jig Ontario. As a boy, Johnny Cash worked in the high school gymnasium at the along side his family in Arkansas cotton yearly social, seen a sunrise or sunset afields. Writer, Max Evans, once trailed a horseback with no obstructions around, herd of horses, with only one other man eaten “rocky mountain oysters” over a for help, from Jal, New Mexico to branding fire or a tomato fresh off the Guymon, Oklahoma when he was a vine, spent a Saturday night riding young boy. They later made movies from around in a four-wheel drive with a books he’d written about his experiences! twelve pack and a spot light and thought There are thousands of other examples; I it was the time of your life, listened to could go on and on about great folk (both the same Chris Ledoux tape over and well-known and unknown) who were over on the way to a rodeo in the middle “country.” of nowhere, ate theVSA best food ever atINa HOUSE raised PROOF CRX’D Personally, I wear “growing up “potluck” gathering, or if you have ever country,” like a badge of honor. I tasted home-made ice cream, made with cream you personally strained from milk, wouldn’t have had it any other way!

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USTRC News and Information Gold Plus Regional – Big News!

USTRC is excited to announce there will be a minimum of $105,000 added cash to the Regional Finals Gold Plus Ropings this year. This means there will be at least $15,000 added to the roper’s pot in the Gold Plus division at each of the seven Regional Finals.

Last year, USTRC added $12,800 in each Gold Plus Regional Roping and the results were amazing as the Gold Plus division at all seven of the Regional Finals were the highest paying Gold Plus ropings ever in the history of those seven events. If you have any questions, contact Gold Plus Representative Ty Hillman at thillman@ustrc.com.

USTRC / WSTR Part of the agreement between USTRC and WSTR is that ropers who purchase their USTRC membership can rope at USTRC events and WSTR events.

With that said, WSTR only sells WSTR memberships at WSTR events. If you plan on purchasing your USTRC membership so you can rope at both USTRC and WSTR events, make sure you pre-purchase your USTRC membership at ustrc.com, over the phone with the USTRC office, or at a USTRC event before you attend a WSTR event because USTRC memberships are not available for purchase at WSTR events.

• #12 (with #11 Incentive) – must be at least a #4 Header or a #6 Heeler • #11 (with #10 Incentive) – must be at least a #4 Header or a #5 Heeler • #10 (with #9 Incentive) – must be at least a #3 Header or a #4 Heeler • # 9 (with #8 Incentive) – must be at least a #3 Header or a #3 Heeler • #12 Gold Plus with #10 Incentive – must be at least a #3 Header or a #4 Heeler • #8 is already a Pick/Draw Format Ropers who choose the Draw-In Option will pay their side of the entry fee, which is determined by the format of the event Draw partners may choose one of three options: • Option 1 – Pay for the extra run and be eligible for all prize money, prizes and Shoot-Outs/Flex Earnings • Option 2 – Choose not to pay for the extra run and be eligible for only ½ of the prize money up to $1000 and forfeit any prizes and Shoot-Outs/Flex Earnings • Option 3 – Decline the extra run

Revised Rule The Ultimate Partner Finder Need a Partner? Try the USTRC’s New Draw-In Option – It’s the ultimate Partner Finder Ropers may draw into any of the following divisions provided they are not already entered in the division they wish to draw into and they meet the minimum classification requirements.

• #15 Handicap – must be at least a #6 Header or a #7 Heeler • #13 Handicap – must be at least a #5 Header or a #6 Heeler

12.1 All roping cattle shall consist of native Corriente, native Longhorn or Mexico Corriente. Native roping heifers may be used if they are of same quality.

(Note to Producers and Cattle Contractors: Native heifers used at roping events may only be comingled with other native Longhorn and/or native Corriente cattle. Due to the probability that native heifers may be used in a breeding program prior to slaughter, they may NOT be comingled with Mexico Corriente roping stock.) Weight limits on all roping stock should be 350 lbs to 550 lbs.

Please direct your questions or

comments on this rule revision to mqualls@ustrc.com or kirkbray@ustrc.com.

2012 Regional Finals USTRC Regional Finals are just around the corner. Check local advertisments to find the Regional Finals you want to attend.

Ropers make sure you are eligible by participating in a 2012 season Affiliate, Grassroots or Sanctioned event or a Regional preliminary divisions prior to the Shoot-Out division you want to enter.

Also, go online www.ustrc.com/member services and check your Available Earnings you have to qualify for a Regional Shoot-Out division.

2011 DVD’s ON Sale Now! The DVD’s from the 2011 Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping are available online. The DVD will show all 5 go rounds of the US Open plus the short go round. It will also include the short rounds of all Shoot-Outs, the Cruel Girl and the Century Roping. This makes a great gift for the team roper in your family. DVD’s are available for purchase on line at www.ustrc.com.

Memberships!

If you have purchased your USTRC Membership Card, but have not received it, please contact USTRC and make sure all of your information in the system is correct. Many times there are missing Social Security Numbers, birth dates, or incorrect addresses. If you have a change of address (mailing or email) please contact the USTRC and update your profile.

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Cattle Drive of the Century 1912-2012 Centennial Longhorn Cattle Drive Lea County to Eddy County, New Mexico To commemorate the 100 year birthday centennial of New Mexico, one hundred longhorns bearing a special New Mexico Zia brand will be driven from the Pitchfork Cattle Company ranch in Lea County, New Mexico to Carlsbad, New Mexico. The drive will start on Wednesday, May 9 and end Saturday, May 12, 2012 in Carlsbad (Eddy County), New Mexico. The longhorn cattle will be auctioned to the highest bidders at the Eddy County Sheriff’s Posse Arena in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

The drive will include three nights on the trail and feature authentic cowboy music by Michael Martin Murphy and other singers and poets around various campfires. Several chuck wagons will be following the drive and providing food for the riders and for guests who come each evening to enjoy the music, the food and the cowboy experience.

Experienced riders will be working the drive with Bert Madera, Trail Boss and owner of the Pitchfork Ranch, presiding over the crew.

Other riders will be allowed to ride with the herd based on availability.

A fee will be charged and a ticket is required to ride. The ticket will include horse, tack, sleeping gear, food and entertainment around the campfire every night. Other tickets will be sold on a limited basis to those who want to come out to the campsite each evening and share a meal and entertainment with the crew.

A film will be made to document the event. This drive is a reenactment loosely based on the 1932 drive that brought cattle from the Madera Family owned Chico Ranch at Guadalupe Pass to what is now the Pitchfork Ranch in Lea County, New Mexico. The documentary will also cover other Centennial events around the state.

Rates for participation for the Cattle Drive are as follows: Those members of the public who own their own horses, mules and wagons can also participate. There are only 40 spots available and registration materials and payment must be received no later than April 9, 2012. The fee is set at $225/per person. You will be provided meals and will be able to participate in the campfire experience and enjoy all the music from popular cowboy/cowgirl singers, songwriters and poets. You will need to provide your own tent, bedroll or other appropriate sleeping arrangements. Visit: www.westernheritagemuseumcomplex.com.

City Slickers may join the cowboys each evening for a chuck wagon meal and a campfire sing-a-long. Recording artist Michael Martin Murphy will be featured along with other notable entertainers. Busses will depart from Hobbs, Carlsbad and select towns each night at 5 p.m.

Tickets are $75 each and can be purchased online, www.selectaseatlubbock.com. Visit: www.westernheritagemuseumcomplex.com for more information.

For the full experience, you can reserve your spot and be provided your own horse, tack, supplies, sleeping arrangements (tent and bedroll), 3 meals, a commemorative tee shirt and poster (by popular Western artist Virgil Stephens). If you fly into an airport within 200 miles of the ranch located 30 miles west of Jal, NM, we will provided transport to and from the airport. You will also be able to participate in all the festivities including performances by all the incredible western singers, songwriters and poets who will be entertaining each night around the numerous campfires. This all-inclusive experience for 4 days and 3 nights will cost $1,800. Please contact Bert Madera at 575-390-2861 or visit our website at: www.pitchforkcattle.com to download your paperwork.

We hope you will join us for what is being called “The Cattle Drive of the Century”! Space is limited so call or go online now to reserve your spot!

Sincerely, Bert and Montie Carol Madera Pitchfork Cattle Company and the Centennial Committees of Hobbs and Carlsbad, NM

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WSTR News The #9 Finale/Rotation #9 Rotation You can’t believe how much conversation has taken place concerning the #9 in Las Vegas in the last two years.

It has been quite the discussion with three very distinct points of view. The ropers point of view has been pretty straight forward, “we want it, so do it.”

The contractors point of view has been, “OK, but don’t mess with our qualification formats, we have successful add-on #9’s that work in our part of the country and we don’t want WSTR changing the formats.” Then there is point number three, which is Denny’s point of view, “it won’t work as a stand alone roping in Vegas.”

His reasoning is that if 90% of the add-ons are pick and draw, 75% of these ropings are three head aggregates, a large percentage of the contestants are kids under 21, fees are much less than normal World Series fees, the contractors are

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letting them enter anywhere from three to six times, and the 9’s like the slower below average cattle. Obviously, nothing here is consistent with the World Series product. Every effort in the past to limit entries and have #9 ropers rope for higher fees have resulted in major flops.

It is generally agreed that there are some ropers who will put up the money to rope high dollar, but how many?

So after all the Ya, Ya, the following is the “Test Balloon “, the selected alternative to address those concerns and comply with the ropers wish for some type of #9 offering. A #9 Las Vegas Finale will be introduced inside the #10 Finale. The #9 Finale will run inside the #10 Finale, but as a separate roping and incentive. This option will be for #9 teams who are Legacy ropers, #9 teams who have qualified in #10 WS qualifiers, or #9 teams who have qualified in #9 WS add-on events.

Varying formats of the #9 add-ons at WS events don’t allow us to use money won to determine qualifications.

Therefore, any team who places 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the #9 is qualified to enter

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Vegas. They will have thirty days after they win to enter, but there will be a cap of 90 teams in this rotation, therefore, the books will close for the #9 on October 1st or when the 90 teams have been filled.

The #9 teams will compete in their own rotation as a separate roping, and also as incentive in the #10. Their own rotation guarantees #9 participation in the #10 short round. The number of #9 teams in the #10 short round will be equal in percentage to the regular rotations of the #10. They have all the same rights and chances as anyone entered in the #10, but in addition to their entry in the #10 with consolation rights, they are also entered in the #9 Rotation that will be paid on three head,

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including prizes. The winners of the #9 will be determined in their rotation even before they run at the#10 short round or the #10 consolation short round. The #9 Rotation will be handled as an incentive with 40% paid to #9 teams in their rotation, and 60% added to the main purse (which includes guaranteed short round money).

The #9 Finale Rotation will be capped at a #5 Heeler. Enter once is still the rule, ropers will not be able to enter the #9 Rotation once and the #10 once. No ropers under 21 in Las Vegas, any roping.

If contestants entering the #9 Rotation are not entered in any other division, they will NOT have advanced stall and hotel reservation rights at the South Point.

Based on past history there will be stalls and hotel rooms available by the last Friday of the Finale. But lack of stalls and rooms was our original reason for not trying a #9, therefore we cannot allow reservations through our blocks for these teams.

Las Cruces, NM â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ITRA Saturday, May 19, 2012 Phone: 575-937-2298 For info contact Gerry Tully Castle Rock, CO Saturday, May 19, 2012 Phone: 602-721-5027 or 970-471-2707 For more info please contact Daren Peterson or Levi Schofield

Las Vegas, NM - Zamora Productions Saturday, May 12, 2012 Phone: 505-469-4388 For more info please contact Kenny Zamora Riverside, CA - R4R Productions Saturday, May 19, 2012 Phone: 909-223-1215 For info contact Deven Owen

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Salina, UT - Double Dollar Friday, May 25, 2012 Phone: 435-795-2626 For more info please contact Greg Kesler Flagstaff, AZ- The Roping Co Saturday, May 26, 2012 Phone: 480-215-3180 For more info please contact Jack Goodman Longmont, CO - Blake Nelson Saturday, June 2, 2012 Phone: 303-651-1333 For more info please contact Blake Nelson Pueblo, CO - Zamora Productions Saturday, June 9, 2012 Phone: 505-469-4388 For info contact Kenny Zamora

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he Word Series of Team Roping has six of these special fees ropings and the Perfect 10 has been right there at the top of the heap the last couple of years. This year’s event held at the Horseman’s Park in Las Vegas, Nevada topped out around $240,000 with 300 teams entered up. Although strong winds were predicted and they did get up a little toward the end of the day, but not beyond a point that took the enjoyment out of the event.

MaraShane Miller and Orral Block roped solid all the way through for the win, splitting $70,000 in cash. Actually, the Miller/Block combo and Janet and Pete Michelson were a good four seconds ahead of the field coming into the short round.

Janet and Pete were high call, however, a gusty head wind at exactly the wrong time played havoc with Janet’s head loop. That

was the only thing that kept the top three holes from total domination by the ladies.

Nancy Peterson and Howard Gwyn won second place.

Honorable mention had to go to Colter Bradshaw. Colter brought three runs to the short round and was able to capture third with Tommy Crowson, and seventh with Sam Rauch.

This event once again set itself apart from many others as ropers enjoyed the challenge and had a great time roping in Las Vegas. Not only was there plenty of chances to win in the arena, the casinos kept many ropers entertained, offering them a chance to fill their pockets. The WSTR, as well as the Ericsson family wants to thank all of this years participants and happy to add another notch on the handle of this great event.

USTRC Affiliates

Clovis Twelve Classic Results Curry County Special Events Center, Clovis, NM March 24, 2012 #12 Round 1 Fast Time 1. Patty D. Moberly (Melrose, NM) / Ricky Bouldin (Portales, NM), 5.15, $790; 2. Duke Barker (Odessa, TX) / Josh M. Cordova (Midland, TX), 6.47, $590; 3.

Lynde O. May (Portales, NM) / Lathe A. May (Portales, NM), 7.28, $400; 4. Octavio Espinoza (Lubbock, TX) / Chris F. Cruz (Lubbock, TX), 7.60, $200 Round 2 Fast Time 1. Jace L. Rowland (Idalou, TX) / Hadley Patterson (Fort Sumner, NM), 5.79, $880; 2. Lynde O. May (Portales, NM) / Ned Kiehne (Portales, NM), 6.96, $660; 3.

Lynde O. May (Portales, NM) / Lathe A. May (Portales, NM), 7.54, $440 #12 Final Round 1 Fast Time 1. Lyndell J. McDaniel (Canyon, TX) / Bruno F. A. Paoliello (Canyon, TX), 7.51, $880; 2. Kenna C. Armitage (Las Vegas, NM) / Trevor D. Peterson (Nazareth, TX), 7.63, $660; 3. Michael A. Bell (Clovis, NM) / Ryan M. Figg (Clovis, NM), 7.83, $440 Round 2 Fast Time 1. Kenna C. Armitage (Las Vegas, NM) / John W. Lewis (Clovis, NM), 6.55, $880; 2. Ben K. McDaniel (Clovis, NM) / Jody W. Mahaney (Farwell, TX), 6.71, $660; 3.

John L. Garcia (Springer, NM) / Ryan P. Brewer (Canyon, TX), 6.84, $440 Short Round Average 1. Ben K. McDaniel (Clovis, NM) / Jody W. Mahaney (Farwell, TX), 23.09 on 2, $5,940; 2. Wes A. Bowers (Seagraves, TX) / Kip Middleton (Levelland, TX), 24.55 on 2, $4,440; 3. Boon G. Daniel (Dumas, TX) / Scott Venable (Dumas, TX), 25.40 on 2, $2,940; 4. Riley Smith (Earth, TX) / Trevor D. Peterson (Nazareth, TX), 26.74 on 2, $1,470

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Ritchie Industries Updates Stall Fount Series Design

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Authorized dealer for Simco/Longhorn, The new Stall Fount II series offers a fully insulated casing Saddlesmith of Texas and American Saddlery and stainless steel design. The new design eliminates chewing with its stainless steel rounded cover and offers smooth, APRIL SADDLE SPECIAL rounded edges for the horse’s safety. The removable cover Round Rock Roper - 16" $885 allows full access to the trough and valve for easy cleaning and maintenance. In addition, the new Stall Fount II is available in heated and non-heated versions. If freeze protection is needed, the Stall Fount II 125 adds a 125-watt trough heater and supply line heat cable. An optional insulated shroud, which is available in two lengths, is available to * -%%"# (*' )(+, provide protection from ',% " 1 '' *(%% freezing and animal damage #!!#'! -%% (- % to an exposed supply line. The . *+#2 %(+ (', , +$#*,+ shroud can be added to the ))*(0#& , / #!", % + standard Stall Fount II to -!! +, , #% cover water supply lines.

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Chuck Sheppard Memorial and the Yavapai County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse Roping

May 11 - 13, 2012 Prescott Rodeo Grounds • Prescott, AZ Friday, May 11 8:00 a.m. BOOKS OPEN 9:00 a.m. OPEN CALF ROPING 3-steer • $300/roper 1st place winners qualify for the $2,500 Match Roping during evening performance OPEN TEAM ROPING $120/roper • 3-steer Progressive on 1 80% Payback and 1st place winners qualify as the Match Team in evening’s $5,000 Match Team Roping event.

Friday Evening, May 11 5:00 p.m. GATES OPEN: Cocktails and barbeque dinner available (tickets may be purchased at gate) 6:00 p.m. ARIZONA HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPION MATCH ROPING 6:30 p.m. INVITATIONAL COWBOY BRONC RIDING – 10 rider event 7:00 p.m. $5,000 MATCH TEAM ROPING 7:30 p.m. LIVE AUCTION and raffle of Bill Nebeker bronze 8:00 p.m. $2,500 MATCH TIE-DOWN ROPING Ticket Prices: $10 adult • $5 for each child 10-18 years, under 10 are free.

Tickets may be purchased via e-mail at ycmsproping@hotmail.com or at the gate.

saturday, May 12 8:00 a.m. BOOKS OPEN 9:00 a.m. #13 SUPER ROPING $75/roper • 4 steer • Enter 3x 80% Payback with buckles to 2nd place winners #12 ROPING $75/roper • 4 steer • Enter 3x 1/3 stock charge with buckles to the winners #11 ROPING $50/roper • 4 steer • Enter 5x 1/3 stock charge with buckles to the winners sunday, May 13 8:00 a.m. BOOKS OPEN 9:00 a.m. #10 ROPING $50/roper • 4 steer • Enter 5x 1/3 stock charge with buckles to the winners #9 SUPER ROPING $150/roper • Pick 1, draw 2 or draw all 3 3-steer • Enter 5x • capped at a #5 1/3 stock charge • saddles to 1st place winners, breast collars to 2nd place winners and saddle pads to 3rd place winners #8 ROPING $120/roper • Pick 1, draw 2 or draw all 3 3-steer • Enter 4x 1/3 stock charge with buckles to the winners

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TR - Globe, AZ, 480-540-8405 TR - Cliff, NM, 575-772-5175 CR - Clovic, NM, 800-658-6378 ROD - Albuquerque, NM, 505-459-2918 TR - Wickenburg, AZ, 928-671-0386 TR - Picacho, AZ, 602-531-5133 TR/BRLS - Chino Valley, AZ, 928-636-1245 TR - Tucson, AZ, 520-255-1270

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TR - Moab, UT, 12 TR - Belen, NM, 34 ROD - Cottonwood, AZ, 57 ROD - Canyon City, CO, 57 ROD - T. or C., NM, 57, 70 ROD - Socorro, NM, 57, 69 ROD - Albuquerque, NM, 57 BR - Anath, UT, 68 TR - Socorro, NM, 69 TR - Cubero, NM, 505-238-4595 ROD - Las Vegas, NM

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Young Rodeo Stars Overtake Cottonwood, Arizona

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The Arizona Junior High and the Arizona High School Rodeo Associations headed into Cottonwood, Arizona over the weekend of March 24-25, for two exciting days of rodeo action.

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Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale Shows Strong Demand

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ood using horses continued to be in strong demand at the 14th Annual Arizona Ranch Remuda sale held March 16 during Cattleman’s Weekend at Prescott Livestock Auction in Chino Valley. Twenty-four broke cow horses sold for an average of $3,149, up slightly from last year, while two registered colts averaged $1,200.

The Champion Riding Horse was Primo Bueno Chey, consigned

by Clay Ashurst, Greeley, Arizona. The 8-year-old sorrel gelding sold to Mark Stieg, Scottsdale, Arizona for $5,250. Mike and Beth Hughes, Sonoita, Arizona, consigned the Reserve Champion Riding Horse, Ima Tuff Blackburn. The palomino gelding also topped the sale at $6,300, going to Larry Eby, Faywood, New Mexico.

Ethan Crockett, Sedona, Arizona, consigned the Champion Junior Horse, Poco Driftin C7, a 4-year-old buckskin gelding that sold to Lynn Martin, Superior, Arizona, for $5,900. The Champion Halter Colt was Flying V Skeeter, a yearling red dun colt from KT Cattle Company, Amado, Ariz. He sold to Joe Westbrook and Carey Dobson, Vernon, Arizona, for $1,350.

The horses were judged prior to the sale by Guy Hudson, Marty Byrne and Jimmy Dolan.

The champion horse received a trophy rifle

Champion Riding Horse at the 14th Annual Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale during Cattleman’s Weekend recently was Primo Bueno Chey, consigned

by Clay Ashurst, Greeley, Colorado. Swayze McCraine (right) presents the trophy rifle given by Cattleman’s Weekend to Ashurst.

donated by Cattleman’s Weekend. Other awards were donated by Hi Pro Feeds, Farm Credit Services SW, Animal Health Express, and Savoini’s Western Wear and Tack. Ed Ashurst was sale manager.

The objective of the Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale is to provide a contest and public auction for horses consigned by legitimate working ranches. Nominations are accepted by invitation only from ranches whose primary interest is the production of beef cattle and horses.

Champion Halter Colt at the Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale was Flying V Skeeter consigned by KT Cattle Company, Amado. Doug Norton (right) of Farm Credit Services Southwest presented the trophy buckle.

Mike and Beth Hughes, Sonoita, consigned the Reserve Champion Riding Horse at the Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale, Ima Tuff Blackburn. Barbara Jackson (right) of Animal Health Express presents the trophy buckle.

Champion Junior Horse in the Arizona Ranch Remuda Sale was Poco Driftin C7, consigned by Ethan Crockett, Sedona.

Delbert Applebee is shown presenting the trophy buckle.

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nce again I have a pile of ‘Dirt’ to throw around this month; and once again the biggest pile sits in the rodeo arena. I believe the rodeo situation in New Mexico is on the brink of a great year and it seemed that once again the NMRA, one of the oldest rodeo associations in the country, was working well to make it all happen. As you can see, for once the dirt this month is not being distributed towards the association. I think the hard work from the directors and committees, as well as the new secretary and President John Adams, is going well.

The NMRA is going to have a good year and the cowboys and cowgirls out there will have lots of great rodeos to attend, plenty of money to win and the NMRA is already working on a great year-end finals. The NMRA has unveiled several plans that are taking shape and things that are still

in the works that look to be helpful for the big step forward for New Mexico rodeo.

Where the dirt lies this month is those who don’t want to ‘join up’ so to speak for the good of one common goal. I have seen this happen before and it seems to always backfire on those who want to see things done differently and try to buck the system.

The NMRA is a group that helps control the rodeo scene as a whole. They are a governing body that works to keep producers, contestants and committees working together. Rodeo in New Mexico would not be alive and thriving without this sort of control.

Face it, without the NMRA, the producers would have free rein to charge what they wanted, gouge contestants for this fee and that and ultimately drive the sport into a hole. Contestants, especially at this level of competition do not have deep funds to draw from and eventually, the cost that producers could inflict on them without a governing body would kill the sport.

Additionally, local rodeo committees would not have the pool of contestants to draw from. They may have the surrounding rodeo athletes that would come to their events, but not many who travel across the state, due to either the lack of knowledge about the event, or the carrot that the NMRA dangles in front of them at the end of the year, via the Finals.

Finally, the contestants are the biggest part of any rodeo association. Although they have the choice to attend or not attend, whether it is a NMRA event or an open rodeo, the sanctioning body, in this case the NMRA, allows them to know that they are going to be treated fairly.

The NMRA helps each committee, as well as the producers, to offer fair events that cowboys and cowgirls can count on.

Judging, stock, secretarial administration, and perhaps the most important aspect, ground rules are things the NMRA offers to the contestants.

There are other things a governing body does to keep things fair for contestants

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Lubbock Winter Rodeo March 17, 2012 Bareback Riding 1. James Ware, 64, Alberta Lady; 2. Joe Ben Pacino, 62, Sunset Kid Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Clint Linderfield, 76, Wild Flower Ranch Broncs 1. Derrick Fields, 61, Snake Bite Steer Riding 1. Ryder Laird, 4.0; 2. Jake Groves, 1.3 Chute Dogging 1. Brent Reeves, 1.7; 2. Joe Bob Horn, 14.9 1D Barrels 1. Sarah Stafford, 15.662 2D Barrels 1. Dakota Wade, 17.131 Calf Roping 1. Jerod Hoffstetter, 7.9; 2. Quay Howard, 8.9; 3.

Sterling Jamison, 2.4 Breakaway Roping 1. Sequin Brewer, 2.4 Team Roping 1. Gerylin Elkins / Ryan Cook, 7.3 #4 Team Roping 1. Rusty Price / Ronnie Bradic, 16.6 Bull Riding 1. Jon Seawright, 80, CRicket

as well, but these are the biggest.

Now, to the point! Rodeo in New Mexico is a heritage that reaches way back in the state’s history. There have been many high roads and low slumps for the NMRA and there always will be, but I’ve said it before, if everyone wants to see success in the rodeo arena, and continue to see the sport flourish in today’s fast and furious times, they must work together and towards a common good. Trust me the NMRA is here to stay. I have seen people cuss them and praise them, and even try to replace them over the years, but it has withstood all of these things. The association at this point seems to be going in the right direction and with the help and commitment of everyone involved, the landscape ahead for contestants, committees and producers would be a great one!

Until Next Month – Dirt, Keep it under your feet!

Ryan Davis

Novice Bull Riding No Qualified Rides

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March 24, 2012 Bareback Riding 1. Joe Ben Pacino, 74, Hollow Point; 2. James Ware, 69, Indian Princes Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Clint Linderfield, 73, Gold Fever; 2. Cody Groves, 71, Crazy Lacey Ranch Broncs 1. Remington Smith, 69, Spice it Up; 2. James Smith, 65, Mustang Trail Steer Riding 1. Ryder Laird, 6.0; 2. Jake Groves, 3.0 Chute Dogging 1. Richard Norman, 1.3; 2. Joe Bob Horn, 3.0 1D Barrels 1. Ashton Elder, 16.061 2D Barrels 1. Tori Morris, 17.168 Calf Roping 1. Bradley Bynum, 9.6; 2. Tommy Smith, 10.0 3.

Jerod Hoffstetter, 11.4 Team Roping 1. Jake Pankost / Chance Frazier, 5.3; Jerrod Jewkes / Chance Frazier, 5.5; 3. Jerrod Jewlees / Lee Walker, 6.4 #4 Team Roping 1. Kevin Creswell / Ronnie Bradic, 14.5; 2. Bill Talley / Donnie Bukalew, 26.5 Bull Riding No Qualified Rides Novice Bull Riding No Qualified Rides

April 7, 2012 Bareback Riding 1. James Ware, 75, San Antone: 2. Joe Ben Pacino, 74, Rose Bud Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Peter White, 73, Spice it Up; 2. Devon Cisneros, 72, Flower Child Ranch Broncs 1. Reese Bolangia, 68, Spanish Party; 2. Clint Fluitt, 63, Sunset Sam Steer Riding 1. Ryder Laird, 77; 2. Konnan Nixon, 3.8 Chute Dogging 1. Brent Reeves, 2.1; 2. Cayle Romick, 9.0 Mutton Busting 1. Mikel Kennedy, 9.5; Tobark Richardson, 4.2 1D Barrels 1. Clara McBain, 17.239 2D Barrels 1. Troyce Sturgess, 19.240 Calf Roping 1. Shank Edwards, 9.1; 2. Tommy Smith, 9.3 Team Roping 1. Jacob Bingham / Chris Obenhavs, 14.7 #4 Team Roping 1. Kevin Creswell / Robert Jasso, 19.1 Bull Riding No Qualified Rides Novice Bull Riding 1. Kenneth McKee, 74, Bugsy

March 31, 2012 Bareback Riding 1. Joe Ben Pacino, 67, Day Dream; 2. James Ware, 65, Wild On Ranch Broncs No Qualified Rides Steer Riding 1. Jake Groves, 5.2; 2. Ryder Laird, 3.5 Chute Dogging No Qualified Times Mutton Busting 1. J.D. Sanchez, 15.0; 2. Mikel Kennedy, 10.5 1D Barrels 1. Tina Matchlett, 16.070 2D Barrels 1. Karen Coskey, 18.105 Calf Roping 1. Shank Edwards, 8.0; 2. Sterling Smith, 8.7; 3.

Bradley Bynum, 9.5 Team Roping 1. Ty Elliot / Eric Elliot, 7.8 #4 Team Roping 1. Levin Porter / Cole Bolton, 8.4

April 14, 2012 Bareback Riding 1. James Ware, 74, Little Chief Saddle Bronc Riding 1. Cody Groves, 69, Desert Storm; 2. Peter White, 65, Don’t Snoore Ranch Broncs 1. Reese Bolangia, 65, Snake Bite Steer Riding 1. Ryder Laird, 13.9; 2.Jake Groves, 4.6 Mutton Busting 1/2. Holden Penser; 1/2. J.D. Sanchez, 13.9 1D Barrels 1. Maddison Tate, 16.170 2D Barrels 1. No Qualified Times Calf Roping 1. Cliff Kirkpatrick, 12.9; 2. Taylor Smith, 13.2 #4 Team Roping 1. Eric Elliot / Ronnie Bradic, 17.2, 19.1 Bull Riding No Qualified Rides Novice Bull Riding No Qualified Rides

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By Keith Ryan Cartwright

J

ordan Hupp was the latest in a growing list of victims.

There have been exactly 41 since Thiago Paguioto covered Bushwacker for 89.75 points in the third round of the 2009 World Finals. Twenty-eight of those buckoffs came on the Built Ford Tough Series, against the top-ranked riders in the world.

J.B. Mauney has bucked off the reigning World Champion Bull seven times during the streak. Valdiron de Oliveira, who moved back to the top of the world standings, has come down twice. Others include Silvano Alves, Robson Palermo, Austin Meier, Mike Lee and Luke Snyder, who bucked off twice in a span of three events.

PBR Livestock Director Cody Lambert has already said that if Bushwacker continues to buck like he has through the end of the 2012 season, he could arguably be the best bull in PBR history. Should he win the title again this year and continue into 2013, there wouldn’t be any argument.

His performances have been dominating.

Bushwacker hasn’t been marked less than 45 points since September of 2010, when he bucked off Shane Proctor in Springfield, Missouri. Even then, the judges marked him 44.75 points.

He’s been marked 47 or better 10 times in his career, with a career-high 48.5 points coming in Round 3 of the 2011 World Finals, when he bucked off Cord McCoy in 3.39 seconds at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

At the Ty Murray Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hupp came down at 3.5 seconds. Afterward he said, “He feels really good.”

“He gives a big high-flying leap out of there and he really kicks,” Hupp continued. “When he turns back, he does it right after he lands, and he does it with such authority that he really wants to pull you to the outside of the spin. That’s what he did to me.”

Hupp explained that by the time Bushwacker changed directions in midair - a move Ty Murray called “showing off ”

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- he was this week and already off his got him in back and fighting never even shape,” said felt him his handler switch.

Kent Cox, He added who was that he tried surprised in making the Arlington, correction Texas, when Jordan Hupp became Bushwacker’s 41st consecutive once he Bushwacker buckoff victim last weekend in Albuquerque, N.M. started to the weighed in outside, but at 1,737 said there’s “no getting back.” pounds. Cox said he knew Bushwacker “He felt a lot like I expected him to packed on a few pounds while he feel,” Hupp said. “Honestly, he wasn’t was recovering from surgery, but even quite as heavy as I expected him admitted he “was shocked he weighed to feel.” that much.”

Despite the power, he added His performance in Albuquerque was Bushwacker felt “smoother” than he as athletic as any bull competing. thought he would.

So far in 2012, he’s been marked 46 Bushwacker also nade the trip to points, when he bucked off J.B. Mauney Kansas City following the event in for a seventh time in Arlington at the Iron Albuquerque.

Cowboy, and 46.5 points in his matchup It’ll be his first back-to-back with Hupp. appearance since having bone chips “That’s a great bull,” Hupp said. removed from his hind legs earlier “They’ve done an outstanding job with this year. him and my hat’s off to them.

“We got a little more weight off him “I look forward to the rematch.”

CBR Trey Benton Takes the Winning Title at The Tuff Hedeman Vegas Shoot Out The odds of leaving Las Vegas with a winning title and paycheck in-hand are slim to none, and for most, not worth the risk, but for Trey Benton, native of Rock Island, Texas, those odds proved to be in his favor tonight at the South Point Hotel & Casino Tuff Hedeman Vegas Shootout. Trey took the winning title with a score average of 181.5. In the long go, Benton road Warrior scoring an impressive 91 points and followed it up with an equally amazing ride on 7 Rocking X Ranch’s Cowtown in the short go again scoring 91 points.

“This is a dream come true for me and as a rookie in the CBR I am blessed to have won tonight’s event” stated Benton when asked about his win by his child hood idol and bull riding legend

Tuff Hedeman. “I knew that I was competing with the Cinch CBR Tour’s best bull riders and they were not going to make it easy for me, but I was up for the challenge.”

The crown for the Bull of the event will be shared by three different bulls that each had 91 point rides – Cowtown, owned by 7 Rocking X Ranch, Bugle, owned by Talbert Bucking Bulls and Warrior, owned by Brad Vogele Bucking Bulls., The Palace Station Million Dollar Bull Team at the Las Vegas event win goes to Exclusive Genetics/ Jaynes Gang/ Team Bays. They take home a $22,500 check and move up in the Bull Team standings.

Las Vegas resident and U.S. Marine Veteran Troy Huber was honored this evening by Henry Rifles as an American Hero.

The “Road To Cheyenne” continues on to Bossier City, LA., April 21st at the CenturyLink Center.

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2012 PRCA World Standings All-Around 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, TX, $66,157; 2. Bobby Mote, Culver, OR, $33,912; 3. Josh Peek, Pueblo, CO, $25,460; 4. Landon McClaugherty, Tilden, TX, $21,800; 5. Ryan Jarrett, Comanche, OK, $21,095; 6. Jess Tierney, Hermosa, SD, $19,167; 7. Cimarron Boardman, Stephenville, TX, $18,632; 8. Clint Robinson, Spanish Fork, UT, $16,417; 9. Brent Lewis, Pinon, NM, $14,876; 10. Justin Thigpen, Waycross, GA, $12,867; 11.

JoJo LeMond, Andrews, TX, $10,219; 12. Clayton Hass, Terrell, TX, $7,515; 13. Ivan Bruised Head, Okeechobee, FL, $6,871; 14. Cutter Parsons, Marana, AZ, $6,401

Bareback Riding 1. Wes Stevenson, Lubbock, TX, $49,660; 2. Will Lowe, Canyon, TX, $39,947; 3. Steven Dent, Mullen, NE, $29,169; 4. Kaycee Feild, Payson, UT, $28,101; 5. Bobby Mote, Culver, OR, $26,725; 6. Matt Bright, Azle, TX, $22,379; 7. Winn Ratliff, Leesville, LA, $21,734; 8. Tilden Hooper, Carthage, TX, $19,188; 9. Casey Colletti, Pueblo, CO, $18,735; 10. Caleb Bennett, Morgan, UT, $15,933; 11. J.R. Vezain, Cowley, WY, $15,222; 12. Jared Keylon, Uniontown, KS, $14,264; 13.

Caine Riddle, Vernon, TX, $13,021; 14. Chris Harris, Itasca, TX, $12,959; 15. Luke Creasy, Brownfield, AB, $12,633

Steer Wrestling 1. Ethen Thouvenell, Napa, CA, $32,603; 2. Beau Clark, Belgrade, MT, $23,475; 3. Shawn Greenfield, Lakeview, OR, $22,089; 4. Billy Bugenig, Ferndale, CA, $21,451; 5. Trevor Knowles, Mount Vernon, OR, $18,170; 6. Ben Shofner, Jasper, TX, $18,104; 7.

Olin Hannum, Malad, ID, $17,386; 8. Jake Rinehart, Highmore, SD, $16,333; 9. Josh Peek, Pueblo, CO, $15,756; 10. Kyle Whitaker, Chambers, NE, $15,636; 11. Tom Lewis, Lehi, UT, $15,515; 12. Todd Suhn, Hermosa, SD, $15,216; 13. Curtis Cassidy, Donalda, AB, $14,961; 14. Ben Goodman, Beaumont, TX, $14,471; 15. Shane Henderson, Winfield, KS, $14,103

2012 Turquoise Circuit Standings All-Around Standings 1. Seth Hall, Albuquerque, NM, $14,094; 2. Lane Siggins, Ruidoso Downs, NM, $12,850; 3. Bill Snure, douglas az, $11,149; 4. Rick Kieckhefer, Prescott, AZ, $9,202; 5. Beau Marshall, Truth or Consequ, NM, $8,814; 6. Cutter Parsons, Marana, AZ, $8,584; 7. Dean McIntyre, Wickenburg, AZ, $7,373; 8. Chance Kelton, Mayer, AZ, $7,016; 9.

J.D. McKinley, Las Cruces, NM, $6,661; 10. Jared Green, Socoro, NM, $6,378; 11. Casey Wilson, Truth or Consequ, NM, $5,804; 12. Preston Williams, Casa Grande, AZ, $4,351; 13. JoDan Mirabal, Grants, NM, $4,128; 14. Chase Massengill, Santa Fe, NM, $3,297; 15. Johnny Salvo, Horse Springs, NM, $2,401 Bareback Riding 1. Tom McFarland, Wickenburg, AZ, $6,995; 2.

Wyatt Hancock, Taylor, AZ, $5,925; 3. Luke Creasy, Brownfield, AB, $5,924; 4. Jared Green, Socoro, NM, $5,861; 5. Jon Luse, Savannah, TN, $4,020; 6. Forrie Smith, Capitan, NM, $3,350; 7.

Tyler Staker, Taylor, AZ, $2,712; 8. Shon Gibson, Taylor, AZ, $2,121; 9. Delvecchio Kaye, Round Rock, AZ, $1,865; 10. Guy Murphy, Black Hat City, NM, $1,304; 11. Earl Tsosie, Indian Wells, AZ, $791; 12. Trey Bissett, Las Cruces, NM, $520; 13. Shannon Miller, La Luz, NM, $508; 14. J.R. Chino, Mescalero, NM, $133; 15. Kory Hart, Pagosa Springs, C, O, $92 Steer Wrestling 1. Clayton Tuchscherer, Dona Ana, NM, $9,674; 2.

Pepe Arballo, Wittman, AZ, $7,801; 3. Dean McIntyre, Wickenburg, AZ, $6,836; 4. Cutter Parsons, Marana, AZ, $6,561; 5. Russell Armenta, Bloomfield, NM, $5,554; 6. Ben Bates Jr., Mexican Springs, NM, $5,182; 7. Bo Bleil, Stanfield, AZ, $5,084; 8. Kurt Stallings, Clovis, NM, $3,959; 9.

Cody Glover, Marana, AZ, $3,786; 10. Travis Reay, Mayerthorpe, AB, $3,367; 11. Tim Robertson, Marana, AZ, $2,718; 12. Cody Moore, Artesia, NM, $2,558; 13. Rusty Hamilton, Capitan, NM, $1,998; 14. TJ Bohlender, Canyon, TX, $1,744; 15. Chance Carlson, Marana, AZ, $1,405

Team Roping (Header) 1. Erich Rogers, Round Rock, Az, $14,383; 2.

Aaron Tsinigine, Queen Creek, AZ, $14,221; 3.

Jake Barnes, Scottsdale, AZ, $10,742; 4. Derrick Begay, Seba Dalkai, AZ, $10,277; 5. Michael Calmelat, Tucson, AZ, $7,686; 6. Denton Payne, Gilbert, AZ, $7,450; 7. Wyatt Althoff, Anthony, NM, $5,978; 8. Brock Hanson, Casa Grande, AZ, $5,841; 9. Bill Snure, douglas az, $4,628; 10.

Seth Hall, Albuquerque, NM, $4,110; 11. Chance Kelton, Mayer, AZ, $3,997; 12. Hal Earnhardt III, Queen Creek, AZ, $3,673; 13. Rube Woolsey, Casa Grande, AZ, $3,025; 14. Chase Massengill, Santa Fe, NM, $2,207; 15. Casey Wilson, Truth or Consequ, NM, $2,163 Team Roping (Heeler) 1. Cory Petska, Marana, AZ, $15,805; 2. Anthony Calmelat, Marana, AZ, $12,718; 3. Lane Siggins, Ruidoso Downs, NM, $10,736; 4. Cesar de la Cruz, Tucson, AZ, $10,277; 5. TJ Brown, Payson, AZ, $5,978; 6. Dallas Reidhead, Queen Creek, AZ, $4,645; 7. Trey Miller, La Mesa, NM, $4,628; 8.

Preston Williams, Casa Grande, AZ, $4,197; 9.

Victor Aros, Tucson, AZ, $3,673; 10. JoDan Mirabal, Grants, NM, $3,641; 11. Beau Marshall, Truth or Consequ, NM, $2,858; 12. Brent Tryon, Queen Creek, AZ, $2,613; 13. Bobby Baize, Anthony, NM, $2,359; 14. Brooks Dahozy, Window Rock, AZ, $2,345; 15. Tom Johnson, Kirkland, AZ, $2,330 Saddle Bronc 1. Taos Muncy, Corona, NM, $10,766; 2. Cody Taton, Mud Butte, SD, $10,377; 3. Casey Sisk, Corona, NM, $6,427; 4. Darrell Triplett, Waterflow, NM, $4,364; 5. Cooper DeWitt, Rio Rico, AZ, $3,952; 6. Brandon Biebelle, San Lorenzo, NM, $2,640; 7. Jason Amon, Payson, AZ, $1,824; 8.

Chance Barnes, Flora Vista, NM, $1,545; 9. Dan Yeager, Durango, CO, $1,050; 10. Rawley McFarland, Coolidge, AZ, $1,007; 11. Ace Long, Ganado, AZ, $962; 12. Leander Thomas, Steamboat, AZ, $656; 13. Dean Daly, Belen, NM, $431; 14. Colby Sventek, Chino Valley, AZ, $372;

15. Kade Wooton, Roswell, NM, $250 Tie-Down Roping 1. Joseph Parsons, Marana, AZ, $10,181; 2. Seth Hall, Albuquerque, NM, $9,984; 3. Rick Kieckhefer, Prescott, AZ, $8,693; 4. Kyle Dutton, Mesilla Park, NM, $7,351; 5. Beau Marshall, Truth or Consequ, NM, $5,956; 6. Bill Snure, douglas az, $5,680; 7. Jerrad Hofstetter, Portales, NM, $5,628; 8. J.D. McKinley, Las Cruces, NM, $5,592; 9. Royce Lynch, Deming, NM, $4,615; 10. J.D. Kibbe, Portales, NM, $4,192; 11. Casey Wilson, Truth or Consequ, NM, $3,640; 12. Andrew Martin, Hereford, AZ, $2,779; 13. Wacey Walraven, Datil, $2,454; 14.

Lane Siggins, Ruidoso Downs, NM, $2,114; 15.

Cutter Parsons, Marana, AZ, $2,023 Steer Roping 1. Pecos Shannon, Lordsburg, NM, $4,505; 2.

Rob Denny, Willcox, AZ, $4,095; 3. Chance Kelton, Mayer, AZ, $3,019; 4. Shawn Harrelson, Gilbert, AZ, $1,394; 5. Brent Lewis, Pinon, NM, $1,193; 6. J.D. McKinley, Las Cruces, NM, $1,069; 7. Bill Snure, douglas az, $841; 8.

Doug Bean, Scottsdale, AZ, $841; 9. John Escobedo, Silver City, NM, $674; 10. Lionel Burns, Alto, NM, $421; 11. George Ganoung, Elfrida, AZ, $225; 12. Rick Kieckhefer, Prescott, AZ, $210 Bull Riding 1. Guytin Tsosie, Farmington, NM, $13,106; 2.

Tustin Daye, Lupton, AZ, $10,624; 3. Troy James, Sanders, AZ, $8,825; 4. Michael Allison, Marana, AZ, $5,745; 5. Camo Mullins, Phoenix, AZ, $3,026; 6. Wacey Barta, Phoenix, AZ, $2,971; 7. Rankin Lindsey, Hillsboro, NM, $2,830; 8.

Craig Begay, Rough Rock, AZ, $2,621; 9. Dan Curtin, Show Low, AZ, $2,392; 10. Montuckey Hand, New River, AZ, $2,286; 11. Daniel Etsitty, Kayenta, AZ, $1,799; 12. Thor Smith, Phoenix, AZ, $1,747; 13. Chad Martin, Elmirage, AZ, $1,014; 14. Scottie Knapp, Albuquerque, NM, $967; 15. Marvin Begay, Rough Rock, AZ, $652.00

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Team Roping - Headers 1. Keven Daniel, Franklin, TN, $30,500; 2. Kaleb Driggers, Albany, GA, $28,188; 3. Clay Tryan, Billings, MT, $28,003; 4. Colby Lovell, Madisonville, TX, $27,778; 5. Nick Sartain, Dover, OK, $26,290; 6. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, TX, $25,505; 7. Garrett Tonozzi, Fruita, CO, $22,832; 8. Luke Brown, Stephenville, TX, $19,494; 9.

Shane Philipp, Washington, TX, $18,826; 10.

Chad Masters, Cedar Hill, TN, $18,177; 11. Travis Tryan, Billings, MT, $17,177; 12. Arky Rogers, Lake City, FL, $17,072; 13. Paul David Tierney, Oral, SD, $16,720; 14. Spencer Mitchell, Colusa, CA, $15,312; 15. Charly Crawford, Prineville, OR, $15,182 Team Roping - Heelers 1. Chase Tryan, Helena, MT, $30,500; 2. Kinney Harrell, Marshall, TX, $28,120; 3. Travis Graves, Jay, OK, $28,003; 4. Kollin VonAhn, Durant, OK, $26,290; 5. Patrick Smith, Midland, TX, $25,505; 6. Jade Corkill, Fallon, NV, $23,723; 7. Ryan Motes, Weatherford, TX, $19,607; 8. Martin Lucero, Stephenville, TX, $19,494; 9. Broc Cresta, Santa Rosa, CA, $18,848; 10. John Philipp, Washington, TX, $18,826; 11. Clint Summers, Lake City, FL, $17,395; 12. Russell Cardoza, Terrebonne, OR, $17,367; 13. Caleb Twisselman, Santa Margarita, CA, $16,754; 14. Jake Long, Coffeyville, KS, $16,114; 15. Clay Cooper, Gardnerville, NV, $16,017

Steer Roping Saddle Bronc 1. Trevor Brazile, Decatur, TX, $26,831; 2. Cody 1. Cody Wright, Milford, UT, $35,256; 2. Wade Lee, Gatesville, TX, $22,480; 3. Kim Sundell, Boxholm, IA, $26,938; 3. Cody Taton, Ziegelgruber, Edmond, OK, $20,814; 4. Dan Mud Butte, SD, $24,737; 4. Jeff Willert, Fisher, Andrews, TX, $15,359; 5. Jess Tierney, Belvidere, SD, $24,210; 5. Cody DeMoss, Heflin, Hermosa, SD, $15,000; 6. Rod Hartness, LA, $23,604; 6. Chet Johnson, Sheridan, WY, Pawhuska, OK, $13,226; 7. Chet Herren, $22,332; 7. Jacobs Crawley, College Station, TX, Pawhuska, OK, $11,283; 8. Marty Jones, Hobbs, $20,817; 8. Jesse Wright, Milford, UT, $20,157; NM, $10,979; 9. Vin Fisher Jr., Andrews, TX, 9. Sterling Crawley, College Station, TX, $10,698; 10. Chris Glover, Keenesburg, CO, $19,954; 10. Jake Wright, Milford, UT, $19,001; $10,020; 11. Mike Chase, McAlester, OK, 11. Cole Elshere, Faith, SD, $18,967; 12. JJ $9,639; 12. J. Tom Fisher, Andrews, TX, $7,452; Elshere, Hereford, SD, $18,275; 13. Bradley 13. Tony Reina, Wharton, TX, $7,376; 14. Landon Harter, Weatherford, TX, $14,529; 14. Curtis McClaugherty, Tilden, TX, $6,566; 15. Lawson Garton, New Zealand, NZ, $14,368; 15. Joaquin Plemons, Axtell, TX, $6,509 Real, Woody, CA, $14,093 Bull Riding Tie-Down 1. Cody Teel, Kountze, TX, $59,508; 2. Cody 1. Justin Maass, Giddings, TX, $46,619; 2.

Samora, Cortez, CO, $48,285; 3. Kanin Asay, Houston Hutto, Tomball, TX, $26,799; 3. Cory Powell, WY, $45,061; 4. Trey Benton III, Rock Solomon, Prairie View, TX, $25,895; 4. Ace Island, Tx., $37,797; 5. J.W. Harris, Mullin, TX, Slone, Cuero, TX, $20,798; 5. Tuf Cooper, $32,062; 6. Brett Stall, Detroit Lakes, MN, Decatur, TX, $19,190; 6. Hunter Herrin, Apache, $30,257; 7. Tyler Willis, Wheatland, WY, OK, $18,693; 7. EJ Roberts, Stephenville, TX, $24,109; 8. Ardie Maier, Timber Lake, SD, $18,478; 8. Shank Edwards, Tatum, NM, $22,863; 9. Seth Glause, Cheyenne, WY, $18,360; 9. Fred Whitfield, Hockley, TX, $22,862; 10. Chandler Bownds, Lubbock, TX, $18,198; 10. Riley Pruitt, Gering, NE, $18,052; $22,115; 11. Trevor CRX’D Kastner, Ardmore, OK, 11. Jake Hannum, Plain VSACity, UT, $17,460;IN12.

HOUSE PROOF $20,453; 12. Tate Stratton, Kellyville, OK, Adam Gray, Seymour, TX, $16,538; 13. Jake $19,547; 13. Cody Rostockyj, Hillsboro, TX, Pratt, Ellensburg, WA, $16,027; 14. Sterling $18,950; 14. Tag Elliott, Thatcher, UT, $18,855; Smith, Stephenville, TX, $15,805; 15. Clint 15. Patrick Geipel, Elbert, CO, $17,121.00 Cooper, Decatur, TX, $15,550

Horses For Sale

Brushy Creek Ranch – Cochise, Arizona Will be leaving for our summer ranch on May 20.

Call now and make an offer soon, these horses will be gone!

Rex is a possible big time head horse. Big, gentle, good looking, AQHA red roan gelding. 15.2H, 6 yrs. Good for most any level rider. No spook. No buck.

Likes people. Started roping. Real quiet in the box. Runs to cattle good.

Rates well and logs off strong. Well broke, excellent neck rein, stop, back.

He’s also a great trail horse. Mountains, ok with traffic, dogs, 4-wheelers. Rex is a one of a kind horse. $5,200 Lilly is an APHA, bay, tobianno, mare. 15.1H, 12 yrs. Super gentle and broke. In foal to AQHA stud. Been a family horse and used on trails, ranch and dude string. Easy to ride, load, shoe. Good for mom, dad and all the kids. $1,250

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Doc - 15.1H, 12 yr. old brown gelding. Real stout.

This nice gelding has been used on a ranch. Has done a lot of roping, sorting, and penning. Good outside or in arena. Gentle and easy to handle. Excellent cow horse or trail horse. Good rope prospect. Doc Bar/Leo bred. No papers. We have been using in the feedlot this winter. Will consider trades. $1,550

CB - AQHA bay gelding, 14.3H, 13 yrs. Nice horse.

Used on ranch, lots of outside riding. Does good in rough country, mountains, rocks.

Easy to ride, load and shoe.

Has done outside roping. We have started roping lead steer. Will advance in rope training. Call for price and progress. $1,450

Tuffy - a big man’s horse.

Quarter red roan gelding. 16H, 9 yrs. Gentle to ride, load, shoe. Lots of ranch work and lots of trails. Good in the rocks and rough country. Has been doing a lot of ranch roping.

Started on arena roping. Runs to cattle and turns them real good. An excellent head horse prospect. He’s a bargin at $1,750. Will consider trades.

Dan is a made heel horse and has been hauled to lots of rodeos and jackpots. He’ll bring home the money. 14.3H, 11 yrs. Stout bay, quarter, gelding. He’s also a great all around horse. Good as a trail horse, across rivers, rocks and mountains.

He’s our go to horse for inexperienced riders. He’s gentle for the young or older rider. Easy to ride, load, shoe. He’s cheap at $4,500. Trades ok.

www.deakshorses.webs.com Call Deak at 602/377-0492 (cell) • Danny at 520/507-4181

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NEW MEXICO RODEO ASSOCIATION www.nmrodeo.org APPROVED STOCK CONTRACTORS 2012 W/A Rodeo Company Buster Webb - 505/632-2350

Crossroads Rodeo Co. Mark Sanchez - 970/739-3851

Bucking H Rodeo Company Richard Hodgson - 505/486-2137

Lucky 7 Rodeo Co. Ty Hawkins - 970/749-9790

6 X 6 Rodeo Company Carl Bradley - 505/758-3459 Casper Baca Rodeo Company Casper Baca - 505/287-9534 Tsosie Brothers Harrison and Tommy Tsosie - 505/368-4315

Upcoming Rodeos Cash Only in 2012! (Money orders and Cashier Checks accepted) Entries in our rodeos are taken seriously. All NMRA members and co-sanctioned associations that guarantee entry fees may fax/email entries into the NMRA office up to one week prior to the opening of phone entries. All non-members or associations that do not guarantee entry fees must call in entries and be prepared with a credit card that will be run that night for entry fees. Entry numbers: Rough Stock: 505-864-9427; Team

NMRA-APPROVED FIELD SECRETARIES - 2012 Janice Aragon 505/366-4929 Susi Kaufman 928/587-3478

Jana Muncy 505/238-9415 Amber Gillreath 505/235-9216

Roping: 505-864-7200; Timed Events: 505-8649426. Call the Turnout line (505-864-9426) if you must turnout of a rodeo for any reason including medical, emergency or vet release. You may not compete in another rodeo for 7 days if you vet or medical out and a release is due in the office within 7 days or entry fee and fine will be assessed. Fax # for releases: 505-864-9427.

2012 NMRA Rodeos are a preference draw.

Slack is not open until performances are full – therefore slack cannot be a contestant’s first preference. NMRA members and co-sanctioning associations that guarantee entry fees may fax/e-

New NMRA Contact Information!

State Secretary - Carrie Richardson 575/937-0851 Address: NMRA P.O. Box 1101 Capitan, NM 87313 575/937-0851 mail entries into the NMRA entry office beginning one week prior to phone entries opening and up to one hour before phone entries are scheduled to open. Contestants may draw out up to the closing of entries – After entries close you will be turning out and expected to pay fees.

Rodeos having first sanction with New Mexico will have a $13 CES/Finals Fund deducted from advertised fees and have a $20 Stock Charge also deducted from fees. Bull riders have $10 day money added to fees as well! NMRA Open Rough Stock may enter twice. Steer wrestling and breakaway ropers may walk up until two hours

Welcome Carrie Richardson – New State Secretary!

Hello NMRA Members, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, my name is Carrie Richardson and I am the new State Secretary for the NMRA. As you all know Janice Aragon has retired from this position. Those are some big shoes to fill and I will do my very best to serve the NMRA as Janice has over the past years. It will be a learning process for a short time and I ask for everyone’s patience and forgiveness. I would like to thank the NMRA for this terrific opportunity. I am so excited about the future and the role I will play in it.

A little about me, I am a lifelong horse enthusiast. Growing up on the backside of New Mexico race tracks instilled the passion I feel towards horses today. I’ve learned quit a few life lessons at an early age. As a child all I ever wanted to do was barrel race, although there was never enough money or time for that. As an adult I have found my

way to barrel racing and the rodeo scene with the support of my family, friends, and my loving husband George.

I love the rodeo atmosphere, the camaraderie, the excitement, the competition and living out my dream as a “Rodeo Star” (okay maybe that last part is just in my head.)

President John Adams (not the 6th U.S. President) wanted me to include my picture with this letter, so everyone has a visual of who I am. Keep in mind that I am a hairstylist (by day) addicted to hair color. So my ever changing hair may be used as a disguise to throw you off...and please no autographs....and only photograph my right side, it’s the good one. (This is my attempt at comedy, my husband did not laugh, just rolled his eyes. Maybe you will find it humorous.)

Okay, enough about me, on a more serious note this is looking like a fantastic year for the NMRA. The upcoming rodeo season starts off with

two NMRA 1st Sanctioned Rodeos; Welcoming back Fiesta Days Rodeo in Truth or Consequences with Casper Baca Rodeo Co., and Socorro Cinco De Mayo Rodeo. I’ve also heard a buzz about June 22-24 weekend “Showdown in Old Abiquiu” rodeo and “Rodeo De Taos” that is sure to please. Kudos to these rodeo committee’s for their efforts to improve their rodeos. So enter up everyone, I will see you there!

Victory to all, Carrie Richardson

NMRA Membership Application and General Information can be found at www.nmrodeo.com.

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President - John Adams - 575/779-3105 • Vice President - OPEN • Bareback Director - Allan Godfrey - 575/802-9056 Open Calf Roping Director - Christian Sanchez - 505/801-6854 • Incentive Calf Roping Director - Scott McCloud - 505/864-6701 • Breakaway Director - Bellamie Mason - 505/486-2080 Saddle Bronc Director - Chance Barnes - 505/320-2419 • Steer Wrestling Director - Lance Tolbert - 505/489-2143 • Bull Riding Director - Travis Briscoe - 505/980-5675 Ranch Bronc Director - Cody LeSueur - 928/242-4975 • Open Team Roping Director - Brian Sullivan - 575/644-9243 • Inc. Team Roping Director - Lee Knox - 575/937-7486 Barrel Racing Director - Jessie Briscoe - 505/504-6900 • Inc. Barrel Racing Director - Laura Haines - 505/835-2460 • Judges Coordinator - Stoney Neufang - 520/241-0414 State Secretary - Carrie Richardson - 575/937-0851 • Central Entry Secretary - Donna Tolbert - 505/864-9426 • NMRA fax - 505/864-9427

before the first performance and enter – depending on availability of stock. Rough Stock contestants may walk up and enter one hour prior to the draw of the performance they want to enter. Cash only and a $25 late fee will be charged.

Schedule Of Events Verde Valley Fair & Rodeo Cottonwood, AZ May 4-5, 2012 GCPRA with NMRA Co-Sanction Stock Contractor: Slash M Rodeo, Scott McDaniels Perfs: 7 p.m. both days Friday & Saturday Slack: Saturday, May 5, 2012 8 AM Added Money: $250 BB,SB,BR,CR,SW,OTR,BKWY,OBRLS; $100 ITR, ICR,IBRLS Entry Fees: BR-$85, BRLS $65, TR $75 per man; All other events $75 BB, SB & BR can enter twice, ride once each day Entries: April 30th, 2012 Roughstock 5-6 p.m. (623)455-8339; Timed Events 6-10 p.m.

(623)455-8339, Team Roping & Combined Buddies 6-10 p.m.

(623)455-8385 - Combined buddies must be Team ropers entering Team roping as well as other events.

Address: 800 E Cherry St, Cottonwood, AZ Royal Gorge Rodeo Canyon City, CO May 4-5, 2012 CPRA with NMRA co-sanction Performances both days @ 7 p.m.

Slack: May 5th @ 9 a.m.

Entry Phone: 719-486-0599 Entries Open: 4/30/2012 between noon & 6 p.m.

Call Back: 5/1/2012 between 2 p.m. & 6 p.m.

Added Money: $300 per event Entry Fees: BB/SW/SB $76; LBR $71: TB/BKW $100: OTR/MTR $117 per person: BR $91 Stock Contractor: Razors Edge Directions: HWY 50 to Canon City, 9th St. South Fiesta Days Rodeo T or C, NM May 4-5, 2012 NMRA with PAFRA, others requested Perfs: Fri. May 4 @ 7 p.m.; Sat. May 5 @ 7 p.m.

Slack: Sat. May 5 @ 8 a.m.

Added: $300 BB SB BR; $100 CR/SW/BKW/BRL/RSB/TR Stock Contractor: Casper Baca Rodeo Co. Stock Charge $20 Entry Fees: $100 SW/CR/BKW; TR $100/man; BRL $75; BR/BB/SB/Ranch Bronc Riding $75; Rough Stock may enter twice and walk up 1 hr prior to draw SW and BKW may walk up 2 hrs. prior to draw of first performance.

All walk up entries have a $25 late fee.

Entries: Monday, April 30, 2012, TE: 505-864-9426;

RS: 505-864-9427; TR: 505-864-7200 - 6-10 PM NMRA and co- sanctioning associations that guarantee entry fees may fax/email entries Information on the NMRA website: nmrodeo.org Call Backs: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 6-9 p.m.

505-864-9426 Or check web site for day sheets: www.nmrodeo.org Turnouts: 505-864-9426 no later than 3 hrs before perf.

Directions: SCSP Arena Socorro Cinco de Mayo Rodeo Socorro, NM May 5-6, 2012 Six Pack Series NMRA with PAFRA, CPRA, AIRCA (PAFRA double points) Perfs: Sat. May 5 @ 1 p.m.; Sun. May 6 @ 1 p.m.

Slack: Sun. May 6 @ 8 a.m. (All NMRA TR in slack, chute run) Barrels will be first event in slack Added: $300 per event (no added in Rookie) Stock Contractor: Tsosie Brothers Stock Charge $20 Entry Fees: $100 SW/CR/BKW; TR $100/man; BRL $75; BR/BB/SB/Ranch Bronc Riding $75; Rookie SB, BB, BR $60 Rough Stock may enter twice and walk up 1 hr prior to draw - SW and BKW may walk up 2 hrs. prior to draw of first performance.

All walk up entries have a $25 late fee.

Special Event: Open TR in perfs: 30’ hand pulled barrier. Enter Twice (10 per performance – first come first serve - $50/roper entry) All Inc. Calf Ropers must be approved 1 week prior to entries.

TR enter 3 times/ once in open, twice in incentive or vice versa All TR In Slack And Chute Run Sullivan Mini Bucking Bulls, $60, 13 & Under, Call 575-518-8164 Entries: Monday, April 30, 2012, TE: 505-864-9426; RS: 505-864-9427; TR: 505-864-7200 - 6-10 PM NMRA and co- sanctioning associations that guarantee entry fees may fax/email entries Information on the NMRA website: nmrodeo.org Call Backs: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 6-9 p.m.

505-864-9426 Or check web site for day sheets: www.nmrodeo.org Turnouts: 505-864-9426 no later than 3 hrs before perf.

Directions: Garry Perry Arena Socorro Co. odeo Arena Rodeo De Indios Albuquerque, NM May 5-6, 2012 AIRCA with NMRA co-sanction Perfs: Sat. May 5 @ 1 & 7 PM; Sun. May 6 @ 12 p.m.

Slack: scheduled if necessary Added: $300 per major events; $200 Jr/Sr events; TR $600 Stock Contractor: V bar S Rodeo Co. Entry Fees: $85 BR/SW/BB/TD/SB/BKW/BRLS; TR $170;

(Open TR, #10 TR and #12 Inc. TR within Open for NMRA) $65 Jr. Bulls/SR BKW/JR. BRLS OTR & #10 TR Capped #5 Elite Enter 3x (2+1) #12 TR Inc for NMRA 2012 USTRC Cards Req’s.

Partner change fee $10; JR. events 15 yrs – Sr. BKW age 50+; 1st to enter last to perf. Priority to members; Serious Entries – No Turn Outs Non member fee $10; Correct change requested.

Entries: Monday, April 30 and Tues April 31, 2012, 7 – 10 p.m. ONLY: 505-733-2020 Call Backs: Wed. May 2nd Info and Updates: www.aircarodeo.com Directions: Bernalillo Co. Sheriff’s Posse Arena 2nd Street and Alameda – 3/4 mile N of Alameda Copper Dust Rodeo Gila County Fairgrounds Globe, AZ May 12 & 13, 2012 GCPRA with NMRA co-sanction Stock Contractor: Slash M Rodeo Co Perfs: Sat. May 12th @ 6 PM; Sun. May 13th @ 1 PM Slack: Saturday May 12th @ 8 AM Added Money: $500 BB,SB,BR,CR,SW,BKWY,OBRLS, $1000 OTR; $200 ITR, $100 ICR,IBRLS Entry Fees: BR-$85, BRLS-$65, TR $75 PER MAN; All other events $75 Bareback, Saddle Bronc & Bull Riders can enter twice Entries: May 7th, 2012 Rough Stock 5-6PM (623)455-8339; Timed Events 610PM (623)455-8339 Team Roping & Combined Buddies 6-10PM (623)455-8385 Combined buddies must be Team ropers entering Team roping as well as other events.

Local Entries will be taken April 30th, 2012 @ (928)200-1237 by Charlie Brewer.

There is a 50 mile radius for local entries who are not GCPRA members.

GCPRA members and co-sanction members must enter through the GCPRA Central Entry System (no exceptions).

There will be Mutton Bustin (6yr & under) 50 lbs & under - NO ROPES; Steer Riding (14yr & under), Junior and Pee Wee Barrels - Junior (7yr to 14yr), Pee Wee (6yr & under); Entry Fee is $25 - There Will Be Limited Entries Enter April 24 & 25, 2012 with Charlie Brewer @ (928)200-1237 Admission at rodeo is $5.00 a person Ralph Johnson Memorial Rodeo Ganado, AZ May 26-27, 2012 AIRCA with NMRA co-sanction (No Inc. CR or BRLS) No entry information available.

Consult AIRCA web site for information www.aircarodeo.com

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GRAND CANYON PRO RODEO ASSOCIATION 2012 GCPRA Board of Directors President: Paul Carmen Vice President: Clay Parsons Director at Large: Arnold Burrell Str. Wrestling: Randy Ternan Open Calf Roping: Joe Moody

(602) 980-0766 (520) 444-7650 (520) 631-2121 (602) 460-2669 (520) 431-1335

Inc. Calf Roping: Willard Moody Open Team Roping: Whip Lewis Inc. Team Roping: Todd Zipprich Breakaway: Mandy Sproul Barrel Racing: Juli Miller

(520) 431-3316 (480) 363-0838 (623) 694-1867 (520) 226-5058 (520) 241-2240

Bareback: Tanner Ramirez Saddle Bronc: Logan Wescott Bull Riding: Samuel De La Cruz Judging Coordinator: Gordie Kesler State Secretary: Andi Tedder

(928) 369-6738 (928) 243-8583 (520) 508-6275 (480) 883-9171 (623) 249-9506

GCPRA Approved Stock Contractors: W/A Rodeo Company • Slash M Rodeo Company • T5 - Manuel Murrietta • V Heart Rodeo Company – Cody Resor Please be sure to check out our website at www.GCPRA.com for the latest updates and rodeo information GCPRA: P.O. Box 50476, Parks, AZ 86018 • State Secretary Shelly Howell - (623) 249-9506

GCPRA CES Phone Numbers: Rough Stock & Timed Events: (623) 455-8339 Team Roping: (623) 455-8385 • Turnouts: (623) 455-8339 THE GCPRA HAS A NEW WEBSITE - GCPRA.NET

2012 Upcoming Events May 4 & 5, 2012 Verde Valley Fair & Rodeo (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Cottonwood, AZ Co-Sanctioned: NMRA May 12 & 13, 2012 Copper Dust Stampede (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Globe, AZ Co-Sanctioned: NMRA & CPRA July 20 & 21, 2012 Montrose County Fair & Rodeo Montrose, CO CPRA Rodeo — GCPRA Co- Sanctioned July 21 & 22, 2012 Westcliffe Stampede Rodeo Westcliffe, CO CPRA Rodeo — GCPRA Co-Sanctioned September 1, 2 & 3 2012 97th Sonoita Labor Day Rodeo (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Sonoita, AZ September 8, 2012 Apache County Fair & Rodeo (GCPRA Lead Sanction) St. Johns, AZ September 14 & 15, 2012 Navajo County Fair Rodeo (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Holbrook, AZ September 15, 2012 Greenlee County Fair & Rodeo (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Duncan, AZ

2012 GCPRA Rodeo Info/Schedule Verde Valley Fair & Rodeo May 4 & 5, 2012 (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Cottonwood, AZ Co-Sanctioned: NMRA Stock Contractor: Slash M Rodeo, Scott McDaniels Perfs: 7 p.m. both days Friday & Saturday Slack: Saturday, May 5, 2012 8 a.m.

Added Money: $250 BB,SB,BR,CR,SW,OTR,BKWY,OBRLS; $100 ITR, ICR,IBRLS Entry Fees: BR-$85, BRLS $65, TR $75 per man; All other events $75 Bareback, Saddle Bronc & Bull Riding can enter twice, ride once each day Entries: April 30th, 2012 Roughstock 5-6 p.m. (623)455-8339; Timed Events 6-10 p.m.

(623)455-8339, Team Roping & Combined Buddies 6-10 p.m.

(623)455-8385 - Combined buddies must be team ropers entering team roping as well as other events.

Address: 800 E Cherry St, Cottonwood, AZ 86326 Copper Dust Rodeo May 12 & 13, 2012 (GCPRA Lead Sanction) Gila County Fairgrounds Globe, AZ Co-Sanctioned: NMRA & CPRA Stock Contractor: Slash M Rodeo Co Perfs: Sat. May 12th @ 6 p.m.; Sun. May 13th @ 1 p.m.

Slack: Saturday May 12th @ 8 a.m.

Added Money: $500

BB,SB,BR,CR,SW,BKWY,OBRLS, $1000 OTR; $200 ITR, $100 ICR,IBRLS Entry Fees: BR-$85, BRLS-$65, TR $75 PER MAN; All other events $75 Bareback, Saddle Bronc & Bull Riders can enter twice Entries: May 7th, 2012 Rough Stock 5-6PM (623)455-8339; Timed Events 6-10PM (623)455-8339 Team Roping & Combined Buddies 6-10PM (623)455-8385 Combined buddies must be team ropers entering team roping as well as other events.

Local Entries will be taken April 30th, 2012 @ (928)200-1237 by Charlie Brewer. There is a 50 mile radius for local entries who are not GCPRA members. GCPRA members and cosanction members must enter through the GCPRA Central Entry System (no exceptions).

There will be Mutton Bustin (6yr & under) 50 lbs & under - NO ROPES; Steer Riding (14yr & under), Junior and Pee Wee Barrels - Junior (7yr to 14yr), Pee Wee (6yr & under); Entry Fee is $25 - THERE WILL BE Limited Entries Enter April 24 & 25, 2012 with Charlie Brewer @ (928)200-1237 Admission at rodeo is $5.00 a person

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ALL INDIAN RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION The All Indian Rodeo Cowboys Association, Inc. • P.O. Box 723, St. Michaels, Arizona 86511 Phone: 928/871-3000 • Fax: 928/871-3000 • Website: www.aircarodeo.com ALL INDIAN RODEO COWBOY ASSOCIATION OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers

Board of Directors

President Harrison Charley harrisoncharley@ymail.com Vice President Casey Begay begay_casey@hotmail.com Public Relations Officer Beverly Coho beverlyjcoho@citilink.net Administrative Secretary Lenita Lee Lenitalee@ganado.k12.az.us Treasurer Jolene Russell russell_julz77@yahoo.com

Rodeo Sponsors Representative Tom Boyd Bareback Riding Jeff Biakeddy Saddle Bronc Riding Rodger Dahozy Bull Riding Charley Herbert, Sr. Steer Wrestling Ben Bates, Jr. Tie Down Roping John Boyd, Jr. Open Team Roping & #12 Team Roping Leonard Williams, Sr.

2012 Rodeo Schedule May 5-6 Socorro Cinco de Mayo Rodeo NMRA Host, AI Sanctioned, Socorro, NM May 5-6 Rodeo de Indios, AI Host Albuquerque, NM May 12-13 Tsosie Brothers Rodeo, AI Host Table Mesa, NM May 19 9th Eagle Ridge Rodeo AI Host Cornfields, AZ May 26-27 45th Ralph Johnson Memorial Rodeo, AI Host Ganado, AZ May 27 Jacobs Custom Leather Rodeo, AI Host Bread Springs, NM June 9-10 Dahozy Stampede Rodeo, AI Host Ft. Defiance, AZ June 13-16 64th Gallup Lions Club Rodeo AI Sanctioned for points Church Rock, NM June 22-23 Showdown in Old Abiquiu, NMRA Host AI Sanctioned, Abiquiu, NM July 6-7 Black Mesa Rodeo, CNRA Host AI Sanctioned, Chinle, AZ July 20-21 54th Little Beaver Rodeo, AI Host Dulce, NM July 28-29 25th Eastern Navajo Fair Rodeo, AI Host Crownpoint, NM August 11-12 Pavinyama Stampede Rodeo, AI Host Kykotsmovi, AZ August 10-12 91st Intertribal Indian Ceremonial Rodeo AI Host (T), Church Rock, NM August 18-19 Zuni Mckinley County Fair Rodeo, AI Host (T) Zuni, NM

Ladies’ Breakaway Roping Wilson Stewart, Jr. Senior Breakaway Ropinng B.J. Coho Junior Barrel Racing Ray Russell Junior Bull Riding Harry Tso, Jr.

Queen Coordinator Phoebe Hardy

Ambassadors Miss Rodeo AIRCA 2010 Apryl Largo Miss Rodeo IIFR Hannah Yazzie

Staff

Timer/Central Entry Secretary BK Bates 505/733-2020 Timers Coordinator AIRCA Information and BK Bates membership form can be bk_bates@yahoo.com at www.aircarodeo.com Judges Coordinator Al Slivers

August 25-26 Central Navajo Fair Rodeo, CNRA Host AI Sanctioned, Chinle, AZ September 2-3 Bi-County Fair Rodeo, AI Host (T) Prewitt, NM September 13-16 8th Indian International Finals Rodeo AI Affiliated, Albuquerque, NM September 14-15 81st Navajo County Fair Rodeo, GCPRA Host AI Sanctioned, Holbrook, AZ September 15-16 Utah Navajo Fair Rodeo, AI Host Bluff, UT September 22-23 20th Ramah Navajo Fair Rodeo, AI Host Pine Hill, NM September 29-30 AIRCA Championship Finals Rodeo, AI Host TBA October 6-7 101st Northern Navajo Fair Rodeo, AI Host Shiprock, NM October 27-28 Arizona State Fair All Indian Rodeo AI Sanctioned, Phoenix, AZ

2012 Standings AS of April 11, 2012 All-Around 1. Sammi Jo Boyd, $1,877; 2. Michael Bates, $1,515; 3.

Truman House, $432 Bareback 1. Bennie Begay, $1,328; 2. Clifford Williams, $623; 3. Kyle Charley, $202; 4. Truman House, $202; 5. Avery Pavinyama, $135 Saddle Bronc 1. Robert Burbank, $2,404; 2. Kane Kee, $1,261; 3. Shoshane Kee, $879; 4. Leander Thomas, $819; 5. Sisto Hernandez, $117 Steer Wrestling 1. Ben Bates, $1,729; 2. Kyle Smith, $1,670; 3. Jerome Kanuho, $1,595; 4. Michael Bates, $1,464; 5. Brandon Bates, $928; 6. Sheridan Jodie, $902; 7. Kyle Dennison, $511; 8.

Byron Murphy, $473; 9. Tyrone Tsosie, $436; 10. Emerson Long, $262; 11. Truman House, $230 Bull Riding 1. Spud Jones, $2,482; 2. Justin Silversmith, $1,477; 3.

Raylando Puente, $1,101; 4. Archie Becenti Jr., $974; 5. Al Charley, $880; 6. Alfonso Francis, $468; 7. Eldon

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Watchman, $402 Tie-Down Roping 1. Benson Charley, $2,000; 2. Roy Begay, $1,000; 3. Allen Charley, $987; 4. John Boyd III, $713; 5. Garrison Nez, $559; 6. Justin Tsosie Jr., $468; 7. Tyler Donald, $411; 8. Sheldon Jones, $367; 9. Gerald Daye, $336; 10. Ty Pablo, $237; 11.

Felix Gilbert Jr., $156; 12. Michael Bates, $51 Ladies Breakaway 1. Sammi Jo Boyd, $1,768; 2. Sheila Sells, $1,049; 3. April Pablo-Willie, $832; 4. Mikala Jones, $807; 5. Gabreilla Whitethorne, $696; 6. Bailey Bates, $657; 7. Vanessa Paul, $586; 8. Renee Tolino, $462; 9. Lynelle Etsitty, $462; 10.

LaTasha Long, $439; 11. Kelsi Pablo, $328; 12. Cherise Tom, $327; 13. Laci K. Begay, $206 Ladies Barrel Racing 1. Elisa Paul*, $1,649; 2. Henlie Black, $1,328; 3. Rhonda Padilla, $1,150; 4. Dee Dee Daswood, $890; 5. Karlee Tsosie, $793; 6. Amanda Clawson, $748; 7. Charmayne Gene, $690; 8. Sammi Jo Boyd, $565; 9. Daryn Sells, $338; 10. AutumRain Chee, $327; 11. Deven Sells, $218; 12. Ruth Bitsui, $174 Open Team Roping - Header 1. Chuck Sells, $2,462; 2. Marco Sells, $1,504; 3. Leonard Williams Sr., $1,266; 4. OJ Williams, $1,155; 5. John Boyd Jr., $975; 6. DeWayne Sells, $968; 7. Blaine Redhorse*, $885; 8.

Donovan Yazzie, $524; 9. Jason Yazzie, $262; 10. Aaron Tsinigine, $205 Open Team Roping - Heeler 1. OJ Williams, $1,347; 2. Denton Begay*, $1,170; 3. Lucius Sells, $1,123; 4. Victor Begay, $822; 5. James Begay Jr., $729; 6. Myles John, $680; 7. Leonard Williams Sr., $617; 8. Andrae Beard, $565; 9. Scooter Garcia, $349; 10. Bahe Henio, $174 #10 Team Roping - Header 1. Walter Livingston, $1,202; 2. Eric Begay, $1,144; 3. Eyron Cowboy, $1,007; 4. Chance Hunter, $460; 5. Colin Begay, $276; 6. Truman Begay*, $213; 7. Renielle Sells, $184; 8.

Randy Mike, $119; #10 Team Roping - Heeler 1. Dion Mitchell, $1,256; 2. Truman Begay*, $1,007; 3. Ethan Randall, $699; 4. Roy Begay, $473; 5. Tyler Sam, $460; 6.

Allen Charley, $276; 7. Eldridge Vigil, $184 Senior Breakaway Roping 1. Ikes Benallie, $909; 2. Johnson Stevenson, $398; 3. Ray Jim, $268; 4. Leonard Williams Sr., $243; 5. Victor Begay, $229; 6.

Larson Largo, $97; 7. John Boyd Jr., $48 Jr. Barrel Racing 1. Paige Dale, $734; 2. Deven Sells, $451; 3. Kieli Gilbert, $329; 4. Taniah Nez, $184; 5. Alyssa Jones, $92 Jr. Bull Riding 1. Cody Johnson, $468; 2. Troy Tuni, $427

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2012 NMJRA Board of Directors Poles Dawn Ross 505/934-0296 dawn.ross@marriottsales.com Student - Kerstyn Ross Calf Roping Darin Hise 505/702-2774 dkjat@aol.com Student - Tyler Hise Goat Tying Russel Sullivan 505/720-0999 rsullivan@live.com Student Girls - Abi Woodmansee Student Boys - Open

Breakaway Roping Billy King 575/430-0661 nogal@windstream.net Student - Ryder King Dummy Roping Craig Hicks 505/264-3044 mchicks@q.com Barrel Racing Kyle Segura 505/280-6934 Student - Shania Borrego Flag Race Bobby Borrego 505/660-9200 bobby3056@hotmail.com

Student - Open Position Ribbon Roping Wesley Reno 915/526-4975 wreno@growneyinc.com Student Runners - Jorie Harwell Student Ropers - Stran Thompson Steer Breakaway / Team Roping John English 505/239-7917 jenglish@wspubs.com Student - Sterlin English Steer Stopping Shane Thompson 575/799-0082 s.thompson@starband.net

Student - Open Rough Stock Travis Sullivan 575/518-8164 sullivanbuckingbulls@gmail.com Calf Touching Danny Orris 505/363-7692 orrisranch@q.com Student - Jake Orris Chute Dogging Ed Jurney 575/644-2774 ed@jurneyconst.com

The New Mexico Junior Rodeo Association is open to boys and girls up to 19 years of age, as of January 1 of the current year.

2012 Dates Mountainair, NM June 16-17, 2012 Entries postmarked by June 1 Grants, NM July 14-15, 2012 Entries postmarked by June 29 NMJRA Finals Santa Fe, NM July 27-28, 2012 Friday & Saturday and awards Sunday morning. Entries postmarked by July 12

SPONSORS Ahern Rentals Albuquerque, NM Auto Glass Services Inc. Albuquerque, NM Coleman Heating & Air Conditioning Albuquerque, NM Echo Valley Water Company Albuquerque, NM Knight Hawk Pest Control Albuquerque, NM PNM Matching Grant Albuquerque, NM John English / Stock Contractor Belen NM, Bobby’s Auto Belen, NM Cattlemens Livestock Auction Co., Inc. Belen, NM Craig Tire Belen, NM Jimmy Thompson Belen, NM Julie Gipson Belen, NM New Mexico Tractors Belen, NM Old Mill Farm and Ranch Belen, NM

Sierra Cleaners Belen, NM Bosque Farms Rodeo Association Bosque Farms, NM Farm Bureau Financial Services Bosque Farms, NM J3 Systems / LLC-Jeremy Utash Bosque Farms, NM Marissa Knowlton/Cowgirl Chic!

Bosque Farms, NM McNiel Appraisal Associates Bosque Farms, NM Wild Card Productions Bosque Farms, NM Orris Ranch / Danny & Monica Orris Bosque, NM Kachina Gutters / Mike McConnel Gallup, NM Diamond G Home Center Grants, NM JHM Fitness Center & HM Telephone Service Grants, NM Jurney Construction Inc. Las Cruces, NM A.G. Mechanical Los Lunas, NM Andy’s Boot Shop Los Lunas, NM D and G Livestock Belen, NM Buddy Major Land & Cattle Company Los Lunas, NM DH UndergroundJohn Theiler Los Lunas, NM Guns & Gold Pawn Los Lunas, NM Mike & Patti Wright / Alencia Western Mercantile Los Lunas, NM Summer McNiel Photography Los Lunas, NM

YDI Los Lunas, NM Chaco Canyon Travel Center Milan, NM Tom Neill Moriarty, NM TREVO / Cindy King Mountainair, NM Volvo Rents Peralta, NM Becky Harwell Realtor Pinon, NM Cody’s Water Well Service / Cody Harwell Pinon, NM Pretty Pastures Hereford/ Angus Breeders Raton, NM Paul’s Veterinary Supply Roswell, NM Tim Muncey / Stock Contractor San Antonio, NM Clark & Sons, Inc. Santa Fe, NM Duran/LeFebre Family Albuquerque, NM Hendren Buckles Albuquerque, NM Jada Shiver Stanley, NM Linda and Kent Richins Bosque Farms, NM Mark Hermeling Santa Fe, NM Orlando and Geraldine Martinez Tularosa, NM Tom & Rhonda Shofner Belen, NM Action RV Bosque Farms, NM Cibola County Gymkahna Rodeo Grants, NM

For more information concerning the NMJRA or to find membership and entry forms, go to the NMJRA website at www.nmjra.net

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Bosque Farms 2 e 201 e t t i Jr. Rodeo BFJR Comm Russell Sullivan Co-Chairman 505/720-0999

2012 Series Schedule September 14-16, 2012 October 26-28, 2012 November 16-18, 2012 The Bosque Farms Jr. Rodeo Association is gathering the reins on this year’s series and getting everything ready for another successful year. The committees members are working together to get everything set for the series that begins in September and tweaking things that will help make this year’s events bigger and better for all contestants. There will be more information on changes in next months issue of the All-Around.

We want to thank all of the past members and hope to see you all again this year. Be sure to contact any of the committee members about any concerns you may have or if you would like to become a BFJR Sponsor!

2012 BFJR Sponsorship Information Be part of New Mexico’s largest Jr. Rodeo Association with a Sponsorship.

Get recognized by hundreds of today’s top Jr Rodeo athletes and their families. For more information go to www.bosquefarmsrodeo.org

Jana Muncy Secretary 505/238-9415 Amber Gillreath Secretary 505/235-9216

L.J. Braught Judge 505/264-3824 Shacey Sullivan Scholarship 505-239-5288 Shannon Thompson Barrels 505-228-4669 Wesley Reno Poles Cody McDaugale Dummy Roping

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Martin Sandoval Flags 505/908-7147 Rick Adcock Goats 505/362-6292 John English Roping 505/239-7617 Tony Sanchez Roping 505/238-1762 Daniel Mueller Rough Stock 505/553-8200 Ryan Davis Leadline 505/259-7975

Thanks to the 2011 Sponsors Saddle Sponsors Old Mill Farm & Ranch Supply Rafter 5 Cattle Company Cohorn Construction Chical Maynard Buckles

1/2 Saddle Sponsors RJ Auto, LLC New Mexico Gas Company Cow House Auction Farm Credit of New Mexico

Buckle Sponsors New Mexico Tractor Village of Bosque Farms Emergency Medical Service Team Amanda’s Shaved Ice Farmers Insurance Jim Ratliff Burrito’s Allinstante Valenica High School FFA Weck’s

Lead Line Sponsors Town N Country Feed Onate Feed Mill

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At the end of the 2012 Spring Series Saddles will be awarded to All-Around Cowgirl and All-Around Cowboy in each age division.

This does not apply to rough stock.

2012 Fall Series Schedule August 25-26, 2012 September 22-23, 2012 October 20-21, 2012

For more information or to pre-enter please call Cody or Melissa McDaugale at 505/287-2662 or 505/290-7390 Pre-Entries taken before March 7, 2012.

Books Open from 7-8 a.m. each day of the rodeo

Please Find Additional Information at www.cibolacountygymkhanarodeo.com All-Around and Rough Stock Results after April rodeo 14-18 Boys 1. Tyler Montano, Gallup, NM, 126; 2. Christian Sandoval, San Rafael, NM, 97; 3. Marcos Marquez, Paguate, NM, 77; 4. Jason Chavez, Cubero, NM, 66; 5.

Lorenzo Romero, Bernallio, NM, 57; 6. Kyle Hickman, Grants, NM, 55 14-18 Girls 1. Blair Robinson, Gamerco, NM, 114; 2. Camille Bales, Corrales, NM, 103; 3. Shante Townsend, San Antonio, NM, 70; 4. Allie Tapia, Belen, NM, 69; 5.

Victoria Jimenez, San Rafael, NM, 40; 6. Valentina Marquez, Paguate, NM, 36; 7. Katie Lange, Milan, NM, 35; 8. Hayeden Duboise, Ramah, NM, 35; 9. Apryl Begay, Crownpoint, NM, 31; 10. Faith Lucero, Los Lunas, NM, 11; 11. Katy Reynolds, San Rafael, NM, 8; 12. Carla Reynolds, San Rafael, NM, 6 10-13 Boys 1. Zane Munoz, Gallup, NM, 112; 2. Jose Romero, Bernallio, NM, 109; 3. Landon Munoz, Gallup, NM, 88; 4. Quinten Wood, Bloomfield, NM, 78; 5. Shay Narramore, Milan, NM, 50; 6. Conrad Lange, Milan, NM, 48; 7. Jared Jones, Milan, NM, 0 10-13 Girls 1. Bethanie Shofner, Los Lunas, NM, 137; 2. Bianca Sauceda, Albuquerque, NM, 121; 3. Abbie Shofner, Los Lunas, NM, 116.5; 4. Melissa Gabaldon, Bosque Farms, NM, 110; 5. Chali Simpson, Grants, NM, 95; 6.

Mckenzie Watkins, Bloomfield, NM, 93; 7. Kiara Townsend, San Antonio, NM, 85; 8. Delaney Gonzales, Milan, NM, 78; 9. Shelby Lynn Begay, Crownpoint, NM, 57; 10. Dorthy Strange, Milan, NM, 55.5; 11.

Sarah Hernandez, Los Lunas, NM, 46; 12. Mariah Robinson, Gamerco, NM, 46; 13. Hayley Mcniel, Los Lunas, NM, 41; 14. Jamie Morales, Los Lunas, NM, 34;

15. Lyndsey Orrris, Bosque Farms, NM, 25; 16.

Dominique Pargas, Grants, NM, 23; 17. Cassidy Evans, Ramah, NM, 22; 18. Kasey Eaves, Milan, NM, 19; 19.

Tariah Yazzie, Crownpoint, NM, 15; 20. Ekatarina Misquez, Bernalillo, NM, 15; 21. Stormie Griego, Santa Fe, NM, 12; 22. Shayanne Robinson, Gamerco, NM, 8; 23. Kelly Reynolds, San Rafael, NM, 1; 24. Dayle Denetdeel, Bernaillo, NM, 0 7-9 Boys 1. Sterlin English, Belen, NM, 129; 2. Clancey Polich, Gallup, NM, 81; 3. Jacob Taylor Yazzie, Houck, AZ, 73; 4. Caleb Mcdaugale, Milan, NM, 69; 5. Estevan Hernandez, Los Lunas, NM, 65; 6. Dallas Robinson, Gamerco, NM, 36; 7. Jake Orris, Bosque Farms, NM, 34; 8. Bodie Narramore, Milan, NM, 34; 9. Bladen Reno, Las Cruces, NM, 27; 10. Isaiah Sanchez, Grants, NM, 5 7-9 Girls 1. Quincy Sullivan, Peralta, NM, 135; 2. Mia Wilson, Shiprock, NM, 127; 3. Cheyenne Pioche, Waterflow, NM, 84; 4. Gabriella Pargas, Grants, NM, 70; 5.

Aubrey Trujillo, San Rafael, NM, 58; 6. Weslynn Reno, Las Cruces, NM, 46; 7. Payton Mcniel, Los Lunas, NM, 25; 8. Hailee Trujillo, San Rafael, NM, 14; 9.

Brandylynn Chavez, Quemado, NM, 13; 10. Tia Gonzales, Smith Lake, NM, 8; 11. Breanna Hathorn, Bluewater, NM, 5; 12. Cheyanne Mcfarland, Grants, NM, 0 6 And Under Boys 1. Cash Pioche, Waterflow, NM, 155; 2. Cooper Wood, Bloomfield, NM, 153; 3. Bowdy Evans, Ramah, NM, 35; 4. Vincent Sanchez, Los Lunas, NM, 19; 5.

Dominic Orozco, Grants, NM, 15; 6. Lariat Nahkai, Gamerco, NM, 8; 7. Levi Chavez, Quemado, NM, 3.5; 8. Collin Begay, Gamerco, NM, 0; 9. Daylan Charley, Crowpoint, NM, 0; 10. Patrick Gallegos, Grants, NM, 0; 11. Rodrigo Gurle, Albuquerque, NM, 0; 12. Chris Lange, Milan, NM, 0; 13. Floyd Lee, San Mateo, NM, 0; 14. Camren Mcdaugale, Milan, NM, 0; 15. Malakai

Michalski, Pinedale, NM, 0; 16. Diego Otero, Tome, NM, 0; 17. Dax Sullivan, Peralta, NM, 0; 18. Ethan Yazzie, Houck, AZ, 0; 19. Aryc Zepeda, Milan, NM, 0 6 And Under Girls 1. Shayna Wimberly, Moriarty, NM, 154.5; 2. Payson Hicks, Rio Rancho, NM, 150.5; 3. Leslie Otero, Tome, NM, 135.5; 4. Timber Wimberly, Moriarty, NM, 98; 5.

Shuancey Cordova, Thoreau, NM, 56; 6. Sage Griego, Santa Fe, NM, 35; 7. Shaylee Cordova, Thoreau, NM, 18; 8. Shelbie Martinez, Grants, NM, 1; 9. Taylor Benally, Crownpoint, NM, 0; 10. Natalia Chavez, Peralta, NM, 0; 11. Bethany Gallegos, Grants, NM, 0; 12. Tamra Hogge, Milan, NM, 0; 13. Frances Lee, San Mateo, NM, 0; 14. Melody Mcdaugale, Milan, NM, 0; 15. Hailey Polen, Grants, NM, 0; 16. Ashlynn Sauceda, Albuquerque, NM, 0; 17. Jazman Spencer, Grants, NM, 0; 18. Bayleerae Tsosie, Gallup, NM, 0; 19. Taylorrae Tsosie, Gallup, NM, 0 Sheep Riding 1. Bowdy Evans, Ramah, NM, 37.5; 2. Lucas Chavez, Moriary, NM, 36.5; 3. Vincent Sanchez, Los Lunas, NM, 18; 4. Ethan Yazzie, Houck, AZ, 14; 5. Ryan Kinsel, Albuquerque, NM, 13; 6. Cash Pioche, Waterflow, NM, 7; 7. Bethany Gallegos, Grants, NM, 7; 8. Natalia Chavez, Peralta, NM, 0; 9. Chauncey Ivins, Tohajiilee, NM, 0; 10. Dominic Orozco, Grants, NM, 0; 11. Diego Otero, Tome, NM, 0; 12. Miguel Sabroe, Milan, NM, 0; 13. Taylorrae Tsosie, Gallup, NM, 0; 14. Aryc Zepeda, Milan, NM, 0 Steer Riding 1. Quinten Wimberley, Los Lunas, NM, 29; 2. Julian Martinez, Grants, NM, 26; 3. Conrad Lange, Milan, NM, 10; 4. Joseph Chavez, Moriarty, NM, 10; 5. Salter Hunter, Edgewood, NM, 8; 6. Andrew Withers, Los Lunas, NM, 0

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Quemado Heritage Arena (Quemado, NM) • June 2, 2012 • 1:00 p.m.

Dollar Center Trading & Pawn, INC.

Call-in entries 505.328.1363 - Reserve your entry Entries open now and close one hour before performance Q.C.E.A. - P.O. Box 22, Quemado, NM 87829 Age Division

PAWN — BUY — SELL

Mutton Bustin' (6 & under) Calf Riding (7-9) PeeWee Bull Riding (10-12) Junior Bull Riding (13-15) Senior Bull Riding (16-19)

Fees

Limited Entries

$20+$15=$35 $20+$15=$35 $30+$30=$60 $35+$35=$70 $35+$35=$70

15 15 15 15 15

Added Money

$50 $50 $50 $50 $50

There is a $15 & $35 stock charge fee. All contestants will be REQUIRED to wear protective vests. Helmets are required for Mutton Bustin' and Calf Riding; recommended but not mandatory for the other divisions.

We Pawn Cars, Trucks, Tools, Jewelry, Native American Items, Electronics, Trailers, RV’s, Off Road Toys, Boats, Ranch Equipment, Tractors, and Much More.

Located at Exit 257 North of Interstate I-40 2 miles East of Winslow, Arizona Auto Sales: 928/289-1993 Pawn Shop: 928/289-1995

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7 & Under 8-13 14-18

$20 $30 $35

15 15 15

$50 $50 $50

Contestants must have proof of insurance (NO EXCEPTIONS) and sign a notarized release of liability. This can be completed at the arena one hour before performance. Notary on site.

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IN HOUSE Awarded PROOF CRX’DWinners Buckles to Event We will not turn entries away if more than the limit shows up. Please help us by calling for a pre-entry. This will be a great warm-up event for contestants who qualified for the Junior-High Finals. The past two years we have had contestants from AZ, TX and NM.

Stock Furnished by Sullivan Bucking Bulls

Utah Junior Bull Riding - Pathway to NJBRA and YBR Open to the World - Non Members WELCOME!

Saturday, May 5 & June 2, 2012 at 2:00 P.M. Harvey Ranch, LMCR Arena • Aneth, Utah Hwy. 262, turn north between mile markers 24 & 25. Continue on San Juan County Road 407 south for about 5.5 miles until you reach rodeo arena.

Event Age Limit Entry Fee Mutton Bustin' 6 & under (55 lbs.) $30 Calf Riding 8 & under $35 Steer Riding 11 & under $40 Pee Wee Bulls 13 & under $45 Junior Bulls 15 & under $50 Senior Bulls 19 & under $55

Added Cash $50 $50 $50 $50 $50 $100

UJBR will NOT tolerate favoritism or discrimination against gender and/or nationality! UJBR will not be responsible for accidents, theft, fire, etc.

Championship Award To Event WINNER! Stock, Administration & Non-Member Fees Apply to Each Event Entry.

Membership: Local $35 • National $50 • PROOF OF AGE REQUIRED Safety vest and mouth piece are REQUIRED-Helmet optional but strongly recommended.

Entry Information: U.J.B.R. CES Brenda 435.459.1457 Call In: Monday & Tuesday the week of bull riding event • Call Back: Wednesday the week of bull riding event Walk-In Entry WELCOME on-site day of event from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

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NMRA Six-Pack Series is HERE! Socorro Cinco de Mayo Rodeo Socorro, NM May 5-6, 2012

Sandoval County Fair Rodeo Cuba, NM August 4-5, 2012

Old Fort Days Ft. Sumner, NM June 7-9, 2012

43rd Annual SCSP Rodeo Bernalillo, NM August 18-19, 2012

Showdown in Old Abiquiu Abiquiu, NM June 22-23, 2012

Socorro County Fair Rodeo Socorro, NM September 1-2, 2012

Must compete in 5 or 6 to be eligible for series awards.

Must be NMRA member for points to count.

Points to 10th place in each event.

For more information: 575/937-0851 or www.nmrodeo.org

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Socorro, NM • May 5-6, 2012 NMRA Six Pack Series

Saturday May 5 • 1:00 p.m. & Sunday May 6 • 1:00 p.m.

Slack run on Sunday • 8:00 a.m. (barrel race will be first in slack, all NMRA team roping will run in slack, cattle will be chute run)

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K-Bobs - Socorro Cooney's Package Liquor Store Sofia's Kitchen - Socorro Dr. James Travers, DVM Socorro Electric Cooperative Stromei Realty PHI Air Medical Socorro County DWI Compliance Office

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Mauldin Construction - Lemitar, NM First State Bank - Socorro, NM New Mexico Tech Farm Credit NM Brownbilt Western Wear - Socorro Rick Carver - Author of A Year Or So In The Life of NM Acosta Equipment - San Acacia Best Western Hotel Bodega Burger - Socorro

30' hand pulled barrier • Enter 2x 10 teams per performance First come, first served $50/roper • CASH ONLY!

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SPECIAL EVENT Open Team Roping in Performances

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ENTRY INFORMATION

TOBACCO

Entries taken Monday, April 30 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

505/864-9426 - Timed Events 505/864-9427 - Rough Stock 505/864-7200 - Team Roping Members can fax or e-mail entries starting Monday, April 23.

Call backs Tuesday, May 1 505/864-9426

FREE RODEO

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nmrodeo.org

ADMISSION $10 Adults $6 Child (6-12) & 62+ Seniors 5 years and under - FREE For more information call 575/894-7228

Event Open Bull Riding Saddle Bronc Bareback Ranch Bronc Breakaway Calf Roping Team Roping Steer Wrestling Barrel Racing

Added Money $300 $300 $300 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100

KIDS EVENTS DURING INTERMISSION Stick Horse Race 1-2 Years Old 3-4 Years Old 5-6 Years Old

Calf Scramble 7-9 Years Old 10-12 Years Old

Paid for by the Sierra County Lodgers Tax

Entry Fee $75 $75 $75 $75 $100 $100 $100/roper $100 $75

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Route 66 Rough Stock Stampede Rodeo Memorial Day Weekend • Williams, AZ Saturday & Sunday - May 26 & 27, 2012 Rodeo Starts at 5:00 p.m. Each Day Kids Rodeo Starts at 2:00 p.m. Each Day Rodeo Parade Through Downtown - 10:00 a.m. Saturday Saturday Night Concert With Mark Chestnut Boot Race - 4:00 p.m. Sunday Sunday is

Rodeo Admission: $10 • Kids 7 and Under Are Free • Gates Open at Noon

World Famous Sultana Bar Will Host an After Party Each Day Following the Rodeo and Awards on Sunday.

Entries - $75, Enter twice Open Bulls .....................$1,000 Added Novice Bulls.......................$300 Added Bareback ...........................$500 Added Saddle Bronc .....................$500 Added Ranch Bronc......................$300 Added Enter twice-if same event once each day.

Buckles to Winners Books open at 5 p.m. on May 1 - $10 office fee Entry phone numbers: 928/635-8825 • 505/287-9534 CASH ONLY Host Hotels: Holiday Inn 928.635.4114 Quality Inn 928.635.9888 Dry camping only.

100% of the proceeds from the Boot Race challenge will be donated to a local charity.

For more information beesonrodeo@yahoo.com or call 928/635-8825

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Schedule of Events

Thursday, June 7

ADDED!

6 p.m.

Events Bareback Riding Saddle Bronc Riding Bull Riding Calf Roping (with Inc.) Steer Wrestling Ladies Breakaway Ladies Barrel Racing

Fees $75 $75 $75 $100 $100 $100 $75

(Incentive Barrels) Team Roping W/#12 Inc. x3 $100/roper May enter 2x Open, 1x Incentive or vice versa

Old Timers Team Roping x3

$150/team

Added $ $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300

Friday, June 8 7 p.m.

$75

Performance

Saturday, June 9 8 p.m.

$300 - In Slack Only

Performance

STOCK CONTRACTOR W/A Rodeo Company Bloomfield, NM

$300 - In Performance Only

Co-sanctioned by PAFRA, TCRA, CPRA

(Old Timers team ropers must be 40 & ages combined at least 90, or one female and one roper 50 or over.)

Ranch Saddle Bronc Riding

Slack -

All NMRA Team Roping Will Be Run Then

$300

Central entry date Monday, June 4: RS - 505.864.9427 - 6 to 10 p.m TE - 505.864.9426 - 6 to 10 p.m. and 505.864.9427 7 to 10 p.m.

TR - 505.864.7200 - 6 to 10 p.m.

CASH ONLY

Stalls available at the Fairgrounds For stall info, please call Lisa Walraven 575.355-2381 For rodeo information call Jimmie Dee Fox 575.355.2563 or 575.309.3186 For Old Fort Days information call Fort Sumner Chamber of Commerce 575.355.7705

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64 thAnnual Stock Contractor: Bucking H Rodeo Company

OPEN RODEO 2012 June 13-16, 2012 • Red Rock Park www.galluplionsclubrodeo.com

$22,000 Added Prize Money $65,000 Estimated Pay Out Event

Added Money

Bonus Round

Entry Fee

Bareback Riding Saddle Bronc Bull Riding Ladies Breakaway Calf Roping Steer Wrestling Open Team Roping (X3)

$2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $3,000

$1,500 $1,500 $1,500 -

$100 $100 $125 $100 $100 $100 $200/team

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Jr. Bull Riding

Mail in entries open: May 1, 2012 Only cashiers checks or Must be postmarked by May 31, 2012 money orders will be accepted. or Make payable to Gallup Lions Club Rodeo Walk in entries June 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at Rico Auto Complex, 220 South 5th St., Gallup, NM No late entries. Slack June 14 after performance.

Draw will be posted June 9, 2012 at www.galluplionsclubrodeo.com No rider subsitutions allowed. No refunds, except with acceptable vet draw outs until June 5, 2012.

Each person entering in team roping must fill out an entry form, full team in one envelope.

AIRCA Invited

Contestant Name: Address:

E-mail:

Telephone: Bareback Riding ($100) Saddle Bronc ($100) Bull Riding ($125) TEAM ROPING MUST MAIL ENTRIES TOGETHER

Ladies Breakaway ($100) Calf Roping ($100) Steer Wrestling ($100)

Open Team Roping ($200/team) #12 Incentive Ladies Barrel Racing ($90) Incentive Jr. Bull Riding ($80)

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Wild West Days Rodeo July 4-8, 2012 • Grants Rodeo Arena

Parade J Exit 81 Highway 53 South - 100 stalls and showers uly 4, 2012 Come enjoy the fast paced, unbelievable heart-stopping 10 a.m.

stunts, energetic music, beautiful flashy costuming and the style and flare of “The Wild Riders!” performing at the Open Rodeos.

OPEN RODEO

NBHA OPEN BARREL RACE

Saddle Bronc, Bareback Riding, Bull Riding Novice Bull Riding $75 • 13 & under Steer Riding $45 9 & under Calf Riding $35 • Mutton Busting (50 lbs & less) $20 • Calf Roping $75 Breakaway Roping $75 • Steer Wrestling $75 4-D Barrel Racing $55 Team Roping $40/roper, enter 2x

4 SADDLES IN OPEN 4D • 4 AWARDS IN YOUTH 4D • 4 AWARDS IN SENIORS 4D

Wednesday, July 4 at 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.

We will fill performance first & slack will follow each rodeo if needed. Limited entries. Entries open June 25 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. each night until full.

Entry & Information: 505/634-1484 or rphenson@gmail.com Entries MUST be paid one hour prior to performance or you will be moved to slack.

Stock provided by Crossroads Ranch Rodeo Company. $1,000 each Sudden Death Bonus Round for Saddle Bronc, Bareback and Bull Riding after 7:00 p.m. rodeo. Top three high scores from both performances will be taken back to a $1,000 added guaranteed payoff Bonus Round.

TEAM ROPING

Thursday, July 5, enter 6:00 p.m.- Rope at 7:00 p.m. #12 Slide • No cap • $25/roper

Friday, July 6, enter 6:00 p.m.- Rope at 7:00 p.m. #10 3-Head, Progressive Capped at a #5 • $40/roper

BUCKLES AWARDED TO HIGH POINT HEADER & HEELER TRIAD numbers please. For info on team roping 505/409-5928

Saturday, July 7 at 11:00 a.m.

Entry Fees: Open $55 • Youth $35 Seniors $25 (carry over) • Exhibition $4 For Pre Entry forms go to www.grantsrodeo.com or www.nmnbha.com. Pre entry must be postmarked by June 26.

Late entries taken Saturday 8:00-10:00 a.m.

NO entries will be taken after race starts.

Information: 505/285-6311 or 505/285-5772

18 & UNDER JUNIOR ROUGH STOCK Saturday, July 7 at 7:00 p.m.

BUCKLE TO EVENT WINNER

Sheep Riding • Calf Riding • Steer Riding • Bull Riding • Bareback Riding • Saddle Bronc Pre entries must be postmarked by June 22.

Late entries will be taken from 5:00-6:30 p.m. with a late fee.

Pre-entry forms: www.grantsrodeo.com or call 505/634-1484

18 AND UNDER JUNIOR TIMED EVENTS Sunday, July 8 at 9:00 a.m.

ALL AROUND SADDLE TO BOY AND GIRL IN EACH AGE GROUP! Pre entries Must be postmarked by June 22. Late entries will be accepted from 7:00-8:00 a.m. with a late fee.

NO entries will be taken after rodeo starts.

Entry forms: www.grantsrodeo.com or call 505/634-1484

This is a “Tough Enough to Wear Pink” weekend. Proceeds from this program will be used to provide mammograms at Cibola General Hospital. www.grantsrodeo.com

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Jim Bob Custer Casey Payne Daniel Muellar Talmadge Langley Darren Francis Robertson Cody Terry Minica Justin Howlett Spud Jones

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Shawn Ramirez Shane Thurston Daniel Muellar Romeo Maryboy Matt Clouser Robertson Cody Kevin Salazar Ryan McConnel Cody Morgan

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77 Years of Tradition, Fun and Rodeo!

utiful a e b n i ay Come pl t Colorado and s Southwe art of history! be a p Rough Stock Challenge Winner From Each Performance in Each Rough Stock Event Qualifies For Finals on Sunday!

Business Team Events Friday night - Wild Cow Milking Saturday night - Wild Horse Race Saturday 1 p.m. & Sunday 1 p.m.

Boot Scramble & Calf Scramble Every Performance Mutton Bustin' (limit 10)

Events for the whole family!

July 27 - July 29, 2012 Largest rodeo in the Four Corners!

CPRA Sanctioned Central Entries: 719.486.0599 Monday, July 16, 2012 - noon to 6:00 p.m.

Call Back: July 17, 2012 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Local Entries: Friday, July 13, 2012, 3:00 p.m to 6:00 p.m.

970.759.7163 Check website: www.cprarodeo.com for day sheets

Upcoming Event Dates July 13 Local entry - 3 to 6 p.m. at Extention Building on Fairgrounds or call 970.759.7163 (3 to 6 p.m) July 16-17 Central entry July 21 2012 Queen Contest July 24 10 a.m. - Special Olympics Rodeo Fairgrounds July 25 4-D Barrel Race Enter at 4 p.m., Time Onlys at 5 p.m., Jr. Barrels, Open Barrels July 26 5:30 p.m. to Midnight - Bar-b-que, Pie Auction and Street Dance July 27 9 a.m. - All Slack.

7 p.m. - Rodeo !st Performance July 28 10 a.m. - Parade 1 p.m. - Rodeo Miilitary Appreciation Performance 6:30 p.m. - Queen Coronation 7 p.m. - Rodeo Tough Enough To Wear Pink Performance July 29 9 a.m. - Cowboy Church 10 a.m. Pancake Breakfast 1 p.m. Rodeo 4th Performance

Barrel Racing Series May Pagosa June Bloomfield July Durango

Must participate in 2 of 3 for prizes

Stock Contractor: Bucking H

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1D Champions

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NBHA NM-1 2012 Finals Spring Weekend!

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riends and families were out in force at New Mexico District One’s super spring district finals March 9-11, 2012 in Farmington, NM. Loosing one of our members, Tami Dean, to cancer made everyone realizes how lucky we are to enjoy the sport of barrel racing and share $65,000 in cash and prizes handed out over the three-day event. Friday night was filled with fun and laughter with a pole bending jackpot, Senior’s First Go, a bucket race and our popular dog races.

Saturday morning saw 98 members in the $8112 added money finals open, 46 youth and 17 seniors with Falena Dale making this her third finals win in a row!

Other finals buckle winners were Haley

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Wolfe, Cierra LeFebre and Josh Carpenter. Youth winners were Haley Wolfe, Baillie Wiseman, Haley again (who gave her buckle to Halrey Anstead) and Jason Rottman. Senior winners were Jeannie Robert, Tamy Jaramillo, Freda Johnson, and Sherri Trujillo! Team 4 walked away with $112 each regardless of their time and this is a fun tradition that gets everyone rooting for each other.

Year-end open winners got beautiful saddles and youth winners drew for a saddle or an iPad2. A huge thanks goes to Williams Company, and David and Leanne Wolfe who sponsored youth saddles. Custom stained glass work, Twisted tack strirrups, saddle racks, headstalls, halters, hat cans, leg boots, tack and other prizes were awarded to 8th in the open and 5th in the youth. Jeannie

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Roberts won the Senior iPad2 by running closest to her first time. Taking home open saddles were Falena Dale, Meygan McMillian, Naelyn Doyle and Renee Baird in the open and year end youth winners were Meygan McMillian, Shaylee Pacheco, Naelyn Doyle and Liz Cox. Probably the most excited member winning a saddle was Jamie Grogan, who won the incentive saddle.

The year-end Senior winners were Geneva Tsouhlarkis, Kathy Price, Tami Jaramillo and Sherri Trujillo whom all got Kindles. Kaelah Benally was named Rookie of the Year and we recognized the many helpers throughout the year that makes our district a great place to be.

Cookie Pickens got a special â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grannyâ&#x20AC;?

Kindle and we recognized her wonderful support over her barrel racing career.

Saturday nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $2500 added 5D race saw 126 open, 37 youth and 21 senior MAY 12 BUILT BY VSA entries with Leia Pluemer winning the 1D with a 17.0 and Lacey Jo Barnes, Jordan Edwards, Wilma Benally and Shirely Pelot winning the other open divisions. This year anytime we get over 100 entries we pay off in the 5D format.

On Sunday the time change spurred coffee sales and we had 128 open, 42 youth and 21 senior entries come and run for another $2500 added money. Leia Pluemer once again ran the fastest time with a 17.0 and other open winners were Cindy Haga, Terri Taylor Christie Suckla, and Lindsay Ashcroft. By the time the last barrel was turned on Sunday all the volunteers helped pack up in record time and by 3:00 pm almost everyone was on

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their way home. We want to thank everyone who pitched in to make this a great weekend. Our members are great at volunteering to help things run smoothly, knowing that 100% of our profits go back to our members in added money and prizes. We are truly a group with more commonalities than differences and we are lucky to be barrel racing in San Juan County! Complete results can be found at nmnbha.com.

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NBHA Open Barrel Race

NEW MEXICO NBHA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Grants Rodeo Arena â&#x20AC;˘ Grants, NM Saturday, July 7 at 11:00 a.m.

4 Saddles - Open 4D 4 Awards - Youth 4D 4 Awards - Seniors 4D Entry Fees: Open $55 â&#x20AC;˘ Youth $35 Seniors $25 (carry over) â&#x20AC;˘ Exhibition $4 Pre-entry forms available at www.nmnbha.com or www.grantsrodeo.com Pre-entry must be postmarked by June 26 Late entry with late fee Saturday at 8:00-10:00 a.m.

No entries will be taken after race starts.

Information: 505/285-6311 or 505/285-5772 This is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tough Enough to Wear Pinkâ&#x20AC;? event.

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Friday, October 12 Limited Exhibitions* 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Statewide Warm-up Race 6 p.m. **

Co-sanctioned by NM NBHA Districts

â&#x20AC;˘ Qualification: 3 sanctioned district races by 9/1/12 & current member as of 9/1/12. â&#x20AC;˘ No Refunds, No Buy-ins. â&#x20AC;˘ Late entries taken until first horse runs in each performance. â&#x20AC;˘ All other NBHA rules apply. See offical rules. Dress code enforced. â&#x20AC;˘ ** Estimated added money.

Saturday, October 13 Limited Exhibitions* 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

1st Go State Championships 1 p.m. **

Jackpot Pole Bending Following 1st Go - $20 Sunday, October 14 Pee Wee Race - No Entry Fee Will be run right before Open 2nd Go State Championships 9 a.m. **

Awards Presentation 3 p.m.

Exhibition tickets sold on-site by time-slot!

Mail entries to: New Mexico NBHA c/o Francie LeBow 244D Frost Road Edgewood, NM 87015

For more information: www.nmnbha.com

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I am not a people watcher but I am a member of the same genus and species: I am a people listener. A conversation pirate. A thief of other people’s words. I don’t know if I was born an enormous eavesdropper, or if I became an earjacker, a highjacker of other people’s dialogue, when I became a writer and was always in need of fresh material. I am sure of one thing though, I find other people’s VSA conversations infinitely more interesting than my own.

Although I don’t own one, cell phones have been a blessing to me and have extended my writing career 20 years longer than it should have been. I don’t do

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They seem to be completely oblivious to their lunch guests, or the other diners.

Talk about obscene phone calls! I know it’s rude for me to listen in on other people’s conversations but the way I see it, if they want to blab at such decibels then I have a responsibility to listen. I should at IN HOUSE PROOF CRX’D least show them that courtesy.

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I’m not the only person who listens in on other people’s conversations because the word of the year is “halfalogue,” which is that half of a conversation you hear involuntarily.

Unlike me, my wife is very quiet, which is just one of her many attributes.

She can go to a dinner party and not say two words. But she’s a great listener and often after dining out we’ll have our own conversation about what the people in the next booth were discussing. Sometimes it’s hard to just sit there when people are getting their facts wrong, or contemplating bad lifestyle decisions. Often I just want to blurt out, “Can you be a little more specific? Has your husband cheated on you before and exactly what disease did he give you?” Or, “Look, you’re broke. And you eat too much. I’m just saying, instead of spending $10,000 on a tummy tuck next time you shouldn’t order the whole fried chicken, two desserts and “the works” on your baked potato.”

Cell phones have benefitted me in many ways. Like sheepherders and lonely cowboys, I have the irritating habit of talking to myself. But now when I talk to myself instead of people thinking I’m a mentally disturbed homeless person, they think I’m talking on my cell phone. Which I don’t have. But they don’t know that.

With handless headsets and phones now no larger than a pack of Tic Tacs, it’s easy to convince people you’re actually talking to someone. When I talk to myself and see people looking at me funny, or trying to find the cell phone on my person, I’ll just say real loud, “Sorry Bob, I’m starting to lose you. I’ll call you later when I get in a better area.” Yeah right.

Or if I see someone I don’t like and don’t want to talk to, I’ll just say, “Hello, Joe.” Then I turn to the person I don’t want to talk to and say, “I’d love to visit but it’s really important I take this call.”

Then I look for a restaurant so I can complete the fake call so that everyone can hear me and see how I’m so technologically savvy that I have a cell phone that no one can see.

Gee, I must have the latest model!

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Safford Feed & Pet Supplies . . . . . . . .Safford, AZ San Pedro Feed & Hardware . . . . . .Hereford, AZ San Tan Feed & Supply . . . . . . .Queen Creek, AZ Serenity Farms Feed & Tack . . . . .Wickenburg, AZ South Arizona Feed Country . . . . . . . .Tucson, AZ South Valley Feed . . . . . . . . . . .Albuquerque, NM Southwest Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Socorro, NM Spur Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Springerville, AZ Spur Feeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Show Low, AZ Stock Up Feed And Tack . . . . . . . . . . . .Taylor, AZ T&R Marketing, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gallup, NM Tempe Feed & Tack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tempe, AZ The Feed Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Santa Rosa, NM The Stock Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Glendale, AZ The Tack Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Show Low, AZ The Western Ranchman’s Store . . . . .Phoenix, AZ Totsoh Trading Post . . . . . . . . . . .Lukachukai, AZ Triple D Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Buckeye, AZ Turquoise Bit Roping & Horse Supply . . .Mesa, AZ Valencia Western Mercantile, Los Lunas . . . . .NM Western Mercantile, Las Cruces . . . . . . . . . . .NM Westerners, Tuba City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .AZ Yuma Feed & LV. Supply, Yuma . . . . . . . . . . . .AZ Zimmermans Western Wear, Gallup . . . . . . . . .NM

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