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On The Trail with Rider Kiesner

Rider Kiesner has performed in every state and 15 different countries. “When I turned nine I got a Will Rogers trick roping kit for Christmas,” said the 29-year-old from Ripley, Oklahoma. Rider grew up as a fifth generation cowboy on his dad’s side and third generation on his mom’s side.…

Boudreaux Campbell Wins 2020 PBR World Finals to be Crowned Rookie of the Year

Ten-time Stock Contractor of the Year Chad Berger’s Smooth Operator dominates to win second-consecutive YETI PBR World Champion Bull title ARLINGTON, Texas – Competing at his first-ever PBR (Professional Bull Riders) World Finals, Boudreaux Campbell (Crockett, Texas) delivered a near perfect 4-for-5 performance inside AT&T Stadium, to win the 2020…

WPRA Announces 2020 Justin Best Footing Award Winners

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO – Every year since the early 1990s the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association and Justin Brands have honored rodeo committees in each of the 12 circuits that have went above and beyond to ensure safe ground for the animal athletes of rodeo, specifically the barrel racing horses. …

Back When They Bucked with Bob Hagel

As a kid, all Bob Hagel wanted to do was be horseback. The saddle bronc rider, now a resident of Mobridge, S.D., was born on Feb. 25, 1935 and grew up in Ft. Pierre, riding horses at his maternal uncle’s ranch every minute he wasn’t in school. When he was…

On The Trail with Ky Hamilton

Ky Hamilton grew up in Mackay Queensland, Australia. “I actually grew up in town. My mom (Sharell) and dad (Micheal) had a house in town. My dad’s family lived three and a half hours south on a ranch – so I got to do cowboy stuff on the school holidays…

PRCA announces 2020 award nominees

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – It’s common for rodeo athletes and fans to use the hashtags “grateful" or "blessed.” Each year, that gratefulness is expressed at the annual PRCA Awards Banquet before the start of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. The final online ballot process will be open Oct. 19-23 for…

Clayton Hass heading back to NFR

Clayton Hass has made three trips to the NFR and ended this season in the 12th spot with $41,840.34 won in the steer wrestling. He competes in team roping as a header and tie down roping as well. He went to the NFR 2014, 2015, and 2016. “In 2017 I missed…

KING OF THE RODEOS

Championship rodeo to take place in Minot this weekend Minot, N.D. (October 7, 2020) – The best of the best for the Dakotas will be in Minot this weekend, to duke it out for the title of Badlands champ. The annual Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeo will take place at the…

Featured Athlete: Baby the Steer Wrestling Horse

There’s a Baby making a big splash in the steer wrestling world, and she’s doing it with 5 Star Equine Products, too. Baby, a nine-year-old quarter horse, is a steer wrestling horse owned by Sam Dixon and ridden mainly by Jacob Talley, Justin Shaffer, and Will Lummus. The blaze-faced sorrel,…

ProFile: Brenda Youtsey Reay

Brenda Youtsey Reay was the first girl to win the National High School Finals rodeo in the team roping in 1986. “I’m happy for all the kids that win the high school finals – -it pays for college educations as well as is a great honor for all kids.” Brenda’s…

Back When They Bucked with Roy Lilley

“I’m pretty talkative and used to edit a magazine, so it just made sense to write a book,” said Roy Lilley, the 90 year old rough stock rider from Fort Collins, Colorado, who wrote a 567 page memoir called Just As I Am. The book took three years to complete.…

On The Trail with Malcom Heathershaw

Malcom Heathershaw will spend the next few months healing up from breaking both bones (ulna and radius) in his left arm. “I drew a pretty wide stud and I was the first one out. I was three seconds and my stirrup on the left side snapped off – it sling-shotted…