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Rodeo: Team Roping
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The Inside Scoop with Logan Olson
Spin: Tell us a little about your family and how you got started roping and rodeoing. Logan: We've just rodeoed forever. Both my mom and dad circuit rodeoed in South Dakota. We raise horses up there, right now we've only got about 40 of them, but we've had as many as 100 head.... | read »

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Thumper’s Got it All
I thought it was so awesome that my horse Thumper (the 14-year-old black horse's registered name is Docalickin) won the 2005 PRCA/AQHA Head Horse of the Year award because he's special. Thumper doesn't have any weaknesses. He works just as good at the BFI as he does at the NFR. In all... | read »

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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Making Adjustments
Every time you back in the box, something's going to be different because there are so many variables involved. You've got two ropers, two horses and the steer you draw, not to mention the arena conditions to deal with. So many things have to go right to accomplish a successful run. You... | read »

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2005 World Champion Team Ropers
January 1, 2005: Clay Tryan and Patrick Smith made a pact. They set their sights on a matching set of gold buckles, and vowed not to be distracted by the detours, downpours and disappointments they knew they'd encounter along the way. December 11, 2005: At road's end, professional... | read »

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Starting Anew
As the new 2006 season is about to begin, it's time for each of us to take inventory on where we're at and where we want to go. For the last 25 years, I've evaluated what was accomplished the previous year in order to make plans for the future. You need to look at what worked and what... | read »

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The Science of Scoring
If it seems like I spend a lot of time on the subject of scoring, it's because I find it so crucial to the success of any roper, including myself. It's a make-or-break element of the game, plain and simple, and whether I win or lose depends so much on how my horse and I are scoring... | read »

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Lameness and Poor Performance in Horses Used for Team Roping
Lameness is defined as an abnormality of gait such that the horse cannot be used for its intended purpose, and is the most common reported health problem for all types of horses. According to a study conducted by Ross and Kaneene in the 1996 Pre Vet Med, it is estimated that lameness problems... | read »

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Invest in Your Horse Herd
It's way easier to win when you're riding a good horse that suits your style of roping. So if there's one corner you don't want to cut it's your horsepower. Trust me, this is an area of my roping that I think about and try to improve upon every single day. You have to if you want to be... | read »

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Those Fabulous Fundamentals
There are certain basics and fundamentals that everybody, headers and heelers, have to use as a base for their own personal style. Keeping good center of balance on your horse when you're riding, for example, and having your body in a position where you can have a good fundamental swing... | read »

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Guarding Against Slumps
Tee Woolman paid me a pretty big compliment a couple years ago when he said, "You know, you're one of the only guys I've ever seen who's never been in a slump." I thought that was pretty cool. I also thought that, whether you're talking about Jake (Barnes), Clay (O'Brien Cooper), Tee,... | read »

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Ask the Pros--Rating

Dear Logan,
I have a 9-year-old gelding who I have been in the box with and have tracked some steers and calves on him, but he hasn’t been trained yet. He is tracking pretty good, except sometimes he runs right past them. What do you think I should do?

Thanks,
Ryan,... | read

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