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Rodeo: Team Roping
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Scoring Your Horse
Fundamentally, scoring is the most crucial part of the run. If you're rodeo roping, you have to be within inches of the barrier, unless you have the perfect steer that'll let you catch him fast enough and still win something. If you miss the barrier on a steer that runs, you aren't going to... | read »

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Thanks, Ike
I retired the horse of my career, Ike, when I was in California this spring. I bought him out there from Ozzie and Judy Gillum when he was 9, and rode him 12 years. He's 22 now, and it was time to take him back home to retire. I turned him out at Ozzie and Judy's place in Oakdale, so it was... | read »

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Perfect Practice
Each and every time I go out to the practice pen, there's something I'm going to accomplish out there, whether it's trying different techniques, positions, handles, whatever. I always go out there with an intent of some kind. I see a lot of people whose practice environment isn't the... | read »

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Closing the Big Deal
Editor's Note: Clay O'Brien Cooper recently finished first and third at the 2005 George Strait Team Roping Classic, and left the San Antonio Rose Palace $52,126 richer and with a new truck and trailer in tow. ProRodeo Hall of Famer Cooper won the roping with eight-time Champ of the... | read »

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Choose Your Role Models Wisely
When I was growing up and thinking I'd like to someday try to become a rodeo champion, I remember reading about people like the Camarillos and H.P. Evetts. There wasn't nearly as much media attention as there is now, so I couldn't get enough of it. All I could think about was maybe... | read »

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Buying Roping Steers
Even with all the wonderful practice aids on the team roping market today, there's nothing like the real thing: roping steers. And while team roping is booming in popularity and participation, roping cattle never seem easy to find. Plus, if you're going to own cattle, you've got to be prepared to... | read »

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Splints and Splint-Bone Fractures in Horses
"Splints" are a very common entity involving the splint bone in horses, usually the medial one of the front legs of the horse, that are usually only a cosmetic problem. Splint-bone fractures and injuries in horses are an entirely different entity. Splints are not so obvious or easy to identify, and... | read »

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Getting to Know a New Horse
Early on in my quest for a team roping career, I was such a poor horseman that I went through a lot of horses. There came a time that I realized I needed to improve greatly in that area if I was going to get any better. I used to think a horse was a machine that had to do exactly what I... | read »

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Meet Billy Pipes: Founder of the Wildfire Open
I have to appreciate and admire a guy like Billy Pipes. He's a self-made success who started with nothing, and he stands up for what he believes is right. Sounds like the kind of person we all want to be. Pipes has developed a world class team roping facility and hosts the top rodeo team ropers... | read »

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Learning to Take Chances to Become a Winner
At some point in your career, you're going to have to learn to be an aggressive team roper if you want to have success--especially in the rodeo arena. You have to learn to reach. You don't have to be wild, but there is an art to reaching. A guy who can reach at the rodeos if he needs to has a huge... | 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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