The Score from The Team Roping Journal

Canada’s Kolton Schmidt and California’s Wyatt Cox—a new team in 2021—took home $100,000 after winning the BFI in its hometown of Reno, Nevada on June 21, 2021. They roped six head in 40.27 seconds on six head and stopped to chat with "The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave about their day in Reno and their preparation for the prestigious roping. Wesley Thorp makes a guest appearance, too, as he left the BFI with a big chunk of change in his pockets, but you'll have to listen to the interview to find out how. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roping.com coach Clay O'Brien Cooper is on "The Score" in a bonus roping tip episode about how to have self-confidence in yourself and your roping, brought to you by Roping.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dustin Egusquiza, a three-time NFR qualifier and 2016 Resistol Rookie Header of the Year, won the Woodward (Oklahoma) Elks Rodeo with Travis Graves with a 4.7-second run, adding $4,626 to each of their earnings. On this episode, Egusquiza talks about when their run at the Woodward Elks Rodeo felt like and his horsepower. Egusquiza also talks about what it feels like to be heading out for the ProRodeo summer run and gives young ropers tips on what they can expect when heading out on the road, brought to you by USRoper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Sherwood talks about how to have fun and enjoy practicing and the competition. He shares ways that he keeps things exciting in this sport.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CR Bradley, a former guest on "The Score" in Season 3, is back in Season 4 to share his insights on the breakaway roping and horse market, as well as training tips. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matt Sherwood shares how you need to love the competition to help you thrive in team roping, roping.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cody Snow and Junior Nogueira won the first-ever Cody NesSmith Memorial Bill Fick Ford Open 5-header Team Roping in Buffalo, Texas, with a time of 30.15 seconds on five head, worth $30,000. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You are the first to hear about this. At "The Score," of course we are the official podcast of The Team Roping Journal. We all work for the team roping journal and our company recently partnered with our new video streaming platform, roping.com.Roping.com has been around for a few years. We're going to combine our industry know-how and the experts that we've relied on at The Team Roping Journal with the video technology that powers this platform to really change the way you improve your roping.Every Saturday now we are going to be released releasing a mental performance segment from roping.com. Something that we pull out of the archives for you to listen to with your families, with your buddies, with your girlfriends on the way to the jackpot. Today we've got Matt Sherwood here with a mental performance clip that is brought to you by roping.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you miss the "By the Horns" feature in our December 2020 issue? Not to worry—you can listen to it here. It's a great story about Jason Graham, who, after a severe accident that robbed him of a life he loved, found team roping and the desire to live a big life again. He's running his own chute crew these days and gunning to give ropers in the Northwest and beyond the best catching opportunities he can muster from the head gate. It's one of those stories that reminds us that our community is more than just the ropers in the arena and that, all put together, it's a community that can inspire awesome feats, brought you by Weaver Leather. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We first got to know Kelsie in her capacity as a top heeler in the all-girl ranks from Oklahoma, long before the breakaway explosion rocked the roping world. Now, Kelsie is on the trail shooting for her first National Finals of Breakaway Roping berth. She’s got eight WPRA world titles to her name already, and she is one of the most respected teachers and competitors in the sport. She was getting ready to teach a clinic at NRS for Smarty when we spoke this week, and we cover how her breakaway roping is affecting her heeling, her rodeo plans for this year, what she’s trying to improve in her roping and more brought to you by Durango. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In true Derrick fashion, in this episode brought to you by Manna Pro, he wanted this to be good, and he wanted what he had to say to be helpful to the bulk of the ropers out there. So we spent a lot of time talking through his mental strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After coming off of a big win with Dustin Egusquiza in the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping's Gold Buckle Beer Open, Levi Lord joins "The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave for a quick phone call interview after winning the Guymon (Oklahoma) Pioneer Days Rodeo with header Nelson Wyatt. They roped three head in 21.3 seconds, worth $3,416 a man. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shada, Treston and Style Brazile join "The Score" co-host Kaitlin Gustave after the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping's #7 Championships Saddle Roping was complete, which was the final roping of the week in Fort Worth, Texas, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with the #9.5 Ram Truck Roping Champion Shaneece Coffman after she placed third and 10th in the #9.5 Ram Truck Roping and drove off with a new Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII wrapped Ram truck.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Cody Johnson episode. "The Score" co-host and producer Kaitlin Gustave had the opportunity to sit down with singer-songwriter and Resistol endorsee Cody Johnson at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping. In this bonus episode of "The Score" Cody Johnson talks about his love for music and team roping, his mental strategy, road shows, new music updates, career ventures and his hot line of Resistol cowboy hats, brought to you by Resistol.

Dru Stewart and Kaitlin Gustave discuss hot topics from the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII after Day 5, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with Dru Stewart and Ben Clements to go over the latest at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII. Plus, we have a special segment brought to you by Resistol with the 2019 Resistol Rookie Heeler of the Year Paden Bray, who is hot off his first Wrangler NFR in 2020 and his most recent win at RFD-TV's The American. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Eaves is a two-time and reigning PRCA World Champion Heeler, and he’s never been on The Score—except for during our NFR special edition after his go-round wins and world titles.In the span of my career first at Spin To Win and then at The Team Roping Journal, Paul went from a 19-year-old kid from Missouri to a 31-year-old husband and father of two with two gold buckles living in Millsap, Texas. Brought to you by the WCRA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, brought to you by Resistol, we catch up with Ferron Lucero. Lucero shares what's been going on at the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII in Fort Worth, Texas. Plus, we have a special segment brought to you by Resistol with the Resistol #14.5 Shootout champions Kreece Thompson and Jeff Hilton. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day two of the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII is said and done. In this episode, brought to you by RidePass, we cover who won the Resistol #14.5 Shootout, the #13.5 Shootout and the YETI Jr. Open. Plus, we have a special segment from the US Finals with Resistol Endorsee Joseph Harrison and his partner Bobby Joe Hill, which we recorded after they tied to win the #16.5 Shootout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day one of the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping XXXII is in the books and champions have been crowned. In this episode you will hear a wrap-up on the day from the Gold Buckle Beer Open, the #16.5 Shootout and the #15.5 Shootout followed by a special interview with the Gold Buckle Beer Open Champions Dustin Egusquiza and Levi Lord, brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brad Barkemeyer is one of the founding experts of the Horse&Rider OnDemand horsemanship and training videos. He's an NRCHA trainer, he shows in the cutting and the reining, he works with NonPros and he also team ropes. Barkemeyer's background is very diverse and that makes him an awesome teacher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dru Stewart joins "The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave to cover the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping news updates. They discuss roping information, accommodations, stalling, entries and more. Brought to you by RidePass. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miles Baker has drawn the attention of the team roping world as Trevor Brazile’s partner on many-a-great horses, and two weeks ago he shared with us an explanation of the foundation he puts in the head horses he and Brazile ride.  This week, Baker is back with his cowboy-style heel-horse training insights, straight from his Oklahoma ranch. Baker—who headed for Brazile at this year’s BFI—had a hand in the bay horse Joseph Harrison rode at this year’s National Finals Rodeo, and he shares with us the training insights that helped make that horse and other top-tier talent.This episode is brought to you by Manna Pro. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The weekend at the Lazy E Arena started off with the 37th Annual Cinch Timed Event Championship. After the final round was complete on Saturday, March 13, Poplarville, Mississippi’s Marcus Theriot was crowned the Cinch Ironman after knocking down 25 head in 322.4 seconds, worth $100,000Then we watched as some of the elite ropers in our sport piled into the Lazy E to compete at the 44th annual Bob Feist Invitational where we watched as Manny Egusquiza and Kory Koontz knocked down their sixth steer at high team back in 7.16 seconds to secure the win with a time of 46.48 seconds on six head, worth $150,000 for the team.To top off their weekend, Kory’s 13-year-old dun gelding, Remix won the Heel Horse of the BFIIf you remember, Kory was in a major wreck on Jan. 16, 2020, which left Koontz’s truck and trailer totaled, and he lost his new mount Rudy. Remix came out of the accident beaten up.Koontz, with the help of Outlaw Equine’s Josh Harvey and team, fought hard to help bring Remix back to fighting shape. After weeks of therapy on the AquaTred and walker, Remix came back better than ever before.This episode is brought to you by Fast Back Ropes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Miles Baker was Trevor Brazile’s partner on the head horse, Smartys Dunny, that just sold for $250,000 last weekend at the Horse Sale at Rancho Rio, and he’s partners with Brazile on many of the top-tier horses you’ve seen the King of the Cowboys on everywhere from the BFI to the American Rope Horse Futurity Association’s World Championship.He’s part of the secret sauce for Trevor Brazile, Joseph Harrison and Lari Dee Guy when it comes to making great horses.We tapped him in fall 2020 to provide us with this audio roping and horsemanship lesson, and it’s one like we’ve never offered before. He breaks down how their horses got prepared for the ARHFA—where Brazile won over $100,000 alone.Baker has studied Brazile’s horsemanship, and he’s keyed in on the preparation needed to create the kind of horses the $7-million cowboy can take to the next level.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paden Bray is our special guest on this episode of "The Short Score".This is the first time we've had Paden on the podcast. While these interviews are usually pretty short on "The Short Score", this one, we got a little lengthy because we had a lot to talk about. He just won $100,000 heeling for Erich Rogers at RFD-TV's The American, and he took time out of his day to chat with Chelsea Shaffer about his win. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With the rodeo season once again up in the air thanks to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like as good of a time as any to have a light-hearted episode about the good old days on the rodeo trail in a different era.So to do that, we racked our brains for the best cowboy travel stories we've ever heard told, and we called up the guys who lived to tell the tales so we could all have a good laugh at their expense.We started with Travis Tryan, and then move to Trey Yates, Trevor Brazile, Patrick Smith and finish out the episode with Cesar de la Cruz.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The Short Score" host Kaitlin Gustave talks with the Mike Cervi Jr. Memorial Pro Classic Open Champions Cody Snow and Jade Corkill and the America's Team Roping Challenge Tour Stop 1 Champions Dillon Holyfield and Jaylen Eldridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the last two decades, the staff at The Team Roping Journal has written both in passing and in earnest about Patrick Smith’s life story. But we don’t take for granted that everyone listening to "The Score"—especially the next generation of ropers—has read every word we’ve ever written or heard every story we’ve ever produced. So this is the first time Smith and "The Score" host Chelsea Shaffer have sat down to go over his unconventional road to two gold buckles, George Strait and BFI wins and millions of dollars in career earnings. His story is so remarkable—as remarkable, perhaps, as the character he possesses that’s got him to this point, brought to you by Roper Apparel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Co-host Kaitlin Gustave talks with the Ariat World Series of Team Roping Title Fights XI Open Champions Derrick Begay and Trey Yates on the first episode of "The Short Score". This episode is brought to you by the Cinch Timed Event Championships. ____Did you miss their win? You can read about it here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Episode 3 in our series on the horse market, we talk to our round-table of experts on the trends and challenges facing the breakaway horse market. In this final part of our horse market series, host Chelsea Shaffer talks to Trevor Brazile, Lari Dee Guy, J.D. Yates and Jann Parker about the breakaway horse business and where it’s heading at a time when organizations like the WCRA have added almost a million dollars of new money over two years to the sport AND when the WPRA and PRCA are making big moves to add the event to their biggest rodeos, brought to you by Soft-Ride Equine Comfort Boots. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While Part 1 of this series discussed the forces driving the rope horse market from the sellers perspective, Part 2 breaks that down even farther with J.D. Yates, Lari Dee Guy, Bert McGill and Dean Tuftin. These four—uniquely connected through the American Rope Horse Futurity Association market one way or another—talk with host Chelsea Shaffer about how they're addressing the rope horse market and its challenges in 2021, and how they see the rope horse industry growing and changing. This episode is brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If one good thing came out of 2020, it's the price of a good rope horse continues to climb—allowing more people to train horses for a living and support the sport of team roping as a whole. So to kick off Season 4 of "The Score", we want to talk about the trends driving the industry forward with wide slice of influencers. In this first part of our series, 26-time World Champion Trevor Brazile gives us his take on the forces at work in the market and where the market needs to go to remain sustainable. But this is a special episode with four featured guests, so from Brazile we move to Steve Friskup, who heads up Premier Horse Sales and is the horse industry’s master auctioneer. And from Friskup, we move to Jann Parker at Billings Livestock, who has 23 years in the horse sale business (and many before that buying and selling herself) and serves a diverse clientele. We’ll round out the show with Mark Smith, father of Clay, Jake and Britt Smith, who buys and sells dozens and dozens of rope horses every year. He’s based in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, and he’s got his finger on the pulse of the day-to-day recreational roper. This more informal, but highly informational episode is what we hope to carry on throughout this season, as we celebrate 750,000 downloads of this show. This inaugural episode is brought to you by our long-time partners at the Cinch Timed Event Championships, this year running from Thursday March 11 to Saturday March 13. The event pays out a $100,000 check to the handiest cowboy across five events, over five rounds. You’ll get to see guys like Russell Cardoza, Paul David and Jess Tierney, Erich Rogers, Clay Smith, Taylor Santos and Daniel Green duke it out in the heading, heeling, tie-down roping, steer wrestling and steer roping, and you’ll watch it all in the world famous Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma. And this year, the Timed Event is partnering with BFI Week to host the ultimate roper’s showdown. Less than 12 hours after crowning the Timed Event Champs, you’ll get to see the best ropers in the game go head-to-head over the BFI’s long score and strong cattle at the event’s new home in Guthrie. You won’t want to miss it. Get your tickets now at lazyetec.com, and we’ll see you in Guthrie.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colby Lovell and Paul Eaves tied Chad Masters and Wesley Thorp with 3.8-second runs in Round 9, worth 23,480.77 each in Round 9 of the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Colby Lovell and Paul Eaves made a 4.3-second run worth 26,230.77 world standings points each in Round 8 of the 2020 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Arlington, Texas's Globe Life Field. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jackie Crawford is the 2020 Women's Professional Rodeo Association World Champion with $47,185.32 in season earnings.This marks Crawfords' 20th WPRA world title, and the first awarded at the National Finals of Breakaway Roping at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas—on the same dirt that the National Finals Rodeo contestants are competing. Martha Angelone takes home the National Finals of Breakaway Roping Win and the Reserve World Championship title. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charly Crawford and Logan Medlin turned their Wrangler National Finals Rodeo around with a 3.8-second run in Round 7, worth 26,230.77 world standings points each.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first-ever National Finals of Breakaway Roping kicked off Dec. 8 in Arlington, Texas's Globe Life Field, and after eight rounds, Martha Angelone sits first in the average. We caught up with Angelone, Lari Dee Guy, Jordan Fabrizio and Jackie Crawford on this bonus edition of The Score.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cody Snow and Junior Nogueira got their first go-round win of the week in Round 6 with a 3.9-second run, worth 26,230.77 each, brought to you by CSI Saddlepads.That puts their six-round total at 56,115.39 world standings points each, and they are 12th in the average with a time of 27.90 on four head. Snow and Nogueira are third and fifth in the PRCA world standings with 125,343.45 and 114,199.36 won, respectively. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first-ever National Finals of Breakaway Roping has begun and we have three ladies to join us on The Score, brought to you by Cactus Ropes, Fast Back Ropes, Charlie 1 Horse Hats and Resistol. Jackie Crawford picked up $10,285.57 on her way to the average lead, including a first-round win that netted her the National Cowgirl Museum's Betty Gayle Cooper Ratliff Award for the fast-time in Round 1 with a 1.9-second run. She now has the lead in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association World Standings with $31,934.68. Canadian cowgirl Shelby Boisjoli sits second in the average with a time of 10.5 seconds on four head with $6,692.31 won. She's now seventh in the world standings with $18,638.54 on the year.Martha Angelone, of Stephenville, Texas, is third in the average on four head with a time of 10.6 seconds on four head, winning a go-round and earning $7,827 along the way. She entered the Finals third in the world and remains third, now with $23,392.57. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clay Smith and Jade Corkill tied the Round 5 record with a 3.6-second run, worth 26,230.77 world standings points each. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oklahoma's Brenten Hall and Montana's Chase Tryan stopped the clock in 4.2 seconds to win round 4 of the 2020 Wrangler NFR, worth 26,230.77 world standings points each.This episode is brought to you by Soft-Ride Equine Comfort Boots. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dustin Egusquiza and Travis Graves win back-to-back go-round buckles at the 2020 Wrangler NFR. They stopped the clock in round 3 in 4.2 seconds, worth 26,230.77 world standings points. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dustin Egusquiza and Travis Graves won Round 2 at the Wrangler NFR in Arlington, Texas, with a 3.8-second run at the Globe Life Field, moving them into the lead in the PRCA World standings.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Erich Rogers and Paden Bray roped their Round 1 NFR steer in 4.8 seconds to win the go-round and 26,230.77 in year-end-standings points each.This bonus episode is brought to you by Resistol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jake Smith's Ted will get the start in Round 1 of the 2020 National Finals Rodeo for 2017 World Champion Paul Eaves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this Giving Tuesday, we wanted to bring Pastor Jordan Weaver onto the show to talk about the dire need food banks are facing, and how team ropers are uniquely positioned to help as 2020 comes to a close. You’ve heard Jordan about the 1017 Project on this show before, but now they’ve expanded to Alvarado, Texas, and they’re bringing more meat to those facing food insecurity than ever before. This conversation is so near and dear to our hearts, and the sentiments and perspective Jordan shares are just the hope we needed today. If you only ever listen to one episode of The Score, we hope this is it. [Donate to The 1017 Project]Information on food insecurity and The 1017 Project: According to the USDA's latest Household Food Insecurity in the United States report, more than 35 million people in the United States struggled with hunger in 2019. Many households that experience food insecurity do not qualify for federal nutrition programs and need to rely on their local food banks and other hunger relief organizations for support.To date, The 1017 Project has donated over 130,282 lbs. of meat to food banks, shelters and pantries in Oregon, Arizona and Texas. (So far in 2020 donated over 42,000 lbs. from 128 head of cattle–19 head donated by ranchers)That’s 521,128 meals since 2014.The 1017 Project has over 50 food banks and pantries in rotation to receive beef each month. Since COVID began The 1017 Project has increased food bank donations by 200% Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bobby Joe Hill and his crew at Hill Rodeo Cattle cross somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 Corriente cattle from Mexico each year, and of those, only 60 (45 in three pens plus 15 extras) are making the trip to this year's Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Arlington, Texas.Bobby Joe has had a wild ride in 2020, just like most of the roping producers and cattle contractors in the business. He was on the line for roping steers for the Ariat World Series of Team Roping's Finale. That finale has been rescheduled to 2021, so he has a bunch of great, fresh steers heading to these Mega Qualifier events in Wickenburg, Arizona, in San Antonio, Texas, and Decatur, Texas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you say BONUS EPISODE? Yes, we did. This bonus episode of The Score is brought to you by our friends at Resistol and Charlie 1 Horse Hat Co. from Women's Week in Texas. On this episode you'll hear from all of the team roping and breakaway roping winners from the WCRA Rodeo's Women's Rodeo World Championships, The Cowgirl Gathering and a special interview with the Women's Professional Rodeo Associations 2020 All-Around World Champion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.