A barrel racer earns as much as a team roper.Ĭogburn, of Guthrie, has decided to fight for equal money for the women and has established a protest group called the NFR-Barrel Racing Fan Club. The women were able to find a sponsor to donate $15,240 to the 1985 purse bringing it equal to only half of the men's cheapest event team roping. The prize money for the women's barrel race was $148,885, a difference of $113,715. Cogburn was a popular rodeo clown who from under his rainbow grease paint, floppy hat and baggy pants, watched the sport of rodeo evolve.īut Cogburn has also noticed that while cowboys are earning more and more money at the nation's largest rodeo event, the National Finals Rodeo the cowgirl barrel racers must settle for less.Īt the 1985 NFR rodeo at Las Vegas, the men's individual events, all but team roping had total prize money of $262,600. Next weekend will see only one event on the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association schedule – the Benalto Stampede, July 7-9.For 30 years D.C. Massey’s huge weekend, $22,721 in total, will propel him into the top five of the Canadian standings, leaving just the rodeo count box to check to ensure a trip to Red Deer, home of the CFR, in November.Īmong the other big winners for the weekend were reigning Canadian Tie-Down Roping Champion, Ty Harris, with $22,032 in total money won including a Ponoka win, veteran barrel racer, Dona Kay Rule who amassed $15,278 at three Canadian stops-Ponoka, the historic Raymond Stampede and Airdrie Pro Rodeo, and a trio of Canadian team roping brother combinations who all made five-digit weekend hauls-Dawson and Dillon Graham with $13,890, Tyce and Tuftin McLeod with $12,174, and Logan and Keely Bonnett with $11,909. “The horses are working good, I’ve been drawing good and I’ve got a ton of confidence every time I back into the box… and that’s how you win,” he said. It’s been a spectacular season as Massey vies for a first trip to the NFR. Riding Stephen Culling’s horse, Buck, Massey bulldogged the steer in 4.6 seconds for a comfortable margin of victory over the only other man to record a time in the Showdown round, fellow American JD Struxness who was 10.8 for second place. “He wasn’t my favourite steer, that’s for sure, but a few things went wrong with that first run and I knew I could do better on him,” he said.Īnd that’s exactly how it played out for the 2023 Rodeo Houston Champion. The Oregonian drew the same steer he’d had for the short round earlier in the day. I’m rodeoing with some Canadians and they know how to make it work up there.”ĭalton Massey at Ponoka Stampede 2023 (Billie-Jean Duff) I think it would be pretty cool to be there and have a Canadian back number on my wall at home. “I have six so far and I’ll probably never have a better opportunity to get to the CFR. “I’m going to try to get my rodeo count in up here (15 to qualify for the Canadian Finals Rodeo),” said Massey. Massey then added $4,661 for a 2-3-4 split at the Williams Lake Stampede (another SMS Pro Tour event) for a weekend haul that might result in his having to alter his schedule for the remainder of the regular season. Oregon cowboy, Dalton Massey, brought his Showdown round steer down in 4.6 seconds to collect the $9,750 bonus check as he too topped $18,000 in Ponoka earnings. It’s darn sure my favorite rodeo.”Īt the other end of the arena, the world’s number one steer wrestler was enjoying similar success in his event. This is one of the best rodeos you’ll ever go to. “This is top five rodeos of the year in the entire world it doesn’t matter where you go. With a sparkling resume that already includes three Canadian and World championships, the win Sunday gives Thurston a third Ponoka championship too, along with an $18,000 boost in the standings. You get one that bucks hard like that and you just try to keep the aggression at an all-time high, and the composure level.” “This winter that horse got five NFR bronc riders in a row, and went unridden. They’ve got her here, and she did pretty good, I’d say,” said Thurston. That horse has been going through the steps the last few years and she’s ready to go on to bigger stages. “It’s a process to build a bucking horse, just like it’s a process to turn yourself into a bronc rider. Thurston, who turns 29 in two weeks, has been watching the seven-year-old horse he rode come into its own in the broncs pen. Zeke Thurston celebrates at Ponoka Stampede after winning his third Ponoka championship.
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