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The 2026 rodeo season · Filed from the chutes

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Pro rodeo runs nine official events. Roughstock: bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding (8-second clock, scored). Timed: tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping, steer roping (clock measured to the hundredth). All-around: same rider, two events, year-end money totaled.

The pro tour is sanctioned by the PRCA (men's seven events + breakaway) and the WPRA (barrel racing, breakaway, all-around). Season runs October to September. Top 15 in each event on regular-season earnings qualify for the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas (the NFR) every December. The pro tour pays roughly $50 million in regular-season prize money.

Below pro: NIRA (college, eleven regions, finals at CNFR in Casper each June), NHSRA (high school, state-by-state through the National Finals in Rock Springs), plus junior and little britches under the same umbrella.

The animal half: bucking stock (bulls and broncs) is its own discipline. Top contractors get paid to haul their string, and the animals get scored on the difficulty of the buck. See /stock for the season's leaders.

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The Beat

Dylan Hancock ranks seventh in tie down with $51,404 earned, inside the NFR cut. He heads to the Jasper County Rodeo in Texas and other upcoming events.

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PRCAStandings Snapshot

Who's in front.

Top three in every PRCA event. Live from the 2026 feed. PBR, WPRA, and NIRA standings live on the full board.

Next Rodeo

Major Rodeo · 2026

Reno Rodeo

Reno-Sparks Livestock Events Center · Reno, NV

Jun 18-27

The wildest, richest rodeo of the summer. Ten nights, a million in payout.

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Days to First Bell

The Memory of the Sport

Every world champion, 1929 to today.

Eight-hundred-plus gold buckles across every PRCA and WPRA discipline, 66 NFR aggregates, career timelines with earnings curves, year-by-year search, and the Pace-to-NFR calculator. Who wore it, who fought for it, who's projected to next.

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