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Buckin' Rodeo covers pro rodeo, college rodeo (NIRA), high school rodeo (NHSRA), the eleven PRCA circuits, bucking stock and the contractors who raise them, music, culture, and lifestyle from the road. Editorial desk, Nashville. Nashville, Tennessee.

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Kassie Mowry, $40,745 clear in barrel racing Pro

Kassie Mowry, $40,745 clear in barrel racing

The gap reads $40,745. The summer will say whether it holds.

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Who survives the breakaway roping top 15

Inside and outside the NFR cut line with months of Cowboy Christmas left to run.

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Stetson Wright leads Rusty Wright by $4,098 at the top of saddle bronc riding Pro

Stetson Wright leads Rusty Wright by $4,098 at the top of saddle bronc riding

$4,098 separates them at the top of saddle bronc riding, the whole summer run still to settle it.

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Tyler Tryan is rolling: $12,510 added, team roping #12

Up to #12. $12,510 clear of where he started last weekend.

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Tie-Down Roping, week 25: Riley Webb on top

Riley Webb is $33,334 clear of Kincade Henry. The chase starts now.

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Barrel Racing: Kassie Mowry keeps stretching it Pro

Barrel Racing: Kassie Mowry keeps stretching it

Kassie Mowry files $40,745 between themselves and Latricia Duke.

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Eyer Morrison put together a $12,880 week, now #25 in bull riding

$12,880 in a week. Eyer Morrison reads the schedule and goes.

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Hali Williams has built a $37,375 cushion in breakaway roping Pro

Hali Williams has built a $37,375 cushion in breakaway roping

Inside the cut by a wide margin. $37,375 on the room.

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Tee Mcleod is rolling: $6,636 added, team roping #36

$6,636 in a week. Tee Mcleod reads the schedule and goes.

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Bareback Riding's NFR bubble is a knife fight Pro

Bareback Riding's NFR bubble is a knife fight

The top 15 is not a wall. It is a door that swings both ways every weekend.

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Kassie Mowry sits $40,745 above the cut in barrel racing Pro

Kassie Mowry sits $40,745 above the cut in barrel racing

$40,745 on Latricia Duke, with three months of Cowboy Christmas to bend the standings.

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Rocker Steiner leads Bradlee Miller by $4,688 at the top of bareback riding Pro

Rocker Steiner leads Bradlee Miller by $4,688 at the top of bareback riding

$4,688 separates them at the top of bareback riding, the whole summer run still to settle it.

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Hali Williams runs the breakaway roping board Pro

Hali Williams runs the breakaway roping board

Eight rodeos a weekend ahead, Hali Williams controls the breakaway roping race.

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Bareback rider Cody Kiser uses Tucson Rodeo role to rail against oral cancer

The bull stepped on his face, breaking all the bones in its left side. Kiser’s jaw was broken in two places and had to be wired shut. <strong>Through plastic su

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Wacey Schalla Carried Out of Arena After Scary Wreck in Nashville

... <strong>Wacey Schalla</strong>, an up and coming star in both the bareback riding and bull riding was involved in a scary wreck in the bull riding at the Mu

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Disco Party is the one to draw in the bareback

Disco Party out of Calgary Stampede keeps marking riders into the 90s.

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Disco Party marked three riders into the 90s

Calgary Stampede's bareback horse went to the 90s three straight times this winter, under Tilden Hooper, Wacey Schalla, and Rocker Steiner.

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Riley Webb's 6.5 at Houston was the fastest tie-down of the year

Webb roped and tied in 6.5 seconds at RodeoHouston for $65,000, the quickest calf-roping run of 2026.

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Noah Lee has been the most consistent bull rider of the winter

Lee marked 93 on Pete Carr's Smokey Joe and stacked three more rides at 91, the steadiest book in the bull riding.

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Zeke Thurston has the high mark. The Wrights have the rest.

Thurston's 91.5 on Beutler & Son's Green Bay tops the saddle bronc season. Behind it, the Wright family stacked the board.

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Two 3.2 runs at Rodeo Austin set the team roping pace

James Arviso and Rance Doyal, and Junior Nogueira and Kaleb Driggers, both stopped the clock at 3.2 in Austin.

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Kassie Mowry owns barrel racing, $41,520 to second Pro

Kassie Mowry owns barrel racing, $41,520 to second

Kassie Mowry is $41,520 clear of Latricia Duke. The chase starts now.

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San Angelo produced the two best bareback rides of the year

Keenan Hayes and Toby Deudney both marked 93 at the Cinch Chute-Out, the high bareback scores of 2026.

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RodeoHouston was the big barrel payday, and Kassie Mowry won it

Mowry's 14.19 in Houston was worth $65,000, the richest barrel check of the winter. Hailey Kinsel and LaTricia Duke followed.

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Jesse Brown's 3.1 leads a fast year in the bulldogging

Brown's run at the High Desert Stampede is the quickest steer wrestling time of 2026. Brighton Field Day was the fastest arena.

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Chet Herren's 8.7 is the only sub-9 steer roping run of the year

Herren tied his steer in 8.7 seconds at the National Circuit Finals, the fastest of 2026. A wall of 9.1s sits behind him.

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Four riders, one barrel racing seat at the bottom of the cut Pro

Four riders, one barrel racing seat at the bottom of the cut

Inside and outside the NFR cut line with months of Cowboy Christmas left to run.

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The breakaway clock stopped at 1.9 this winter

Grace Beth Sutton and Ashley Weber tied for the fastest breakaway run of the season at 1.9 seconds.

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The bull riding bubble is getting mean

A few thousand dollars separates a season from a near miss.

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Stetson Wright Is Chasing a Triple Crown. He's Already $200,000 Ahead of the Field. Pro

Stetson Wright Is Chasing a Triple Crown. He's Already $200,000 Ahead of the Field.

An 89 on Womanizer in Round 3 at Houston. A bull-riding title in San Antonio. The 2026 All-Around lead by $100,000 over Wacey Schalla. This is what a comeback looks like.

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Red Bluff Wraps, Clovis Opens Thursday: The California Run's Middle Weekend Pro

Red Bluff Wraps, Clovis Opens Thursday: The California Run's Middle Weekend

Madison Camozzi pulled the barrel-racing win. Lefty Holman scored 87 on a Powder River horse. Stetson Wright still leads the All-Around by a hundred grand.

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State Finals Open Next Month. The Road Ends in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 19. High School

State Finals Open Next Month. The Road Ends in Lincoln, Nebraska, July 19.

NHSRA pulls 1,500 kids from 44 states and four foreign countries through the Sandhills Global Event Center this summer. The names in that arena are the names the PRCA will be booking five years from now.

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Stephenville to Casper: College Rodeo's Spring Regional Grinder Hits April College

Stephenville to Casper: College Rodeo's Spring Regional Grinder Hits April

The CNFR is eight weeks out. Fort Hays opens its 60th annual this weekend. Tarleton already has a men's and women's team title from Fort Worth. The back door to the PRCA runs through these regional meets.

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Eleven in a Row: Frontier Rodeo Just Tied the All-Time PRCA Stock Contractor Record Stock

Eleven in a Row: Frontier Rodeo Just Tied the All-Time PRCA Stock Contractor Record

Jerry Nelson's program in Freedom, Oklahoma has matched Harry Vold and Stace Smith. Nobody thought that was a record anyone would catch.

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Three South Texas Farmers Started a Rope Company in 1991. They Took a Decade to Turn a Profit. Now Trevor Brazile Designs for Them. Gear

Three South Texas Farmers Started a Rope Company in 1991. They Took a Decade to Turn a Profit. Now Trevor Brazile Designs for Them.

Cactus Ropes is how you build a rodeo-equipment brand that matters. The Future is the line Brazile spent a year testing before it shipped.

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80,203: Cody Johnson Just Broke a RodeoHouston Record George Strait Had Held for Six Years Music

80,203: Cody Johnson Just Broke a RodeoHouston Record George Strait Had Held for Six Years

A PRCA card-holder from Sebastopol, Texas closed the 2026 rodeo at NRG Stadium with the biggest concert-only crowd in the event's ninety-four-year history. And he's got a new album coming in June.

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