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

Red Bluff Round-Up ended Sunday night. Madison Camozzi ran a 17.44 in the barrel racing and took home $9,003 for the win. Makenna Shook clocked 17.45 on the same pattern, one hundredth of a second back, and cashed $7,203 for second. Paige Jones ran 17.51 to round out the podium at $5,852. That’s a three-woman spread of seven hundredths across the three fastest runs of the weekend.

Lefty Holman was the saddle bronc name of the night. The Visalia cowboy scored 87 aboard Bottoms Up Chuck of Powder River Rodeo. Holman sits fifteenth in the 2026 PRCA saddle bronc standings with $37,233, which puts him inside the bubble and looking to climb. He drew a horse he could ride and he rode it. That is how you move money in April.

Partial team roping results put Cory Kidd and Carson Johnson in Round 1. Full results across steer wrestling, tie-down, and bull riding were not finalized as of Sunday night. Those typically post to ProRodeo within forty-eight to seventy-two hours of the closing performance. The pattern at Red Bluff usually shakes out through Monday.

The All-Around picture, through Sunday, reads like this: Stetson Wright of Beaver, Utah has $201,996 on the year, more than twice what Wacey Schalla has built up in second at $102,543. Brushton Minton of Witter Springs, California is third on a $50,054 total. Marcus Theriot and Paden Bray round out the top five at $39,030 and $35,305, respectively. Wright is on the kind of pace that, extended, implies another world title in December.

The next stop is Clovis. The 112th Annual Clovis Rodeo runs Wednesday April 22 through Sunday April 26. Doors at five, first bell at six, all five evenings. The event dropped breakaway roping from the 2026 program following a contract dispute over prize money, that’s the reporting from SI’s rodeo desk two weeks back. Clovis and breakaway had been in a protracted negotiation that didn’t land. The seven standard PRCA events remain: bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, tie-down, steer wrestling, team roping, and women’s barrel racing. Mutton busting stays. Corey Kent plays the Wednesday concert. Josh Ross and Shane Profitt fill the other slots.

Clovis is, historically, the rodeo where California-based cowboys either make money or don’t. It’s close enough to home for most of the West Coast field that entry fees are cheap in relative terms, and the purse is large enough to matter in the standings. A win at Clovis can move a rider three spots in the bubble. A miss costs the entry fee and the plane ticket. For the cowboys sitting between thirteenth and seventeenth in their event, this is where the season starts to feel real.

Redding is next up after Clovis. The 77th annual runs May 13 through 16 with a $200,000-plus purse. It’s the last of the spring California stops before the summer run opens with Reno on June 18. The math cowboys do in their rigs between Clovis and Redding is the math that determines who sees Reno with momentum and who sees it needing one.

The contractors supplying Red Bluff this weekend were the names you’d expect. Growney Bros. out of Red Bluff itself. Bridwell Pro Rodeo, also Red Bluff. Four Star Rodeo Company out of Cottonwood, California. Flying U and Rosser Rodeo from Marysville. Calgary Stampede Ranch sent horses down. Flying Diamond and Corey & Lange Rodeo completed the pen. The gray Wild and Blue mare, a five-time NFR selection, was pulled for the short round by a local contractor and drew praise from the announce team. Her draw slot is always worth watching.

One quote from an unnamed rider in the COWGIRL Magazine preview of the California run is the line that sticks. “The cool thing about making these short rounds is this is where all the good horses are. It really makes you rise to the occasion. You’re only as good as your animal a lot of times. It’s nice when you get a good dancing partner.”

Whoever drew Bottoms Up Chuck at Red Bluff this weekend was dancing with a good partner. Holman rode him for 87 points. Those numbers are the whole story.

The closing window of Cinch Playoffs points for the regular season keeps moving toward October. Every check through now is money on the right side of the NFR cut line. The California run is two rodeos down, two to go, and then the engines fire for Reno. We’ll be in the grandstand at Clovis Wednesday.