Pro Rodeo News
- Most country music singers never dare to get on the back of a bucking horse or bull, or throw a loop in an arena or on a ranch.
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- Confidence leads to winning, and winning leads to confidence.
- Rodeo has a rich storied history that some say was born in 1869 when two groups of cowboys from neighboring ranches met in Deer Trail, Colo., to settle an argument over who was the best at performing everyday cowboy tasks, including breaking wild horses to ride ranch work – a common cowboy task that evolved into rodeo's saddle bronc riding event.
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- After a four-year absence from La Fiesta de los Vaqueros — The Tucson (Ariz.) Rodeo, Jess Pope returned with clear intent and left with the aggregate championship with 174 points on two head and earning a big paycheck.
- For the first time ever, all four Wright brothers qualified for a championship round together Saturday night at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo.
- After a 2025 season clouded by the uncertainty of whether he would ever ride bulls again due to injury, Jeter Lawrence returned to the chutes with something to prove.
- PRCA News & Notes from Feb. 23, 2026.
- Among NFR Qualifiers and some of the top bull riders in the world, 18-year-old Resistol Rookie Braxton Whitesell came out on top of the Brighton Field Days Festival Xtreme Bulls with a 91.5-point ride on 5 Star Rodeo's Bucknasty.
- A comeback is something fans look forward to see unfold. Twenty-year-old Jeter Lawrence delivered one worth remembering.
- Competing in the performance rounds at the Dixie National Rodeo for the first time, steer wrestler Garrett Oates made the most of the opportunity that came his way in Jackson, Miss., Feb. 21-22.
- The Rodeo world was shaken when it learned of the passing of 2024 WPRA World Champion Breakaway Roper Kelsie Domer, and her husband Ryan's toddler daughter on Feb. 19.