Riding bulls is a dangerous business, Part 321: Chandler Bownds suffered a separated right shoulder and Ardie Maier fractured facial bones while competing at Omaha, and Brandon Sartin is out 4-6 weeks with a fractured orbital bone and facial lacerations that he received at Texarkana, Ark. Bownds injury was characterized as a Grade 2 AC sprain, and should not keep from competing in his first Wrangler NFR. He is the first rookie to qualify for Las Vegas in the bull riding since Douglas Duncan in 2008.
In the biggest steer roping of the regular season’s final week, in Amarillo, Texas, Cody Lee won the three-head average and a total of $3,259. That pushed him over $60,000 for the season and – for the first time in PRCA history – four ropers will go to the Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping in Guthrie, Okla., with $60,000 in regular season earnings: Trevor Brazile, Vin Fisher Jr., Rocky Patterson and Lee. Patterson won the final steer roping event of the regular season, in Anadarko, Okla., Sept. 25, and will go to the NFSR in second place, trailing Brazile by $11,451.
Clovis Crane, who works with race horses when he is away from rodeo, knows a little bit about hitting the trifecta. The Lebanon, Pa., roughstock cowboy finished the Cowtown Rodeo season in Woodstown Pilesgrove, N.J., as the overall champion in bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and the all-around. He put a nice cap to his Cowtown year by winning both the bareback riding and the saddle bronc riding in the season finale on Sept. 24.
The Brazile Watch: Trevor Brazile won the all-around title at the New Mexico State Fair Rodeo in Albuquerque with $4,364 – largely on the strength of winning the two-head average in the tie-down roping – and banked another $3,344 in tie-down roping at the Justin Boots Championships in Omaha. That brought his season total to $239,505 as he moves toward his record ninth all-around gold buckle. He has qualified for the national finals in all three of his events, steer roping (first in the world standings), tie-down roping (third) and team roping-heading (12th).
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