Competition of the week? That would be the steer wrestling at the Tulsa (Okla.) State Fair PRCA Rodeo. Wisconsin cowboy Nick Guy, a 2010 Wrangler NFR qualifier, won the thing in 3.3 seconds with Stewart Gulager, Gabe Burrows and Daniel Adams all a tenth-of-a-second back. Seven-time Wrangler NFR qualifier Stockton Graves was fifth in 3.5 and Jule Hazen’s 3.7 only earned him a sixth-place check.
Caleb Smidt, who was second in the 2011 Texas Circuit all-around standings to Trevor Brazile, did his best Brazile impression at the Oct. 6-8 Guadalupe County Fair & PRCA Rodeo in Seguin, Texas. Smidt won the team roping with Cole Davison in 4.8 seconds and then came back to edge Laughlin in the tie-down roping with a 7.5-second run. It allowed him to win the all-around title with $3,065, the biggest payoff at any of the weekend’s five PRCA 2012 regular-season rodeos. It was his second consecutive all-around win in Seguin.
Saddle bronc rider Rod Hay, a 20-time Wrangler NFR qualifier, hopes to be back in ProRodeo competition by next spring after a nearly two-year hiatus due to injury. Hay shattered the femur in his right leg where it enters the knee at the Daines Ranch Rodeo in Innisfail, Alberta, on June 20, 2010, and has undergone numerous surgeries since then. The most recent procedure came in the last week of September when Dr. Laurie Hiemstra scoped his knee and did some manipulation in an effort to improve the joint’s range of motion. “She broke away the scar tissue and some junk in there,” Hay told the Calgary Herald, “and while it was frozen, bent on it and gave it a good push back to give it more range.” Hay, who will turn 43 in January, said the strength in the leg has improved to about 70 percent and he is experiencing no pain.
The Brazile Watch: It would take something close to a record-breaking performance to do it, but Trevor Brazile will enter the Nov. 11-12 Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping with a chance to become the first ProRodeo cowboy to reach $1 million in career earnings in three separate events. Brazile has $1,985,501 in tie-down roping, $1,196,929 in team roping ($1,044,226 as a header) and $956,136 in steer roping. That puts him within $43,864 of the milestone. The NFSR earnings record is $46,500, set by Brazile in 2007.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“He can rope steers better than Michael Jordan could play basketball,”
– Eight-time World Champion Roy Cooper explaining to the Omaha World-Herald why he thinks Trevor Brazile is the best steer roper and the best all-around champion he has ever seen.
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