![]() ![]() ![]() The five-day event will be held July 19-24 in Salt Lake City. (Photo by Andy Watson/Bull Stock Media)ĪUSTIN, Texas – World Champions Rodeo Alliance (WCRA) and the Days of ’47 Rodeo (DO47) are pleased to announce that for the first time in history the discipline of women’s breakaway roping will be featured at the Komatsu Equipment Days of ’47 Cowboy Games & Rodeo presented by Zions Bank. * The Pile ‘O Bones Regina Pro Tour event will be live streamed at FloRodeo.WCRA Breakaway roper Jackie Hobbs-Crawford made history at the WCRA Windy City Roundup, a one-day $1,000,000 major rodeo when she made a 2.2-second run and earned more than $52,000, setting the record for the highest payout ever at the time for a single event in the sport. This week’s CPRA action will take rodeo athletes to High Prairie, Alberta August 2-3, Regina, Saskatchewan (SMS Equipment Pro Tour Rodeo) August 5 and 6, Grimshaw, Alberta August 6 and 7 and La Crete, Alberta August 9 and 10. Head over to to view the latest results and standings. Cooper entered the weekend in 25thplace in the Canadian standings but will see his name among the top ten in the updated standings courtesy of his productive end-of-July successes. He equaled that 8.4 at the iconic (and lucrative) Strathmore event to add a fourth-place cheque of $4318, to bring his weekend haul to $8934. Two of those rodeos-the Medicine Hat Stampede and the Strathmore Stampede-are part of the SMS Equipment Pro Rodeo Tour.Ĭooper recorded an 8.0 second run for the win at Medicine Hat and $2952 and followed that up with an 8.4 to top the field at the historic Bruce Stampede for another $1664. The second generation timed event hand, who has worked alongside and under the tutelage of 2013 World Champion and four-time Canadian titleist, Shane Hanchey, hit the pay window at all three Canadian stops on the weekend’s rodeo schedule. On a weekend that saw major changes to the standings in virtually every event, another Canadian cowboy who made a big move was Stettler, Alberta tie-down roper, Beau Cooper. ![]() ![]() I might be able to take a week or so in the fall to do some hunting but other than that, I’ll be going hard right to the end of the year.” I’m home for one day and then it’s back on the road. “It’s relaxing to know I’ve probably got both finals (CFR and WNFR) made so it’s going to be fun for the rest of the season but my plan doesn’t really change. I was shocked at first and it still hasn’t totally sunk in, but it’s cool to be part of history and I’m proud for sure.”Īs for what the win and the remarkable July successes mean to the Canadian talent, he was very clear. “I was there when my brother (Dawson) equaled the record, so, yeah, I knew. The older of the brilliant Hay brothers combination knew he had eclipsed the previous record as soon as he heard the score. But she was fast and electric, just a flat-out great bucking horse and I figured we were going to be a bunch. It was a fist fight the whole way, and I honestly didn’t know what it looked like. “I didn’t know from about the second jump on whether I was going to make another jump or not. “With a horse like her, it’s gonna work maybe fifty per cent of the time and the other fifty per cent you’re gonna hit the ground and you don’t even know what you did wrong,” Hay pointed out. Xplosive Skies is a twelve year-old mare from the Calgary Stampede’s Born to Buck program and is equally proficient in both saddle bronc and bareback riding as evidenced by her 2021 PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year Award. Zeke (Thurston) was 93 on her to win it last year and she’s the rankest horse I’ve ever seen.” “She was the one every one of the guys in the final would have picked. “You get to pick your horse for the final four based on high score going in so I got to pick first,” he noted. And while not all of that money counts in both CPRA and PRCA season standings, the Bronc Match win provides a significant boost in both sets of standings.īut Hay’s first thought after the record-setting ride was for the horse that carried him to that record. The win was worth $14,922 and brought the July earnings total for the twenty-five year-old superstar to $93,000, including long-go and aggregate wins at the Ponoka Stampede and a fifty thousand dollar final Sunday payday at the Calgary Stampede. Logan Hay, the third generation bronc rider from Wildwood, Alberta, wrote a new chapter in rodeo’s history book when he spurred his way to a world record 95.5 points on the spectacular Calgary Stampede mare, Xplosive Skies to win the Hardgrass Bronc Match in Pollockville, Alberta. It was a ride to remember. It was a month to celebrate. ![]()
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