The Team Roping Journal

Team Roping Journal educates and entertains readers who actively participate in the sport. We help you to obtain the best results with step-by-step instruction in how to perform at a higher level and win more often. After all, we all know that while the heart is in the land and on the ranch, the ego is alive and well when it comes to besting your friends in the arena.

Dear Roper

The Team Roping Journal

THANKS FOR THE RIDE

TEXAS HEAT

THE GRIPP

ROYAL CROWN’S ROCK SPRINGS FUTURITY PAYS $735,990 TO ROPERS IN AUGUST 2023

LOVE’S TRAVEL STOPS PARTNER WITH THE ARIAT WORLD SERIES OF TEAM ROPING AS THE OFFICIAL TRAVEL STOP • The Ariat WSTR and Love’s Travel Stops have aligned to give ropers the best fuel station rewards and experiences possible while traveling up and down the roads to team roping events.

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(At Home With) • Billy Bob Brown won back-to-back National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association team roping titles heading for Logan Medlin in 2013-14, and was in 2022 inducted into the Tarleton Rodeo Hall of Fame in Stephenvile, Texas. Brown, who just turned 32 on September 2, had a career-highlight win this summer at the Cheyenne (Wyoming Frontier Days Rodeo with fellow Texan Kirby Blankenship.

IF I WAS A YOUNG TEAM ROPER TODAY

LET’S SEE IT: TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EVERY VISUAL CUE

FROM CDS DROPS TO AHC ROPINGS • When John Tidwell spent a day in Afghanistan sitting on an IED, it’d been a minute since he’d roped, but he and his head horse are AHC-bond in November.

RUNNING AND ROPING • Sean Lehane and Todd Overstreet just ran the London Marathon. Now, they’re getting ready for the runs of their lives at the Ariat WSTR Finale XVII.

IT’S GETTING HOT AT THE TOP • The USTRC Resistol Jr. race is heating up with sizzling performances from new and familiar contestants alike.

CAROLINE TAYLOR KEEPS FIRST, TAKES LEAD IN CINCH LADIES RACE • Caroline Taylor holds onto her first-place standing in the race for the 2024 USTRC Cinch Ladies year-end award, but she’s done it by breaking out of a tie and establishing a definitive lead.

5 FLAT with Dean Tuftin • The DT Horses’ Circle Five days a week, Dean Tuftin and his crew circle the roping dummy and cattle to build their horses’ confidence and to provide a foundation for each and every horse in their program.

Next Level with Dustin Egusquiza

LEFT ELBOW, COIL AND REIN CONTROL • The way you hold your coils and your reins affects horsemanship as much as it affects your roping. Here’s how.

Freeze Frame

Fix It with Junior Nogueira

Inner Strength with Tanner Tomlinson

Game Plan with Jeremy Buhler

Big-Ticket Season • This fall, Roping.com will offer the $2.5-Million Riata Buckle Stallion Incentive from Guthrie, Oklahoma, as well as Patrick Smith’s new instructional video, Stay Driven.

JEREMY BUHLER’S BRUISER OF A HEEL HORSE THEY CALL HOSS • ‘Bigger than most head horses.’

UNDOCUMENTED • A rough estimate of the money won by some of roping’s highest-earning horses.

The Precursors • A HALF-CENTURY BEFORE THIS YEAR’S ARHFA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, ROPE HORSE FUTURITIES EXISTED

HEADING & HEADLINING • In 2010, Paul Bogart released a song, “The Cowboy Way,” that endeared itself to the truest of cowboys—the kind you just can’t see from the road. A few years later, he earned his first AQHA World Champion roping buckle. (It wasn’t his last.) Before, after, and in between, he has remained what he’s always been: A product of his roots.

THE SCORE