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

NATIONAL CHAMPS

PAY DAY

REAL DEAL

CHEYENNE WSTR SUPER QUALIFIER "THE DADDY" PAYS $1.7 MILLION • The Daddy smashed every record for regular-season ropings in 2024.

KALEB DRIGGERS & JUNIOR NOGUEIRA SHATTER COWBOY CHRISTMAS TEAM ROPING RECORD WITH $47K IN 2024

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(At Home With) • At 35, Tanner Braden is making a charge at his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo back number. The Prairie Circuit Cowboy, who makes his home in Dewey, Oklahoma, with his wife, Jade, and kids, Lexi, 12, Rian, 9, and Brenten, 4, is hoping this is the year he clears the hurdle between him and the bright lights of Vegas in December.

TURNING THE STRUGGLE BUS AROUND

ROPING CAN BE HARD ON YOUR HEAD

USTRC RESISTOL JR. HEELERS SURGE IN LATEST STANDINGS UPDATE • Heelers in the 2025 USTRC Resistol Jr. Champion race went to work in June and July, with movement in four of the Top 5 positions.

HEADER SHAWNEE MURPHY CLAIMS NO. 1 SPOT ON 2025 USTRC CINCH LADIES STANDINGS • Shawnee Murphy moves to No. 1 in the heading while Jimmi Jo Montera remains the top heeler in the 2025 USTRC Cinch Ladies Year-End Award race, with big moves throughout the Top 5.

5 FLAT with Billie Jack Saebens • RIDING THE SLIDE ON THE NOTORIOUS BIG Is that fancy stop just for show?

Next Level with Joseph Harrison

Next Generation Perspective • As we’re working on this month’s column, I’m on my way between watching my son Treston rope at the National High School Finals Rodeo and the Old West Futurity in Utah. Watching all those kids do battle at the NHSFR left me with a few takeaways.

Freeze Frame

JUST MEANT TO BE: COLEMAN PROCTOR & JESSE JAMES • “When the chips are down, he always has my back."

Fight For the NFR Finish Line • Living Legends Weigh In With Wisdom

Gone D'Arc • On the eve of the inaugural online sale that would introduce the greater equine market to their heritage horse program and their brand, Bois D’Arc Bleu, Tierney Perkins was suddenly widowed. Now, in memory of her beloved husband, Kolt, and out of devotion to their two young sons, Tierney is preserving the legacy he was building, horse program and all, one day and one horse at a time.

RIATA: 2024's Richest Ariat World Series of Team Roping Finale Qualifier • In just its third year, the Riata is now the Ariat World Series of Team Roping’s largest qualifier, and when it concludes its Sept. 25-29, $3.5 million event at the Lazy E in Guthrie, Oklahoma, it will be one of the top three largest ropings in the world.

All the Pretty Horses

THE SCORE