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

BATTLE-TESTED

BACK-TO-BACK

PAINT THE TOWN GRAY

RECORD-SETTER

NEW MEXICO OR BUST

EQUINE NETWORK FORMS WESTERN SPORTS GROUP

A PAINTED SUNSHINE AND TATE KIRCHENSCHLAGER BURST ONTO SCENE WITH 2023 ARHFA HEADING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

SEVENS STAR GLO AND CADE RICE REIGN SUPREME FOR SECOND ARHFA HEELING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

INFR CROWNS WORLD CHAMPS

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(At Home With) • South Carolina native Luke Brown will this month rope at his 14th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. The three-time NFR average champ qualified for 13-straight Super Bowls of Rodeo from 2008 to 2020 before missing the Top-15 cut the last couple years. He’s 49 now, and ready to return to Vegas and spin for 26-year-old Hunter Koch at the Thomas & Mack. Brown, who’s won more than $2.5 million heading steers, now makes his home in Lipan, Texas, with his wife, Lacy, and 9-year-old daughter, Libby

MY LAST NFR WAS JUNIOR NOGUEIRA'S FIRST

HORSES IN THE THOMAS & MACK

DESIGNED BY DAN STEWART • Dan Stewart didn’t join the team roping community before he was 30, but he left a legacy of industry-best innovations that changed the sport forever.

FROM ABBEY GATE TO THE CHUTE GATE • Marine Corps veteran Ralph Saults survived the Abbey Gate explosion at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport in 2021. He saw 11 countries in his four years of service but, at 22, he’s ready to return to his rodeo roots.

THE MINORS • Riley and Brady Minor won the 2004 US Open at the USTRC’s National Finals of Team Roping long before they were household names. Here’s how the win changed the trajectory of their careers.

AT MID-SEASON, THE RESISTOL JR. MEN ARE ON THE MOVE • Colt Hilley and Houston Childers remain No. 1 this month, but on both ends of the USTRC Resistol Jr. standings, the race for the top is rocketing upward.

HOLLY CHILDERS HITS TOP 3 IN HEADING WHILE KYRA HENDREN HOPS TO NO. 2 HEELER • The leaders in the USTRC Cinch Ladies heading and heeling standings hold going into November, but ropers like Georgia’s Holly Childers and New Mexico’s Kyra Hendren have them in their sights.

5 FLAT with Wesley Thorp Following Your Steer's Tracks

Next Level with Brad Lund

THROWING WITH CONFIDENCE • For a high catch percentage in high-pressure situations, don’t get lost in your swing.s

Freeze Frame

Inner Strength with Marcus Theriot • Marcus Theriot—son to 10-time NFR tie-down and two-time NFR steer wrestler dad Herbert—discusses the mental fortitude it took to make his first NFR in not only his weakest event, but rodeo’s most competitive event.

Game Plan with Patrick Smith

Fantasy Factory • 9X NFR Heeler Cesar de la Cruz Joins Roping.com with Start-to-Finish, “Fantasy Factory” Heeling Series

BEGAY IS SET TO RIDE 'THE SORREL' AT 10TH NFR • ‘He draws good. That’s his best trait.'

When the Fellows Faced • From the sanctuary of their southern Arizona ranch and studio, renowned artist couple Fred and Deborah Fellows recall a life blessed by team ropings, rodeo, and representing the way of the West through their works.

It's Gold Buckle GO TIME IN VEGAS • The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

2023 Rodeo-Horse Report • Each year, we pull together the pedigrees of every horse that did the dirty work during the regular season to get their cowboys to...