Ropers Sports News

08/03/2026

Congratulations to all the ladies
At the 2026 California's Richest! Huge shout out to Sutton the Average winner!! And congratulations to Danielle Porteur Johnson for 11 years of one of the best events in California. We are honored to attend and watch the greatest ladies on the west coast.

08/02/2026

The fun kicks off tomorrow! Join us for the All Star Team Roping Finals August 3-9, visit Lazye.com for more information.

08/01/2026

Pole bending is coming to the Premier Women's Rodeo Championship.

PWR announced that pole bending will officially join the competitive lineup at the 2027 PWR Championship, May 13 to 16, 2027, at Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth.

"The addition of pole bending represents exactly where Premier Women's Rodeo is headed," said PWR Commissioner Linsay Rosser Sumpter. "Our mission is to continue expanding opportunities for women by creating a championship that represents more of the incredible talent across our industry. Every new discipline we add opens another door for deserving athletes and builds a more inclusive home for cowgirls who are passionate about competing at the highest level."

PWR currently features breakaway roping, barrel racing, team roping, goat tying, ranch bronc riding, and bull riding. Pole bending makes seven.

Athletes begin qualifying for the inaugural PWR Pole Bending Showcase through the Virtual Rodeo Qualifier starting July 1, 2026. Competitors need a 2027 PWR ID Card through NextGen, then nominate eligible pole bending events at vrqapp.com. Nominated performances earn points toward championship qualification.

Additional qualifying details, approved event information, and the official Pole Bending Showcase format are coming through PWR's official channels.

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FORT WORTH, Texas. Premier Women’s Rodeo (PWR) is excited to announce that pole bending will officially join the competitive lineup at the 2027 PWR Championship, taking place May 13 to 16, 2…

08/01/2026

Roping is still alive in California, and the Fourth of July weekend at Taylorsville proved it.

Pacific Coast Shootouts brought its holiday production back to the Indian Valley Riding and Roping Club for three days of roping July 1, 2, and 3, and the ropers answered with a turnout north of 1,700 teams across the run.

Producer Steve Simons and Pacific Coast Shootouts hung 46 buckles and five saddles over the weekend, with none of the saddle money coming out of the ropers' pockets, thanks to sponsorship from S Bar J Cattle and Pacific Coast Shootouts. The roping ran on the Global Handicap and WSTR number system with two-thirds payback in cash and awards, and each day stood as its own separate roping.

Caden Lehman had a weekend, winning the #13.5 with Travis Stewart on an 18.16 and coming back Friday to sweep the top three spots in the #11 Handicap. Tucker Martson and Brent Marrell each took a High Money Saddle, and Gavin Cardoza picked up the High Money PCS Saddle.

Full results by day, money shown per man, at the link.

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#10.5 Hdcp Average Winners Dave Silva and Adrian Macias Roping is still alive in California, and the Fourth of July weekend at Taylorsville proved it. Pacific Coast Shootouts brought its holiday p…

08/01/2026

Some ropings are measured in checks and fast times. Jack Todd's memorial roping was measured in the friendships he left behind.

Born in Texas and raised in Ojai, California, Jack came to team roping through the local hands he met around town, and by the 1980s he was a fixture at the Barnard Ranch. When he settled in the Fillmore area in the 1990s, the Fillmore Roping Arena became his second home, and the Fontes, Smith, Kelly, Basolo, and Haller families became the kind of friends a cowboy ropes beside for life.

When the Tri-County Team Roping Association hit legal trouble and went dark in the late 1980s, Jack was one of the ropers who stepped up to save it. He helped put it back together in 1989 and served as its president through 1994, running events at the Fillmore Roping Arena, the Ventura County Fairgrounds, and the Santa Barbara Rodeo.

Jack passed on New Year's Day, 2026. On June 27 the Fillmore family gathered to rope in his memory, and everyone there will tell you he was watching from horseback aboard his favorite mount, Fresno, congratulating the hands who caught and laughing at the ones who missed, offering that familiar grin along with his standard verdict.

The day drew a tremendous turnout, 192 teams in the 5.5 handicap and down and 150 teams in the 7 handicap up and down. Ropers Sports News joins the roping community in thanking the Todd family for organizing the day and providing every trophy and award.

Full results at the link.

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Some ropings are measured in checks and fast times. Jack Todd’s memorial roping was measured in the friendships he left behind. Born in Texas and raised in Ojai, California, Jack came to tea…

08/01/2026

Some names carry their own weight into the box.

When Trey Camarillo nodded for his steer at the inaugural Calgary Stampede First Nations Rodeo and Relay, he brought one of the most storied names in team roping along with him.

Camarillo, son of the late Leo "The Lion" Camarillo, heeled his way to the team roping average title at the new event's finals on June 13 at GMC Stadium in Calgary. Roping behind header Jackson Louis, he stopped the clock at 16.67 seconds on two head, built on a 6.60 in the long go and a 10.07 that took the short round outright.

The roots run through California. Trey's grandfather Ralph Camarillo was the 1945 California State Rodeo Champion and the man who put ropes in the hands of Leo and his brother Jerold. Leo carried it to five world championships and into the inaugural 1979 class of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Every Labor Day the family honors him at the Leo Camarillo Memorial Roping during the Oakdale Ten Steer, in the original Cowboy Capital of the World, where Trey learned much of his trade under his uncle Jerold.

The event wrote its own first chapter too. Built in partnership with the Indian National Finals Rodeo as the INFR marks its 50th anniversary and shaped with guidance from Elbow River Camp Tipi Holder advisors of the Treaty 7 First Nations, it drew more than 8,150 fans and paid out $183,253.

Trey was not the only Camarillo on the grounds. His sister Cassie roped a 2.80 to place third in the ladies breakaway long go.

A brand-new tradition, a legendary name carried into it, and a heeler average that put a Camarillo back on top. The Lion would have loved this one.

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Some names carry their own weight into the box. When Trey Camarillo nodded for his steer at the inaugural Calgary Stampede First Nations Rodeo & Relay, he brought one of the most storied in te…

08/01/2026

Every gambler needs a ticket, and in the fastest-growing corner of rope horse competition, that ticket is a young horse.

The Old West Rope Horse Futurities built something that did not exist in this sport a few years ago. A season-long chase where a single four-year-old can win a million dollars, and the only way into the game is to buy your way in at the sale.

The rule that makes it tick: the bonus can only be collected by an Old West Sale graduate, and to claim it that graduate has to win a four-year-old championship outright. Not lead its group. Not place near the top. Beat every horse in the division.

The stakes have climbed fast. A three-year-old mare named Crosby Ray Von sold in Heber City for $1.7 million, the highest price ever paid for a Western performance horse at public auction. This past June the sale topper was Relentless Empire at $900,000, in a sale that moved $4.32 million across twenty-one head.

And the 2026 season ended the most dramatic way the format allows. Four sale graduates were still alive going into the deciding short round of the four-year-old heading, but the mare on top of the whole roping, Shes A Bossy Rebel, was not a graduate. She held her lead and won. No graduate won any division outright, so the million stayed in the pot.

Rhen Richard won the six-and-under heading on Sammis Big Gal and finished as top rider of the futurity at $186,488. Canada's Jeremy Buhler defended his six-and-under heeling title on DT Hickorys Evita.

The road is open. The only question is whether you want a horse on it.

Written by Dee Yates for the August/September issue of Ropers Sports News.

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07/31/2026

The World Series of Team Roping returned to the Rafter 3C Arena in June for the Double Down in Fallon, and the Ullman-Peterson Events crew again turned the air-conditioned complex into one of the richest weeks on the West Coast calendar.

Ropers of every number filled the day sheets across four days, chasing better than a quarter-million dollars in a full slate of World Series qualifiers, a trailer roping, all-girl and breakaway roping, muley ropings, over-40 divisions, and Hooey Junior BFI qualifiers.

The marquee runs belonged to a mix of Hall of Famers and Fallon's own. Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper topped the 15.5 with a 33.45 on the average, a reminder that the legendary duo still shows up and still wins. In the BFI Qualifier Open, three-time world champion heeler Jade Corkill, born and raised in Fallon, teamed with Clint Summers to take the title in 47.70 seconds, with Erich Rogers and Cory Petska second.

Martha Angelone doubled up, winning the Breakaway Roping with a 9.62 and adding a check heeling for Barrie Molina in the All-Girl Open, where Kaitlyn Torres and Haiden Thompson took the title. Emmett Silva won the 10 Trailer Roping and stayed busy all week, and junior standout Stix Lee stacked placings across the board.

Full results from every division at the link.

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07/31/2026

The biggest check of the week at the 2026 Premier Women's Rodeo Championship went home to Oakdale.

Rylee George stopped the clock at 1.93 seconds in the breakaway championship round at Cowtown Coliseum, the only sub-two-second run of the finals, and walked away with the $60,000 event title and a championship-week haul of $62,607.14. She did it on a gray gelding named Copper she picked up from Rickie Fanning back in mid-January, and she did it the hard way, grinding through the three-run aggregate to earn her spot on the final night rather than riding in on a bye.

"That's my biggest payout in one place," George said. It paid roughly two and a half times what she banked at the National Finals last December.

At $803,000, the PWR Championship stood as the richest women's-only rodeo in the world. Kenna Francis and Whitney DeSalvo took the team roping on a 6.15 for $60,000 apiece, their second win at the event. Kappie Bryant came in as the W26 No. 16 and owned the back half of the week to win the barrel racing Pro title. Mayce Marek won the goat tying showcase and the world championship crown. Carly Richardson covered both her broncs to win the ranch bronc riding, and Mady Eilert rode Lion Heart for 93.40 to edge her own twin sister for the inaugural PWR bull riding title.

Full championship-round and showcase results at the link.

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The biggest check of the week at the 2026 Premier Women’s Rodeo Championship went home to Oakdale. Rylee George stopped the clock at 1.93 seconds in the breakaway championship round at Cowto…