The Team Roping Journal

The Team Roping Journal magazine 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

MUSIC CITY MAGIC • Cody Snow and Hunter Koch won the inaugural Music City Rodeo in Nashville, Tennessee, May 29–31. With a 3.8-second run, they won $6,588 a man.

NOT DUN • Dun Jonezing and Clyde Bolejack won the ARHFA Old West Intermediate Pre Futurity Heeling for $25,000 in Heber City, Utah. Bolejack and the 2021 gelding by Travelin Jonez out of Legends Opal Rose and owned by Bill Porter were 908.96 on four.

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STEPHENVILLE STANDOUTS

THE 2025 RIATA'S $4 MILLION PAYOUT • association news | industry news | new products

TATE KIRCHENSCHLAGER AND ALMOST LOSTMY TICKET WIN 2025 OLD WEST HEADING FOR $100K • Tate Kirchenschlager and Almost LostMy Ticket had a life-changing win in the 2025 Old West Futurity Heading for $100,000.

JOSEPH HARRISON CROSSES $1 MILLION IN ARHFA EARNINGS WITH OLD WEST PRE-FUTURITY HEELING WIN • Joseph Harrison and Stunnerr's $50,000 win at the Old West Rope Horse Futurity landed Harrison in the ARHFA history book as the first $1 million rider.

SLR SWINGING HICKORY BECOMES WINNINGEST HEELING FUTURITY MARE WITH OLD WEST $100K WIN • SLR Swinging Hickory's $100,000 Old West Futurity Heeling win with Jeremy Buhler earned her the title of the winningest mare on the heel side of the rope horse futurity industry.

RHEN RICHARD GOES 1-2 IN OLD WEST PRE-FUTURITY HEADING FOR $50K WIN ON WATCH THE LANE • Rhen Richard dominated the 2025 ARHFA Old West Pre-Futurity Heading for over $90,000, highlighted by a $50,000 win aboard Watch The Lane.

At the Barrier | new products

(At Home With) • At 28, Marcus Theriot's been home changing things up a little. After rolling up the rodeo ranks with national titles in junior high, high school and college, the 2023 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo header and winner of the 2021 Cinch Timed Event Championship is spending more time at home in Lumberton, Mississippi this summer.

SHOULD THEY ROPE MULEYS AT MORE RODEOS?

COMPENSATIONS HAVE CAUSE AND EFFECT ON YOUR ROPING

BLOOD OF A COWBOY • Adam Pollard's cowboy roots and military grit fuel the MRCA's resurgence.

BIG BREAK: TANNER TOMLINSON • 2019 Corpus Christi Texas PRCA Rodeo

PRACTICE PEN • practice pen | freeze frame | horsepower

Freeze Frame

THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY RINGO • The Horse That Was Cesar de la Cruz's Favorite Outlaw.

Love of the game • What happens when a No. 10 heeler loses the use of his right arm? Not what you might think.

COWBOY CHRISTMAS LONG GAME • How Clint Summers and Jade Corkill were nearly perfect as the top earners of Cowboy Christmas.

The Horse That Broke the Internet • CROSBY RAY VON BROKE THE PUBLIC AUCTION RECORD FOR A WESTERN PERFORMANCE HORSE PROSPECT.

Final Thoughts