KNX News Radio Hero of the Week

I was interviewed by a reporter at KNX News Radio for their “Hero of the Week” segment.  Its an honor to be named “Hero of the Week” and the interview aired on the radio ten times over a four day period.  Hopefully it will drive additional traffic to the website and result in some new donors to the campaign.

World Series Qualifier Results

Good News!  My partner and I managed to qualify for the World Series of Team Roping Finals that will be held in Las Vegas in December.  We managed to win second place at last weekends qualifier which paid us over $3,000 in prize money.  By placing at the qualifier we are now qualified to compete at the December finals for some of the two million dollars in prize money that will be awarded. 

I’m excited about going back to the finals again this year, Las Vegas is one of favorite places to compete and you can’t find many roping’s that pay this kind of big money to the winners. 

New Horse

Well I finally managed to pick up a horse to replace my number two horse while his ligament injury heals up.  The new horse is a registered 10 year old paint from roping horse trainer Ray Siggins.  Ray sells some of the best roping horses you’ll see competing.  The paint horse is not championship caliber but he should be a good practice and back-up horse while my number two horse is out of commission.

CFO Magazine Article

CFO Magazine wrote an article about the Beverly Hills Cowboy in the May edition of their magazine.  The mangazine has over 600,000 readers so we might see a few donations as a result of the article.  Click on the link below to see the article (or copy and paste the address into your broswer).

http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11075921/c_11081639?f=magazine_alsoinside

I’m still looking for another horse to finish the season on.  I’ll be in Indio, California next week to ride a few horses and see if any of them are worth buying.   I’ve been roping at some of the local jackpot ropings the last couple of weeks and have managed to win a few hundred dollars.  With only one healthy horse, I can only enter each jackpot a few times.  I’m used to bring three horses to these ropings and having only one horse is really limiting the amout of times I can enter.

Horse Trouble

I was out of town on vacation with my family for 10 days and when I got back one of my horses had banged his knee and is limping.  I normally have three horses that I can practice and compete on but I recently retired one and with one horse limping it looks like I have only one horse to compete on at the present time. 

Having only one working horse is significantly limiting my ability to practice and enter up at the events.  Quality roping horses take years to train and are very hard to find.  Finding another horse that I can win on is not going to be easy or inexpensive.

The Roping Show

My appearance on The Roping Show with Tyler Magnus and several other media article’s has increased traffic to the website.  I’m hoping that at least some of you visiting the website will donate to this very important children’s cancer research project…… I’l post a link to my appearance in the near future.

Many thanks to Tyler and his sister Leah for inviting me to make an appearance on The Roping Show.  I learned a lot from Tyler, if you ever get a chance to go to one of roping clinics, grab it, the man can flat out teach roping. 

I did not get anything done at the USTRC Paso Robles event, it broke my string of 7 consecutive ropings where I at least received some prize money.  I will be going to a lot of local ropings over the next few weeks and the next big event is the USTRC San Luis Obisbo roping at the end of May.

USTRC Arizona Results

I won $300 in Arizona this past weekend.  I was hoping for a stronger showing but we drew some bad steers and one of my horses could have worked better.  I’ll put in some extra time in the practice pen this week prior to leaving to compete in Paso Robles this coming weekend.

Two Big Ropings coming up

This coming weekend I will be competing at the USTRC roping in Bullhead City Arizona and the following weekend I will be in Paso Robles, California…..There’s a lot of money up for grabs at these ropings and I hope to win some of it.  Some of my regular partners will not be traveling to these ropings so I will be on the lookout for some talented ropers to enter with.

Blazing Fast times get the Money!

I was competing on March 8th in Riverside California and had a fast time of 5.3 seconds on our first steer, 6 flat on the second with a leg and 6.38 on our third steer for a combined time of 17.68 seconds on three steers plus the leg…It was good for third place and the fast time totaled almost $700 donated to cancer research.  Not a bad day.  I was pretty happy with the 5.3 secod run.  I think its the fastest time I have every recorded in competition. 

Appearance on The Roping Show

Tyler Magnus and his sister Leah heard about the campaign and invited me to appear on The Roping Show.  I drove 8 hours to Casa Grande Arizona, which is home to the W&W Roping Camp and Arena.  Alan and Robin Ward make the W&W a great place to rope, a good sized arena, trailer hook-ups, plenty of stalls and good cattle make this an outstanding facility.  Tyler ran the roping clinic while Leah filmed every run made.  I really liked Tyler’s approach to teaching and I believe that my roping will improve as a result of participating in the clinic.  The show will air in 4 to 6 weeks and I’ll post the date when I get confirmation.  Thank you Tyler and Leah, you really helped kick off this campaign.