The CTEC is one of rodeo’s most grueling competitions, demanding performances in five events: team roping heading, team roping heeling, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, and steer roping. Over the ...

Dec. 26—A Central High teen made it to the team roping championships in Las Vegas this month. Wesson Parker, 17, and a Central High School senior, took on the Junior World Team Roping Finals from Dec.

Ryan Motes grew up in a successful rodeo family and knows that large winner’s checks are hard to earn. His father, David, snared the team roping world title in 1977, and his uncle, Dennis, qualified ...

The team roping roster for the 2025 National Finals Rodeo is nothing short of stacked. World champions like Kaleb Driggers, Junior Nogueira and Wesley Thorp will all make a return to the Thomas & Mack ...

With the rise in rope horse futurities, we have seen a huge growth in the industry. With that growth, the development of breeding has also progressed. We see some of those changes in the 2024 NFR heel ...

The 2025 win marked Yates' 49th AQHA World Championship. With a 230-point run, the pair earned the golden globe and $25,537. Smooth As Catty is a 2018 gelding by Real Smooth Cat and out of Shes A ...

The National Finals Rodeo (NFR) is drawing near and these athletes have been working all season long to see who deserves the World Champion title in each event. As the rodeo community gears up for the ...

Cesar de la Cruz calls his first trip to the National Finals Rodeo, a "team effort." Cruz is quick to credit his roping partner and lifelong friends Colter Todd, his horse Johnny Ringo and all the ...