Rapid City Wrap-Up
Once Again the Steer Wrestlers from the Cornhusker state performed well at a winter rodeo. During the Black Hills Stock Show in Rapid City five different bulldogger fielded financial success on the first stop of the Wrangler Million Dollar Tour. Round 1 had Valentine’s Linn Churchill place second while McCook’s Garrett Nokes and Nebraska native Todd Suhn shared third place money. In round 2 it was 5X Linderman award winner Kyle Whitaker from Chambers place 3rd and I watched Jeff Johnston of Seneca stop the clock in 3.7 on Friday night which was good enough for 6th.
Kyle’s efforts captured 2nd in the average to win over $3000.00 for the rodeo. Suhn also cashed in the average. Currently Suhn is in 10th place in the PRCA world standings and Kyle’s early season success finds him in 15th place.
The team roping had rodeo legend Paul Tierney add to his career earnings. Tierney, a native of Broken Bow NE, was recently inducted into the Professional Rodeo Hall of Fame, was able to place in the average and win a little over $1000.00. Tierney’s sons, Jesse and Paul David outdid him though winning $2825.00 placing second in round 2. Arthur native Bret Trenary placed in a round and the average to win about $2800.00,
The only success in the tie down roping came from Alliance native Ryan Watkins. Watkins who is fresh off of his first Wrangler National Finals placed 6th in a round.
She’s Back!!! I’m talking about 67 year young June Holeman of Arcadia Nebraska. This grand lady of rodeo took her veteran horse Sparky to a place she has had success before and was able to place in both rounds and second in the average for grand total winnings of $3629.00. Nobody is a bigger June fan than I am. Even at 67 the other contestants don’t outwork her or put forth a better effort than June. Go June Go!!! Rachael Reichenburg of Hershey was able to place right behind June in round 3 and win $1183.00.
Maybe your wondering where is 2006 World Champion Dean Gorsuch this season. I can tell you he’s close. He was one place out of winning money in both Denver and Rapid City. Hopefully he can earn the big money up for grabs in San Antonio.
Stay tuned to this blog. It won’t be long and we will be talking about Nebraska’s great youth rodeo programs. As cold as its been we are a little over 2 month away from spring rodeo. So the rope the dummys and get the horses legged up and we’ll talk to you later.
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Western Regards,
Travis Schauda
