To start Round 3 of the 2023 Wrangler NFR, singer-songwriter Kodi Lee, winner of America’s Got Talent, gave a beautiful, piano performance to pay respect to the rodeo athletes we have lost.
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The Lea County Fair and Rodeo in Lovington, New Mexico paid nearly $250,000 for four days of action from August 3-6. It was a one-header in barrel racing and the roughstock event and a two-header in the timed events.
Things are tightening up in the Bareback standings with nine cowboys within $27,000 of first place.
It was a matchup Zeke Thurston had been waiting for and he took advantage. The two-time World Champion went 88 points on Bridwell Pro Rodeos’ Beaver Bend to take the opening round in Hermiston.