Bareback Riding
Due to injuries stacking up over the years, the California cowboy is staying home until ’25.
South Dakota’s Shane O’Connell’s trip to the NFR Open got started right.
The No. 3 ranked bareback rider in the World gets things rolling at the Calgary Stampede.
Over the last three years, Jess Pope has been impossible to ignore in the bareback riding world. After winning consecutive NFR Average titles in 2020 and 2021, he now leads the PRCA World Standings in 2022 after a win in Houston.
For the third straight time, Caleb Bennett was the bareback riding champion at Rodeo Austin. On Saturday, he did it with 87 points on South Suds of Beutler & Son.
After winning RodeoHouston less than a week ago, Jess Pope showed no signs of slowing down by winning the first performance at the High Desert Stampede by 6.5 points.
Jess Pope won RodeoHouston to continue adding to a terrific young career that already includes two NFR Average titles.
Jacob Lees hustled from Houston to Austin where he ended up taking the lead with 88.5 points. Janie Johnson caught up with the new leader.
Commotion was a legendary Beulter & Son bucking horse that bucked off about 75 percent of his riders, went to the NFR nine times and was Bareback Horse of the Year three times in a row.
There were three horses that were marked 46 points or higher in the bareback riding last week.
Reigning World Champion Kaycee Feild has won the two biggest rodeos of the year so far.
The Resistol Rookie Race is underway and right now in the bareback riding the top spot belongs to Waylon Bourgeois.
After five brackets of competition, the field at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo has been whittled down to 20 people per event. Here is a look at the bareback riders moving on.
Cole Franks rode for 87.5 points on Friday night in Jackson, Mississippi, making it two straight performances the bareback riding lead has changed hands at the Dixie National.
Garrett Shadbolt makes an 84-point ride to take the Round 1 win of his bracket in San Antonio.