Bareback Riding
Weston Timberman went to work in Colorado Springs and is heading to Championship Saturday.
The best bareback riders in the world are closing in on the top spot.
Weston Timberman takes the lead in Colorado Springs by a point and a half.
Matthew Smith is a 3X Southeastern Circuit Champion in the bareback riding and he caught up with Steve Kenyon in Oxford, Mississippi.
Following the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, Clayton Biglow leads the PRCA Bareback Riding World Standings while the likes of Chad Rutherford, Cole Franks and Kaycee Feild are all within $6,000 of the No. 1 spot.
Kaycee Feild set a new arena record on Saturday night with 93 points on Ols Tubs Stevie Nicks to win the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.
A total of six bareback riders were 84 points or better on Friday night, but only was in the 90s, and that was seven-time NFR qualifier Richmond Champion.
Two men emerged victorious in Semifinal A in Fort Worth, six-time World Champion Kaycee Feild and three-time NFR qualifier Mason Clements.
Clayton Biglow got Wild Card Wednesday started in Fort Worth with 88 points on Championship Rodeo’s Pistol Princess.
Clint Laye was 87 points on Rafter G Rodeo’s Holy Grail to follow up his countryman Dantan Bertsch and win a bareback riding round in Fort Worth Bracket 7.
Chad Rutherford rode Big Rafter’s Minnie Pearl for 86 points to win Bracket 4, Round 1 of the bareback riding in Fort Worth.
Rocker Steiner already has two big wins under his belt in a ProRodeo career that began earlier this month.
Rocker Steiner said a few weeks ago on Western Sports Round-Up that he wanted to win a lot of rodeos and make the NFR. He continued his hot start toward that goal in Denver on Saturday night.
Through four performances, Seth Hardwick was the only bareback rider with two rides in the 80s, but that changed thanks to Cole Franks and several other during the last two Saturday performances at the National Western.
Seth Hardwick has had a great two days in the first flight of bareback riders. He split second in the first performance on Thursday night with 80.5 and won the performance on Friday afternoon with 82 points on Big Rafter’s Dark Rose.