CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION It might have been the greatest fifteen minutes in the history of Canadian Professional Rodeo. For the first time ever Canadians have ridden away from the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with three world titles. Levi Simpson and Jeremy Buhler in the Team Roping and Zeke Thurston in the Saddle Bronc …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION For Barrhead’s Kolton Schmidt and American partner, Shay Carroll, it took nine rounds to get the monkey off their backs and win their first cheque of this WNFR. But when they did it, they did it right, making that cheque a first place payoff ($26,239 per man) while recording the …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION The Canadian contingent went into their night at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo needing just $38,000 to top the half million dollar mark in take home pay from the ten million dollar event, easily surpassing the best previous Canadian performance. And Orin Larsen wasted no time in getting ‘Team Canada’ …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION Canadians continued their assault on the Wrangler National Finals’ chequing account and their own all-time earnings record in Wednesday’s seventh round. The big move for the Canadian contingent once again came courtesy of the team roping duo, Levi Simpson and Jeremy Buhler. The talented twosome, from Ponoka and Arrowwood, Alberta …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION The Canadian saddle bronc riders have been watching the bareback riders and team ropers getting all the headlines. And in go-round six of the 2016 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, they decided to do something about it. The youthful trio enjoyed their finest hour to date as all three Canadian bronc …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION Canada Night doesn’t happen until Thursday at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. But apparently the Canadian contingent of WNFR qualifiers either didn’t get the memo or they just plain couldn’t wait. The first all Canadian team roping team hasn’t just showed up at this Finals, they have been a factor in every round, …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION The grin said it all. As Jake Vold made the first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo victory lap of his career, the three time Canadian champion’s grin lit up the Thomas and Mack Arena. And why not—his 89.5 score on the back of Flying U Rodeo’s Lil Red Hawk was the …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION – LAS VEGAS, NEV (December 3, 2016) The all-Canadian matchup of three time Canadian champion, Jake Vold and the Big Stone bareback horse Spilled Perfume, netted the Ponoka cowboy 83.5 points for a 4/5 split and $8,884. For Vold, who now lives in Airdrie, it was his second placing in the …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION – LAS VEGAS, NEV – December 2, 2016 After an opening round that saw three events won by first time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifiers (Pamela Capper in the barrel race, 18 year-old Ryder Wright in the bronc riding and Canadians Levi Simpson and Jeremy Buhler in team roping)—round two featured …
CANADIAN PROFESSIONAL RODEO ASSOCIATION Levi Simpson and Jeremy Buhler had already written a page in Canadian rodeo history when the pair became the first all-Canadian team to qualify for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in the team roping. But they might have written an even cooler story when the duo blistered a 4.4 second run …
