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Another Reason Calgary Stampede Rules

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There is getting to be a shortage of young roughstock guys so the associations are trying to get more started. Calgary started a novice tour for the bareback and saddle bronc kids-they pay their entry fees at hand hills, lea park, innisfail,ponoka,calgary and strathmore and add money at all those rodeos. The winner is declared at Strathmore and gets a buckle and a bronze. First stop is Hand Hills this weekend and Ty has Simon's Warrior of Calgary-they 23'ed that horse in March so hoping it all goes well. Nice to see them helping the young guys out-it's not much fun being halfway through a weekend and finding out you can either eat or pay entry fees lol. There's a pretty handy bunch of Novice kids that aren't afraid to turn their toes out.
 
Sounds like a good program. No business is sustainable if the young one's can't get a foothold. What does 23'ed mean?
 
They score the horses out of 25 so that young bronc got 23 out of 25-so if you get 23 out of 25 for your spur ride you could be low 90's on him or bucked off lol. Cool Alley, Knife Money, Lynx Mountain , Grated Coconut are 22-23 point horses most trips. I told Ty to try and be at least two points over your horse for the average ones and don't waste the good ones. When you go to Calgary they have what the horses scored on every out they've had in the pros. I think probullstats.com has it for the U'S roughstock. If your a contractor and you have a load of honest 20-22 point horses to haul the cowboys think your a pretty good guy. The broncs are athletes just like anybody else-they have good days and bad ones-some like outdoors better than indoors or buck better in certain arenas. Ty would rather get bucked off a 20 pointer than draw a 16 point horse that runs off like a coyote-you can't win on them and they can hurt you.
 
Just spent two hours planning rodeos for Ty-if he gets set up right he can hit 13 PRCA rodeos and not miss the Canadian ones he needs. He'll be going down to Cheyenne then work his way back up to Plentywood. Heads back north for a bit then down to Montana for a couple then back up then finishes up with some in Idaho and one in Spokane. Google maps was getting a workout lol. There's a big jackpot in Baker, Oregon but he'd have to make 1,000 miles in 15 hours and get through the border to make TeePee Creek Alberta-might have to miss one or the other .
 

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