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Went to our last Wood Mountain High School rodeo-unless I have a daughter crack out. The boys did well Meadow Lake won the bulls and saddle bronc on Saturday and the bares and Saddle Bronc on Sunday. Saw Ashton Lehmann dump a steer in the dogging in 3.8 pretty sweet for a 15 year old. I finally went through the Ranch/Rodeo museum it's well worth your time if your down in that area. Of course it RAINED there too lol. Weyburn next weeekend then back home to wind up before finals. Ty clinched the season in Saddle Bronc but still trying to get some all around points.
 
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I thought this was a pretty good pick of Ty on old 'Blue Duck'.
 
Ty looks plumb at ease on that gray bronc. He is a natural athlete at whatever he chooses to do.

Wood Mountain is where my Canadian relatives homesteaded and settled, when they went to that area in the early 1900's. I really like the grass-covered rocky hills around there, as it looks like natural cattle country.
 
Ohh I have three daughters that will keep me hopping and I hope to get down to watch a couple stateside. Wood Mountain is beautiful cattle country-I can see why the Indians liked it-it's still full of game just no buffalo now. If your ever up there Soap make sure you check out the Ranch/Rodeo museum you'll enjoy it. I couldn't get over them dogging those big 3-4 year old steers.
 
Ohh we've got a few prospects kicking around in the pasture-I'm not rich enough to pack a couple canchasers lol. You can haul a vanload of roughies pretty easy on the cheap. The girls are kind of into other sports-Emily would ride roughstock but they don't let girls do that in highschool.
 
Entry fees for highschool rodeo in the roughstock are $20/event/day so $120 a weekend-when he starts entering the open in other associations I think they are around $50-if Ty's healthy he'll sometimes enter the open saddle,bares and novice horse so gets on three head a night in the LRA.
 
Bout the same entry fees that we pay. Only she runs 3 and 4 different horses . But overall....all the entry fees added together are in the neighborhood of $120 to $140 She runs the open class on two usually, Youth on 2 sometimes 3, and she has 2 novice horses she's runnin.
So money wise, not much difference in entry fees for barrel racin compared to roughstock.

Payout in barrel racin is probably better than roughstock tho, but only because there's more entries. LOL On average in the Open class.....there's 120 runners. And there are 4D's each payin 5 slots. (D's prolly don't mean didly to you tho...took me a while to understand how the D system worked)
 
There aren't any payouts in HighSchool rodeo you just rodeo for points-the odd place has some prizes up but most don't. You know I never even got a working knowledge of Double D's in my younger days. The cost for me to pack timies in HighSchool is travel we have four straight 800-1,000 mile weekends in May. It's pretty cheap to cram a truck full of roughies and go. If I could get a couple other families to pack horses from up here it would work.
 
I can't imagine 800-1000 miles to a rodeo. There's so much goin on right here in our own backyard that's within an hours drive. The farthest we've gone is Waco...which is about a 3 hour drive. But that's to the Finals, twice a year, Once for NBHA, and once for WBRP.
 
We usually get to Buffalo, Wyoming the first day-we can unload and feed and water horses at my buddies-then if I weave a little off course we can ride the grubline pretty much all the way. We took a goat tying horse for a swim in the Colorado River last year. The sign said no dogs-nothing about American Quarter Horses.
 

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