PHOTO GALLERY: Friday, Performance #2 – 21st World Championship Ranch Rodeo
Check out the incredible action in pictures from Friday night’s Performance 2 of the WRCA World Championship Ranch Rodeo. It was truly a special night.
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- Ty Looper of the Diamond H/Lochhead Cattle team got a 75-point ride on the yellow Harry Vold horse.
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- Wes Bailey of the Arndt Ranch/Bailey Ranch team turns in a 78-point ride on Friday.
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- Brad Shadle of Singleton Ranches puts in a 77-point ride aboard a Harry Vold bronc Friday.
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- Ropers in the team branding work side by side in the herd. Here, Cody Kendall for Beachner Bros. Livestock is on the gray horse, Little Tee J Paul, while Bodie Crabtree for Diamond H Ranch/Lochhead Cattle rides Meradas Situation.
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- Jesse Jolly for the Jolly Ranch/S&L Cattle team heads out of the herd in team branding on Friday, earning a time of 53.19 seconds.
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- Ray Bradley and TRR Lenas Lil Sun work in the team branding Friday night for Stewart Ranch, stopping the clock at 57.97 seconds.
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- Even the Budweiser Clydesdales and their drivers wore pink on Friday for “Punchy in Pink” night. April the Dalmation also had a pink bandana. Also note that the wagon carried an American flag, as a nod to Veterans Day.
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- It’s a long arena – with deep sand – which sometimes makes the trek to the judge a long one. Here, Tyler Karney makes the run for Beatty Canyon Ranch and Flying A Ranch for a time of 52.51 seconds.
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- The Beatty Canyon Ranch Team works on its wild-cow milking run.
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- Levi Leonard took a “cowboy water skiing” ride Friday night as he helped his JOD Ranch and Brown Mill Ranch team in the wild cow milking. Their time was 43.08 seconds.
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- Friday night was “Punchy in Pink” to call awareness to the fight against breast cancer.
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- The returning world champs – Lonesome Pine Ranch – stopped the clock at 50:21 in Friday night’s wild cow milking.
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- Travis Duncan of the Lonesome Pine Ranch dodges a wild cow who’s not happy to be messed with.
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- The Haywire Cattle & Kalvesta Ranch team faces down an irritated cow in Friday’s wild-cow milking event. They turned in a time of 40.43 seconds.
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- The Singleton Ranches team are sitting in first place in the team-penning event after the first go-round. On Friday, they turned in a time of 42.44 seconds.
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- The Jolly Ranch/S&L Cattle team stops the clock in team penning.
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- Snyder Ranch and Woolfolk Ranch shoos three in the pen Friday night.
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- The NK Cattle Co. comes charging in during the stray gathering Friday.
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- The hard-working Wintheshowboy, working for the Beatty Canyon and Flying A ranch team, is a 2009 gelding by Doctor Fancy Tari, out of Chexas Stray by Texas Stray.
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- Beatty Canyon Ranch & Flying A Ranch gave it all they had in the stray gathering on Friday, but the cattle and ropes weren’t cooperating.
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- Veterans are asked to stand and be recognized as the flag of their branch is presented. This year, audience members were given American flags to wave to make the salute extra special.
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- WRCA salutes the military at each performance of the WCRR, but the tributes are especially meaningful on Veterans Day. Here, we’re flying the colors of the United States Marine Corps.