Q - Are you trying to enter everything you can get to right now?

Q - Do you watch the standings much, as close as it is are you checking the standings all the time to see where you're at?

Q...How much would it mean to you to get back to the NFR this year?

Q...Don't you raise some bucking horses as well?

 

 

 

 

The tenth stop on the Wrangler Pro Rodeo Summer Tour, the Puyallup Fair and Rodeo, came to an end on Sunday.

 

Shawn Greenfield from Lakeview, Oregon left Puyallup fifth in the PRCA's steer wrestling standings. Greenfield collected more than $5,900 when he won both the short round and the average. Tie down roper Blair Burk from Oklahoma secured his spot in the Tour Finale at the end of the month in Omaha. Burk won the average when he roped three calves in 24.2 seconds and left third in the Tour Standings. The win was Burk's first at a Tour event this year. Barrel Racer Brenda Mays moved into the top 15 in the Women's Professional Rodeo Association. Mays and her horse Jethro won the Tour Round in Puyallup, she has moved all the way up to 13th in the WPRA.

The winners from Puyallup, courtesy of the PRCA...

 

Puyallup Rodeo Tour, Average Champions

Bareback Riding
T: Dustin Murray (Midwest City, Okla.), 87 points
A: (tie) Murray and Marvin Garrett (Belle Fourche, S.D.), 167 points on two head, $5,657 and $8,162, respectively

Steer Wrestling
T: (tie) Shawn Greenfield (Lakeview, Ore.) and Barry Kreikemeyer (West Point, Neb.), 4.5 seconds
A: Greenfield, 13.3 seconds on three head, $5,961

Team Roping
T: Matt Tyler (Lipan, Texas)/Jett Hillman (Jones, Okla.), 4.8 seconds
A: Jake Barnes (Scottsdale, Ariz.)/Dean Tuftin (Prineville, Ore.), 16.2 seconds on three head, $3,985 each

Saddle Bronc Riding
T: (tie) Cody Wright (Milford, Utah) and Cody Martin (Waco, Texas), 84 points
A: (tie) Martin, Bradley Harter (Weatherford, Texas) and Rod Hay (Wildwood, Alberta), 166 points on two head, $4,693, $7,250 and $6,674, respectively

Tie-Down Roping
T: Blair Burk (Durant, Okla.), 7.5 seconds
A: Burk, 24.2 seconds on three head, $5,415

Barrel Racing
T: (tie) Brenda Mays (Terrebonne, Ore.) and Jule Holeman (Arcadia, Neb.), 15.85 seconds
A: Holeman, 47.43 seconds on three runs, $6,224

Bull Riding
T: Cooper Kanngiesser (Zenda, Kan.), 84 points
A: Kanngiesser, 171 points on two head, $9,190

 

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Trevor Brazile was up to his old tricks in Lewiston over the weekend. Brazile won all three of his events at the Lewiston Round-Up, earning more than $9,000 and running his PRCA all-around leading total for the year to more than $235,000. Brazile won the tie down roping, the steer roping, and the team roping along with partner Rich Skelton in Lewiston.

 

Lewiston's other winners...

Bareback Riding - Ryan Gray, Cheney, WA - 85 points

Bronc Riding - Dusty Hausauer, North Dakota and Rod Hay, Canada - 84 points

Bull Riding - Vince Stanton, Idaho and Dustin Elliott, Nebraska - 84 points

Steer Wrestling - Cash Myers, Texas and Dru Melvin, Nebraska - 9.0 on two

 

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Bareback Rider Larry Sandvick turned in the top score in his event at the Spokane Interstate Fair and Rodeo on Sunday afternoon. Sandvick rode a horse called Hippy for 85 points to win the rodeo. Bobby Mote from Redmond, Oregon was second with an 80.

 

The WPRA's top barrel racer, Brittany Pozzi from Texas, got on her number three horse in Spokane, and still won the rodeo. Pozzi turned in a time of 17.38, WPRA rookie Linzie Walker from Washington was second, Brenda Mays from Oregon was third.

 

Spokane's other champions...

Tie Down Roping - Seth Childers, Texas - 8.3

Bronc Riding - Ryan McKenzie, Oregon - 84

Steer Wrestling - Levi Wisness, 3.8

Team Roping - Jimmy Edens/Ryan Motes, Texas - 4.9

Bull Riding - Tag Elliott, Utah - 87

 

*****

 

Bareback rider Bobby Mote from Redmond is virtually assured of a sixth trip to the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

 

The 2002 PRCA World Champion finished fifth in the average at the Puyallup Fair and Rodeo in Puyallup, Washington. He's won more than $66,000 this year, and as he gets ready for the final couple of months of the rodeo season he's worrying about an injury to the elbow on his riding arm.

 

"It's been good, I had a good spring," Mote said. "It has been a little slower than I'm used to this summer. A combination of not always having the best horses when I needed them and my elbow's giving me a little trouble, just wear and tear I guess."

 

"I need to kind of baby it as long as I can," Mote said of his sore elbow. "The Justin Sports Medicine folks have done wonders for me trying to keep it going. Hopefully after the Tour Finale in Omaha I'll get it scoped, sit out for about a month and then come back for the finals. If everything goes according to plan it should be about four weeks off before I'm riding again, I would be ready for Dallas, the Circuit Finals and the NFR."

 

Mote was 25 years old when he qualified for his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2001. Now at the age of 30 he can look around and see a bunch of talented cowboy's in their early 20's making a name for themselves.

 

"It is a kind of a young man's sport, but I think they are getting better earlier now. I can remember when I was 20 I was still just trying to learn how to stay on the right side of 'em...Through the college rodeos there's more competition and we are seeing better riders at a younger age."

 

Mote and traveling partner Jason Havens from Bend are just a few hundred dollars apart in the race to be this year's Columbia River Circuit bareback riding champion.

"I've actually probably been to few circuit rodeos than normal, we took a different approach this year and have been to more rodeos that we wouldn't normally go to, I'm not sure exactly how well it's worked out. Next year I'll probably go to more rodeos in our circuit again."

 

"We're entered up, I'm going to give myself as many opportunities to win as I can, but I am going to be a little choosy about which horses I get on because of my elbow. If I draw something that isn't going to allow me to win there's now sense it putting the strain on my elbow, it can only take so much at this point."

 

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JESS - "It's been a good year, about a month ago I twisted my knee in Cranbrook, BC and had to take a few weeks off but I'm getting back to it. I feel good, I just need to draw some good horses toward the end of the summer and into the fall and hopefully I can get back there."

JESS - "I'm entering everything that's left, all the big ones for sure. Shaun Stroh, he's kind of in the same boat and he's having to enter everything so we are entered together for the fall and hopefully we both do good. With the price of fuel and the cost of travel a guy's got to win just to break even so hopefully this fall goes good for both of us."

JESS - "You don't have to watch the standings because everybody else knows about them and tells you where you are at. I don't watch it that close, if I'm at home and have an hour or so I'll jump on the computer but I don't really watch it, I just go to the rodeos and get on and try to win and if you do that the standings will take care of themselves."

Jess - "It would mean alot ot me. My career is on it's down side and I'm going to quit here one of these days. This has been a good year, I've got the Canadian Finals made up in Edmondton in November and if I could go back to the NFR one more time I could almost call it a career if I could do that."

Jess - "Yeah, Fred Hershey and I have a program going. We've got just about a hundred head of bucking horses going right now, one of our horses bucked off Shawn Morehead here in Spokane last night. That deal's alot of fun, and having Fred Hershey and the Hershey family as my partners is really a benefit to me."

We talked to Jess Martin prior to the Spokane Interstate Fair and Rodeo on Sunday afternoon. Martin was 17th in the PRCA's world standings on September 11, his traveling partner Shaun Stroh was number 19.