Logandale hosts next Tour stop

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Clark County Fair and Rodeo, which starts April 12, is making its fourth consecutive appearance on the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour. This weekend, cowboys and cowgirls will not only compete for part of a purse that exceeded $250,000 in 2006, but earnings that apply toward the Wrangler ProRodeo Tour and inclusion into the newly formed playoff system later this summer.
Logandale, which is located some 60 miles northeast of Las Vegas, is the ninth stop on the 21-city Tour. The four-performance rodeo, which wraps up on April 15, is first of two Silver State stops on the 2007 schedule. The Reno Rodeo hosts the 14th stop, June 15-23.
This year’s Wrangler Tour consists of 21 rodeos through August. Contestants can choose 15 out of the 21 rodeos to count toward their official Tour Rodeo count. At the conclusion of the 21st rodeo, the top 35 contestants in total Tour money and the “wild card,” event champions from the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, will move on to the first Tour Championship event Aug. 14-18 in Caldwell, Idaho. From there, the field will be trimmed to a single champion after the three subsequent playoff events in Puyallup, Wash.; Omaha, Neb.; and Dallas. Fox Sports Network and CBS are scheduled to televise the Championship events.
Last year in Logandale, Trevor Brazile continued his march to a fourth world all-around title by winning the rodeo’s all-around title, highlighted by average victories in both team roping (with Rich Skelton) and tie-down roping, earning $10,643.
Brazile topped the list of champions who parlayed Logandale average victories into appearances in the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo. Bareback rider Jess Davis of Payson, Utah; steer wrestler Joey Bell Jr. of Malakoff, Texas; and barrel racer Brittany Pozzi-Pharr also enjoyed big paydays in Logandale to help springboard their efforts toward the world’s premier rodeo.
Other aggregate champions from Logandale were saddle bronc riders Josh Reynolds of Corvallis, Mont., and Matt Hebbert of Hyannis, Neb.; and bull rider Mike Moore of Kankakee, Ill.
Laughlin primed for Xtreme Bulls
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Dodge Xtreme Bulls Tour presented by B&W Trailer Hitches makes the first of two consecutive visits to Nevada this weekend. Fans at the Laughlin (Nev.) Arena – located some 90 miles south of Las Vegas – will see 40 of the top PRCA bull riders in the world go up against the best bulls and a shot at a total purse of $50,000. The Tour visits the Reno Rodeo in June.
Laughlin, the sixth stop on the 10-city Tour, features two matinee performances April 14-15. Each show is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. PT.
Dustin Elliott of North Platte, Neb., the 2004 world champion bull rider, and 2000 World Champion Bull Rider Cody Hancock of Taylor, Ariz., a two-time winner on the 2007 Xtreme Bulls Tour, headline the list of riders. Also scheduled to compete are two previous Tour-stop winners from this season – Luke Haught of Weatherford, Texas (San Antonio, Feb. 17) and Chance Smart of Philadelphia, Miss. (Houston, March 18).
Highlights of the Laughlin tour stop will air on ESPN on May 13 at 4 p.m. ET, with an encore presentation scheduled for May 24 at 3 p.m. ET on ESPN2.
In Laughlin, each rider competes for part of the $50,000 purse and placement in the Xtreme Bulls rankings.
In Xtreme Bulls, every contestant competes in the semifinal round, with the top 15 performers advancing to the final round. The winner of the two-head average wins that stop’s title. Dodge Xtreme Bulls Tour earnings count toward the world standings, which determines qualifiers for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Dec. 6-15 in Las Vegas.