ProRodeo Sports News - Sept. 3, 2021

FALLON COUNTY FAIR & RODEO

Past lessons help Ty Breuer in win BY KEVIN CARMODY, Special to ProRodeo Sports News A different, more cavalier version of bareback rider Ty Breuer would have gone ahead and thrown caution to the wind at last year’s A Little Patience Rodeo’s Black Feather during the Fallon County Fair & Rodeo in Baker, Mont., probably never happens. That’s how learning the virtue of patience by waiting through various injuries and a pandemic has shaped a new perspective for this 31-year-old bareback rider fromMandan, N.D. “I’ve had injuries and tried to come back too early, and it’s cost me in the long run,” Breuer said. “Now, I’m older and a little bit wiser.” At this time last year, Breuer had recently undergone surgery to repair a torn biceps in his right (riding) arm suffered at the Cache County Fair and Rodeo in Logan, Utah. Breuer was 11th in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings at the time, and he figured he had enough money earned to still qualify for his sixthWrangler NFR and would simply rehab and be ready to ride by December. Then, fortunately, reality set in. “When we did the surgery, I knew I could possibly be back by the NFR,” said Breuer, who finished 14th in the 2020 regular season. “If it would have been two or three horses, it would have been fine. But to get on 10 of the best horses in the world, I don’t think it would have held up and would have delayed me for this year. That’s why I made the decision to sit out the NFR.” That decision is paying dividends now after he earned $4,371 in Baker – along with another $2,030 from a winning ride at the Cassia County Fair & Rodeo in Burley, Idaho, the same weekend – bumping Breuer to 21st in the world standings as the regular season heads into the home stretch. “I feel like I still have a good shot of making the NFR,” said Breuer, who waited until mid-May to start his season to make sure his arm was completely healed. “Going into this part of the year healthy is a big deal, and I feel healthy right now. The main deal is that I got healed up before I got going this year.” Breuer, who made his NFR debut in 2013, suffered a RECORD RIDE With his 88.5-point ride on C5 Rodeo’s Wrangler National Finals Rodeo with a riding arm still not fully recovered from a biceps tear but seeing dollar signs that he didn’t want to leave behind. Then, his 90.5-point ride aboard C5

TOP MONEY WINNER TOP SCORES

Chance Thiessen ($5,492 tie-down roping and team roping) BAREBACK RIDING

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1. Ty Breuer.............................. 90.5 pts. 2. Kaycee Feild................................. 88.5 3. Tilden Hooper................................. 88 STEER WRESTLING 1. Brady Boyce............................3.4 sec. (Tie) Tucker Allen............................ 3.4 3. Three tied at ................................. 3.5 TEAM ROPING 1. C. Ullery/M. Zancanella...........4.7 sec. 2. H. Smith/J. Davis........................... 4.9 3. Two tied at ................................... 5.0 SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Stetson Wright...................... 88.5 pts. 2. Tanner Butner.............................. 87.5 3. Tegan Smith.......................... ........ 86 TIE-DOWN ROPING 1. Chance Thiessen.....................7.8 sec. 2. Shad Mayfield................................ 7.9 3. Two tied at .................................... 8.0 BARREL RACING 1. Lexie Goss..........................17.07 sec. (Tie) Jessica Routier................... 17.07 3. Erin Williams. ............................ 17.15 STEER ROPING 1. Slade Wood. .................34.5 sec. on 3 2. Coy Thompson. ........................... 35.7 3. Landon McClaugherty.................. 35.8 BULL RIDING 1. Braden Richardson............... 88.5 pts. 2. Connor Murnion. ............................ 86 3. Shane Proctor................................. 84

Daytime Crime, bull rider Braden Richardson put his name at the top of the Fallon County Fair & Rodeo record book. The effort surpassed Tim Bingham’s 87.5-point ride, set in 2018.

compression fracture of his C4-C5 vertebrae at the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver in 2014 but still managed to finish 18th in the final world standings and 21st the following year before making it back to Las Vegas in 2016. Perhaps another version of Breuer would have planned that differently. “I was hurting there for quite a while, and when I came back, I didn’t come back in shape,” Breuer said. “What I’ve learned over time is you can control only so much, and the rest isn’t worth worrying about. You just have to go and do your part, do your best, and usually it’ll work out.”

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