PRORODEO Sports News - July 11, 2025

Christmas cowboy ROUGHSTOCK HAYES WEIGHT SETS NEW COWBOY CHRISTMAS EARNINGS RECORD

By Alex Dodd

F or the last couple of years, Hayes Weight has stepped up in big mo ments when he's needed a boost. Weight rode Cowtown Rodeo's unrid den bull Kingdom for 91.5 points at the 2024 NFR Open at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo. At the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, Weight was the only com petitor to stick on for eight seconds in Round 10 with an 87.5-point trip on Frontier Rodeo's Frontier Ro deo Coffee Misunderstood to pocket $108,668. Weight needed to go on another heater during the hottest point of the summer run, and he turned his sea son around with an unofficial Cowboy Christmas record of $52,133 from July 1-8. "All I can say is I'm super thankful," Weight told the PRORODEO Sports News. "I didn't have the best spring coming into (Cowboy Christmas), so to be able to have that kind of a Fourth of July run really helped out."

Weight's total surpassed the $49,550 collected by tie-down roper Ty Harris this time last season. The 26-year-old from Goshen, Utah, competed in just three rodeos on the Cowboy Christmas schedule from July 1-8 but made the most of his oppor tunities, particularly at the first event

on the list, the Ponoka Stampede in Alberta, Canada. In Ponoka, Weight unofficially racked up a whopping $41,106. The lion's share of the money came in the show down round as he amassed $33,750 with an 89-point ride on Calgary Stampede's Tactical Error to win the

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