PRORODEO Sports News - October 4, 2024

SHORT ROUND Out to Pasture Cole Patterson’s standout horse Tigger has retired

C ole Patterson, the 2021 and retired his prized horse Tigger. Tigger, 19, the 2021 PRCA Steer Roping Horse of the Year, retired after the Guymon (Okla.) Pioneer Days Rodeo, which ended May 5. “I owe that horse for everything I have,” Patterson said. “I don’t know how much I have won in the last four full years, but I would say 75 to 80 percent of it all goes back to him. I don’t know what made that horse so special. He is big and powerful to begin with, so he never really got pulled around by the steers, he was always in control. “He could haul butt across the line and 2023 PRCA Steer Roping World Champion, confirmed to the ProRodeo Sports News that he has

PRCA ProRodeo file photo Cole Patterson, a two-time PRCA World Champion, has retired his standout horse Tigger. The horse was named the 2021 PRCA Steer Roping Horse of the Year.

Contract Personnel Tradeshow booth holders in 2024 in Las Vegas were provided a unique opportunity. Tradeshow booth holders were provided an exclusive opportunity to perform during the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping presented by Tito’s Handmade Vodka at the South Point Arena & Equestrian Center in Las Vegas, Dec. 3-4. This is the first time that the NFBR will have specialty act performers. First performance Specialty Acts on Tuesday, Dec. 3: Kelly Clark, Bella Da Costa & The Griffith Gang and Austin Singley. Second performance Specialty Acts on Wednesday, Dec. 4: Liberty Cunningham, David Whitmoyer and Cortney catch up faster than any other horse and he had the perfect move right there in the corner and he could just bring any steer right to you and then stop on a dime and hold his head good and let you finish. “I hope I can find another one like him, but I don’t know. I got a lot of big-time compliments from old guys who have been around forever and several of them have told me don’t expect to ever find another like that.” Patterson bought Tigger in March of his rookie year in 2019. “I hauled him around as my back-up horse in 2019 and then

we got on the same page during the COVID-19 break (in the rodeo schedule in 2020) and from then until the end of 2021 he was as good as a horse as there was going,” Patterson said. “He was main horse from 2020 to 2023.” Patterson’s best year on Tigger was 2021. He finished that season with $190,242, a single-season steer roping earnings mark. That year he also earned a National Finals Steer Roping record $85,726.

Specialty act performers named for 2024 NFBR

Clabaugh & Kate & Tera Flitton. The Top 15 WPRA breakaway ropers will compete for prize money of $300,000 in 2024 an increase of $50,000 from a year ago, during the two-day, 10-round performance. General admission tickets are $30 each day, with reserve admission tickets available for $45. Tickets can be purchased online at southpointarena.com or ticketmaster.com, by phone at 866-796-7111 or at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa box office. Tickets are electronic unless purchased at the box office or specified otherwise online or over the phone. The event will begin daily at 2 p.m. (PST) with doors opening at 1 p.m. Parking at the South Point Hotel is free.

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