ProRodeo Sports News | 2020 Year-End Edition | Dec.18, 2020

YEAR IN REVIEW JANUARY 2020

PRCA | RAM WORLD STANDINGS LEADERS AS OF

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JAN. 23, 2020 Bareback Riding Anthony Thomas, $10,540 Steer Wrestling

Cade Goodman, $8,159 Team Roping Heading Dustin Egusquiza, $9,210 Team Roping Heeling Colton Brittain, $7,180 Saddle Bronc Riding Wyatt Casper, $18,642 Tie-down Roping Shad Mayfield, $19,323 Steer Roping Trevor Brazile, $21,180 Bull Riding Dustin Boquet, $25,067

The new, state-of-the-art Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, which opened in late October, hosts its inaugural PRCA event – the first day of the 2020 Division 1 Xtreme Bulls Tour – to a sellout crowd of 9,300 spectators. Dickies Arena was the vision of Edward Bass, a businessman and philanthropist who headed up the charge to build the arena. James Phifer photo

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Trevor Brazile extends his records in the Texas Circuit with the most steer roping titles, 10, and claims the top spot for most

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Making a clean sweep after switching circuits isn’t a typical outcome. But saddle bronc rider Brody Cress is far from typical. Fresh off winning the average at his third consecutive Wrangler National Finals Frontier Days three years in a row won all three rounds at his first RAM Texas Circuit Finals Rodeo in Waco, Jan. 4 James Phifer photo Rodeo, the only saddle bronc rider to win Cheyenne (Wyo.)

steer roping average wins. Previously, he was tied with Scott Snedecor with four wins, but Brazile upped that to five (1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2020).

Steven Peebles was the 2015 PRCA Bareback Riding World Champion, but the Oregon cowboy’s career has been sabotaged

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by injuries since. Peebles' latest setback comes when he undergoes surgery in Bend, Ore., to repair a bulging disc in his neck The Sandhills Stock Show & Rodeo bareback riding record of 87 points is broken by two cowboys during the Odessa, Texas, rodeo. Jayco Roper on Beutler & Son Rodeo’s South Suds and Jake Brown on Beutler & Son Rodeo’s On Tap With Nutrena each post 88-point rides. 11

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Bull rider Dustin Boquet’s score of 175 points on two head wins the SWELS – Xtreme Bulls in Fort Worth at Dickies

Arena. Boquet earns $13,555.

Tie-down roper Adam Gray changes his buckle for the first time in 13 years. Gray dedicates his win at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver to Kelsey Garrison the day after Garrison, 34, died of colon cancer. 26

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