ProRodeo Sports News - April 16, 2021

RAM NCFR KISSIMMEE, FLA..

Champion gets first NCFR win

Standout bareback rider Richmond Champion can check something off his career bucket list – a RAMNCFR title. Champion won the event with an 87-point ride on Vold Rodeo’s Risky Mistress. He earned a total of $15,010 for his performance at the RAMNCFR. “I didn’t know a whole lot about that horse,” Champion said. “Tanner Aus had her at the Riggin Rally (the first weekend of April inWeathford, Texas), and she had stumbled, but he said she was really fun, and she was. It’s amazing to win this rodeo. Anytime you go to a rodeo it’s your goal to win. The (RAM) Circuit Finals is a big win. This is a saddle you want in your house and a buckle you want on your belt. I’m super grateful to have it.” Champion climbed to third in the world standings with $37,654. “The big hunt is that gold buckle,” Champion said. “I’ve been second and third before and I’m sick of it. We’re off on the right foot, and this is a big steppingstone in that direction.”

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Roseanna Sales Richmond Champion rides Vold Rodeo’s Risky Mistress for 87 points and the RAM NCFR win in Kissimmee, Fla., April 10.

Breding in rare place with win

The RAMNational Circuit Finals Rodeo has nearly become a personal playground for bull rider Parker Breding. Breding made history when he became the first bull rider to win four career RAMNCFR championships after making an 86.5-point ride on Painted Pony Championship Rodeo’s Cocktail Diarrhea in the finals in Silver Spurs Arena. “That’s really special to me,” Breding said. “I haven’t done a whole lot of things any bigger than this. So far this rodeo kind of has been my small world title in a way. To be able to come here and get it done again is just amazing. I sure do love it here. They treat you really well, and this is one of my favorite rodeos by far.” Breding’s titles have come in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2021. He also won the semifinals earlier Saturday with an 88-point ride on Big Rafter Rodeo’s Silver Bullet. “It’s hard to put into words what it means to get this done again,” said Breding, 28. “The way my week started things weren’t looking too good and I didn’t even think I made the semifinals until my traveling partner (Hawk Whitt) told me I did. He kind of withheld the information and let me walk around mad for a while and then he told me I was in there in the semis in the last spot. I had two awesome bulls, and I’m just extremely overwhelmed by this.” Breding earned $13,006 for his RAMNCFR performance, which helped himmove to 10th in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings. “I needed to come here and win something, and it worked out better than I even expected in the finals,” he said. Breding, who qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 2013, 2015 and 2018, had been hampered with a left knee injury since July 10, 2019. He suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and posterior cruciate ligament that day at the Calgary Stampede after he made the whistle riding Kesler Rodeo’s Late Nite Host.

PRCA ProRodeo photo by Clay Guardipee Parker Breding claimed his fourth RAM NCFR title the weekend of April 9-10, the first bull rider to accomplish that feat.

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