ProRodeo Sports News - August 5, 2022

CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS CHEYENNE, WYO.

Tryan/Corkill take team roping title Clay Tryan and Jade Corkill teamed up to win PRCA Team Roping Header and Heeler World Championships in 2013 and 2014. The duo got back together earlier this summer and the reunion is proving to be beneficial. Tryan/Corkill won the coveted Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo with a stout 7.5-second run in the finals. “We drew good pretty much the whole time (here in Cheyenne),” Corkill said. “Days like today ( July 31), it helps when you get to go at the end and know what you have to be. We had another good steer (in the finals), and we knew what kind of run we needed to make. Going at the end is a big advantage.” Being the team last out also wasn’t lost on Tryan. “(Being last out) especially at a rodeo like this where it pays a lot, if you go first or last it is a whole different roping,” Tryan said. “It was good going at the end and knowing exactly what we had to do. (For the rest of the regular season), I’m just going to take it one steer at a time and not try to get too far ahead of myself. I just want us to try and win every chance we get.” Steer roper Ora Taton continues superb run Steer roper Ora Taton never planned to rodeo fulltime in 2022, but the more he kept winning the more he stayed on the road. The latest triumphant for the 53-year-old came at the Cheyenne Frontier Days. Taton clocked a 13.6-second run in the finals to claim the victory at the prestigious rodeo. Taton won Cheyenne for the first time in 2003. With his windfall in Cheyenne, Taton moved safely into the Top 15 in the PRCA | RAM World Standings. Jackie Jensen photos Jade Corkill, left, and Clay Tryan put their stamp on the Cheyenne Frontier Days. The duo captured the team roping title with a 7.5-second run in the finals. “The air just feels different on the last day for the big money,” Tryan said. “You’re always excited to compete for that and we were in a pretty good groove, and I was excited for today. This was a big win here and we just need to keep trying hard and doing good every time.” Tryan/Corkill each earned $16,400 in Cheyenne. Tryan moved up to second in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings and Corkill was fifth.

“There have been several years I have come to Cheyenne and I’m out in two, and done,” Taton said. “I’ve done this twice and it is sweet.” Taton is a two-time qualifier for the NFSR in 2003 and 2004 and he won the average 2003, when he finished a career-best fifth in the world standings. Most recently, Taton finished 20th in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings in 2020. “Later in life you tend not to sweat the small stuff and I have a wife who is very understanding and who isn’t afraid to coach a little,” Taton said. “My horse, that little bay horse I’ve got, I’ve had for two years, and he’s just got really good, really quick. He’s what has stepped me up.”

Taton earned $12,453 in Cheyenne – $11,451 for his finals run. He defeated reigning PRCA Steer Roping World Champion Cole Patterson, who stopped the clock in 14.0 seconds in the finals. “The year has been outstanding, I can’t say it enough,” Taton said. “I always say it is once in a lifetime when you get over 50 to make the (National Finals Steer Roping) and this might do it and if it doesn’t it will be dang close. The year has been phenomenal. When you win a rodeo, it is always good, but this is my favorite rodeo.”

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