ProRodeo Sports News - Dec. 20, 2019

YEAR IN REVIEW OCTOBER 2018

PRCA | RAM WORLD STANDINGS LEADERS AS OF OCT. 29, 2018 Bareback riding Jared Keylon, $15,395 Steer wrestling Cameron Morman, $12,918 Team Roping Heading Billy Bob Brown, $10,879 Team Roping Heeling Joseph Harrison, $11,335 Saddle bronc riding Chase Brooks, $16,353 Tie-down roping Tyson Durfey, $24,656 Steer roping Trevor Brazile, $18,267 Bull Riding Parker Breding, $19,180

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Steer wrestling horse Canted Plan “Scooter” (owned by Tyler Pearson and Kyle Irwin) makes it consecutive PRCA | AQHA Horse of the Year awards. Other winners are: Little Smart Leo “Big Time” (owned by Tyler Milligan) in tie-down roping; RK Tuff Trinket “Bob” (owned by Riley Minor) in team roping heading; Zans Colonel Shine “Colonel” (owned by Jake and Tasha Long) in team roping heeling; Cooperslittletoy “Cooper” (owned by Chris Glover) in steer roping; and DM Sissy Hayday “Sister” (owned by Dan and Leslie Kinsel) in barrel racing. Billie-Jean Duff photo

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Kyle Whitaker wins his 10th Linderman Award and fourth consecutive. Dr. Charles W. Graham is named the PRCA Veterinarian of the

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Year for the work he’s done with Rodeo Austin (Texas) and many of professional rodeo’s top animal athletes since the early 1960s.

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The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and PRCA officials announce

a new, multiyear partnership that focuses on growing the sport of rodeo for the benefit of fans and contestants, with earnings from the RodeoHouston Super Series counting toward the PRCA | RAM World Standings.

The 2018 PRCA | Pendleton Whisky “Let ’er Buck” Stock of the

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Year awards go to C5 Rodeo’s Virgil for Bareback of the Year, Burch Rodeo’s Lunatic From Hell for Saddle Bronc of the Year and Big Stone Rodeo, Inc.’s Spotted Demon for Bull of the Year.

Legendary announcer and ProRodeo Hall of Famer Hadley Barrett is posthumously named the recipient of the 2018 Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award. PRCA ProRodeo photo by Greg Westfall

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