ProRodeo Sports News - Dec. 20, 2019

5 The number of round wins in 2019 by bareback rider Clayton Biglow – Rounds 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 – at Rodeo. In his three other trips to the Wrangler NFR – 2016- 18 – Biglow won four rounds total. the 2019 Wrangler National Finals The only bareback rider to win more rounds at a Wrangler NFR was

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Kaycee Feild in 2011.

regular season counting the Wrangler NFR at $425,843. The record was $374,272 by TimO’Connell in 2016. His five go-round victories at the 2019Wrangler NFR are one short of the bareback riding record set by Kaycee Feild in 2011. Biglow also made history by becoming the first bareback rider to win four consecutive rounds at the Wrangler NFR, winning Rounds 5 through 8. “This is the Finals I dreamed of, and to have it come true I literally laid in bed every night for the last three months thinking about this moment,” Biglow said. “I got this gold buckle. That’s the only thing I was worried about this week. That gold buckle is going right on my belt.” Biglow said chasing a gold buckle was a mental challenge. “A lot of the time, to get my mind off the gold buckle, I just kept thinking go win that Top Gun,” he said. “If you win that Top Gun, the world championship is yours because you’re going to win more money than

anybody else.” By winning the Top Gun Award, Biglow earned a 2020 RAM 3500 Heavy Duty Truck, a one-of-a-kind RAMTop Gun-branded revolver from Commemorative Firearms and a custom Top Gun buckle fromMontana Silversmiths. Biglow also became the fourth cowboy fromCalifornia to win a bareback riding world championship. He joins Smoky Snyder (1932, 1936), Frank Schneider (1935) and John Hawkins (1963). Biglow was making his fourth career appearance at the Wrangler NFR (2016-19). His best finish in the world standings before 2019 was fourth in 2018. “This (winning a gold buckle) is motivation and relief,” Biglow said. “This motivates me to do it again next year and the year after that, and that’s what I want. I finally got my first one, and I’m ready for as many more as they will give me.”

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