ProRodeo Sports News - Feb. 21, 2020

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

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Team roping header Clay Ullery, right, and heeler Jake Edwards post a 6.3-second run in the semifinals in Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 6.

IN BRIEF $168,727

“You need a couple big wins to make the NFR, and we just got our first one,” Ullery said. “It looks like we are best friends now. I’ve never roped with somebody I’ve backed in there with (and won money every time). I might have to (keep roping with Edwards). Hopefully, we’re both in Vegas (for the NFR).” Winning the finals was even more impressive for Ullery and Edwards since the eight-team field included two-time reigning world champion header Clay Smith and his partner Jade Corkill, a three-time world champ. Edwards also was making his Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo debut. Ullery and Edwards were never fazed, roping first in the finals and setting the pace. Smith and Corkill were second with a 5.1-second run. “You don’t really want to go first, especially with these types of (talented) guys,” Edwards said. “Sometimes I don’t mind it because you start the trend and either they come back and get you or they don’t beat you.” Ullery tried his best to take the mindset that he was at just another rodeo making another run in the finals. “I just really love roping whether I’m at home or roping for big money,” he said. “I just came across there and thought I should have it on him already. I threw a big, ol’ loop on him and said a little prayer that Jake would get him. When we won, I let out a, ‘Whoa!’ This is rodeo, you grow up wishing you could win.”

The combined amount of money earned by cowboy winners at the 2020 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. Those winners were bareback rider Tilden Hooper ($24,580), steer wrestler Jacob Talley ($26,640), saddle bronc rider Daw- son Hay ($23,080), tie-down roper Tyler Mil- ligan ($23,200), team roping header Clay Ullery ($23,200) and heeler Jake Edwards ($23,200), and bull rider Brady Portenier ($24,827). 9,300 The sellout number of spectators who attended the finals of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo at Dickies Arena, Feb. 8.

SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Dawson Hay ............ 91 pts. 2. Wyatt Casper ............... 87.5 3. Allen Boore ..................... 87

TIE-DOWN ROPING 1. Tyler Milligan ......... 8.4 sec. 2. Tuf Cooper .................... 9.0 3. Tyson Durfey ................. 9.1

BARREL RACING 1. H. Lockwood ...... 16.30 sec. 2. Jimmie Smith ............ 16.31 3. Ivy Hurst ................... 16.40

BULL RIDING 1. Brady Portenier ....... 90 pts. 2. Rugar Piva ..................... 85 No other qualified rides

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