ProRodeo Sports News - Feb. 21, 2020

FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW & RODEO

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Steer wrestler Jacob Talley clocks a 4.0-second run to win the finals and earn $20,000 at Dickies Arena, Feb. 8.

Talley gives season boost with Fort Worth victory

BY TRACY RENCK S teer wrestler Jacob Talley was more than ready to put his 2019 PRCA season in the rear-view mirror. The Keatchie, La., cowboy who qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2016 and 2018, tore his right pectoral muscle on his second steer at the Red Bluff (Calif.) Round-Up, April 18. Talley had surgery April 23 in Red Bluff. He was out for 11 weeks and

it sabotaged his chance of making the Wrangler NFR, as he finished 50th in the 2019 PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $32,515. “They told me it was going to be a six- to eight-month injury, and I went through an extremely rough training program,” said Talley, 29. “I changed the way I ate, and I did everything I could to speed up the healing. I missed quite a bit in those 11 weeks, and it was a struggle, I’m not going to lie.” This season, Talley is healthy, and it showed as he won the Fort Worth

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