ProRodeo Sports News - Feb. 21, 2020

Jackson check has team roping header thinking big IN THEIR WORDS KASTON PEAVY T hat (performance in Jackson) felt pretty good. My partner did most of the work. We drew good and got a good start, and most of it was finished by him.

We went to preschool together and high school together and lived in the same town. Our parents were friends and we’ve been friends ever since. We’re the same age. He always heeled and I always headed. It worked out perfect like that. We’ve always done amateur rodeos together and always roped together, but he

Kaston Peavy mostly sticks to the Southeastern Circuit. But after cashing a check for $5,444 from the Dixie National Rodeo in Jackson, Miss., the team roping header from Bay Minette, Ala., is looking to venture out a little more. Peavy, 33, and Zak Dobbins, his team roping heeler and childhood friend, stopped the clock in 4.0 seconds to tie for second in Jackson. That one check is more than Peavy earned in four of the previous five seasons and has him in 18th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $7,488, as of Feb. 18. He is also headed to his first RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Kissimmee, Fla., in April. Dobbins, a 33-year-old rookie, is leading the PRCA | Resistol Rookie Standings. Taking a run at making the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas isn’t out of the question for Peavy and Dobbins.

I knew we were some kind of 4 (second run), but I didn’t know that we were 4-flat. Man, I knew that we had a pretty good chance of winning a lot of

money. I know there were a lot of teams behind us that were pretty good. We went at the beginning (of the rodeo), but I had pretty high hopes of winning some money. We were checking online or every night somebody there was telling us if anybody beat us or what was going on. Sometimes in the winter we’ll go to some other rodeos, but most of the time we stick around the circuit. This year, we went to Odessa (Texas), Fort Worth and San Angelo, then we’ll go to Austin. The new arena (Dickies Arena in Fort Worth) is sweet. It’s a nice facility for sure. They sure did well with it, and it makes it easy on a cowboy, it’s a treat to be there. We’re going to try and see where the rest of the winter goes and try to rodeo a little more than we have been. Zak and I have known each other all our lives.

never went to any of the ProRodeos, but we got him talked into it. It makes it easier going because we’re back together every day. We know what the other one is doing and what our problems are. When I’m not rodeoing, I’m building fences for my family’s company, Peavy LLC. My family had aunts and uncles on both sides who rodeoed and cousins on both sides who rodeoed, and I kind of fell into it. I like to rope. My dad (Al) made it easy for us to rope, and he liked it more than baseball and soccer, and I liked whatever he wanted to do. He didn’t enjoy going to the soccer games. When we were practicing roping, he was there every day. This year, as far as Jackson, it gives us a little different outlook as far as trying to make the Finals (Wrangler NFR). We’ve talked about going to California and going over the Fourth of July. So we’re just entering the ones we can get to now and whenever that time comes we’ll make a decision on it.

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