ProRodeo Sports News - Jan. 24, 2020

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BY THE NUMBERS $17K The amount of money – $17,635 – steer wrestler and tie-down roper Butch Myers earned to win the all- around title at the 1989 Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo, which is still a rodeo record. The 2020 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo began Jan. 24 and will conclude Feb. 8. $160K The amount of money – $160,000 – to be paid out to the event winners in bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping heading, team roping heeling, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping, barrel racing and bull riding at the 2020 Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo. Each winner will earn $20,000. $1.2M The total payout – $1,293,189 – for the 2019 Xtreme Bulls Tour. Sage Kimzey won the 2019 X Bulls Tour with $88,348. It was his third consecutive X Bulls Tour win.

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Cowboys try their luck on the Steamboat Springs, Colo., race course.

Colin Wolfe wins again at Cowboy Downhill ski race

Before 2018, steer wrestler Colin Wolfe had never competed in the Cowboy Downhill in Steamboat Springs, Colo. For the second year in a row he walked away as the winner of the stampede race at Steamboat Ski Resort, Jan. 20. A year ago, the Wenatchee, Wash., cowboy won both the slalom timed-event competition and the stampede. In 2018, Wolfe won the slalom. “It’s always great to compete (in Steamboat),” said Wolfe, 34. “The (stampede) race is a little bit different when they turn everybody loose. It’s kind of anybody’s ballgame. ... Everybody gets tangled up a lot and there’s a lot of carnage. It’s fun to watch.” More than 100 contestants from Denver’s

National Western Stock Show and Rodeo entered the 46th annual Downhill. The winner of the 2020 slalom timed-event competition was bareback rider Pascal Isabelle. The winner of the best wreck was fellow bareback rider Grant Denny, who donated his skis back to the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund and had them signed by contestants for auction next year. The Legends and Friends race winner was Jed Moore. The Cowboy Downhill is held in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo and began in 1975. The Downhill has become a fundraiser for the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, which provides financial assistance to injured PRCA cowboys.

Clown/barrelman Gizmo McCracken on mend

ProRodeo clown/barrelman Gizmo McCracken is already walking around and cracking jokes despite undergoing back surgery in Dallas, Jan. 8. Initially, doctors thought his recovery would take 60-90 days, but now McCracken expects to return to the arena in time for the Jr. NFR, where McCracken will perform beginning March 1. For now, McCracken is limited to walking until his

back fully heals.

“It was just from wear and tear, I’ve been doing

this a long time,” said McCracken, 58.

McCracken started fighting bulls when he was 15 years old in the 1970s and started his ProRodeo career in 1992. Since, he’s worked hundreds of rodeos, including the 2005 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and the 2006 RAM National Circuit Finals Rodeo.

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