ProRodeo Sports News - January 19, 2024

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BY THE NUMBERS $11K The amount of money ($11,170) earned by bull rider and steer wrestler Luke Gee while competing at the RAM Montana Circuit Finals Rodeo, Jan. 11-13 in Great Falls. Gee won the average in bull riding with 236 points on three head. $12K The amount of money ($12,223) earned by Brodie Poppino in winning the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo steer roping event, which took place at the Uvalde (Texas) County Fairplex on Jan. 12. Poppino won the event with a 36.6-second time on three head. $16K The amount of money ($16,983) earned by bull rider Nathan Bayous during the RAM First Frontier Circuit Finals Rodeo, Jan. 11-13, in Harrisburg, Pa. Bayous won the average with 240 points on three head.

Circuit Finals that year, so I gave it a try. I should have trusted my first instinct.” A few seconds into the ride, a plate holding the original fracture in his arm bent, the bone separated, and it was back to the sidelines and a plaster cast. Haskins waited another year before testing the arm again, but it still wasn’t ready; it fractured for the third time in less than two years. “They finally did some bone grafting and by the 1981 Denver rodeo everyone thought the arm would hold together while I was riding,” Haskins said. “I was really worried when I climbed on my horse, but a few jumps later everything was still in one piece.” In addition to qualifying for the NFR, Haskins was the Mountain States Circuit Bareback Riding Director in 1981-82. Haskins rodeoed until 1993 before retiring after competing at that year’s National Western Stock Show & Rodeo in Denver. After rodeo, Haskins worked as a carpenter and brick layer and general contractor, and he also ran a successful wild game processing plant in Maybell for several years. In his band, he played guitar, five string banjo, and fiddle. Haskins Celebration of Life will be at 2 p.m. (MT), Jan. 20 at the Moffat County Fairgrounds Pavilion in Craig. TERRY HAYES, STEER WRESTLER, OFFICIAL Terry Hayes, a longtime PRCA steer wrestler, ProRodeo official and longtime supporter of the Southeastern Circuit, passed away Jan. 7 in Opelika, Ala. He was 76. “If there’s one person who meant a whole lot to our (Southeastern) Circuit it would be Terry Hayes,” said longtime friend of Hayes and rodeo announcer Jerry Todd. On Jan. 7, Weekley Brothers Davie Pro Rodeo posted the following in Facebook: “A Special Smile, a Special Face... In our Hearts, a Special Place... Memories are a Gift to Treasure, Ours of You, WILL LAST FOREVER.” According to Todd, Hayes provided a lot of time-event cattle for rodeos in the southeastern U.S. Hayes’ wife Dottie was the 2021 WPRA Mildred Farris Secretary of the Year. His niece, Lindsey Hayes-Banks is an NFR barrel racing qualifier. A Celebration of Life will take place for Hayes at 2 p.m. (CT) on Feb. 10 at the Kick Back Ranch & Event Center in Ramer, Ala.

DAR HASKINS, NFR BAREBACK RIDER Bareback rider Dar Haskins, a three-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier in 1984-85 and 1987, passed away Jan. 1. He was 66. “(Dar) was a good

guy,” said Dale Haskins, Dar’s brother, and former PRCA saddle bronc rider. “Tom Reeves tells the story that when he was just starting to rodeo, and he didn’t have any money and (Dar) was doing good

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he would make sure Tom had something to eat and took care of him and wouldn’t ever accept any money when Tom did win something and tried to pay him back. That’s just the kind of guy (Dar) was.” Reeves, an 18-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier and 2001 PRCA Saddle Bronc Riding World Champion, was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2008. Dar Haskins finished a career-best 12th in the 1985 world standings. He also finished a career best seventh in the NFR average in 1987 with 729 points on 10 head. In 1984, he split third in Round 10 with a 76-point ride on Sutton Rodeo’s Air Wolf. The next year, he also split third in Round 8 with a 74-point ride on Sankey’s Leo. During the 1987 NFR, Haskins split third in Round 1 with a 76-point ride on Calgary Stampede’s Flashing Jewel and fourth in Round 3 with a 77-point trip on Reg Kesler Rodeo’s Ace of Spades. He also split third in Round 6 with a 77-point ride on Growney Bros. Rodeo’s Dreamboat Annie. At the PRCA Circuit level, Haskins was Mountain States year-end champion in 1984 and he won the average at the Mountain States Finals Rodeo in 1984 and 1988. Dale Haskins was the Mountain States saddle bronc riding year-end champ in 1979 and 1982 and he was the Mountain States Finals Rodeo average winner in 1979. Dar was honing his skills in the practice pen in 1979 when a horse flipped over on him and broke his left foreman. “Six months later, the doctor told me he thought the arm was healed enough to ride again,” Dar said in a newspaper article. “It worried me a little because I wasn’t sure if he knew how much abuse a riding arm took, but I wanted to make the

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