ProRodeo Sports News - June 11, 2021

Reigning world champion wins in Darby Feild’s Day

BY TRACY RENCK K aycee Feild is well-versed on where his name is in the ProRodeo history books. In December at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, Feild made history, winning his fifth world title and first since 2014. That fifth championship tied Feild with ProRodeo Hall of Famers Joe Alexander and Bruce Ford for the most bareback riding world titles in PRCA history. The son of the late ProRodeo Hall of Famer Lewis Field, Kaycee Feild also has 23 career NFR go-round wins in bareback riding, second only to Bobby Mote’s 25. “Winning six world titles goes through my mind every day,” said Field, who also won world championships in 2011-14. “I write it down every day and read it every day. I mean this in the humblest way, but I plan on winning my sixth world championship this year.” Feild helped his cause to reach

wants to accomplish.

“I want to be remembered when I’m done a lot like

my dad,” Feild said.

“Everywhere I go I hear a neat story about my dad. I want to be remembered as a family man and a good guy who was very generous to the sport and gave back to the sport. Right now, where I’m at in my career, it’s now or never. I’m as hungry as I’ve ever been. “When I won my first world title, I dreamed about bareback riding night and day all day. Now with my family and with what life brings, it’s hard to get into that place and get that focus. “I feel like for my wife, for my kids, for my brother, and sister and mom, where everybody is at in their lives, I have a fun group of people that’s motivating to be around. They know my goals and they build me up all the time. To win a sixth world title not only to be in the record books and have it on paper as the best ever, but I want to have stories be told about me long after the records.”

that goal by winning the Riggin Rally Xtreme Broncs bareback riding event in Darby, Mont., June 6. “It was one of those days that’s so much fun,” Feild said. “It was a blast. I had my family there and we got to take pictures in the arena with the buckle. It was a special night.” In the finals, Feild posted a 92.5-point trip on J Bar J’s Straight Moonshine, the third-highest scored ride of the 2021 season. “That ride was a blast,” he said. “He left the chute really fast like a Calgary horse does, and he got going really fast right there and then angled right in front of the chutes. Then when I set my feet, he would throw his head back. It was one of those rides that was very memorable.” He made the finals after splitting the win in section two with a 90-point ride on Calgary Stampede’s Bucking Night. Feild earned $11,138. The Genola, Utah, cowboy entered Darby fifth in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $34,325. And although he has a résumé worthy of the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, Feild has more things he

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Roseanna Sales photo Kaycee Feild celebrates with his daughter Chaimberlyn after winning the Riggin Rally Xtreme Broncs bareback riding event June 6.

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