ProRodeo Sports News, June 29, 2018

Canadian Comebacker

Bareback rider Clint Laye rode Vold Rodeo’s Mucho Dinero for 87.5 points to help him win the Wainwright (Alberta)

Laye rides Mucho Dinero to win Wainwright

BY SCOTT KANIEWSKI T he last couple years have been tough for bareback rider Clint Laye. Maybe things are turning around. Laye won the Wainwright (Alberta) Stampede, June 24, with a two-head average of 172.5 points. Cashing in for $4,442 moved Laye up to 16th in the RAM | PRCAWorld Standings with $31,230 as of June 25. It was the second time he had won the Wainwright Stampede. Growing up in Cadogan, Alberta, about an hour fromWainwright, made winning the rodeo for the second time nearly as special. “That’s probably the closest hometown rodeo to where I grew up,” said

Laye, 24. “It’s really important for me, really, really big. I won it five years ago and had some rough goes since then.” It’s been about two years of rough goes for

Stampede with a two-head average of 172.5 points June 24. Billie-Jean Duff photo

Laye. The bareback rider stormed into his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in 2015 and placed in four rounds. He finished 10th in the world, winning $62,038 at the Wrangler NFR for a season total of $142,346. He was ready to go for 2016, but a neck injury slowed him down in the winter, before the big blow – a broken elbow in May at Helldorado Days Rodeo in Las Vegas.

TOPS AT WAINWRIGHT — June 21-24

BAREBACK RIDING 1. Clint Laye...................172.5 pts. on two 2. Ty Taypotat...................................171.5 3. Orin Larsen...................................169.5 4. Dantan Bertsch................................166

STEER WRESTLING 1. (Tie) Jesse Brown..... 14.6 sec. on three Scott Guenthner.............................14.6 Jacob Talley....................................14.6 4. Harley Cole.....................................14.7

TEAM ROPING 1. Johnson/Woolsey..... 17.1 sec. on three 2. T. Johnson/L. Johnson...................21.0 3. A. Sullivan/T. Gallais.......................23.0 4. C. Tryan/B. Hall...............................24.1

SADDLE BRONC RIDING 1. Zeke Thurston..............168 pts. on two 2. Brody Cress..................................166.5 3. Isaac Diaz.....................................164.5 4. Taygen Schuelke...........................162.5

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