ProRodeo Sports News - March 1, 2024

SAN ANTONIO STOCK SHOW & RODEO

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Bareback rider Rocker Steiner won San Antonio with this 89-point ride on Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Top Notch.

Steiner continues hot streak

Rocker keeps rollin’ – as in Rocker Steiner. After capturing the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo title on Feb. 3, Steiner tasted victory again by claiming the crown at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo on Feb. 24 at the Frost Bank Center. Steiner’s San Antonio win came to fruition with his 89-point ride on Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Top Notch in the finals. “Obviously if I had first pick (in the Roughstock Draft Saturday afternoon, Feb. 24), I would have chosen Cole Reiner’s horse (Pickett Pro Rodeo’s Night Crawler), but my second pick was going to be Top Notch,” said Steiner, 20. “I watched that horse for a long time. It is big and it bucks hard, and it is really flashy, really pretty. There’s a lot of easier horses out here to pick that will give you a chance to win, but I knew that horse was probably going to be one of the ranker ones if not the rankest horse in there. “It’s kind of like JB Mauney always says, ‘It is not about which one you’re comfortable with, it is one people will remember.” Steiner won a bareback riding-best $17,750 in San Antonio to

claim the rodeo’s championship. In Fort Worth three weeks earlier, the Weatherford, Texas, cowboy earned a rodeo-best $28,000. “I feel like every once and awhile, I go on a high and I’m riding really good and sometimes I will take a low and not really feel my best,” he said. “Recently after the (NFR), I have been really motivated and I want a gold buckle.” Steiner’s latest win put him atop the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $45,750. Steiner, 20, has made back-to-back Wrangler Nationals Finals Rodeo appearances and he finished a career-best fifth in the 2023 PRCA | RAM World Standings with $265,218. He earned $122,0995 at the NFR, thanks to winning three rounds and placing in five total rounds. “Consistency,” said Steiner about his key to grab his first gold buckle. “My thing this year is I want to ride more consistent. If you’re riding the same way every time, they are going to reward you for it. I’m going to try and ride a little bit more consistent. I’ve always been kind of a wild man, but I want to be consistently wild.”

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