ProRodeo Sports News - March 1, 2024

BRIGHTON FIELD DAYS FESTIVAL

Lockwood, Toves split X-Bulls championship Split Win BY BRADY RENCK, Special to ProRodeo Sports News T he path to the arena varies, but common threads remain. It is often family or passion that leads cowboys into the chute. For Jake Lockwood, his brother Jess rode bulls and is a world champion, his father competed in saddle bronc and his mother raced barrels. Their paths, if not dreams, intersected at the 85th Brighton Field Day Festival Xtreme Bulls in Okeechobee, Fla. The pair delivered matching 87 scores, leaving them to walk away with $10,898 apiece. Toves is 30 and hitting his stride in his second year back in the PRCA after riding in the PBR for a decade. The fit feels right as he is beginning to eye his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo berth in Las Vegas. “It was just time to do something different. And it’s sure a good feeling and a good vibe going to these rodeos. All these guys are pulling for each other,” Toves said. “It doesn’t feel like a job being on these bulls. We are really blessed to do what we do.” Taylor Toves discovered rodeo through watching on TV and cajoling his mom to let him ride once they moved to Texas and a football teammate asked him to follow him to the ranch.

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