ProRodeo Sports News - May 10, 2024

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Tickets now available for Cinch Playoffs, Governor’s Cup

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The Cinch Playoffs and the Battle for the Governor’s Cup is the culmination of the most prestigious event series – the Playoff Series – on PRCA’s regular season trail. The PRCA, the State of South Dakota, Experience Sioux Falls and Cinch bring you the richest rodeo in South Dakota history, the Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup, Sept. 26-28, at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center provides one last opportunity for ProRodeo athletes to punch their tickets to the National Finals Rodeo. Happening the last week of the rodeo season, Tickets for the rodeo are on sale now. The Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup

the Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup will once again include the top four from each event from the Cinch Playoffs in Puyallup, Wash., which takes place Sept. 5-8, and the top eight out of the Playoff Series standings. The Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup will pay out more than $1.3 million in three days. In 2023, the inaugural event was a fight to the finish and one last shot for contestants to make the National Finals Rodeo. Rorey Lemmel, the general manager of the Cinch Playoffs, knows how important the Sioux Falls rodeo is to contestants. Get your tickets now at cinchplayoffs.com or by visiting ticketmaster.com.

roping finals locations that were not held in the same location as the National Finals Rodeo. The list consists of Clayton N.M. (1959), Scottdale, Ariz. (1960), and Santa Maria, Calif. (1961). Since 1962, team roping has been part of and in the same location as the NFR. 1974 That year the Rodeo Cowboys Association, Cowboys Association in 1975, had the following selections as the Bucking Stock of the Year: Bareback Horse of the Year was Harry Vold Rodeo’s Smokey; Saddle Bronc Horse of the Year, Bobby Christensen’s Checkmate; and Bull of the Year, Billy Minick’s Tiger. $15K The amount of money ($15,212) earned by Tyler Bingham during his triumph at the Cactus Jack Xtreme Bull Riding on May 4 in Uvalde, Texas. The Division 1 Xtreme Bulls event paid out more than $56,000. which became the Professional Rodeo

Three-time NFSR qualifier Taylor Santos out for season

Taylor Santos, a two-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and three-time National Finals Steer Roping qualifier, will miss the rest of the season due to hip injuries sustained during the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo in late February. The 29-year-old steer roper and tie-down roper tore both of his hip Labrums and as a result suffered from Femoroacetabular Impingement.

finishing as high as 10th in the PRCA | RAM World Standings in his debut. Santos, currently 41st in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $7,199 in steer roping, plans to take in a few rodeos from the stands while he resides and rehabs in Texas. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Santos spent his time away from the sport revamping his horse herd and

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learning how to trip steers.

Santos had the first of two arthroscopic surgeries on his right hip in April and the same surgery on his left hip is scheduled for June 13 in Nashville. Santos will be out for six months and miss the remainder of the 2024 season while rehabbing with the goal of returning to action in 2025. “It sucks to be on the sidelines,” Santos told the ProRodeo Sports News . “But at the same time, it’s pretty hard not being able to compete to the best of your ability either. So, I’m looking forward to getting it fixed and being able to get back to that high level.” Santos reached the NFSR in three consecutive seasons (2021, 2022 and 2023). He qualified for the NFR in 2019 and 2021,

He credited the forced break for his trips to the NFR and NFSR in 2021 and hopes the next six months have a similar effect. “It’s hard because all of my buddies are out there rodeoing and it’s hard not to be out there roping,” Santos said. “But in 2020, I just made some horses and amateur rodeos and wasn’t out there full time. And it kind of refreshed me and I came back the next year and made the Finals in calf roping and steer roping. “So, hopefully it’ll have the same effect this time.” Santos said he’ll miss participating in California rodeos the most this summer, but he will attend rodeos in Texas when possible.

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