ProRodeo Sports News - Oct.4, 2019

WRANGLER NFR BUBBLE WATCH

William Kierce photo Rookie bull rider Trey Kimzey, shown competing in Goliad, Texas, March 17, earned $3,952 at the Comal County Fair & Rodeo Xtreme Bulls in New Braunfels, Texas, Sept. 29, to unofficially move into the No. 15 spot in the Sept. 30 PRCA | RAM World Standings.

Kimzey and Mayfield solidify their Wrangler NFR spots in final week Late Push

“It’s a dream come true. Everybody wants

to be behind those yellow

$1,538 ahead of Kimzey. But Breding has been

sidelined with a left knee injury since July 10 and would have to debate riding at the 2019Wrangler NFR in Las Vegas, Dec. 5-14, if he qualified. Kimzey answered for Breding by winning the Comal County Fair & Rodeo Xtreme Bulls Division 2 in New Braunfels, Texas, Sept. 29, the penultimate day of the 2019 PRCA regular season. Kimzey had an 89.5-point ride on Lancaster & Jones Pro Rodeo’s Whamma Jamma to earn $3,952. That pushed him to the coveted No. 15 spot unofficially in the

bucking chutes and be on that kind of stage. I’m truly blessed to get to go there.”

BY TRACY RENCK T his wasn’t the script bull rider Trey Kimzey wanted to follow. With each passing day of September, the rookie saw his chance of making the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo slipping away. Heading into the final weekend of the 2019 PRCA season, bull rider Parker Breding sat in the No. 15 spot in the PRCA | RAMWorld Standings with $105,746,

– TREY KIMZEY

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