ProRodeo Sports News - October 14, 2022

SHORT ROUND 2022 Polaris Remuda Award winners named Annual Honors

O n Oct. 12, the PRCA brought to PRCA rodeos is J Bar J and the committee recognized for assembling the best pen of bucking horses is the Fort Worth (Texas) Stock Show & Rodeo. The annual Remuda Awards go to announced its 2022 Polaris Remuda Awards. The best pen of bucking horses

the stock contracting firm and rodeo committee that provide the best, most consistent pen of bucking horses, creating the best opportunities for contestants to score well. “I wasn’t raised in a rodeo family,” J Bar J owner Sparky Dressen said. “A lot of stock contractors, especially the ones that are successful are second and third generation people. I went to the movie, “The Great American Cowboy,” when I was in sixth grade and I can remember like it was yesterday telling my sister ‘you see that guy up there, that’s going to be me someday. I’m going to rodeo for a living.’ “Getting to do that for a living and living in a country that we live in and make a living off your childhood dreams it is humbling.” J Bar J also won the Remuda Award in 2010 and 2014. Dressen has owned the J Bar J since 2008. The firm is based in Brockway, Mont. “I’ve been a stock contractor since the 1980s,” said Dressen, 61. “We had some different rodeo companies and bought some

different people out. I started raising bucking horses in the 1980s. There are so many people who told me when I started doing this in the 1980s you can’t do it. It is always people who have given up on their dreams who are telling you that you can’t do it. “You can do anything you want if you put your head down and try.” J Bar J is sending a combined total of 13 horses in bareback riding and saddle bronc riding to the 2022 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge. The Wrangler NFR is Dec. 1-10 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. This is the first time the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo has been honored with the Remuda Award. The 2022 Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo had a purse of $795,200. The 2022 Polaris Remuda Award winners will be honored at the PRCA Awards Banquet at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas at 6 p.m. (PT), Nov. 30, the eve of the Wrangler NFR.

Wrangler NFR, NFSR, NFBR photographers selected The PRCA is excited to announce

Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. Rod Connor will shoot the National Finals Steer Roping at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kan., Nov. 4-5. Dan Lesovsky will be the photographer for the Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping presented by Teton Ridge at the South Point Arena & Equestrian Center, Nov. 29-30 in Las Vegas.

the photographer selections for the 2022 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge. The in-arena photographers will be Phil Doyle and Click Thompson. The behind-the scenes photographers are Clay Guardipee and Hailey Rae. The 2022 Wrangler NFR presented by Teton Ridge will be Dec. 1-10 at the

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