The Team Roping Journal

Team Roping Journal educates and entertains readers who actively participate in the sport. We help you to obtain the best results with step-by-step instruction in how to perform at a higher level and win more often. After all, we all know that while the heart is in the land and on the ranch, the ego is alive and well when it comes to besting your friends in the arena.

Dear Roper

The Team Roping Journal

TRIFECTA

BIG HIT

HEARTLAND PAYOUT TOPS HALF-A-MILLION WITH EIGHT DIVISIONS TO GO IN 2021

HEARTLAND WSTR QUALIFIER SCHEDULE

2021 Days of ’47 Cowboy Games and Rodeo Payout and Format Announced

JX2’s Sweet Ride • Johnson gives out “Cowboy Rig” in Statesboro, Georgia.

RENO WELCOMES BFI WEEK IN JUNE

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(At Home With) • At 25, Sam Stamper stays super busy as the owner/auctioneer at the Checotah Livestock Market in the Steer Wrestling Capital of the World. He ropes as much as his hectic schedule and long list of responsibilities allow, and knows it’d be tough to beat the day he split $213,000 for the reserve championship in the #9 roping at the 2016 World Series of Team Roping Finale in Vegas heeling for his mom. Sam is the youngest of Teri and Tom Stamper’s four kids, who also include Molly, Pake and Brittany and all love to rope. Sam and his fiancée, Zadie McElhaney, are getting married on June 12, and will make their home in nearby Beggs, Oklahoma.

RODEO READY OR NOT, HERE I COME

TRUST YOUR TRAINING AND GO FOR IT

AIMING TRUE • Technically, Sonna Warvell operates on the peripheries of our team roping community, but this Annie Oakley star from Disneyland Paris’ Wild West Show is as authentic a roper as they come.

32 ND  USTRC NATIONAL FINALS #9.5 SHOOTOUT PRODUCES BOTH CINCH LADIES HIGH-MONEY WINNERS • Annsley Vernon heads for $21,130 and Kaitlyn Torres heels for $21,000 to clinch the Cinch Ladies High-Money Award of an added $1,000 and a year’s supply of Cinch shirts and jeans.

5 FLAT with Zane Bruce • USER-FRIENDLY Zane Bruce has spent a lifetime training horses for the public. Here are his insights into making one most ropers can get along with.

Next Level with Shay Carroll

PERSPECTIVE: HOW TO FIND IT

Freeze Frame

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Bit Junkie • This month’s favorite bit: Kayelen Helton’s Bit

Game Plan with Nick Sartain

A FRESH START: BOYD’S TOP HORSE FINDS RELIEF IN NEW SOFTRIDERS REGIMEN

WHY THEY WORK

CINCH USTRC NATIONAL FINALS XXXII Winner's Circle

The Chill Factor • Keeping hot horses cool in the box.

TRY THIS • What if you’re already in the corner with a hot mess? Consider these tips:

What Not to Do

Final Thoughts