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The 2011 Big Bend Ranch Rodeo August 12-13, 2011
The 2010 Big Bend Ranch Rodeo is now in the record books. The August 13th-14 th event was full of excitement, sportsmanship and suspense.
CONGRATULATIONS! to the Reeder/Hatchet Ranch team, from Fort Sumner and Hachita N.M. who came out on top as the Champion Team. Besides winning cash and prizes, the team wins a bid to the Working Ranch Cowboys Association World Championships held in November in Amarillo , Tx . Reeder/Hatchet won the Wild Cow Milking and scored enough points in each other event to be the overall winner.
Reeder/Hatchet team members are captain Scott Lewis, Jake McCorkell, Larry Reagan, Jared Fraze, Ace Peterson and C.W. Morris. Matt Stockton, from the Slash B/Dagger Draw team rode GORDY, the Top Horse and Waylon Davis from the NT/Hunter Ranch of Knox City , Tx was named the Top Hand. The All-Around Cowgirl was Brittany Herring from the Turkey Track/Martin Ranch in Artesia , N.M.
Taking home the Second Place prize was the Sandhill Cattle Company from Earth, Tx. Third Place went to the Bradley J3/Veale Ranches and Fourth Place was the NT/Hunter Ranch from Knox City , Tx ..
This was the 10 th Anniversary of the BBRR and we honored several people who persevered to get this rodeo going. Gary Dunshee, Apache and Joy Adams, Lynne and Larry Baldwin, Monty Kimball and Ryan Wash. THANK YOU for hanging in there and making this rodeo happen.
The Big Bend Ranch Rodeo provides an opportunity for working cowboys to show real cowboy skills and at the same time celebrate our ranching heritage and create exposure for a unique American lifestyle. In order to participate, each contestant must demonstrate he or she is a working ranch cowhand. The funds raised all go toward scholarships and assistance for students attending Sul Ross State University, School of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, with an emphasis on supporting the rodeo team. After all, college rodeo started here.
The Big Bend Ranch Rodeo is a sanctioned rodeo by the Working Ranch Cowboy Association. The Working Ranch Cowboy Association is an organization committed to promoting and show casing the skills of those cowboys who still make their living with cattle. It also puts on the World Championship Ranch Rodeo in Amarillo every fall by taking the champion teams from each sanctioned rodeo. The WRCA promotes many good causes, manages its own scholarship program and provides financial support for cowboys and families going through hard times. We are proud to be affiliated with them.
A partner event to the BBRR, a chuckwagon cookoff, is conducted yearly where cooks and wagons compete against each other to see who can cook the most authentic camp food, over an open fire or with coals in cast iron skillets and Dutch ovens. We invite everyone to taste the fare on Saturday afternoon before the rodeo. Other events to complete the weekend include a Ranch Horse Association of America competition and a Ranch Horse Cutting competition. The Big Bend Ranch Rodeo is held the second Friday and Saturday of August every year and we are already in the process of planning the next show.
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