The Team Roping Journal

HANDLING THE LONGEST SCORES IN RODEO

s a rookie coming into professional rodeo, I'd only heard of places with long scores. Where I grew up in New Mexico, there were never any long scores, and most were about average. Then it was all short scores when I amateur rodeoed in Texas. How to handle long scores is a timely subject with the 40-foot longest scoreline in rodeo coming right up at the California Rodeo in Salinas, and the 30-footer at the

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