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Ranch Rodeo (A First)



Saturday
A spur of the moment decision and Mark and I decided to go to a Ranch Rodeo. Mark has been in one over 12 years ago. Myself I have never been to one or seen one, however I have done some team penning in the past. We took our new horses and gathered up a few people and made a team. We had Mark on Missy, she is the black and white paint and she is doing great for Mark. He is very excited about how well she is and he even team roped on her the night before and caught. Myself, I rode Hemi (Cherokee), he is 4 and about 60% broke. I knew this wasn’t going to be easy and he was so love sick for Missy, all he could do was whinnie for her. Next we had Jayden’s best friend Makenna, age 10 on our team. Her mom and dad said she needed a team to be on. Then we had Sue, who has recently had knee surgery, so could not get off her horse for any running. Last we had a young gal named Kendra. She looked to be in her 20’s, very pretty, but she was super tough, tough enough she could probably wrestle a steer to the ground. And yes, that is exactly what was required in two of the events. I was on foot for those two events, team branding and team doctoring. Someway, somehow I was supposed to be one of those who got the steer to the ground. I was relieved that we never got to that point in the event before our time was up. We defiantly were at a disadvantage having one man on the team and he was our roper. We needed men so we could steer wrestle. Mark did a great job roping and was pretty proud and feeling good. In team penning our team penned 2 steers which was very good. Team sorting we got 5 steers in order. Team trailering, we got one steer in. At the end of the night to our shock and amazement, we got 4th place out of 19 experienced teams. We were thrilled. It was midnight when the event got over. Mark and I were tired, hot, and had fun.

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