The Team Roping Journal

The Team Roping Journal magazine 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.

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The Team Roping Journal

REIGN RELOADED • Trevor Brazile clinched his second consecutive ARHFA World Championship, this time aboard Vintage New York. The King of the Cowboys and the 6-year-old reining-bred gelding by Platinum Vintage out of Lil Sugbaby Gun marked a 928.79 in Amarillo to earn $25, 180.

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME • Kaleb Driggers and Paul Eaves dominated the 2025 Hondo Rodeo at Chase Field, winning the average with a 13.34 on three steers for $20,000. Not only did they win the first round with a 4.05 to earn $41,000 total, the victory also makes Eaves a back-to-back Hondo Rodeo champion.

CLUBHOUSE CURTAIN CALL • Trevor Brazile closed out RR Buckles Clubhouse's futurity career in style, winning the 2025 Gold Buckle Futurities World Finals Heading. The win pushed the 2017 gelding by Show Me The Buckles out of Hail Olena to $254,801 in QData earnings. Bred by Michael O. Coe and owned by Bryan and Nancy Beaver, Clubhouse won all three rounds and the average, along with the Elite Stallions Incentive, for a total of $28,800 at the Gold Buckle Futurities World Finals.

2026 ARIAT WSTR QUALIFICATION PROGRAM CHANGES

TREY YATES & PABLOS TIME SET NEW WORLD SHOW RECORD TO WIN 2025 AQHA SENIOR HEELING WORLD TITLE • Yates and Pablos Time are 2025 AQHA Senior Heeling World Champs.

JAMES ARVISO AND NICKY NORTHCOTT TOP 2025 RESISTOL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR RACES

JUNIOR NOGUEIRA’S $75K AQHA WORLD SHOW SWEEP • Junior Nogueira had a big week at the 2025 World Show.

JEREMY BUHLER EXTENDS HICKORY HOLLY TIME DYNASTY WITH DUAL HEELING TITLES AT 2025 GOLD BUCKLE FUTURITIES WORLD FINALS

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(At Home With) • Wyatt Cox just finished 17th in the 2025 world heeling standings after starting the season with Marcus Theriot, and spending the second half battling behind Lightning Aguilera. The 30-year-old California native now lives in Morgan Mill, Texas, and is engaged to Teisha Coffield.

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U.S. Army Vet Tod Dillingham & Former Deputy Sheriff Jay Mullens Win Charly Crawford's American Hero Celebration • Texans Tod Dillingham and Jay Mullens were the last team to rope in Sunday’s short round and made it happen for $30,000.

Switch-Ender Success: Rance Winters Sits in Top 10 on Both Sides of Resistol Junior Standings • Rance Winters has capitalized on the jackpot scene in Stephenville, Texas.

New Mexico-Made: Tauna Alcorn Sits Second in Cinch Ladies Heading Standings • Tauna Alcorn has won all of her USTRC points in the Land of Enchantment.

THE HEADER’S DELIVERY & POSITION • We tapped trainers Kaden Richard, Billie Jack Saebens and Rhen Richard to explain the finer points of the position they ride as they deliver their ropes on green head horses.

Next Level with Patrick Smith: • Get Your Rope to the Ground

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Inner Strength with Jeremy Buhler Never Stop Learning • Jeremy Buhler had a record year in the futurity industry, helping DT Horses’ Hickory Holly Time top $1 million in offspring earnings in 2025. Here’s the mental approach he’s taken to learning the futurity game.

NICKY NORTHCOTT RIDES INTO SOPHOMORE SEASON ON A NEW NO. 1 • Old faithful Brown will be back in the trailer, too.

True teams • Insights from roping’s longest-running partners

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