Here are the National Finals Rodeo seventh performance results from Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019.
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Canadian saddle bronc rider Zeke Thurston posted a winning score of 92.5 to set a go-round record Wednesday night in the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas Mack Center.
NFR competitors and others are wearing hats adorned with white feathers to honor the short life of 7-year-old Max Henderson, who died in a riding accident three months ago. Each feather bears the words “LIVE LIKE Max.”
Saddle bronc rider Mitch Pollock talks to us about what it’s like to compete in his first National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.
Rodeo fans tend to be sports fans in general, too. As such, there’s certainly a segment of the rodeo fan base that might also enjoy betting.
In 1968, Ann Lewis — nicknamed “Annie the Okie” — won rodeo’s barrel racing championship as a 10-year-old, but did not live long enough to receive the gold buckle.
Shad Mayfield won the National High School Rodeo Association tie-down roper championship in July 2018. Seventeen months later, he is in Las Vegas for the biggest rodeo of them all.