Here are the National Finals Rodeo eighth performance results from Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019.
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Bareback rider Clayton Biglow won a record fourth consecutive go-round Thursday night in the eighth go-round of the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Tim O’Connell was thrown from his horse in the final go-round of the National Finals Rodeo last year, tearing his rotator cuff, labrum and several ligaments.
Tie-down roper Tyler Milligan, who won the seventh go-round Wednesday with a time of 7.5 seconds, talks about competing at the NFR.
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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.
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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.
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Matt Sherwood, a 50-year-old header, and Hunter Koch, a 22-year-old heeler, have been team roping together since June, and have finished in the money three times at the NFR.
Defending world champion Tyler Waguespack became the first steer wrestler to win two go-rounds Tuesday night at the National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas Mack Center.
As Thanksgiving Day approached, defending world champion team roper Clay Smith certainly had much to be grateful for from the past 12 months.