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Jackie Crawford topped the 2025 San Diego Rodeo on old teammate "T-Boy," who's been in semi-retirement for the last few years. Crawford recounts the journey to the big win in California and what made her pull T-Boy out of the pasture and start roping on him again.

She also dives into her current horse string and the problems that come with having too many "good ones."

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• Breakaway Futurity 101 with Cheyanne McCartney
• Mastering Rodeo Mental Performance with Donene Taylor
• Meet Josie Conner's Horse of the Year "Dutch"
• Madison Outhier’s Horse Accident an Recovery on The Breakdown Podcast
• Shelby Boisjoli-Meged’s Cheyenne Frontier Days WIN on The Breakdown Podcast
• Maddy Deerman’s Bringing the Summer Heat on The Breakdown Podcast
• Cowboy Christmas Recap on The Breakdown Podcast with Taylor Munsell, TiAda Gray and Josie Connor

As we send off 2024, we wrap up the 2024 NFR round winner episodes of The Tie-Down Breakdown.

Round 8 saw the first split round win of the 2024 NFR in the tie-down roping with Marty Yates and Ty Harris taking the win. Yates tied his calf in 7.3 seconds to take the lead in the round, and three runs later Harris joined him with his own 7.3. They both pocketed $30,155, and they join The Tie-Down Breakdown to walk through their runs.

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• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Dylan Hancock Wins Round 7 of the 2024 NFR
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Rounds 5 and 6 of the 2024 NFR
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Riley Webb Adds Round 4 to 2024 NFR Wins
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 3 Winner Ty Harris
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 2 Winner Riley Webb
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb

Breakaway gunslingers Hali Williams and Martha Angelone rounded up $300,000 between them at the Kimes Million Dollar Breakaway, National Finals Breakaway Roping and on the Las Vegas jackpot scene including the Masters and All-In Breakaway Roping.

In this newest episode, brought to you by Purina, we had a chance to catch up with Hali following her Kimes Million Dollar Breakaway High-Money finish and Martha's NFBR and Vegas Jackpot sweep. The ladies discuss rodeo strategy, where to rope in Las Vegas and how—more than ever—breakaway ropers can make a living with their rope.

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• Breakaway Futurity 101 with Cheyanne McCartney
• Mastering Rodeo Mental Performance with Donene Taylor
• Meet Josie Conner's Horse of the Year "Dutch"
• Madison Outhier’s Horse Accident an Recovery on The Breakdown Podcast
• Shelby Boisjoli-Meged’s Cheyenne Frontier Days WIN on The Breakdown Podcast
• Maddy Deerman’s Bringing the Summer Heat on The Breakdown Podcast
• Cowboy Christmas Recap on The Breakdown Podcast with Taylor Munsell, TiAda Gray and Josie Connor

NFR rookie Dylan Hancock topped the field in Round 7 of the 2024 NFR, making the fastest run of the Finals as of Dec. 11. Hancock won the seventh round with a 6.7 for $33,687.18 and his first-ever NFR round win.

Hancock joins The Tie-Down Breakdown to talk about his run and his first NFR.

• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Rounds 5 and 6 of the 2024 NFR
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Riley Webb Adds Round 4 to 2024 NFR Wins
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 3 Winner Ty Harris
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 2 Winner Riley Webb
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb
• Cinch Roping Fiesta Champ Tom Crouse on The Tie-Down Breakdown

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The halfway point of the 2024 NFR has officially come and gone as we enter Round 7. In Round 5, NFR rookie Joel Braden Harris topped the field for his first-ever NFR go-round win. Harris, the younger brother to six-time NFR tie-down roper Ty, won the round with a 7.6-second run for $33,687.18.

Round 6 saw the comeback of 2019 World Champion Haven Meged. Meged won the round with a 6.9-second run, also for $33,687.18. On this episode of The Tie-Down Breakdown, we hear from both the Rounds 5 and 6 winners.

• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Riley Webb Adds Round 4 to 2024 NFR Wins
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 3 Winner Ty Harris
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 2 Winner Riley Webb
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb
• Cinch Roping Fiesta Champ Tom Crouse on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• NFR Rookie: Quade Hiatt on The Tie-Down Breakdown

Gift a Roping.com membership today to the tie-down roper in your life and check them off your holiday gift list. Gift learning from Roping.com’s comprehensive tie-down video library and learn from World Champions Caleb Smidt and Shad Mayfield as well as top trainers Logan Harkey and Justin Maass. Plus binge hundreds of hours of archived tie-down roping livestreams. Gift anywhere from one month to one year of membership on Roping.com just in time for the holidays.

In just four rounds of the 2024 NFR, reigning World Champion Riley Webb has raked in $137,685.28 to push him to No. 1 in the world standings.

Webb added the Round 4 win to his NFR resume after winning the round with a 7.5-second run for another $33,687.18. 

Webb joins The Tie-Down Breakdown to discuss his Round 4 win.

• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 3 Winner Ty Harris
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 2 Winner Riley Webb
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb
• Cinch Roping Fiesta Champ Tom Crouse on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• NFR Rookie: Quade Hiatt on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Who Should Win the 2024 Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year Award?

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Things heated up in Round 3 of the tie-down roping at the 2024 NFR. A 7.7-second run was last hole, and Ty Harris took his first round win of this year's Finals with a 6.9-second run. The No. 3 man in the world standings pocketed $33,687, and he joined The Tie-Down Breakdown to talk about his run.

• Te Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 2 Winner Riley Webb
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb
• Cinch Roping Fiesta Champ Tom Crouse on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• NFR Rookie: Quade Hiatt on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Who Should Win the 2024 Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year Award?
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Kincade Henry

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Kelsie Domer has had the week of a lifetime, winning the 2024 WPRA Breakaway World Championship, NFBR Average Championship and Kimes Million Dollar Breakaway Average Championship.

All told, she's won more than $130,000, with an army of support behind her including mom Lisa, aunt Lori, husband Ryan and daughter Oaklynn.

Hear about Kelsie Domer's round-by-round perspective, World Championship shock and reflection on the last week.

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• Breakaway Futurity 101 with Cheyanne McCartney
• Mastering Rodeo Mental Performance with Donene Taylor
• Meet Josie Conner's Horse of the Year "Dutch"
• Madison Outhier’s Horse Accident an Recovery on The Breakdown Podcast
• Shelby Boisjoli-Meged’s Cheyenne Frontier Days WIN on The Breakdown Podcast
• Maddy Deerman’s Bringing the Summer Heat on The Breakdown Podcast
• Cowboy Christmas Recap on The Breakdown Podcast with Taylor Munsell, TiAda Gray and Josie Connor

Webb joins The Tie-Down Breakdown for the second night in a row after his second-round run.

• The Tie-Down Breakdown: 2024 NFR Round 1 Winner Riley Webb
• Cinch Roping Fiesta Champ Tom Crouse on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• NFR Rookie: Quade Hiatt on The Tie-Down Breakdown
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Who Should Win the 2024 Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year Award?
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Kincade Henry
• The Tie-Down Breakdown: Cole Clemons

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e round win with a 7.0-second run for $33,687.

Webb entered the NFR fourth in the world standings, and the round win pushed him to No. 2 with $260,594.10.

On this episode of The Tie-Down Breakdown, Webb breaks down his run and what the win means to him.

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