The Royal Crown took on Buckeye, Arizona, for the roping portion of its 2025 futurity Feb. 5-10. 

The team roping kicked off with Miles Baker and Relentless PYC winning the 6 & Under Heading. Relentless PYC is the richest futurity rope horse mare of all time, and she and Baker won the average with a 616.26 after four rounds to add another $21,095 to her life time earnings. 

Billie Jack Saebens had a successful week, winning both the 4 & Under Heading and Heeling. Saebens won the 4 & Under Heeling on 2021 stallion Emojii, followed by the 4 & Under Heading on One Time Pick, a 2021 gelding. 

Jeremy Buhler cleaned house in the 6 & Under Heeling winning every round, but it was DT Hickorys Angus that took the cake, winning the average with a 619.40 after four rounds. Buhler also had three other horses in the short round.

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• The Short Score: Trey Yates Talks 2025 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo Win
• Round 10, the NFR Aftermath and 2025 with Coleman Proctor
• NFR 2024 in Review: Listen to the NFR Round Winners on The Short Score
• 5 Conversations from the 2024 NFR You Need to Hear
• The Short Score: Ace Ashford and Steer 27
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Champions Clint Summers and Jake Long

Luke Brown and Trey Yates won the 2025 National Western Stock Show and Rodeo win Jan. 26, after a 4.2-second run in the short round to pocket $11,718 a man. For Yates, three-time NFR heeler and 2018 NFR champion, the win was an emotional one.

Yates joins The Short Score to talk about the emotion behind the win, his partnership with 14-time NFR header Brown and more.

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• Round 10, the NFR Aftermath and 2025 with Coleman Proctor
• NFR 2024 in Review: Listen to the NFR Round Winners on The Short Score
• 5 Conversations from the 2024 NFR You Need to Hear
• The Short Score: Ace Ashford and Steer 27
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Champions Clint Summers and Jake Long
• The Short Score: 2024 World Champions Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Round 9 Winners Proctor and Medlin

We're back with our eighth year of The Score Podcast from The Team Roping Journal, and we're kicking it off with a bang with Coleman Proctor and a recap of his dramatic 10th round of the 2024 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in a raw conversation that only Coleman can provide.

Proctor missed his Round 10 steer to lose the 2024 PRCA Heading and All Around World Championships, and Proctor's perspective on the loss is a masterclass in sports psychology for any competitor.

The Gold Buckle Futurities Fall Roping crowned its champions Nov. 14-17, 2024, in Abilene, Texas, and The Short Scoreis wrapping up 2024 highlighting a few of their winners.

Rhen Richard won the 6 & Under Heading on SJR Diamond Bond for $11,000. They picked up another $19,000 for first in the Elite Stallion Incentive, and the 6-year-old won another $9,000 in the Elite Breeder’s Incentive. 

Richard's old ProRodeo partner and 2016 World Champion Jeremy Buhler and SLR Swinging Hickory won the 6 & Under Heeling, pocketing over $31,000 all in all. 

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• 5 Conversations from the 2024 NFR You Need to Hear
• The Short Score: Ace Ashford and Steer 27
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Champions Clint Summers and Jake Long
• The Short Score: 2024 World Champions Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Round 9 Winners Proctor and Medlin

Ace Ashford’s death in August of 2024 shook the team roping and rodeo communities to their cores. The 18-year-old young gun, and younger brother to NFR heeler Ross, was known by everyone as a kind, humble and overall good person.

But even in death God's hand is present. In this episode of The Short Score, Hill Rodeo Cattle’s Bobby Joe Hill—a longtime friend of the Ashford family and the team roping steer contractor for the NFR—and Ace's dad Troy tell the story of Steer 27, the last rodeo steer Ace ever roped. Steer 27 is making its way to the Ashford home, but there's more to the story between Steer 27 and Ace.

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• Steer 27, Ace Ashford and God's Hand in Everything
• Ace Ashford, 18, Dies in Horse Accident Aug. 12, 2024
• New Money: Ace Ashford and Jade Philipp Win Riata Buckle Jr #10.5 and $20,920

• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Champions Clint Summers and Jake Long
• The Short Score: 2024 World Champions Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Round 9 Winners Proctor and Medlin
• The Short Score: 2024 NFR Round 8 Winners Driggers and Nogueira
• The Short Score: Proctor and Medlin Win Round 7 of the 2024 NFR

Clint Summers and Jake Long took home the 2024 NFR team roping average title Dec. 14, in Round 10.

Summers and Long came in second in the average, and their 4.0-second run sealed the deal with a 44.3 on nine head. They picked up fourth in the round for $14,126.88 apiece and $86,391.31 a man for the aggregate title. They join The Short Score to talk about their run, their 2025 plans and more.

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Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp defended their 2023 world titles, winning the 2024 PRCA team roping world championship with $361,480.

Wade and Thorp sealed the deal on their consecutive gold buckles after winning second in Round 10 with a 3.8-second run for $26,623.74 a man. The newly-crowned world champs join The Short Score to talk about their world titles.

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Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin are back in the winner's circle after Round 9, this time with gold buckles on the line.

Proctor and Medlin won Round 9 of the 2024 NFR with a 3.8-second run for $33,687.18 a man. Proctor now sits second in the world and Medlin third. After Round 9, the projected world standings have Proctor the world champion header and Medlin the world champion heeler. 

There's still plenty of money to be won in Round 10 and the average, and The Short Score caught up with Proctor and Medlin to talk about their round win and the world standings race.

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The end of the 2024 NFR is in sight as Round 8 wrapped with the 2021 and 2022 world champions keeping themselves alive in the world championship race.

Kaleb Driggers and Junior Nogueira entered Round 8 needing to win the round to stay in the conversation, and they did just that, winning the round with a 3.4 for $33,687.18 a man. They now sit second in the world standings. They join The Short Score to talk about their week and their mental approach for the last two rounds of the 2024 NFR.

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Coleman Proctor and Logan Medlin wrapped Round 7 of the 2024 NFR in a bow as the last team out. Proctor and Medlin took the win in Round 7 with a 3.5-second run for $33,687.18 a man, keeping Proctor alive in the race for the all-around gold buckle.

Proctor and Medlin catch up with The Short Score to talk about their run and their careers.

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