The Short Score: From Utah to Cheyenne

welcome to the short score your weekly update of ROP and news from around the industry where you can find the latest on the sport from the pro rodeo ranks to the jackpot world I'm Taylor Ven and I'm your host welcome back to the short score it's Taylor Vol and everyone I've got a little bit of everything for you guys on this episode Chelsea and I were in Wallsburg Utah over the weekend for the first ever old west rope horse maturity which was a really neat event aside from the beautiful location it was historic with the richest payouts and RoR fatuity history I'm going to start off this episode with one of our winners from the fatuity Miles Baker miles won the prematurity heading on Relentless pyc also known as Nala for $50,000 and Chelsea caught up with him after the win we were in wait she's not the one that want to Buckeye the brown Mar won in bukeye y she woned Scott sale okay give me the Ty Smith when you guys were talking with solo gave the full rundown on where that may came from and how she came to the Relentless from muta tell me about it Ty Smith bought chariz gun which is the dam of Nala Relentless pyc uh he bought that mayor with this Philly n inside of her and then uh Larry rice they put that mayor or this Philly in cud sale and Larry rice bought it back and he was the one that originally BR it and then Tai bought it you know or the mayor with her in it and then so I bought it from Larry and so it was kind of a full circle where Larry bred it but Tai bought it and then Tai or Larry seen it you know as a wiland or whatever and got it back and then I bought it from Larry and when you guys went to look at them you were looking to add run to the program mayors that were bred to run into the program talk about that Larry was just like I've said a bunch he was ahead of the game breeding you know the race horses to the cow Mayers and stuff and so you know Trev and I had a vision of like riding better head horses and not just taking 10 and hoping that one or two of them actually had enough smoke and I told him I was living in Oklahoma I said there's a guy up here in pcel that raises really good horses and and it was no secret Ren had done really good on some cole Davidson had a few good ones Tate had a few good ones and so I went up there and I actually got to watch uh I think I've told the story probably a lot cuz both of these Mars have been really good this year but I got to watch them ride them and they were like within like this it might have been their first or second ride and I left there and I told Trevor I was like I bought one that was super kind and like looked like she moved good but like so gentle and easy going and then I bought one that was really stingy and this one was she was the kind one it's crazy she's that's what I was talking to Daisy about ear it's just crazy that what she can do and have the mind that she has cuz she's so good minded she'll just back in there and fire every time and does it never raises an eyebrow about it you know um how has she evolved since her first win was in Scottdale yeah she won Scottdale and then she won I think the maybe the oil can classic and armore and then she won here and she's just gotten solid she has so much finesse uh about how she does stuff that she's always looked really cool but like in the beginning of the year I I would like show her you know like I kind of take my eyes off the cow and really show her and now I just keep my eyes on the steer's head and I handle the cow and I just make jackpot runs and she show and and you can't talk about this mayor success which now you know she's halfway through her four-year-old year and she's won 93,000 and I can't talk about that without Patton Joseph Harrison on the back he's I think this is maybe the seventh time I've showed this mayor and he has not missed or has not roped a leg for this mayor it's been two feet every single time and so this is it's still Team Roping and there's so many factors and there's a ton of people that think think that you know winning is easy when you got a good horse but it's not there's a million things through a 4run fur or jackpot that are waiting to cut your feet out from under you and when you don't got to worry about your man behind you that's nice cuz I I knew when I was heading to my Short Round Cal that there was 50,000 sitting on top of that sucker's head because I just knew when I turned it it was Joseph was going to heal it cuz he's just been Flawless for that may um what has her you know since she's been winning what have her reps been like in the practice pen she gets so little it I can't tell you how easy that mayor is and she fires so hard away from home that like at home I just sounds bad but I try to keep her enjoying life I mean Gracie rides her a lot in the pasture I may rope on her a couple days a week I score a few and maybe break away one or two and just really not to get her like better so so to speak but just to keep her enjoying it keep it easy and then it's crazy when you know that you can ask them for 50% all the time and all you got to do is smooch you know I I I can literally smooch at that may and it's 0er to 100 it's she's just after the first round it's funny I'll work at home and ease her around and then it's always after the first round that I remember how fast she gets across the line and she just stands there so still and then can blow blow across the line like nothing I've wrode and it was funny cuz we had an incident yesterday and somehow a tent got loose and we were all up here at the indoor and she was tied to the trailer about 100 yards away and we see a tent flying across the parking lot and somehow the tent hits my trailer goes over the top of my trailer and lands on her and she's tied to the trailer so she freaks out for good reason the halter breaks when she sets back and so she turns and runs off in the stays stuck to my saddle so she's running and like she's fast everybody knows her knows how fast she is and she was running even faster with a 12T ENT Dragon behind her and thank God it finally fell off but I laughed after the first round I said this m fire is like that tent still Dragon behind her and so anyway how did you catch her did she just let you catch when the tent finally well she out I said she outrun the tent which was good because she was going when I said it was a good thing the tent flew off cuz she was running so fast I think she was about to take flight and but when the when she finally outrun the tent and it come loose from my saddle then she just slowed down and uh I don't know if it was pressing or who it was but rode up there and caught her on a horse and let her back down there I tied her back to the trailer and she just like looked like wow that was insane and just back to normal but it was it was pretty eventful um you hadn't won a ferity before Buckeye this year talk about this remind me how many times I won second well talk about this year cuz it's been I feel like we don't now now we don't go aurity that I don't agree the S of relief that you w cuz I don't have to talk to you as much God is good that's all I can say it's like God's good I was like winning that got me pretty emotional I was crying hugging Daisy and it was uh 4 years ago I was charging 650 bucks a month to ride as many as I could just to get experience I'm losing money luckily I had a ranch you know that and I got to take care of cattle and stuff but I was like that was the only thing that kept me afloat because I just had so much passion for it just wanted to be the best and I knew that I couldn't do that without a ton of experience so I had 20 25 horses that I was literally breaking even just to feed them and keep them looking good and I just rode and rode and rode and when I got the Unity ride for Trevor I didn't charge him nothing I literally if I felt like I did a really good job and the horses really increase their value I would charge him for feed and stall but I just knew that I had an opportunity and I think the last two or three years I've you know pecked along and I've tried and get better and get better and I won second at a lot of futurities and I just knew I was like I'm I'm getting there I'm getting there and I've not arrived yet but I think I I probably won 10 maturities this year you know and just said gosh God's been good cuz this is all I've ever wanted you know and to get to bang heads with Trevor and Tate and Joseph and like Joseph has been my heroes since I was 16 you know like I remember watching I'd go to open rodeo and enter the tie down roping and stick around and watch Joseph Hill steers you know and I got pictures with Trevor when I was 12 years old getting his autograph you know those guys are legends to me and even if it was just one time that I could look back when I was 70 and say man I beat Trevor that one time or Joseph that one time you know it would be a huge blessing but to get to bang heads with them is just it's more than I ever thought a kid from Oklahoma would get to do um I think a lot of it there is so much of it that's like the extra mile that's made it and we made that Tik Tok this weekend of like you taking them in live scoring like what are some of those little things that people don't see that go into it how it's hard to say like if you go do this it's going to help you win like there's no equation to it but at the end of the day like hard work prevails and I'm not the most talented guy to pick up a rope I'm not uh you know the most talented Horseman but I don't know anybody that outworks me and I won't ever Pat myself on the back about but I and I thank my dad for that cuz he works like a pack mu day in and day out and my grandpa's do and it's just it's all I know and I just know that I had a purpose you know and I have a platform and this is how I can tell people that you know God is good and so God put this passion on my heart and and it's a place where I can go and and shine and get to operate like at the top of the game with some of the greats and and shine a light for people and tell them that you know it's it's not me that's done it God put this passion in my heart and he's gave me the work ethic and to just be able to come out here and do what I love I mean I'm just thankful to be here I was riding around in the warm-up Arena thinking like if I hit this steer in the back of the the head you know Trevor said on a podcast satday how many dear die situations are you in I'm not in any I thought I literally told myself out loud when I rode in the Box I said this ain't do or die don't don't freak yourself out it ain't do or die I mean if if I hit him in the back of the head I'm going to say thank you Lord for the chance to run a steer for 50,000 who would have thought a kid from Oklahoma was going to get to rope a steer for 50,000 and to rope for you know after for this win I've probably won close to a quarter million this year already and like who would have thought a kid like me knowing myself would ever get to make a living with a rope in his hand and so like I just the hard work you know it that's what it takes and there's people that are crazy talented but at this point there everybody has a little bit of talent and so for me going and doing that stuff like he was talking about it's just the extra mile I paid it cost me $700 to go score the other day at the aqaa show but I know if I get here my horses are dialed in and they're relaxed and I do my job that I can win you know and I won 55,000 on that maror today and you know Trev won 15 we had we won you know 75,000 a day and so for me it's just like if the hard if going that extra mile only pays off 20% of the time I'm still money ahead you know and I just think I'm so passionate about it because like I just I just love the horses like I that may I I love that may so much I don't walk through the barn without going in her stall she's always been so kind and she tries so hard and and I I just I don't know I just love horses um yeah Gracie told me that you were you were thanking that Mar and said she doesn't know how good she is I told her before the Short Round cuz always Gracie knows when I'm in the short ground before I run a cow Daisy always texts me and Gracie always tells me just score just score cuz the rest of it muscle memory you can't think about 10 different things on your way to a cow to rope it and turn it and it's just it happens too fast and so I've always told them I'm like hey just tell me just score if I just score everything else Falls in place and so I was back there and Gracie I was she said just just score you know and I was wasn't thinking about that but I was telling her I was like this mayor just doesn't know she that May's so calm her eyes are so soft and it's like she don't know she's about to run one for 50,000 you know she don't know she just won the first two rounds she don't know she had a 10-point lead in The Short Round she don't know and I after I wrote the mayor's just standing there with her eyes almost closed just hanging out just chilling and I told Gracie again I was like she has no idea how good she is she just that's why I think I love the horses so much they don't they don't ask questions they don't know if it's for if it's just a practice run or if it's for 50,000 or if it's for 100,000 they just that's why I love horses so much they just show up and fire anyway while we of course have a few other major conversations from the old west reopen I'm actually going to switch gears to Cheyenne to wrap up this episode we all watched as hay Smith and Justin Davis won the Cheyenne Frontier Days Sunday with an 8.3 second run in the Short Round And I actually got to be in Cheyenne for the Short Round And I caught up with the two on their win this is just a tidbit of our conversation and you can of course read the full story on our site try and put in a words how you guys are feeling right now oh it's it's come true it's just the it's one of them rodeos that you you're up gringing on winning and you know you're open fast lane your kids see out 30 foot out there chasing it's hard to explain do you like this setup the long score and run him down kind of absolutely today today no absolutely yeah I love it we're from the West Coast you know so we got selus out there and I like red BL all the are long setup that's what we grew up doing absolutely do you feel like you have an advantage almost then no no I wouldn't say that I have an advantage when I draw like I did today yeah tell me a little bit about why you felt that was an advantage uh he was just most definitely better than the rest uh he was perfect speed straight down the middle great hor top K couldn't Drew him up any better yeah we talked about why this matters to him tell me a little bit if you don't mind about what's so important about cheyen to you and how you're feeling right now M oh just years of coming here I mean just like he he said earlier you know you grow up you watch 8 seconds and you know it's like Lane Frost and tough heerman flying over saying there it is boys the daddy of them all you know I I don't know they only give away one champion in each event every year it's tough to be the champion I know a few guys that got a couple of them but to have one is so special and for me like I saying earlier in my interview that my best buddy died here 12 years ago today on this day you know so yeah I guess I had an angel with us today horses they're so important here what were you guys riding well I'm riding a horse that I actually just bought in June uh from a buddy of ours Lane Mitchell at rodeos M and uh we been kind of trying to learn each other we've had a few ups and downs but I really like him he's a pretty cool little horse and Hay's horse he's he's one of a kind he's a unicorn he really is tell me about the unicorn from your perspective uh you know I bought him I think it was 3 years ago and friend of mine actually help me buy and it took a little while to get with him but once we got together I I've never had an easier feeling trying to stear get out there uh he's 18 years old now my kid loves him she rides she's 2 years old she rides him around yells at him plays him around I call him eore Eeyore I like cuz he's just EAS going horse you wouldn't think him but he scores it doesn't matter you can take him from here selenis to the next day you got to be 36 and he's just so as they get yeah do you call him your I No I gave I gave I gave him that name I call so my my kids started call good grade she just starting to talk and those were the kind of the words she could say so he's good grade what do you call yours Hank the name he came with his actual name is Hitman my verion Hitman yeah he came Brandon we had him for a long time he went some Jers definitely again he's been okay what were you guys in the standings coming into today do you know I was 37th in the world I heard him say when I watched our video back from the other day I heard him say I was 15 okay Rodeo all winter i r with Kevin Daniel this win and then we went home and we just Rodeo to California and I mean honestly we circuit rode gotten the top 50 for him yeah that's what I thought yeah we've done pretty good considering where we've been you know especially if for Hay's not going to anything until Red Bluff pretty much m in April what would a big jump in the standings mean to you it would probably make me leave the house we had the uh if Cheyenne doesn't go good we're going home yeah which Cheyenne's the marker a lot for a lot of people right yeah I mean it's not like we won 30,000 over here still it's not like you win Chey you making in Far right but you know you have a good week and