I heard stories from my dad back in the 50's about match ropings. They would rope like 5 calves, 5 steers and 5 donkeys. I can't remember the names, but one good story was about a match roping between 2 tough ropers and it came down to a very close race with 1 steer left. The one guy drew a fairly small steer, so he jumped on his calf roping horse. Jerked the steer over backwards and tied him. Won the roping but alot of controversy over that amoung the gamblers betting on the match. But I guess the rule read " The steer had to be jerked down and tied". -- RODEO RAMBLINGS

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Date Posted: 22:59:43 04/17/06 Mon
Author: Varmit
Subject: I heard stories from my dad back in the 50's about match ropings. They would rope like 5 calves, 5 steers and 5 donkeys. I can't remember the names, but one good story was about a match roping between 2 tough ropers and it came down to a very close race with 1 steer left. The one guy drew a fairly small steer, so he jumped on his calf roping horse. Jerked the steer over backwards and tied him. Won the roping but alot of controversy over that amoung the gamblers betting on the match. But I guess the rule read " The steer had to be jerked down and tied".
In reply to: Julie 's message, "Hmmm I could have some fun with this....can hear the announcer jokes now...."Which end of the rope is the A$$ on :) "" on 21:52:14 04/17/06 Mon

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I can't remember all the names now but they used to have some matched ropin's here in Hillsboro. A guy from Houston near where Gilly's was used to come. I think his name was Allen. They had it in the Fall in a little rinkey arena near where I lived at the time. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 14:39:50 04/18/06 Tue

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