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Steven Dent rides Pete Carr's San Angelo Sam for 89 points Friday night to take the bareback riding lead at the Eagle County Fair and Rodeo. (PHOTO BY TODD BREWER)

EAGLE, Colo. – As Steven Dent limped out of the arena after his bareback ride Friday night, he couldn’t help but flash a quick smile.

He had just a wild ride on San Angelo Sam, a 6-year-old paint bucking horse from the Pete Carr Pro Rodeo outfit. The two matched up for 89 points, and Dent owns the bareback riding lead with just one performance remaining at the Eagle County Fair and Rodeo.

“I had him in San Angelo (Texas) in the Cinch Chute-Out,” said Dent, a nine-time National Finals Rodeo qualifier from Mullen, Nebraska. “He was wolfy both times I had him. He turned back with me (in Texas) and was all I wanted.”

That’s bareback rider-ease, meaning the horse bucked hard and made it difficult for the cowboy to stay in the correct position. It made for a nice reward after he and traveling partner Tanner Aus competed in Deadwood, South Dakota, on Thursday, then Dent rode again Friday afternoon in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

“I try to come here regularly,” he said of the Eagle rodeo. “I try to work the rodeos I can enter with Cheyenne.

“This is a great rodeo. It’s cool, and by now you’re tired of sweating. It’s got a great crowd.”

It was actually a great day riding bucking horses for Dent. He was one of the top six in Friday’s round in Cheyenne, so he qualified to compete in Sunday’s short round; that, combined with winning Eagle, is nice. Alas, he was stepped on after his ride and is suffering from a sprained and swollen left ankle.

What relieved the pain a bit was that Aus posted an 85-point ride on Carr’s Painted River and sits in second place. The only missing ingredient is their third traveling partner, Ty Breuer, but all three cowboys are among the top 15 in the world standings and have a good chance to another bid to the NFR this December – only the top 15 on the money list in each event at the conclusion of the regular season earn the right to play for the biggest pay in the game in Las Vegas..

“I think every rig shows up saying, ‘We’re going to show up finishing one-two or one-two-three, but it’s fun when you can actually do it,’ ” said Aus, a three-time NFR qualifier from Granite Falls, Minnesota. “I’ve been looking forward to getting on that horse all week. We had a few other rodeos to go to, so I just tried to stay focused on that one.

“This is a beautiful place to be. I love coming to Eagle. Pete’s got a great pen of horses. Just to come up to a place like this in the mountains is just great. The crowd’s fired up; it’s packed tonight. That’s fun, especially this time of year when rodeos are close together and we’re starting to get tired, it’s good to see people in the stands; we’re glad to hear them.”

As far as the rig goes, Breuer leads the pack sitting seventh, while Dent is ninth and Aus is 11th. There are many rodeos between now and the end of the regular season, but there’s a lot of confidence inside that vehicle.

After Cheyenne’s short round, both men will get a few days off to spend with family, which is virtually a luxury this time of year. Most cowboys leave home toward the end of June and don’t return until September. Dent left as soon as he got his ankle checked and iced to make the seven-hour drive to his hometown in the sandhills of Nebraska.

“I ought to get home about 4 o’clock in the morning, catch a little sleep, then go to Burwell tomorrow night,” he said of the Nebraska rodeo that is less than two hours from his house. “Then we’ll head toward Cheyenne and get a hotel room, because I have to be back over at Cheyenne by 11 a.m. Sunday.

“Then I’ll have the biggest break since Reno (Nevada in late June), and that’s three or four days off.”

There’s no slowing down now, because the biggest prize in the game happens in Nevada in December.

Eagle County Fair and Rodeo
Eagle, Colo.
July 24-27
Bareback riding:
1. Steven Dent, 89 points on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s San Angelo Sam; 2. Tanner Aus, 85; 3. (tie) Clayton Biglow and Luke Wozney, 82;52. Cole Reiner, 81; 6. Joel Schlegel, 80.5; 7. Paden Hurst, 80; 8. Tristan Hansen, 79.

Steer wrestling: First round: 1. Gage Greer, 3.9 seconds, $927; 2. (tie) Kalane Anders and Chisum Docheff, 4.3, $687 each; 4. Austin Eller, 4.5, $447; 5. Payden McIntyre, 4.6, $288; 6. Aaron Vosler, 4.7, $160. Second round leaders: 1. (tie) Chisum Docheff and Cody Pratt, 4.4 seconds; 3. (tie) Gage Hesse Logan McDonald and Austin Eller, 4.7; 6. Tait Kvistad, 4.8, 6.4. Average leaders: 1. Chisum Docheff, 8.7 seconds on two runs; 2. Austin Eller, 9.2; 3. Gage Greer, 9.4; 4. Cody Pratt, 9.6; 5. Beau Clark, 13.0; 6. Kyle Francis, 14.1.

Tie-down roping: First round: 1. Darnell Johnson, 8.4 seconds, $1,021; 2. Garret Arnold, 9.1, $765; 3. Brandon Kammerzell, 9.5, $510; 4. Jarrett Oestmann, 10.0, $255. Second round: 1. Garret Arnold, 8.1 seconds; 2. Jarrett Oestmann, 8.6; 3. (tie) Kyle Dickens and Ryle Smith, 8.9. Average: 1. Garret Arnold, 17.2 seconds on two runs; 2. Jarrett Oestmann, 18.6; 3. Ryle Smith, 22.0; 4. Brandon Kammerzell, 23.2.

Saddle bronc riding: 1. Jacobs Crawley, 84.5 points on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s Sadie’s Gal; 2. (tie) Tanner Butner and Jesse Kruse, 79.5; 4. Bradley Harter, 79; 5. Tyler Beebe, 77.5; 6. J.W. Meiers, 77; 7. Roper Kiesner, 76; 8. Dean Wadsworth, 75.5.

Team roping: First round: 1. Corey Whinnery/Robert Murphy, 5.7 seconds, $999; 2. Jesse Sheffield/Derek Pake Younger, 5.8, $749; 3. (tie) Brit Ellerman/Trey Johnson and Clay Norell/Hank Bounds, 5.9, $375 each. Second round: 1. Wade Kreutzer/Kyon Kreutzer, 12.3; no other qualified runs. Average: 1. Wade Kreutzer/Kyon Kreutzer, 18.4 seconds on two runs; 2. Corey Whinnery/Robert Murphy, 5.7 seconds on one run; 3. Jesse Sheffield/Derek Pake Younger, 5.8; 4. (tie) Clay Norell/Hank Bounds and Britt Ellerman/Trey Johnson, 5.9.

Barrel racing: 1. Sara Cheeney, 17.35 seconds; 2. Leia Pluemer, 17.52; 3. Ryann Pedone, 17.58; 4. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, 17.64; 5. Caroline Kelly, 17.76; 6. MacKenzie Scott, 17.80; 7. Chris Gibson and Emily Hamrick, 17.81; 9. Brittney Barnett, 17.84; 10. Sally Conway, 17.94; 11. Ronnie Will, 17.96; 12. Ivy Hurst, 18.01; 10. K.L. Spratt, 18.09; 11. Jolee Lauteret-Jordan, 18.11; 12. Kelley Schnaufer, 18.12.

Bull riding: 1. (tie) Eli Vastbinder, on Pete Carr Pro Rodeo’s California Mudder, and Ruger Piva, on Lancaster & Jones Pro Rodeo’s War Tank, 85 points each; 3. Nic Lica, 77; no other qualified rides.

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