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    RYAN MOTES’ ROCKSTAR REBOUNDS FROM NEAR-DEATH PNEUMONIA JUST IN TIME FOR NFR

    Jan 21, 2020 4 minutes
    By Kendra Santos

    The way Ryan Motes sees it, he’s had two once-in-a-lifetime-caliber heel horses in his career. The fact that CD Rock-star, who’s 17 now, and CD Starbucks, 22, are full brothers his family raised and trained is pretty cool. But that little fun fact is nothing next to how happy Ryan was to have Rocky return to the active roster right before the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo—which was Ryan’s fifth and Rocky’s first—after nearly escaping a life-threatening case of pneumonia.

    “Coleman and I won the first round at Sikeston (Missouri), then won Lawton (Oklahoma) on

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