The Team Roping Journal

COLE DAVISON’S APOLLO REBOUNDS FAST FROM PRE-NFR SUSPENSORY SCARE

It took Cole Davison 10 years to make his first NFR and now, he’s heeled at back-to-back Finals for the past two years—in 2018 for Kolton Schmidt and behind Tyler Wade in 2019. He says the No. 1 factor that helped him over the Top-15 hump is a horse.

Davison, 30, who lives in Stephenville, Texas, with his wife, Whitney, and daughters, Milli and Letti, bought Apollo, now 10, from Rhen Richard, who headed for him the

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