The Team Roping Journal

SPLIT TITLE

FOR SMITH, a second title seemed inevitable for the header from Broken Bow, Oklahoma. He started the 2019 season winning with Jake Long. He changed it up after the spring run, picking up three-time World Champion Heeler Jade Corkill at Reno—his dream partner, the heeler after whom he’d named his son.

“He’s been the best that I’ve ever seen, all growing up and starting rodeoing,” Smith said. “His mental game; that dude wants to win more than anybody—almost anybody—because I want to think I want to win that much, too. But, he’s even more aggressive than I am, and his mind is so

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