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    REMEMBERING DOC BAILEY

    Jan 21, 2022 3 minutes
    —G.R. Schiavino

    The news didn’t come easy to the team roping community when it learned it had lost Jerry Bailey, DVM, to COVIDcaused pneumonia on Dec. 17, 2021.

    “I was shocked,” revealed Mike Goad, a Texas heeler and the last partner Bailey won a check with doing what he loved. “I just couldn’t believe it.”

    In October, the two friends, who’d been partnering up for years since they were introduced by flagger Phillip Murrah, took first call back in the #9.5 60 and Over at Jeff Smith & 3 Point Production’s World Cup of Team Roping, held at Guthrie, Oklahoma’s Lazy E Arena. The win is bittersweet for Goad, who considers it a favorite among their successes, though it proved to be Bailey’s last.

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