The Team Roping Journal

5 FLAT with Dick Yates

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TIMELESS TEACHINGS

Dick Yates qualified for 13 Wrangler National Finals Rodeos with his son J.D. in the 1970s and 1980s and, since then, he's won hundreds of thousands of dollars competing at every level of team roping competition. Alongside J.D. and now his grandson

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