The Team Roping Journal

THE MAGIC OF BLUE

Coy Rahlmann had a great showing roping with Douglas Rich at his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo presented by Teton Ridge in 2021. Tanner Tomlinson turned around and lit up the Thomas & Mack Center with a new NFR team roping earnings record heading for Patrick Smith at his first Finals in 2022. Coincidence that Coy and close friend Tanner both rode a big-boned, blue-roan horse they call Blue? The rodeo world thinks not, and the stats don't lie.

Rahlmann and Rich won $74,227 a man at NFR 2021.

“It was a good first Finals,” said 21-year-old Rahlmann, who comes from Ellsinore, Missouri, and is roping with Jonathan Torres in 2023. “I thought it was really good until Tanner

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