When The Team Roping Journal launched in September 2017, it did so with 12 pages dedicated to the rope horse breeding and training programs our staff deemed critical to growth on the horse side of the industry.
We touted the horses as quickly becoming even thinking about the young horse side of the business as its own separate financial engine. We never dreamed that some five years later, we'd be talking about a $16.1-million Finale, on the heels of a $2-million stallion incentive-based event in the November 2022 Riata Buckle.
