The Team Roping Journal

LIVING LEGENDS BUILD THEIR PERFECT TEAM ROPER

BOBBY HURLEY

1993 & ‘95 WORLD CHAMPION HEADER

Bobby Hurley's Big 3:

Chad Masters, Kaleb Driggers & Clay Smith

I'd start with Chad Masters, and how he rides his horse. A lot of guys today, when their right arm gets to swinging they forget they have a left hand. In my eyes, Chad rides his horse better than anybody going down the road today. If people would learn how to really ride their horse, it would solve a lot of their problems.

Kaleb Driggers can drag it off the horns from way back. He's just really good at catching when he reaches.

I'd throw Clay Smith in there for the way he finishes a run. From the time his heeler throws to the time he faces, his horses usually face really, really good. Clay gets a lot

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