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Last Updated: Jul 12th, 2008 - 21:46:55 |
 Hi again everyone, this is Arnie Jackson with your Calgary Stampede Rodeo and Chuckwagon report.
Wild Card Saturday saw only two Canadian contestants advance to the Sunday showdown series in which the individual winners head home with pay cheques for $100,000.00 each. A total of $600,000 will be given away in the afternoon round of championship rodeo and then another $100,000 will be on the line for the top reignsman at the Rangeland Derby Chuckwagon final.
Advancing to “Championship Sunday” will be the current Canadian Bareback riding champion, Dusty LaValley from Crooked Creek, Alberta. The classy rough stock specialist took second place Saturday afternoon with his smooth looking 85 point ride aboard Vern Franklin’s Cajun Queen. Also moving into Sunday championship round will be Canyon, Texas Bareback Rider, Will Lowe, who scored an 86 on The Calgary Stampede’s “Mad Money”.
The Saddle Bronc Riding Event failed to provide showdown Sunday with any additional Canadian cowboys. Two American riders made the cut, including Heith DeMoss from Crowville, Louisiana and Cody Taton out of Newell, South Dakota. DeMoss covered the Calgary Stampede’s Gross Beetle for an 84 point score, while Taton finished second on the afternoon with an 82.5.
In the Bull Riding section, it was two more American riders that qualified for the big money Sunday show. J.B. Mauney, from the eastern seaboard state of North Carolina had a whopping 90 point ride on Slim Jim, while Denton Edge from Marwayne, Alberta stuck for the full eight seconds and a crowd pleasing 88 point ride.
No Canadian contestants figured in the timed events, during Wild Card Saturday. The Calf Roping section saw Josh Peek from Pueblo, Colorado advance with a blistering 6.6 second run and Clint Robinson from Spanish Fork, Utah turned in a close second, as he roped and tied his calf in just 7.0 seconds flat.
The news wasn’t any better in the Steer Wrestling event, where Lakeview, Oregon bull dogger Shawn Greenfield was in a hurry grabbing first place on the afternoon with his rapid run of 4.3. Second overall went to Dean Gorsuch from Gering, Nebraska, who dogged his steer in a flawless 4.6 seconds.
The top two in the Ladies Barrel Racing event turned out to be Sheri Cervi from Marana, Arizona and Tammy Key-Fischer who hails from Ledbetter, Texas. Cervi grabbed first place money with her run around the cloverleaf pattern in just 17:38 seconds while Key-Fisher was close behind at 17:41. Pincher Creek, Alberta native, Molly Powell, who now calls Stephenville, Texas home, missed the cut by just 1/100th of a second.
The top ten will go head to head in the championship round of the million dollar Calgary Stampede, starting at 1:30 on Sunday, July 13th, 2008.
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