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Airdrie, ALTA – May 24, 2017
It was a three hour ride that just might have turned a season around for team ropers Clay Ullery and Riley Wilson.
The pair were on their way from Redding, California to the rodeo in Hayword. “It was ‘gut check’ time,” Wilson admitted. “We spent that whole time just talking about ways to tweak our runs, not drastic changes, just ways to be more consistent. It felt like we were always four or five tenths too long. We’d be 5.9 for last hole or just out of the money when 5.4 or 5.5 would have won second or third.”
The strategy session paid instant dividends as Ullery and Wilson were 4.8 to split 2/3 at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo in Hayward, then followed that with a 3.9 second run to win the team roping at the recently completed 99th annual Falkland Stampede earning $1199 each.
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