Fifteen-year-old Cooper Martin, of Alma, spends most of his time practicing his rodeo skills. Martin said he likes “to rope all day.” “Sometimes I’ll rope and tie 100 calves a day. Other times, I may ...

BENTON — With $4 coming to him, Justin Sands contemplated how to spend it. The temperature pushed toward 90 degrees as the sun climbed toward its noon position and Sands thought of buying an ice cream ...

The sun careens off the black mountains above us, tires of the bigness of the Wyoming sky, and pools in the dirt of the riding arena at my horse’s feet. My horse is named Vern. His feet, along with ...

At a Van Horn arena on a late-summer afternoon, speckled steers bawled in the chute as Jimmy Steve Martinez flight-checked his horse Yoshiki. Martinez, a 42-year-old team roper, takes his time with ...

Cade Holman, 12, in orange, has high expectations for his rope tricks, as he makes use of some downtime at the 2015 California Rodeo Salinas. He’s got what seems to be a complicated repertoire, ...

PARTICULAR. PRETTY SOON, FREEDOM HALL WILL HAVE 14,000 SCREAMING RODEO FANS AND WHEN THEY DO, CODY HUBER WILL BE ROPING CALVES. AND THIS IS MORE THAN A FAMILY BUSINESS. IF THERE’S ONE THING CODY HUBER ...

The RSPCA has renewed its call for calf roping to be banned. If you have been to a rodeo or watched the hit US TV series Yellowstone, you have probably seen it, but the RSPCA says the practice causes ...