by Julie Mankin | Mar 22, 2025 | Press-Release
Few other professional sports have as many two-generation superstars as rodeo does, particularly team roping. The BFI win column boasts champs from two sets of two-generation families. David Motes was already a world champion header (he won the 1977 gold buckle...
by BFI Week | Mar 14, 2025 | Press-Release
Perennial BFI money-winners Riley and Brady Minor aren’t entered this year, which will give someone else a chance to win Horse of the BFI. But eight other pairs of brothers will rope together, including two sets of twins. Jake and Jim Cooper, now 40, were the first...
by BFI Week | Mar 14, 2025 | Press-Release
Former BFI champs roping together this year, like Chris Francis and Cade Passig, have great odds to do it again. But did you notice the other champs with new partners? Luke Brown, the fifth all-time BFI earnings leader who won the roping back in 2017 with Jake Long,...
by Julie Mankin | Mar 9, 2025 | Press-Release
Possibly the only accolade with more prestige than winning the BFI is winning bragging rights as the BFI’s all-time high-money earner. Over almost 50 years, a trio of three-time champs lead all ropers with money won at the BFI. When Clay Tryan took over as the...
by Julie Mankin | Mar 8, 2025 | Press-Release
It was a perfect fit for Classic Rope to sponsor the Rickey Green Fast Time Award at the BFI this year. Not only did one of the industry’s longest-standing rope companies want to give respect to one of its hardest-working clinicians, but the late Green also had close...
by Julie Mankin | Feb 14, 2025 | Press-Release
Tickets for the world’s richest and most prestigious one-day team roping are on sale starting Valentine’s Day. With a purse of more than $650,000 and featuring 125 of the world’s best ropers, the 48th annual Bob Feist Invitational (BFI) presented by Yeti, on...
