Well today we woke up to a sunny Calgary after a night of pouring rain which led to a fairly muddy Stampede Park. During the grand entry you could see that the mud was pretty deep when the Flag Girls and Rodeo Queens opened up the show riding around in the arena with their horses sinking down quite a ways. But the grounds crew kept working it in-between events and by the time the bronc riding rolled around the bucking horses had some good ground to perform on.
Today also marked the end of pool B competition and decided which four cowboys would skip the wild card round tomorrow and have a bye into Sunday’s final round. The guys from our pool will be Cody Wright, Cody Demoss, Rusty Allen, and myself. I was blessed again by a great draw with Calgary’s Alabama Acre. She’s an older brood mare that only gets bucked a few times a year so she was good and rested up when I climbed on her today. She’s had a real nice day, and was quite a bit of fun to ride. I was 84.5 and ended up 3rd for the day. Rusty Allen won the round with and 85.5 followed by Jesse Bail scoring an even 85. Now I have a day off to watch the Wild Card round and see which to bronc riders will advance to Sunday. The broncs will be pretty rank tomorrow so there should be some high scores and probably a few of the guys will be hitting the dirt!
