Keenan Hayes won the wild card with 86 points on Girl Crush, sending him to Sunday’s...
The RodeoHouston announcers were surprised to see Keenan Hayes in Friday’s first wild-card competition. The Colorado native is the current No. 2 bareback rider in the world, and he won his super series with two go-round victories.“I didn’t draw as well as I wanted to in the semifinals, and that’s just how it goes sometimes,” he said. “That’s rodeo – sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
The 20-year-old cowboy won the wild card with 86 points on Girl Crush, sending him to Sunday’s championship round, where he’ll compete for a shot at the four-man Shootout round – and a $50,000 payday. “She bucked hard, and had a great degree of difficulty, and I just weathered the storm,” he said. “It wasn’t one of my best rides, but we got through it, rode her pretty well, and it turned out to be enough to win.”“I’m just jumping on this opportunity and taking it as far as I can,” said Hayes , who’s making his RodeoHouston debut.The saddle bronc rider from a famous – and ultra-talented – rodeo family won the round with 86.5 points on Buck Owens.
“I knew I was going to have to spur that horse and do my job,” Wright said. “I was on that horse a couple years ago, and he’s a lot better the more you spur him.”He’s hoping to change that this year, and add his name to the list of Wrights who’ve won here, including father Cody Wright , uncle Jesse Wright , and brother Stetson Wright .
“That’d be awesome,” he said. “$50,000 is a lot in your back account, and a lot toward a gold buckle. So we’re all shooting for it, and we’ll see who comes out on top.”“We were fifth out, so I was just going to see what everybody else did,” Snow said. “Then the first team out went 4.9, so it started tough, and you only advance if you win the round. So once they went 4.9, I just went off instinct.
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