It was a tough start to the 2026 Calgary Stampede rodeo for Grady Young.<\/p>\n
The Leader, Saskatchewan bull rider was bucked off “Blue Nerve” on his opening ride of Pool B on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Young finished in a tie for second in the 2025 Calgary Stampede bull riding event and is the #1 ranked bull rider on the CPRA circuit in 2026, coming off a win at the Ponoka Stampede in June that earned him a paycheque of nearly $20,000.<\/p>\n
He is the only competitor from Saskatchewan in the entire field of 210 rodeo athletes at this year’s Calgary Stampede.<\/p>\n
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There were only four qualifying bull rides on day one of Pool B, with Noah Lee of Mineral Wells, Texas earning the top score of the day with a 90.5 on “Shaboozie”.<\/p>\n
Pool B performances continue on Tuesday and Wednesday with the top three advancing to Championship Sunday on June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a tough start to the 2026 Calgary Stampede rodeo for Grady Young. The Leader, Saskatchewan bull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-785074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}