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<\/p>\nThe $300,000 available in each of the seven events \u2014 bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, steer wrestling, tie down roping, barrel racing and breakaway roping \u2014 is among the top purses in the sport.<\/p>\n
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Sunday\u2019s showdown winners each earned $50,000 on top of prize money they earned earlier in the rodeo while competing in their pools.<\/p>\n
Canadians were shut out of the big money Sunday unlike 2025, when three of the seven winners were from the host province. Texans dominated Sunday by taking four events.<\/p>\n
Logan Hay of Wildwood, Alta., qualified for the saddle bronc\u2019s final four Sunday, but Frontier Acres was a reluctant bucker. <\/p>\n
The 2022 Stampede champ scored 82.50 points to place fourth, while Caspar Wyatt of Miami, Texas, won with a 90.5 on Mary Lou.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been coming to this rodeo for a while now and to finally get the win is just awesome,\u201d Wyatt said. \u201cNever have punched through to the four-man (final) and finally got it this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garrett Green of Meeting Creek, Alta., reached bull riding\u2019s final four, but was thrown by Koulees Pet. <\/p>\n
All four finalists hit the dirt, but Lee was given a re-ride by the judges after Grand Funk didn\u2019t buck much, but tried to scrape Lee off by rubbing the rider against the chutes.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old Lee won with a re-ride low score of 77 on Whiskey at Noon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve watched this rodeo since I was a baby,\u201d Lee said. \u201cMy dad\u2019s rode here. He\u2019s won this deal. My whole family rodeos. We all talk about Calgary. This is a very big one for me. Not the way I wanted to get it done, but I still got it done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Money won in Calgary boosts a competitor\u2019s world ranking. The top 15 in the world in each event qualify for December\u2019s National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Calgary winners can rocket up the standings in a single day.<\/p>\n
Tie down roping winner Zach Youngbloed of Iowa, La., ranked 21st in the world upon his arrival in Alberta. He laid down a top time of 7.2 seconds in the final.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really helps give me some momentum for the next few weeks,\u201d Youngbloed said.<\/p>\n
Barrel racing arena records fell three times during the Stampede. Hailey Kinsel of Cotulla, Texas, left Calgary with the fastest time of 16.75 seconds set during Sunday\u2019s semifinal round, and a second crown after she also won in 2018.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old was slightly slower in the four-rider final aboard Sister, but still the quickest, at 16.802 seconds. The cracking pace in barrel racing was because of the quality of the infield dirt, said Kinsel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ground, the ground, the ground, the ground,\u201d she chanted. \u201cThe Calgary Stampede hired one of the best ground guys this year. New guy, he\u2019s incredible. Jason Harder is his name. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows his implement, he knows the dirt. He studied it the day after the arena records broke twice. He asked us what feedback we had and we said \u2018you keep doing you sir.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheyanne McCartney of Kingston, Okla., won women\u2019s breakaway roping with a time of 2.7 seconds. The Stampede introduced the event last year when Alberta\u2019s Shelby Boisjoli-Meged was victorious.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just incredible how much breakaway has grown and just a place like this having breakaway, they just don\u2019t realize what it does for our sport,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI rope for a living so to be able to come here \u2026 and rope for this kind of money, it\u2019s hard to put into words.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bradlee Miller of Huntsville, Texas, scored 92.50 on Steve Knicks to take the bareback crown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is crazy. I\u2019ve never won more than $2,000 at the Calgary Stampede,\u201d declared the 23-year-old. \u201cThis is my fourth year here and to get out of here with like $67,000, I can\u2019t believe this just happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese Canadian bucking horses are different, just a different breed of animal. They\u2019re still a horse, but they buck different, they feel different, they\u2019re ginormous for one. I don\u2019t know what the heck you are feeding them up here, but they\u2019re huge.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n
Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The $300,000 available in each of the seven events \u2014 bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, steer wrestling, tie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[879,49,2798,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-798282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798282","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=798282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}