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Dear Roper
Dear Roper,
Welcome to the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping special issue of The Team Roping Journal. The ‘US Finals,’ as we all call them in this business, are monumental in scope, and perhaps more industry-defining than anything else in the history of Western sports.
I've done a few* interviews over the years with Denny Gentry, who posits that the first US Finals in 1990 was the event that broke down interstate barriers in recreational team roping, cracking this industry wide open to the fun and economic impact it has today. That first roping paid $600,000, with an Open, a #12, #10, #8, #6 and Century,
He's not wrong—not even a little. This year's Cinch USTRC NFTR was a far cry from that original little jackpot in Oklahoma. The 2024 edition…
