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Julie Mankin
Julie Mankin is a former newspaper editor and Wyoming-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Western Horseman, American Cowboy, The Team Roping Journal and more. As a breakaway roper, she finished within the top five in the nation at the College National Finals Rodeo and a Colorado Professional Rodeo Association championship.
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tipping our hats
Before the Breakaway Boom: 10 People Who Helped Build the Sport
Bailey Bates was the star of the 2025 San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo from the jump, marking two 1.9-second runs and capping it off with another 1.9-second sizzler in the short go, all aboard her horse Rocket.
Do You Believe in Miracles?
A Season Gone Sideways, and the Faith That Sent Bailey Bates to Her First NFBR
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Women in Rodeo Month
Women's Rodeo Celebrates 75 Years
Erin Johnson’s Chico Stands Out
Erin Johnson’s Chico Stands Out
Conner Goes Dutch
Conner Goes Dutch
Macy Fuller Young Beaten By A Barrel Horse
16 hands of awesome
Beaten by a Barrel Horse
Backing Baybe Bullet In A Corner
Backing Baybe in a Corner
Dummy Up
Dummy Up
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WCRA Young Guns vs Superstars: MaryBeth Beam Set to Rope Against Champions in Fort Worth
Martha Angelone Breakaway Roping
NFBR 2021 Insights
Auto Draft
WCRA WRWC
Navajo Champ Bailey Bates Leads Challenger Field into South Point for 2021 WRWC
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NFBR in the works for Las Vegas
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