Before the 2026 National Finals Breakaway Roping crowns its next champions, we’re going back to last year’s—NFBR average champion Rylee George and 2025 WPRA Breakaway World Champion Taylor Munsell.
George roped 10 head in 29.0 seconds to set a new NFBR average record and won more than $25,000 during the Finals. With her main horse, “Royce,” sore, she split the week between her own “Deputy” and “Bob,” a horse she borrowed from Jill Tanner.
Munsell closed out her world title campaign with $209,021 won, a breakaway season earnings record. A year after catching two of 10 calves at the 2024 NFBR, she talks through the changes she made, how she keeps a string that includes Colonel, Monster, Ray, Goon and Vegas fresh, and finding out she’d won the world only after somebody told her.
We talked about the borrowed horse that helped George set the record, why the average buckle was her goal, Munsell’s reset after 2024 and how she manages her horses on this throwback episode of The Breakaway Breakdown.
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