A competitor ropes a calf at the 2016 Chilliwack rodeo in one of many images used in a Vancouver Humane Society campaign that called calf roping and steer wrestling the "worst rodeo events" for ...

At 20, Marty Yates will be the youngest competitor in tie-down roping and one to watch. About tie-down roping The cowboy waits behind a barrier while the calf gets a three-metre head start.

Aboard his trusty 16-year-old gelding Pockets, Smidt burst out of the gate before he quickly hopped off, roped his calf and tied it down in a speedy time of 7.3 seconds to tie Riley Pruitt for top ...

Caleb Smidt did what most of his rivals couldn’t do and it paid off. Half of the 10 competitors in Sunday’s tie-down roping go-round at the Calgary Stampede rodeo took no times, while Cade ...

It won’t be easy as the tie-down roping is exceptionally tight with less than $12,000 — which is what each of the six go-rounds pays for first place — separating first from last.

Seven-time tie-down world champ Fred Whitfield was quick to slam the move on his Twitter account. “Calf roping as we once knew it is done in the prca #how sad,” Whitfield tweeted.

Organizers at the Chilliwack Fair will review their calf-roping and steer-wrestling events before voting in September on the fate of those events in next year’s fair. Following pressure from the ...

Clearly, he’s dedicated to tie-down roping, which involves restraining a calf by rope, first from mounted horse and then from the ground by flipping the calf over and wrapping its legs.

The B.C. SPCA letter also notes that, in 2007, the Cloverdale Rodeo Association agreed to remove calf-roping, team-roping, steer wrestling and wild-cow milking from its roster of events “after ...

Dustin Egusquiza and JC Flake recently debuted their partnership this past weekend, and it couldn't have gone better. The pair tied the PRCA tie-down world record and scooped up $2,011 a man in ...

This weekend's 145th annual Chilliwack Fall Fair and Rodeo is opening amid continued controversy after the fair's board agreed to vote on the removal of two rodeo events before next year's show.

At 20, Marty Yates will be the youngest competitor in tie-down roping and one to watch. About tie-down roping The cowboy waits behind a barrier while the calf gets a three-metre head start. The cowboy ...