A grounded Headhorse of the Year review built around hauling, age, and showing up every run.
The Score keeps its Headhorse of the Year review fixed on a useful question: what does a great head horse still have in him after a long, hard season?

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Team roping, from runs to money.
The Score from The Team Roping Journal is an insider's lane into team roping, from NFR title math to production-sale pedigrees. It favors practical detail: horsepower, hauling, jackpot momentum, border cattle questions, and what competitors are learning in real time.
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The Score from The Team Roping Journal is built for people who follow team roping closely enough to care about both the run and everything that made the run possible. It treats the sport as a living industry. Prize money matters. So do horses, cattle, hauling schedules, recovery plans, horse programs, and the confidence a winter win can buy. Episodes often start with a timely question: where the money is now, who just won, which horse deserves recognition, or what a border closure could mean for Corriente cattle. The show can be brisk and newsy. It can also slow down for a comeback story, as with Taylor Santos talking through time away from competition, surgeries, rehab, horsepower, and returning to win the Cinch Timed Event Championship. The Short Score brings weekly updates from pro rodeo ranks to the jackpot world, with Fort Worth, the NFR, world titles, and early-season momentum getting close attention. Longer Score episodes lean into interviews with competitors, ranch families, and people close to the sport's supply chain. Horsepower is a recurring obsession, from Head Horse of the Year debates to Phillip Ranch pedigrees and finished rope horses. Money is another. A panel episode frames team roping as a major Western performance economy, tying futurities, RIATA, PRCA Rodeo, GEMS, and broader opportunity into one conversation. The show also makes room for outsiders learning the sport, including Travis Brown's move from elite MMA pressure into the humbling process of horsemanship and missed steers. Its texture is deliberately real. Some interviews sound like they were caught between rodeos because that is often where the sport happens. The result is less polished studio talk than informed field reporting, shaped by people who know the difference between a headline and a horse that can take the haul.
Made for: For team ropers, rodeo followers, horse buyers, and Western performance fans who want industry detail rather than general sports chatter.
What sets it apart: It pairs competition coverage with the working mechanics behind the sport: horse programs, cattle supply, futurity money, jackpot economics, and the riders' own accounts of pressure and recovery.
.Featuring the team roping industry’s movers and shakers and the inside story on iconic moments in team roping history. Part of the Horse Radio Network.
A winning run is only the opener; you stay for the horse history and candid arena talk.
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A grounded Headhorse of the Year review built around hauling, age, and showing up every run.
The Score keeps its Headhorse of the Year review fixed on a useful question: what does a great head horse still have in him after a long, hard season?
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Host Taylor Volland catches up on recent WCRA rodeo events, focusing on the Corpus Christi winners Andrew Ward and Jake Long, and their qualification for the Kid Rock's Rockin' Rodeo.
Host Chelsea Schaefer interviews Doug Arnum alongside world champion team ropers Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorp.
Callie Montague interviews Chris Francis about his work at Matthew's Land and Cattle, family life, rope-ins, and team roping after his 2018 Bob Feist Invitational win.
The Score from The Team Roping Journal features Rhen Richard discussing Old West’s Heber City event, where he won $186,000 on five horses and Old West paid out $1.37 million.
Callie Montague interviews Cooper Freeman, the number-one heel-side roper, about growing up in Carthage, Missouri, and building a professional rodeo career.
Chelsea Schaefer introduces Callie Montague as the new weekly voice of The Score after eight years and more than 3 million downloads.
Corbin Rice tells young ropers to start early and accept that "you're going to get your butt beat."
Taylor Volland opens The Short Score with the Music City Rodeo in Nashville, where Jake Smith and Douglas Rich won with a 15.1 on three head and $7,982 each.
Texas roper Kayelen Helton, who worked through 3,000 internship hours to become a licensed professional counselor, says she treats roping as a hobby and ranks her career first.
A panel of experts discusses the $120 million in prize money available in the team roping industry, highlighting its dominance over other Western performance sports.
Taylor Santos discusses his comeback from multiple surgeries to win the 2026 Cinch Timed Event Championship.
Host Taylor Volland catches up on winter rodeo news, focusing on Corbin Culley and Trent Vaught's Fort Worth win.
Former UFC fighter Travis Browne discusses his transition to team roping, embracing the challenge of starting over in a new sport.
Taylor Volland recaps the 2025 NFR where Andrew Ward and Jake Long won the average and world titles after splitting round 10.
The Score from The Team Roping Journal asks Clint Summers, Tyler Waite, Caleb Driggers, and Riley Miner which horse deserves the PRCA Head Horse of the Year title.
Chelsea Schaefer interviews Shane and John Phillip about their upcoming horse sale and team roping qualifier in Bryan, Texas.
Bobby Joe Hill discusses the impact of the Mexican border shutdown on Corriente cattle, attributing it to political motives rather than a genuine screwworm threat.
Chelsea Schaefer introduces an interview with world champions Tyler Wade and Wesley Thorpe, who plan to support struggling rodeo competitor Doug Arnoux.
Chelsea Schaefer interviews Coleman Proctor about his experience missing a gold buckle in Round 10 and his perspective on the aftermath and 2025.