Working Ranch Magazine January/February 2025

weekend rodeo

2024 29th World Championship Ranch Rodeo Final Results World Champion Team Muleshoe Ranch / Hatchet Ranch Team members: Logan Anderson, Logan Westcott, Ace Peterson, Whip Peterson, Dally Peterson, Cole Hubbell Reserve World Champion Team EC Cattle Co. / Mule Creek Cattle Team members: Reece Clark, Waylon Davis, Nathan Carter, Slick Robison, Korlee Carter Third-Place Team Circle M8 Land & Cattle Team members: Phillip Reynolds, Rye Reynolds, Chance Holcombe, Jayde Smith, Casey Pope Top Hand Logan Wescott Muleshoe Ranch / Hatchet Ranch Reserve Top Hand Waylon Davis EC Cattle Co. / Mule Creek Cattle Top Horse Tic Tick Boom Boon Rodey Wilson – Wilson Cattle LLC Reserve Top Horse New Metallic Tristan Grantham – Daube Ranch / 3C Cattle Co performances. They must earn a spot to compete against some of the best horses and ranch rodeo teams, through twenty-five sanctioned ranch rodeos in 2024. They were in Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas. The WRCA was organized as a fund raiser to help ranching families in times of crisis and need. They provide for the families of injured cowboys and cowgirls with a special “hand up not hand outs” when needed. They also provide college scholarships for young ranching families. The organi zation has grown significantly in the last 29 years. The ranch rodeos are more than a place to earn a title. It is a way of life and a way to help.

2024 Youth World Champion Ranch Rodeo team: Hat Creek Cattle. Blaine Roberts, Branch Horn, Jared Campbell, Kasen Brewer and Luke Campbell.

and Cole Hubbell. A twelve-hour drive home is worth it when you’re dragging home two new trailers and all the new gear they won with the title, according to Anderson. The two ranches teamed up a few years ago. The Muleshoe Ranch is a cow-calf operation with about 30,000 acres of desert coun try near Kirkland AZ. The Andersons and Logan Westcott take care of this country and livestock. The Hatchet Ranch is located South of Hachita, NM, near the Hatchet Mountains and expands into AZ. Ace Peterson’s family and crew run this 250-section cow-calf operation. Logan Westcott of the Muleshoe / Hatchet team was awarded the title of 2024 Top Hand along with being on the champion team. Logan Westcott said the contributing factor of this team is “friendship with each other. Win or lose we are there for each other. We can read each other.” They had consistent runs in all the events over the four days with very few differences in times and scores from each go around. “We pushed each other a little bit harder but not too much,” said Westcott. The titles of world champion and reserve champion were separated by only four points this year. Twenty-five teams competed over four days and four

Team members: Logan Anderson, Logan Westcott, Ace Peterson, Whip Peterson, Dally Peterson, Cole Hubbel. The team qualified to compete in the world championship at the Lowell Gommer Rodeo in Wickenburg, AZ. They won the overall point standing there by winning the Ranch Bronc Riding and the Stray Gathering event. Whip Peterson of the team was also the Top Hand winner for that rodeo. The world championship rodeo was almost a repeat of the Lowell Gommer Rodeo. They had two consistent scores in the Ranch Bronc Riding of 82.5 and 80 points by Logan Westcott. They were the overall winners of the Stray Gathering event with times of 58:99 and 49:57. Team member Logan Westcott also received the honors of World Champion Top Hand. “We needed the bronc riding to go ahead. The bronc riding put it over. If we had been any less, we wouldn’t have it. Four points was close,” said Logan Anderson. There was only a four-point difference from champion to reserve champion at the end of the weekend. As individuals, they have been to the championship between twelve and fifteen times, maybe more according to Anderson. “Me and Ace are just the old guys dragging along,” said Anderson. Two of the team mem bers are teenagers, Dally Peterson

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