RODEO NOTES, Day 8: Luke Mackey, 19, only bull rider to last full eight seconds
A win was on the griddle for Nebraska bareback rider Garrett Shadbolt.
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Shadbolt posted Friday's best score of 87.5 points aboard Flap Jack. Combined with the $4,500 he won 24 hours earlier, Shadbolt now tops the Pool C standings with $11,500 in winnings.
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Right behind him is Utah's Mason Clements, who made the most of a re-ride to score 85 points atop Young Carma to up his earnings through two days of action to $8,250.
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Orin Larsen, of Inglis, Man., also earned a score of 85 from the judges after his wild ride on Willy Jack. After taking home $5,000 — his first payday at this year's Stampede — Larsen still has work to do on Saturday to finish among the top three bareback riders who will advance to Showdown Sunday.
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Blane Cox and Tuf Cooper were fit to be tied after Friday's rodeo go-round.
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The talented tie-down ropers both did their jobs speedily and stopped the clock at 6.8 seconds to each win $6,250.
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Their quick clockings were a 10th of a second off the best time of 6.7 that fellow Texan Ty Harris set four days earlier.
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Marty Yates, also of Texas, finished third at 7.0 and added $4,500 to the $7,000 he won for winning Thursday's go-round.
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With $11,500, Yates currently tops the standings followed closely by Cooper ($10,750), while Montana's Tom Crouse ($7,500) and Cox ($6,250) have the bests shots of finishing in the coveted third spot if they can add more cash to their pocketbooks on Saturday's final round of Pool C action.
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Texas bull-dogger Holden Myers went four-flat to earn the first-place day-money of $7,000. Then came South Dakota's Jace Melvin at 4.2 for $5,500.
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Tied in third was Oklahomans Riley Duvall and Chance Howard at 4.3 for $3,875 each.
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Heading into the third and final day of Pool C steer wrestling, Myers, Howard and Melvin hold down the top-three berths with $11,500, $10,125 and $8,750 respectively and hold a clear advantage to advance to Showdown Sunday with Duvall next at $4,875.
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After failing to win money Thursday, the Texan bronc rider thrilled the fans in GMC Stadium with a 90-point performance on Come Along to win $7,000.
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That moved him into third in the aggregate standings behind Dawson Hay, of Wildwood, Alta., who has compiled $12,500 in earnings so far.
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