Day 10 at the Calgary Stampede rodeo: Final three set for champions' cheques
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The three finalists for each of the seven open events were decided Sunday afternoon at GMC Stadium.
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Here's the lineup for the lucrative short round, with $50,000 going to the champions of each event.
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Cooke, Timberman and Thompson survived a shootout in the long round to make the final.
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Six of the nine cowboys rode to scores of 86.5 or better, with Thompson first putting up an 88 Cinchy Whitney, Timberman then scoring an 88.5 on Bucking Knight and Cooke rounding out the initial rides with a 90 aboard True Grit.
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RC Landingham, the defending Stampede champ, finished just shy of the final after the California bareback artist rode 86.5 on Fresh Chick.
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And Montana's Sam Petersen was left in the cryin' hole after a sensational but heartbreaking 87.5 effort aboard Pretty Woman.
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BARREL RACING
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Anita Ellis (Blackfoot, Idaho)
Kassie Mowry (Dublin, Texas)
Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi (Lampasas, Texas)
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Fine nine
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The three cowgirls-horse teams that went sub.-17 on the cloverleaf in the long-go were the ones advancing to the short go.
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Mowry, the 2022 Stampede champ, was second out on the infield and clocked a 16.98 time.
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Then along came Ellis, a Stampede rookie, to match Mowry's time.
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And it wasn't until late in the round when Pozzi Tonozzi laid down the fastest time — only a hundredth-of-a-second quicker than Mowry and Ellis — with a sizzling 16.97 trip.
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Oklahoma's Leslie Smalygo, the defending champ, was fifth fastest in 17.06 and didn't advance.
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John Douch (Huntsville, Texas)
Tom Crouse (Gallatin, Mo.)
Shad Mayfield (Clovis, N.M.)
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He had runs of 7.3, 7.2 and 7.5 in Pool A to put himself into Showdown Sunday, where he got even hotter.
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His 6.6 trip was the best time in tie-down roping of the entire Stampede and bettered the field by a bunch. Next quickest were the 7-flats put up by Crouse and Mayfield to push them along with Douch into the short go.
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