The 2024 ProRodeo season may have come to an end, but the team roping action hasn't slowed down. The final weekend of the ProRodeo season we also crowned champions at the 2024 Riata, and Oct. 6, the Clay Logan Open named its victors.

On this episode of The Short Score, we hear from the Riata #14.5 champions, Reed Boos on Yes Im Sassy and Cord Forzano on Smartlookncat. We also catch up with Bubba Buckaloo and Joseph Harrison, winners of the 2024 Clay Logan Open.

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• Hurricane Helene: How the Roping Community Can Help
• Who Deserves the 2024 AQHA/PRCA Heel Horse of the Year Award?
• The Short Score: Pendleton Champs
• Who Deserves the 2024 PRCA/AQHA Head Horse of the Year Title? And WHY?
• Jake Smith’s ProRodeo Breakthrough, 12 Years in the Making

The Team Roping Journal's Chelsea Shaffer sits down with Cindy Perez of Cat5 Resources, and owner of up and coming stallion, The Animal, to discuss the horrifying impact of Hurricane Helene on the East Coast region. They discuss trusted nonprofits and how the roping community can offer aid, donations and more to the devastated areas.

With the regular season over, the top 25 heelers will now vote on who deserves the award for AQHA/PRCA Heel Horse of the Year. The Score tapped Logan Medlin, Jake Long, Wesley Thorp, Levi Lord and Paul Eaves for their opinions on who deserves the coveted bronze and the $5,000 prize that goes with it.