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Location: Displaced Iowegian | polorunner - 2015-07-09 6:41 PM Article on Tuf: http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/tie-down-roper-disqualified-from-calgary-stampede-over-mistreatment-of-horse-1.2462320
Can someone make it a live link, I am on my iPad. Thanks!
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/tie-down-roper-disqualified-from-calgary-stampede-over-mistreatment-of-horse-1.2462320 |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | jbhoot - 2015-07-09 6:44 PM achildres - 2015-07-09 6:38 PM Super curious to know what Tuf did?? Someone fill me in!! people on FB say he over and undered his horse six times and was sent home. I have no idea if it is true.
http://youtu.be/jzzjnyupwds
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Location: Benton City, WA | Watched the video...Ok... so now are barrels racers going to get DQ'd for over & undering their horses? Or are the rules different for barrel racing?  |
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| barrel_racing_angel - 2015-07-09 7:07 PM Watched the video...Ok... so now are barrels racers going to get DQ'd for over & undering their horses? Or are the rules different for barrel racing?
That's what I said! But a barrel racer whipping her horse is excpected, a calf roper doing it is bad press. Animal rights activists probably would have gone crazy if Calgary didn't do anything |
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Location: Florida.. | I heard 2 chuckwagons horses have been euthunized as wellfor legs broke due to driver error. Tuf left.. he didnt deny or contest.. |
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Location: The South | What the heck? That didn't look bad at all...unless he did something else that isn't shown on the video, I don't think he should've been disqualified. |
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WOOOOW!! I guess barrel racers are going to start getting DQ'ed as well. I've seen some barrel racers that whip harder & more aggressive than that!
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Location: North Carolina | I've seen way worse from barrel racers... doesn't make sense to me to DQ him.   |
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Location: The Great Midwest | Bibliafarm - 2015-07-09 8:48 PM
I heard 2 chuckwagons horses have been euthunized as wellfor legs broke due to driver error. Tuf left.. he didnt deny or contest..
Tuf probably wanted to get the heck outta there.... I mean if your gonna do something maybe fine, but not kicked out of the whole competition! |
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Location: Phoenix | I thought it looked at tad excessive but his horse wasn't running in there. But I agree what you're saying about barrel racers. If he had whipped his horse walking back to the gate That would have been poor sportsmanship, but he didn't. |
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| Calgary and Cheyenne are usually under lots of scrutiny by animal rights groups. It probably was something they felt they needed to do in order to keep those groups off their backs. I don't know that for sure.... just guessing. |
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Location: Benton City, WA | hammer_time - 2015-07-09 9:49 PM
I thought it looked at tad excessive but his horse wasn't running in there. But I agree what you're saying about barrel racers. If he had whipped his horse walking back to the gate That would have been poor sportsmanship, but he didn't.
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Location: North Dakota | I definitely wouldn't call that abusive or any more excessive than I see MANY barrel racers do. Oh well, he'll be back at another rodeo. |
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Location: CA | Don't know him personally. I'm sure he's a really great guy and all, but it looks like he just plain ol' got outrun and had a little tantrum about it. |
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Location: SE Missouri | barrel_racing_angel - 2015-07-10 12:15 AM
hammer_time - 2015-07-09 9:49 PM
I thought it looked at tad excessive but his horse wasn't running in there. But I agree what you're saying about barrel racers. If he had whipped his horse walking back to the gate That would have been poor sportsmanship, but he didn't.
this exactly...
Totally agree. Barrel racers do it all the time.
His horse shorted him, he was out of the money why not open your horse up and try to get him tied down so it doesn't happen at the next one..
BAD CALL IMO.
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| Come on people. Think about it. Many groups are wanting tie down to go the way of steer tripping. Tie down ropers are under a microscope. He was stupid. A quick WHACK WHACK probably would have been fine. It was the WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK WHACK that got him in trouble. If a horses running stride is 22-24' and he hit that horse for 3-5 strides, that's roughly 66' to 110'. That's almost the length of some pens if you include the length of the score. No tie down roper can whip that far and get a loop on one. Again, what he did was excessive. As for the comparison to barrel racers whipping...I doubt many woman barrel racers have his strength. Nor do the use what amounts to a doubled over, thicker and heavier rope. But if they are whipping to the extent he was, have his strength and with the same type of material...then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to whip either. I have NEVER seen a barrel racer whip a horse as hard and fast as he did. Whip one, yes. But not like he did.
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| Calgary isn't PRCA sanctioned. They have their own set of rules. BC also has a very powerful humane society and the animal rights activists are out in full force. Calgary, Cheyenne, the NFR are NOT rodeos that contestants should school a horse at. They are too high profile. Had Tuf done this at almost any other rodeo...we wouldn't have heard about it. He might have been fined but that's it. He let his temper get away from him and he's paying for it. Someone on FB made the comment they'd be mad too if their horse cheated them out of $100,000. But after this fiasco, Tuf will probably never be invited back. While his horse screwed him out of $100,000 once...he might have screwed himself out of a yearly chance at that $100,000 for the rest of his career at the age of 25. That's a LOT of years left when you are his age. |
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| One last thought...one article said it was for what happened AFTER he got done roping. No one has that part on video. It could have very well been a combination of things and not just the over n undering in his run. |
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