Colorado Breakaway Roper Brooke Bruner Leads Resistol Rookie Race

Brooke Bruner has a lead foot down on this rodeo season.

Brooke Bruner has made sure to capitalize on all nine rodeos that she has gone to so far and it has her sitting No. 1 in the Resistol Rookie Race with $7,935 in season earnings.

“It’s just been incredible. I can’t even put into words how blessed I am with the horses that I have and the people that have supporting me. It’s just been an amazing year so far,” Bruner said.

A 13-year-old gelding named Taco is one equine partner that Bruner has with her and the other is a 7-year-old gelding came off the race track.

“Taco is a lot better at those shorter set ups and ones that you don’t really have to run them down and Rebel’s a lot faster on the straight away so I usually pick him on the longer set ups. He’s a little bigger than Taco is and I think that just helps him cover a lot more ground,” she said.

While hitting the professional rodeo year for the first time, Bruner is balancing it all with college. A mentor like Erin Johnson helps with all aspects but horsepower, set ups and travel in particular.

“It’s just a lot of trying to figure out when to be up, where. I try to make my college rodeos work on trying to get there Friday and Saturday and trying to get up in slacks at the other rodeos just so I can get place to place,” she said.

Bruner sits No. 3 in the Southwest Region for breakaway with sights set on the College National Finals Rodeo but in the back of her mind is a WPRA Resistol of the Year title. She is taking it all one calf at a time as her season rolls on.