BY BRETT NIERENGARTEN
After winning round after round at the 2019 Wrangler NFR, reigning bareback riding World Champion Clayton Biglow enters this year’s National Finals Rodeo in fifth place in the standings.
Biglow collected $70,973 in the 2020 ProRodeo season and also performed well in some of the PRCA’s biggest rodeos as he was second in ProRodeo Tour points.
He got his year off on the right foot by winning San Angelo thanks to an 89-point ride on Painted River in the final round.
CLAYTON BIGLOW’S WINNING RIDE AT SAN ANGELO
Also in the month of February, Biglow won about $5,000 in San Antonio. After that the California cowboy hit a dry spell.
Between Feb. 15 and July 25, he went to 12 rodeos and made a check at just two of them for a grand total of $2,258 in that timespan, but Biglow found his groove again by winning four rodeos in less than 3 weeks as July turned to August.
At the Kit Carson ProRodeo in Colorado on Aug. 1, he collected a $1,943 check for his win. He followed that up by riding Hangover for 89 points to win the rodeo Sikeston, Missouri on Aug. 8. That win him earned him $4,390.
On Aug. 12, he won the Jerome County Fair and Rodeo in Idaho and four days after that, Biglow rode Continental Drift for 87 points to win the Fallon County Fair and Rodeo in Baker, Montana, a title that netted him more than $4,000.
BIGLOW RIDES CONTINENTAL DRIFT IN BAKER, MONTANA
Biglow closed the 2020 season by winning more than $1,000 at six rodeos in September, including more than $3,000 at the Gooding Pro Rodeo in Idaho and the Lion’s Dixon Roundup in St. George, Utah. At both events his ride was 87 points or better.
Last season, Biglow won more than $425,000.
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