Best Moments of 2021: Bareback riding Shootout at The American Rodeo

The Shootout Round inside AT&T Stadium at The American Rodeo in 2021 featured a talented bunch of bareback riders.

With 92 points on The Calgary Stampede’s Soap Bubbles, Kaycee Feild was the top cowboy in the Eight-Man Round. He was joined in the four-man Shootout by Tilden Hooper, Cole Reiner and Tim O’Connell.

The Shootout lived up to the hype and Hooper emerged as the champion by riding Frontier Rodeo’s Gun Fire for 90.5 points. The win carried Hooper to No. 1 in the PRCA World Standings and he held on to that spot until the NFR.

O’Connell was 89.25, Feild was 88.5 and Reiner was 88.25

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