Over the weekend Trevor, me, my mom, my sister Lindsay, and my cousin Kevin went up to Flagstaff to watch my dad's best friend Steve ride and rope in a tournament that was going on up there. What an amazing sport! Steve is the what they call a header ( ropes the horns first) and then his partner wraps the heals of the steer. Steve is truly talented as this is extremely hard to do. Well Steve was doing so great until....things got a little out of control :) On his first ride in the second round Steve was off to a great start catching the steer quickly. Unfortunately, the steer went in another direction and Steve was forced to let go of the rope and the reins of his horse. His horse not knowing what to do and heading straight for the fence started bucking, throwing Steve over the fence. Steve is such a stud, he made this flip look professional! Steve stood up letting us know he was ok which he was....the bad news is when he climbed back over the wall to go get his horse, he realized he was missing his ring finger! OMG! So some of the other riders got on their horses and headed out to the middle of the arena to look for his finger! Luckily, we did find it and put it on ice and headed to the hospital. Steve was very calm during this whole ordeal and after arriving at the hospital he and the medical experts decided they couldn't re-attach the finger so they shaved the bone down and skin graphed the rest. Crazy!
Steve you made this one heck of a day for us. I know my dad would of been so proud of you! We can't waid to see you ride again!! Thanks for the laughs, scare and the memories.
Here is a picture of Steve (pictured in back) coming out of the gates.
And here is the video of the ride. We didn't get the back flip over the fence but you can see where he loses his rope. It all happened so dang fast! Steve you are a ROCKSTAR!!
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