{"id":18375,"date":"2025-08-04T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hi-country-team-takes-first-place-in-ranch-rodeo-at-montezuma-county-fair\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:39:08","slug":"hi-country-team-takes-first-place-in-ranch-rodeo-at-montezuma-county-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hi-country-team-takes-first-place-in-ranch-rodeo-at-montezuma-county-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi Country team takes first place in Ranch Rodeo at Montezuma County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jeremiah
Jeremiah Karsten prepares to lasso a steer as night closes in on the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Montezuma County Fairgrounds on Friday hosted the 2025 Ranch Rodeo, a competition that pit eight teams of ranch hands against others as they completed the tasks of calf branding, the scramble and wild cow milking.<\/p>\n

The three events are timed.<\/p>\n

The Hi Country team, composed of Bodie Hine of Bayfield, Dylan Rector of Bloomfield, Kayson Shahan of Chromo and Denton Favor of Pagosa Springs, came in first, with a $2,500 share of the $4,500 in Calcutta bidding.<\/p>\n

The Top Hand award went to Denton Favor, and Top Horse went to Sheldon Randall. Both were sponsored by Yellowjacket Livestock.<\/p>\n

The challenge in calf branding was roping a calf from a tightly packed herd in a small pen. Once the calf was pulled from the group, team members on foot simply tapped the calf with an unheated brand and released the calf back into the pen.<\/p>\n

In the scramble, teams had four steers; one to be tied, one to be trailered and two to be penned in five minutes or less.<\/p>\n

Wild cow milking required teams to cut a numbered cow from a herd, drive her across a line, rope her and milk a few drops into an empty water bottle.<\/p>\n

Second place and $1,400 went to the Brush Beaters \u2013 Derek Goldtooth, Cody Hatcher, Jeremiah Karsten and Cayleigh Odel.<\/p>\n

Third place and $600 went to the Rogers Ranches team of Cody Meyer, Sheldon Randall, Wayne Rogers, Tim Bradshaw and James Oliver.<\/p>\n

\"Participants
Participants bow their heads in prayer before the ranch rodeo begins Friday evening. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bronco
Bronco Odell emcees the opening Calcutta, in which audience members bid on the different ranch rodeo teams. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Wyatt
Wyatt Cox prepares to lasso a calf for the first rodeo event. . Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Calves
Calves race away from an oncoming lasso. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Teams
Teams worked together to catch and tie penned calves during Friday night\u2019s ranch rodeo. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Charlie
Charlie Karsten gets ready to lasso a calf. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dayson
Dayson Kramer lassos a steer at Friday night\u2019s ranch rodeo. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kayson
Kayson Shahan chases after a steer, lasso in hand. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kayson
Kayson Shahan and Denton Favor close in on the steer ahead of them. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bodie
Bodie Hine and Dylan Rector wrestle a steer to the ground. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
A steer puts up a fight for Bodie Hine and Dylan Rector. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Team
Team members Cody Meyer, Tim Bradshaw, James Oliver, and Wayne Rogers work together to wrangle a calf. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremiah Karsten prepares to lasso a steer as night closes in on the Montezuma County Fairgrounds. Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal The Montezuma County Fairgrounds on Friday hosted the 2025 Ranch Rodeo, a competition that pit eight teams of ranch hands against others as they completed the tasks of calf branding, the scramble and wild […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20554,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18375\/revisions\/20554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18375"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}