by BFI | Mar 14, 2025 | Press-Release
Former BFI champs roping together this year, like Chris Francis and Cade Passig, have great odds to do it again. But did you notice the other champs with new partners? Luke Brown, the fifth all-time BFI earnings leader who won the roping back in 2017 with Jake Long,...
by Julie Mankin | Mar 9, 2025 | Press-Release
Possibly the only accolade with more prestige than winning the BFI is winning bragging rights as the BFI’s all-time high-money earner. Over almost 50 years, a trio of three-time champs lead all ropers with money won at the BFI. When Clay Tryan took over as the...
by Julie Mankin | Mar 8, 2025 | Press-Release
It was a perfect fit for Classic Rope to sponsor the Rickey Green Fast Time Award at the BFI this year. Not only did one of the industry’s longest-standing rope companies want to give respect to one of its hardest-working clinicians, but the late Green also had close...
by Julie Mankin | Feb 14, 2025 | Press-Release
Tickets for the world’s richest and most prestigious one-day team roping are on sale starting Valentine’s Day. With a purse of more than $650,000 and featuring 125 of the world’s best ropers, the 48th annual Bob Feist Invitational (BFI) presented by Yeti, on...
by Julie Mankin | Jan 25, 2025 | Press-Release
One thing the explosion of futurity competition for rope-horse trainers has done is kept some of the best ropers in the world from having full-time partners. That means two former BFI champs – Trevor Brazile and Billie Jack Saebens – will shake out their Cactus and...
by BFI | Jan 17, 2025 | Press-Release
Wrangler BFI Week, which last year paid team ropers a record $4.35 million in cash, will run two arenas for the first time when it returns to Guthrie, Oklahoma, March 26 through April 1. “Just four years after we moved BFI Week from Reno to Guthrie, we had a 153...
