Performance Events:

Team Roping
'07 Stampede Champions: Jake Barnes and Clay O'Brien Cooper

Team roping became a regular event at the Snake River Stampede in 1984, the same year that locals Dee Pickett and Mike Beers of Caldwell won the world championship in the event.
Team roping is the only rodeo event where two cowboys compete together for a time score and shared prize money. This event also evolved from the open range where it took two men to rope and hold a large steer for doctoring.

In modern, competitive team roping, the roping steer is given a designated head start into the arena before the two mounted cowboys can begin their chase. The "header" must avoid breaking the barrier as he begins his attempt to rope the steer's horns and turn the steer away from his partner, the "heeler". The heeler must rope both of the steer's hind legs in one of the most difficult maneuvers in rodeo.

Team ropers use loose ropes and must "dally" (wrap around the saddle horn) their ropes after their head or heel catches. The time stops after both horses are facing the steer with ropes secured on both ends. As in calf roping, there is a 10 second penalty for breaking the barrier as well as a 5 second penalty if the heeler catches only one of the steers hind legs.

A time of 10 seconds or less will often be required to post a winning score among expert team ropers. PRCA team roping is an event requiring expert riders, highly trained horses, an uncommon roping touch and endless hours of practice to perfect the skills, timing and coordination required between team members.