Eight seconds is a long time if you know what to do with it.
Annabella’s tie-down roper: Wilderness Circuit regular, 2021 RAM National Circuit Finals qualifier, twice an all-around cowboy in 2023. Home is the ranch, the practice pen and the family.
Reno Rodeo, 2017 · Photo: Matt Cohen PhotographyCircuit cowboy. Which is the hard kind.
Circuit ropers hold down a ranch and a family and still make the finals. Trampus has done it for more than a decade out of Annabella, mostly with traveling partner Josh Jennings in the passenger seat.
Photo: JGolom Photos
Cheyenne Frontier Days, July 28, 2021 · Photo: Rhianna Gelhart / Wyoming Tribune EagleDays of ’47 Rodeo, Salt Lake City
A 9.0 in the round at Utah’s biggest rodeo, listed alongside the best in the game.
Silver State Stampede, Elko
Second with a 9.3 — the start of a run of paychecks across the Wilderness Circuit (Utah, Idaho, Nevada).
Wilderness Circuit Finals, Heber City
Won the third round in 8.0 flat, the fastest run of the whole rodeo. Earlier that summer, second at the Pony Express Rodeo in Eagle Mountain.
RAM National Circuit Finals, Kissimmee
Represented the Wilderness Circuit at the national circuit finals — an 8.0 in the second round. That July, roped at the 125th Cheyenne Frontier Days. That fall, reserve average champion at the circuit finals, a tenth of a second back.
All-around cowboy, twice
Tie-down and team roping together: all-around at the 112th War Bonnet Round Up in Idaho Falls, and at the Young Living PRCA Rodeo in Mona, where he also won the tie-down in 9.8.
Still entering
Placed at the Ellensburg Rodeo over Labor Day and back at the War Bonnet. The truck still leaves on Thursdays.
Who knows him better — his wife or his traveling partner?
The ProRodeo Sports News asked Kindra and Josh Jennings the same ten questions about Trampus in 2021. They agreed on the horse, the chili, the concert and the paycheck. They did not agree on the rodeo.
Texas Roadhouse was unanimous.| Kindra says | Josh says | |
|---|---|---|
| Rodeo idol | Roy Cooper | Joe Beaver |
| Favourite horse to ride | Ol’ Buck | Ol’ Buck |
| The rodeo he wants to win | Pendleton | Cheyenne |
| Where he’s earned the most | Nampa, Idaho | Nampa, Idaho |
| Favourite thing Kindra cooks | Chicken chili | Chicken chili |
| Last concert | Def Leppard | Def Leppard |
| Who wears the pants | Kindra | — |
The practice pen is the puppy playground.
Calves, ropes, a horse loping past, a trailer door slamming — that’s the soundtrack a Ranch Q puppy grows up on. It’s a big part of why they settle so easily in a new house: not much left to be scared of.