Rodeo Update

Good Grabs Win at Dodge City

By Ted Harbin

This wasn’t the first time Bradi Good won a title at Dodge City (Kansas) Roundup Rodeo.

No, she’d done it before. It was about a decade and a half ago when Good was just a child. Her dad, Shay, was competing at this ProRodeo-Hall-of-Fame event in steer roping.

“I actually won the rodeo in the mutton bustin’ one year when I was younger when my dad was rodeoing, so it’s really cool to come back and win a rodeo buckle,” said Good of Abilene, Texas. “The last couple weeks, I really haven’t done my job at the past few rodeos, so I really focused on coming here and starting the fourth quarter out good, and it worked out for me.”

She and her traveling partners, reigning world champion Shelby Boisjoli-Meged and Kendal Pierson, were in the final set of breakaway ropers on Saturday, Aug. 3. The competition during the first round was so tough that day that Good’s time of 3.7 seconds wasn’t fast enough to advance to that evening’s performance. She ran her second calf that morning, posting a 2.8-second run. She was finally in a show featuring paid attendance, and it was on Championship Sunday in Dodge City.

That’s where Good shined. She stopped the clock in 2.7 seconds to win the short go-round and the aggregate title, edging Braylee Shepherd by just a tenth of a second. She placed in just the final day and earned $4,405, moving to 12^th in the world standings.

“It’s pretty special,” she said. “We’re really thankful for rodeos like Dodge City that add breakaway and add equal money. It’s really cool to get to come to these historic rodeos that have been going on for so long, and we get to rope and do what we love out here.”

Good earned her first qualification to the Wrangler National Finals Breakaway Roping presented by Tito’s Vodka last year, finishing eighth in the world standings. She has her eyes set on a return to Las Vegas in December.

“I came out here at the beginning of the summer, and I had more money won than I’ve ever had, so I had a lot of confidence,” she said. “It started off good at Reno (Nevada), and the ball kept rolling all the way up until a couple weeks ago. I hit a roadblock, and I messed up runs that I shouldn’t have messed up. I got in my head, but that’s part of rodeo. You get to go to the next one the next day, so I (get to) pick my head up and knock the dust off.

“This fourth quarter (of the regular season), I’m really looking forward to going out there and making my run, using my horse and seeing what I could do.”

She also has a championship buckle from a legendary rodeo that she can cherish.

“I’m going to put this buckle on and show it off, because (my dad) has some pretty cool buckles (from rodeos) I want to win one day, but he doesn’t have this one,” Good said. “It’s pretty cool to have this one now.”

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