The Short Score: 2025 Riata Championships

The Riata Championships paid out $5.5 million crowing its 2025 champions. From the Riata Pro Futurity featuring some of the best team ropers and 5-year-old rope horses, to the Cowgirl Steer Stopping, the stories that unfolded are worth listening to onThe Short Score.

Logan AllenandKetch Keltonpaired up to win $149,500 in the 2025 Riata #14.5 Championship after roping four steers in 29.33 seconds Sept. 25. They also won the 6-&-Under Incentive for another $8,000 apiece. Iowa’s Allen was aboard I Got Dibs Doc, a 2020 stallion by Aint Seen Nothin Yet out of MS Docs Poco Leo Bar and owned by Lisa Johnson. On the heel side, the reigning andyoungest Cinch Timed Event championrode Shane Decker’s Pretty Poco Girl Fja, a 2021 mare by Cat Man Do out of Pretty Poco Boots.

Jacob Lewisand and Tripp Townsendboth had previous Riata #10.5 Championship titles—Lewis in 2023 and Townsend in 2022. Lewis rodeHez Got Cowboy Cash, the 2016Myers Ranch-bred head horse by Cowboys Cartel,again for the 2025 win, while Townsend was on the famousTRR Lucky Brazos, by Pepcid, the first Riata stallion to win a Riata championship.

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