The National Senior Professional Rodeo Association held their Senior National Finals Rodeo in San Carlos, Arizona October 7-11. Contestants from all over the United States competed.
The Apache Gold Casino and Resort hosted the Senior National Finals Rodeo. The arena hosts many events throughout the year, everything from concerts, to pow wows and other musical events.
This year an Oklahoma contestant won three world championships in his age division. Marty Brock, a seventy one year old evangelist from Drumright, Oklahoma won Senior World Championships in Breakaway roping, Tie Down Roping and the coveted All Around Cowboy title. Marty also won the sNFR average in three events at the finals. He won the tie down roping average, breakaway roping average and he won the ribbon roping average in the younger age group. That’s quite a feat for a seventy one year old man.
Marty stays in shape by riding an elliptical ten to twelve miles a day and swimming in the lake by his house. Marty has a long history of winning ropings and rodeos. A few years ago he qualified for the International Finals Rodeo when he was in his fifties. He won the tie down roping average at the IFR that year.
Marty’s cousin Bobby Brock has won the Senior steer roping title ten times and won the legacy steer roping at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The legacy steer roping is for ropers fifty years old and older. Needless to say the Brock family has a long history of winning big ropings and they aren’t done yet.
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
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