No Time to Spare
The Timed Event Championship of the World came down to a tie, then a tie-breaker, all the while writing a memorable chapter to this colorful event.

By Kendra Santos

Rodeo’s roots are easily traced back to the ranch, where cowboys held contests amongst themselves to add the challenge of a little friendly competition to a long week’s work. He who could get the job done most efficiently — doctor a sick calf the quickest and with the least stress on the animal, for example—earned bragging rights and a feeling of self-satisfaction that can’t be bought.

Winning the Wrangler Timed Event Championship gives today’s most versatile timed-event contestants a very similar sense of pride. Cowboys compete in all five timed-event disciplines — heading, heeling, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, and steer roping — in a five-round marathon. Those 25 times are then totaled, and he with the fastest total time wins.

The 2006 Wrangler Timed Event Championship, held March 3-5 at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Okla., gave fans their money’s worth and so much more when for the first time in Timed Event Championship history, the ironman contest ended in a tie. Against all odds, three-time Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion All-Around Cowboy Trevor Brazile of Decatur, Texas, and K.C. Jones of Hawk Springs, Wyo., were deadlocked at 337.5 seconds on 25 head....

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