Scott Guenthner Moves Up in Standings
Scott Guenthner is rolling. And when that happens, things always get interesting in the world of steer wrestling.
The four-time Canadian Champion moved past Ryan Shuckburgh in the 2025 Canadian standings with a winning 3.4 second run at the Teepee Creek Stampede for $3028. Teepee Creek is stop number eight in the SMS Equipment Pro Tour and Guenthner’s 100 tour points from Teepee vaulted him (unofficially) to the lead in those critical standings as well.
The north country win coupled with a second Calgary Stampede bulldogging title that put the Provost, Alberta cowboy on stage to receive the $50,000 Stampede bonus cheque on Sunday afternoon (along with go round earnings) moved the Provost superstar to 11th on the world earnings leaderboard. In short, it has been a momentous week for the 2023 Canadian Cowboy of the Year who received the Stampede’s prestigious Guy Weadick Award, a fitting tribute to one of the sport’s most genuine and respected personalities.
Of the Teepee Creek win, the six-time NFR qualifier was clear. “That’s huge,” he stated. “It seems like in the bulldogging, every week and every rodeo is really important. You want to solidify your spot and obviously I was trying to catch Shuckburgh if I could. And these SMS Tour rodeos are so important. The way the Finals are set up, there’s a lot of money out there at Armstrong (IPE and Stampede) so the Tour and the Finals are kind of a make or break deal.”
Guenthner rode a new purchase at Teepee Creek (he and Owen Schauer went together to buy the now retired Ty Miller’s grey gelding, Rattle). Guenthner was happy with his mount. “He’s been really good and I’ll ride him pretty much all the time up here in Canada. I got on Eddie (2023 Canadian SW Horse of the Year and 2024 Reserve World SW Horse of the Year owned by Tanner Milan) in Calgary just because I’m so comfortable on him and you just can’t make even a little mistake there.” The finals results at the Stampede were clear evidence that the 33 year-old (who turns 34 in three days) made no mistakes, not even little ones.
As he heads off to Kennedy, Saskatchewan and Morris, Manitoba this coming weekend, Guenthner hinted that plans for the rest of the season will likely include some of the bigger stops on the south side of the 49th parallel, particularly in the U.S. northwest, rodeos that are closer to his east-central Alberta home in a potential bid to get to a 6th Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.
The Dahm family enjoyed a successful trip to the second CPRA weekend stop at the Bowden Daze rodeo. Caitlyn, the talented Kansas native, who was 6th in the Breakaway standings, was a lights out 2.1 seconds to take home $1756 as she vies for a 4th trip to the CFR. Meanwhile, her bronc-riding husband, Dawson, continued his string of recent successes with his third win in that last two weeks—adding to his Benalto and Bassano titles with an 83 point effort on Macza Rodeo’s 615 Montana Cat to add another $996 to the Dahm coffers and keep him in 11th spot in the Canadian standings as we move into the final third of the season.
And while action was hot and heavy on this side of the medicine line, the uber-lucrative NFR Open was taking place in Colorado Springs with several Canadians having qualified through their performances in last year’s Maple Leaf Circuit rodeos and finals.
Among those who earned enough in their early bracket(s) to secure Finals berths at the July 8-12 event were steer wrestlers Landon Beardsworth and Ryan Shuckburgh, team ropers Grady Quam/Brady Chappel, bronc riders Nicholas Patterson and Lucas Macza, bull rider Edgar Durazo, tie-down roper Logan Bird and barrel racer Blake Molle. A number of other Maple Leaf Finals competitors made money in the earlier rounds.
Shelby Boisjoli-Meged (representing the Montana Circuit) was the Breakaway Roping winner with a 2.0 run in the Finals for a $13,000 winner’s cheque, bringing her NFR Open winnings to over $17,000. It was a perfect prelude to her Calgary Stampede Championship a day later as the Langdon, Alberta native won the Stampede bronze (and $50,000) at the inaugural breakaway roping competition at the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.
For complete NFR Open results, see prorodeo.com
This week’s CPRA action will take CPRA athletes to the Manitoba Stampede and Exhibition in Morris for an SMS Equipment Pro Tour stop (July 18-20) and to Moose Mountain Pro Rodeo (a Maple Leaf Circuit event) in Kennedy, Saskatchewan July 19-20.
For results and upcoming events, visit rodeocanada.com
