TeamRoper Member Newsletter

By TeamRoper.com
Posted Tuesday, July 27, 2010

I was at a roping about a week ago, and I had something happen that I didn't understand. The header comes out of the box clean, has a legal head catch, turns the steer and the heeler tracks up and ropes him by two feet. The heeler fumbled his dally a bit and catches a half of a wrap, but stops the steer. The Flagger then drops the flag before he noticed that the head horse isn't faced. But, beings that the flag was down, the heeler undallies and drops his rope, the header starts off with the steer to the strip chute and the Flagger flags the team out. When the header asked the Flagger what happened, why did we get flagged-out? The Flagger replied; “because the heeler didn't have a good dally and the header wasn't tight, and after the flag was down the steer came out of the loop”! The header then remarked, “but we wouldn't have quit if you had given us a flag”. Then the Flagger said that USTRC Rules state that he can change his mind anytime.. Read more...