Luke Brown & Jake Long Win Open Roping At WildFire

Luke Brown and Jake Long were 40.91 on six head to win the 20th Annual Wildfire Open Roping. The pair won $30,000. Roping producer Dru Stewart (r) presents the awards.  – Photo by Olie’s Images

By Dru Stewart
Special To Ropers Sports News

The “Big-Four.” As team ropers, we all dreamed about backing in the boxes in OKC, Boerne, Reno, and Salado. The scary news is, we almost lost three of these great events in 2018. The Strait is no more, the USTRC is going through a massive overhaul, and the WildFire was going to snuff its flame in 2017 after 19 years.