![]() SALINAS: So, she placed seventh out of eight. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Fifteen seventy-two. Her loop around the first barrel was a hair too wide and cost her a few seconds. SALINAS: But her hard work just isn't enough tonight. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Ooh, horse just (unintelligible). You can get knocked off your horse, stepped on, it can fall over while you're still in the saddle. SALINAS: Loflin says it's a dangerous sport. LOFLIN: We try just as hard as they do, and it's neat to see that respect for us for sure. That's the same amount the ropers and bull riders get. The grand prize winner walks away with $50,000. A win in the first round will get you $1200. Rodeo might be a male-dominated sport, but in the ring, women get equal pay. SALINAS: And there's something else Loflin finds inspiring. ![]() So, I think that is pretty inspiring to a lot of little girls, to try really hard and to keep come up through the ranks. LOFLIN: Not only do you have to have an amazing horse, but you have to be an amazing rider and be super talented. There are long hours and a lot of losses before you get any wins. She had been showing horses all her life when she met her husband, a professional rodeo athlete. She's wearing jeans tucked into western boots and a black cowboy hat. ![]() SALINAS: She's a 39-year-old brunette with a strong, athletic build. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Christy Loflin, Frank Hills, Colorado. It's fast, and it's dangerous.ĬHRISTY LOFLIN: It takes a tough person to rodeo. The riders compete one by one, the fastest time wins. There's a five-second penalty for knocking over a barrel. The turns are so fast that the horse looks like it's at a 45-degree angle. ![]() The cowgirl, on horseback, darts out of the gate and runs tight loops around each barrel in a clover-leaf pattern. ![]() SALINAS: Three empty oil drums are set up in a triangle 60 feet apart. And as Brenda Salinas reports, it's not just the cowboys getting the crowd riled up.īRENDA SALINAS, BYLINE: Out of the eight events in professional rodeo, there's one just for women: barrel racing. Big name performers competing for big money. And that means chili cook-offs, petting zoos, fried everything, and, oh yeah, there's also the rodeo. For three weeks, the city's football stadium plays host to the world's biggest rodeo. ![]()
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