Begay and Todd Win Big at Pendleton Round-up

The 2023 Pendleton Round-up comes to a close today after almost a week of tough competition. Twelve teams of headers and heelers hurried across the grass hoping to rope their steer the fastest.

Times, for the most part, seemed to just get faster and faster as the finals went on. Going into the final round Derrick Begay and Colter Todd were the team to beat with an average of 11 seconds flat on two steers. They turned in a 6.4 second time on their final steer.

Begay and Todd collected quite the haul of prizes with their win including saddles, buckles, halters, a set of spurs, a pocket watch, of course some bottles of Pendleton whiskey and many more neat awards.

Begay was a returning Pendleton Champion. He won it twice, once in 2013 with Cesar De La Cruz and another in 2011. This was Colter Todd's first Pendleton title. Both of these ropers are hustling to collect every dollar to make it to the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas this December. Begay is currently sitting ninth in the Heading standings. Todd is sitting sixth in the Heeling standings. It will be interesting where they sit over all following their big win today on top of all ready winning $7,081 earlier this week at Pendleton.

Begay and Todd won the average over all on three steers but in the finals round the fastest run was Jake Clay and Tyler Worley with a scorching time of 5.6 seconds. This made their average 18.1 seconds on 3 steers and moved them up to seconds overall from fourth.

Colter Todd/Derrick Begay - 17.6 seconds on three steers

Tyler Worley/Jake Clay - 18.1 seconds

Jonathan Torres/Coy Rahlmann - 18.5 seconds

Billy Smith/Douglas Rich- 13.2 18.9 seconds