Priefert
US Open Tour High Year End Standings
Champion
Header 2013 / Josh Torres
Reserve
Champion Header 2013/Luke Brown
Champion
Heeler / Jonathan Torres
Reserve
Champion Heeler / Wesley Moss
October
2013
By
Melinda Clements
The Priefert US Open Tour
Championships awards a $10,000 cash bonus to the yearend high point header and
heeler each year during the Cinch USTRC National Finals of Team Roping. During the year ropers compete for the bonus
to be awarded in October during the NFTR in Oklahoma City.
Josh Torres is the 2013 Open Tour
Champion Header. Torres received a bonus
check of $10,000 and a beautiful custom Gist Buckle.
The Reserve Champion Header is Luke
Brown. He received a set of custom Gist silver spurs and a bonus check of
$5,000. The points provide a little security and recognition for a job well
done throughout the year. Both Preifert and the USTRC want to show their
appreciation to the ropers with this bonus award. With a strong support system
this bonus check will be put to good use as ropers leave the Finals.
“I didn’t win this alone,” Torres
said. “I had my brother and a couple of other guys backing me. The $10,000 is a great asset to our
family. You just have grind it out and
stay aggressive. That is just the way
life is. I was more worried about my
brother and how it was going to turn out for him.”
“I have been chasing this all year,”
Brown commented. “I’ve been a bit behind all year but it is a good bonus. I’ve won it twice and it is a good thing to
win.”
JonathanTorres is the 2013 Open Tour
Champion Heeler. Torres received a bonus
check of $10,000 and a beautiful custom Gist Buckle.
The Reserve Champion Heeler is Wesley
Moss. He received a set of custom Gist silver spurs and a bonus check of
$5,000. The points provide a little security and recognition for a job well
done throughout the year. Both Preifert and the USTRC want to show their
appreciation to the ropers with this bonus award. With a strong support system
this bonus check will be put to good use as ropers leave the Finals.
“It feels good to win this bonus,”
Torres said. “I was ahead for awhile then I ended up winning it the last
minute. We went to the biggest and best
ropings and kept working at it. I did
pretty well all year. I just tried to
keep moving forward and roping aggressive.
It feels good to rope with my brother and we rely on each other a lot.”
“The bonus is nice incentive,” Wesley
Moss commented. “I didn’t start until February and my partner, Jarrod Cross,
and I decided we would go and season a young horse. I didn’t have any points and then it began to
come together. It is good to get a bonus like this. It is good for Open Ropers.”
The $10,000 and $5,000 Bonus is a
great prize awarded at the end of the year for both the headers and the
heelers. It provides not only a good
incentive to rope for the points but also gives Open Ropers an extra cushion as
they head to the WNFR in December.
Priefert has always been an avid
supporter of the USTRC. A sponsor of the USTRC for
more than 13 years, Priefert is a family-owned and operated manufacturing
company based in Mount Pleasant, Texas, that has built a reputation of
innovation and integrity in the development of a product line designed to fit
industry needs.
