![]() Score good, rate good, handle and face, it’s not about how fast you do it.” What is the format of the Badlands Bits & Spurs Futurity? The simple way I tell everybody: If you have a horse that does things right, you have a real good chance to win something. “Everybody was really happy with the cattle last year,” Harris said. Those same cattle will be roped in the $5,000-added 5- and 6-year-old Maturity division on August 24, so by the time they get to the main event on August 25, the cattle will be as even and ready-to-rope as possible. Harris insures he has Mexican cattle for the futurity that they’ll rope at a jackpot the Tuesday before the event to sort through. That’s the main thing.” What type of cattle will they rope at the Badlands Bits & Spurs Futurity? “The reining, cutting, cow horse, they all have 4-year-olds. “I would like to see some more 4-year-old futurities,” Harris said. ![]() Open to any horse- not just those eligible for incentives- the Badlands Bits & Spurs Futurity is the place to showcase those colts, as well as those from any other great program, big or small, across the country. From the Fultons to the Myers to the Cowans and more, the Dakotas have produced legends like A Streak Of Fling, Frenchmans Guy and Sun Frost and their hundreds of iconic offspring. Some of the best young horses in the business have come from the Badlands, where the big, rocky country and tough climate has created hearty horses on famed working ranches for generations. They shouldn’t be so pressured up at 4.” Why did the Badlands Bits & Spurs Futurity come about? A 4-year-old can still make mistakes and do well. This gives everybody an opportunity to start a real nice young horse, bring him up the right way and have somewhere to go with him. “Having a futurity for 4-year-olds in this region just makes great sense. “Forever, people came to South Dakota to look for big geldings,” Harris said. Plus, there’s nowhere like Rapid City, South Dakota to host it. They add $20,000 to the 4-year-old futurity, and Priefert donates chutes to the winning head horse and heel horse. Organized by ProRodeo Hall of Fame Heeler Bobby Harris and his partner JD Gerard, it’s the only futurity of its kind designed specifically to highlight the best 4 year olds in the game. ![]() Jake farms and Lauren works as a commodities trader, when they are not working, they are busy raising their daughter, Sadie Grace.There’s nowhere in all of team roping quite like the Badlands Bits & Spurs Futurity. Lauren and her husband, Jake live in Hereford, Texas. Lauren graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Agricultural Economics. Jeff has one daughter, Lauren Payne Urbanczyk. If you ask him what he’s most proud of, he will tell you, “Being Lauren’s Dad!” Jeff lives in Glen Rose, Texas – when he is not working in the shop, he is out working his cattle. It is this philosophy that keeps turning customers into friends! “I’m here to build you what you want.”Jeff explains to each customer, “It will be one-of-a-kind, and something that you will be proud to pass down to your children and grandchildren.” What he can build is only limited by the imagination of his customer. For Jeff, Bits and Spurs are tools of the trade and have one primary function, and that is to improve the horsemanship of the rider, and if you can look good while doing it, even better!Īs Jeff often describes himself, “I’m just a one-man operation working out of my shop, building one piece at a time.” All work is custom built to order. ![]() Having done some “cowboying” in his youth, Jeff is committed to building a sound product at a price affordable for the working cowboy. By 1990, Jeff was building spurs and bits full time. When the Texas economy turned in the late 1980s, what began as a hobby soon grew into a necessity as the demand for his Ranch Management skills diminished as oil prices plummeted. Jerry Cates and Jeff soon struck up, what was to grow, into a life-long friendship. Jerry invited Jeff back the next day to watch him work and Jeff soon began to dabble with making bits and spurs in his spare time. Grateful, Jeff stopped by Jerry’s shop to thank him. In 1988 his wife, a native of Amarillo, gave him a pair of Jerry Cates handmade spurs for Christmas. Jeff didn’t start out aiming to build spurs for a living. It is on this simple statement that Jeff Payne has built his business. Jeff Payne and Jerry Cates, Abilene Bit and Spur Show 2011. Just send it back to me and I’ll give your money back.” “You get’em home, and for whatever reason – it don’t work for you, or you just don’t like ‘em.
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