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Versatile horse is able to do two events, wins most points in high school rodeo season A female named Charlie has earned Jakob Long a whole bunch of high school rodeo points. And that female. ....
She’s working at the rodeo. Thirteen-year-old Payton Routier, who lives in Buffalo, S.D., should be in school when the rodeo’s going on, but she’ll be the specialty act for the 30th annual Hastings pro rodeo. The limber and agile cowgirl trick rides, a Western art form that consists of performing stunts while riding a horse, as the equine gallops around the arena at full speed. It’s beauty, grace, adrenaline and danger, all from the back of a horse, with sparkly, sequined costumes. It’s something Payton has been doing since she was four years old. She saw a trick rider at a rodeo she attended, as her mom competed, and fell in love with it. ....