THE Southern Hemisphere’s biggest team-roping event has come up with another amazing story of an up-and -comer too young to have a license walking away with over $50 000 worth of prizes, including two new cars for the second time in a week.
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The Mitsubishi Big Show Team Roping intermediate event, the #11s has seen 15- year-old Darcy Kersh clean up just two days after 13-year-old Danny Guilford also won the same prizes in the beginner event on Wednesday night.
Both kids have shown the adults in the comp how it is done and both have walked away with two new cars,
$22 000 in cash and a swag of other prizes, including a swag.
Despite this being the first ever Big Show Team Roping Championships, it is already by far the richest and biggest roping event in the Southern Hemisphere, with the prize pool attracting over 600 cowboys and cowgirls from all over Australia and America who are willing to splash out themselves for a shot at the bounty.
Every round costs the entrant $500, with most taking several cracks at each event. Kersh entered eight times with eight different partners in his bid, and came up trumps.
While he is going to keep the Mitsubishi Triton he won with Brody Moss, who also got one as his partner, he is going to cash in the Mitsubishi Mirage he won with Shane Kenny, who got one as well, and buy a horse float, mainly so he can drive back here next year from his home in Charters Towers, far north Queensland, to have another go.
“I will be back for sure,” Kersh said.
“It is huge – it’s crazy.”
The young cowboy estimates he won somewhere in the vicinity of $50 000 in cash and prizes.
“I won an event at home not long ago and won 200 bucks.”
“It still hasn’t quite sunk in.”
Even more impressive is that he did it on a horse that went lame on Wednesday night, where tenth place in the final won him a saddle in the beginners event.
“He just toughed it out,” Kersh
Kersh qualified first and second out of over 250 teams, before taking it out with a combined time of 33 seconds over four rides.
The young up-and-comer had his entry fees covered by Ride M Hard Western Wear at Charters Towers, who will now get a return of $10,000 for their trouble.
“So many people have helped me out and given me a lift here.”
“The roping and rodeo community have just been so great.”
Now the only problem the cowboy has is getting somebody to drive his new car with a boot load of cash and prizes back home – a mere 20 hour journey.