She also has an up and coming young horse that will go in the trailer, too. Grey, a junior at Harding County High School, rides Big Enough for the tie-down roping and heeling, but when high school rodeo is over, Gilbert borrows him. Horses Hollywood and Roger will go with her, as will her brother Grey’s horse, Big Enough. She has a new truck and is in search of a new trailer, and is putting together her string of horses. She’s already making plans for the 2022 rodeo season. Her total NFBR winnings are nearly $20,000. Gilbert placed in five rounds, splitting first place in the sixth round and winning fourth place once, fifth place twice, and sixth place once. Everyone wants to think it will be different, but it’s just the same as the runs you’ve already done. “There is no more pressure at a short round. “That’s one of my favorite parts of roping,” she said. Her cool-as-a-cucumber mentality is an asset, especially in rodeos with short rounds like the NFBR. I don’t try to look too far into the future.” “But I take it one calf at a time, one rodeo at a time. “I always set pretty high goals for myself,” she told the WPRA. Obviously, I’m on cloud nine and my confidence is really high.” “It’s pretty cool, some of the opportunities I’ve already gotten to do. “I don’t think it’s completely set in yet,” she said. She hasn’t fully absorbed the reality of being the world champion breakaway roper. American, has won the Northwest Ranch Cowboy Association, and has twice won the South Dakota High School Rodeo Association breakaway title. In her younger days, she won the National Junior High School Finals, placed second at the Jr. This year, she won Cheyenne Frontier Days, Pendleton Round-up, placed second at Rodeo Salinas (Calif.), and won the Badlands Circuit Finals in October. The nineteen-year-old cowgirl, the daughter of Lloyd and Patty Gilbert, has been on some of rodeo’s biggest stages.Īs a sixteen-year-old, she competed at the RFD-TV’s The American. “That paint horse has done a lot for me.” He’s a wired little animal and he works better under pressure.” Roger thrives on the crowd noise and the lights of a rodeo arena, and since he had carried Gilbert through most of the rodeo season, she wanted to ride him at the finals. “I wanted to get on Roger because it works better if you’re more jacked up. Hollywood “got pretty hot and reared out,” Gilbert said, “and I made the decision that she needed a minute to calm down.” Fourteen-year-old Roger got the call. For eight of the ten rounds, she rode her sorrel mare, Hollywood, and for rounds four and five, she rode her paint, Roger.
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