The Calgary Stampede provided a thrilling Championship Sunday that has become the standard at the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.

In bareback riding, Bradlee Miller won a round that featured four straight 90-point rides in the Shootout. Miller’s 92.5 points on Stevie Knicks was the best of them, and the best of his career.

Miller’s win was special on several fronts. First, he beat out Jacob Lees, who was 91 points and took second, while the two were neck and neck for the No. 1 spot in the PRCA World Standings. It also was some sweet revenge in Calgary, where a torn groin knocked him out for a month in 2025 when he had a $30,000 lead in the World Standings. Not only that, it ultimately knocked him out of the World Title race.

This time around, though, Miller is back in control and leads the World Standings by $19,000 over Lees with $190,728. The next closest cowboy after that is the injured Rocker Steiner with $122,142.

In steer wrestling, Riley Duvall bolstered his case for his first NFR since 2021 by winning with a 3.9-second run. He joins his great-uncle Roy, who won the first-ever Calgary Stampede bulldogging title, as a champion at one of the most prestigious rodeos in the world.

Duvall sits No. 4 in the World and less than $5,000 out of the No. 2 spot after starting Calgary ranked No. 26.

Wyatt Casper won the saddle bronc riding to bring himself to No. 4 in the World Standings as well.

He impressed from start to finish with five straight rides of 85 points or better, four of them worth at least 88. In the Finals, he rode Mary Lou for 90.5 points to edge Gus Gaillard, who rode last in the Four-Man, by half a point.

“I thought Mary Lou was the most solid in that pen and I’ve been wanting to get on her for a few years now,” he said. “It’s everything I dreamed she would feel like.”

Zack Jongbloed’s tie-down roping display was perhaps the best performance of any athlete at the entire rodeo. He made four runs of 7.5 seconds or faster, including a 7 flat on his first run of the rodeo and a 7.2 on his last.

What makes it even more impressive is the fact that his fastest run of the season entering Calgary was 7.8.

Jongbloed, much like Duvall, jumped from outside the Top 20 firmly into NFR contention. He is now No. 8 in the World and made over half of his season earnings at The Stampede.

Brushton Minton, who was Jongbloed’s biggest challenger all week, took second with a 7.8.

Breakaway roper Cheyenne McCartney was also terrific throughout The Stampede. She won the first two rounds of Pool B, then finished second in Round 3 with a 2.7.

Her slowest run of the rodeo was her 3.2, which barely got her into the Shootout, where she returned to form to win the rodeo with a 2.7-second run.

The barrel racing in Calgary was one of the best you will ever see from start to finish, and it was won by one of the best to ever do it, four-time World Champion Hailey Kinsel.

Things really began heating up in Pool C when Kassie Mowry broke her own arena record with a 16.68 in Round 1. She then went on to win Round 2 before Hailey Kinsel, who finished third and second in the first two rounds, won Round 3.

Mowry’s arena record lasted about 72 hours before Hayle Gibson-Stillwell shattered it in Sunday’s Semifinal with a 16.56. Every barrel racer who advanced to the Shootout was 16.75 or faster. The arena record up until three days prior was 16.75.

Kinsel was the one who recorded that 16.75, which forced her to the bottom of the ground in the Short Go, but it didn’t matter. She and Sister made a 16.80-second run that edged Gibson-Stillwell by one one-hundredth of a second.

It was Kinsel’s second Calgary Stampede title. The first came in 2018, when she also rode Sister.

“This is incredible, this is everything that every athlete dreams of and especially on a horse like that, she loves this rodeo,” she said. “The ground has been amazing, my horse is happy, that’s all I care about.”

The Top 2 bull riders in the World, Noah Lee and Tristen Hutchings, had a back-and-forth battle where both went 3-for-3 in Pool B. Lee won $21,533 to Hutchings’ $21,033, and those extra $500 proved critical. Only three bull riders made the whistle in the Semifinals, meaning Lee snuck past Hutchings in the tiebreaker.

He made the most of that opportunity (and a re-ride) with 77 points in the Finals. The score didn’t matter. He was the only one who made the whistle, and with the win, he joined his father as a Calgary Stampede Champion and ascended to No. 1 in the World as an 18-year-old rookie.