Tilden Hooper was the first champion of the night, exploding for a 92-point ride on The Calgary Stampede’s Disco Party. The veteran perfectly timed up the Canadian horse and ended up one point better than Jake Lees, who opened the Short Round with a 91.

Hooper and Lees also tied for the win in the First Semifinal, and they took home $27,400 and $19,400, respectively, from Cowtown. It was Hooper’s highest-marked ride since Oct. 12, 2024.

“I woke up this morning and saw it was Bob (Tallman’s) last night here, and I knew right then, I’m gonna rear back and get it on. Whatever happens, just soak it all in,” Hooper said. “It’s a special night, and it has nothing to do with me.”

Anyone who was paying close attention throughout the last two weeks knew the steer wrestling was going to be fast in the Finals.

Every bulldogger competing Saturday night had already made a run of 3.9 seconds or faster, and that’s the exact time Justin Shaffer set the tone with as the first one out.

It would be bested twice by Bridger Anderson and Trisyn Kalawaia, who were both 3.8 seconds. It marked the first Texas Swing win for both men.

No times jumped off the page in the team roping, but in bracket-style rodeos, you only need to beat the other pairs that night, and Corben Culley/Trent Vaught did that with a 5.4-second run. They were more than four seconds faster than anyone else on Saturday in a Short Round where 15 flat still got a check.

It took at least 88.5 points to advance out of each Semifinal, and the big scores kept pouring in on Saturday night.

All eight rides were 88 points or better, it took 89 to get a check, and there were three 90+ point rides. Those 90s came courtesy of a rodeo-winning tie between Darcy Radel and Rusty Wright at 91 points apiece and 90.5 from Stetson Wright.

“I just want to be a better person and show people that if you keep your nose down and stay working hard, you can do whatever you want, no matter the setbacks or the trials you go through,” Rusty said. “Just keep buckling down and you can get it done.”

In what looked like it could have been a round at the NFR, Ryder Wright, Damian Brennan, and Kade Bruno split third with 89 points apiece.

“I bet I am not as proud as the little town of Injune (Australia). There’s only 600 or so people there, and I bet they’re going ballistic right about now,” Radel said of his victory.

Kincade Henry matched the fastest run of the rodeo in the tie-down roping Finals with a 7.5 to best Marty Yates’ pace-setting 7.7. It took 8.2 or faster to get a check.

Henry got more than a half-second better on each run of the rodeo and leaves with $27,400. He has won a check on all six of his runs in the calendar year 2026.

It took 16.30 and 16.26 to win the two barrel racing Semifinals, both of which are very good times. It took much more than that to get the job done on Saturday.

The Top 4 were all 16.28 or faster, and Kassie Mowry and Jarvis made a statement with a 16.04-second run to set the arena record and win the rodeo.

“I’m so lucky. Jarvis is such an amazing horse, he does so much on his own,” she said.

The two-time reigning World Champion has now won all five Texas Swing rodeos in her career. More impressively, she has won all five in less than three years.

There were only two qualified rides in the bull riding, and it led to Trey Kimzey and Lane Vaughan banking $26,000 and $18,000 for rides of 88.5 and 86 points, respectively.

Kimzey was a beneficiary of the bracket-style system, winning the rodeo with timely qualified rides despite going 2-for-4 overall.

In breakaway roping, Jill Tanner went from the Wildcard to the top spot, making a 2.0-second run to best Shelby Boisjoli-Meged by one-tenth of a second. She was the only winner to advance through the Wildcard in 2026 and made three straight runs of 2.3 seconds or faster over a four-day stretch.