Added money: The purse put up by a rodeo committee: it's added to the contestant's entry fees to make up the total prize money. All PRCA sanctioned rodeos have added money.

Average: At rodeos with more than one go-round, contestants earn money for each go, those with best total scores or times win additional money.

Barrier: in the timed events the stock is given a pro-determined head start, depending on area conditions, called the score, and marked by the scoreline. A rope is stretched across the front of the box out from which the contestant's horse will come. The barrier rope is released by a measured length of twine which is pulled loose from the calf or steer as it crosses the scoreline.

Catch-as-catch-can: A calf roper is allowed to catch the animal in any way he chooses so long as he turns loose of the rope when throwing the loop, and so long as the rope holds the calf until roper reaches it.

Dog-fall: Downing steer in steer wrestling so all four feet and head not facing same direction. illegal. To get a time, cowboy must turn steer over or let it up and throw again legally.

Fair (Legal) catch: in team roping, header must catch steer around horns, head or neck.

lagman: Rodeo official who signals end of time elapsed in the time events.

Go-round: That part of the rodeo event in which every contestant has competed on one head of stock.

High roller: A horse that leaps high into the air when bucking.

Honda: The eye in one end of a rope, through which the other end is passed to form the loop.

Hooey: in calf-roping, a cowboy must put the animal down and tie any three feet by taking two wraps - one if in a hurry - around the feet and tying off the a "Hooey"- a half-hitch.

No time: (NT) Failure to qualify on a timed event cattle, signaled by field flagman waving his flag side-to-side.

Pickup man: Mounted arena official who assists bareback and saddle bronc rider in dismounting from their horses.

Piggin' String: Small soft rope six feet long used by calf ropers to tie the animal's feet.

Point Award System: The method by which champion cowboys are chosen each year. Each cowboy is awarded one point for each dollar earned in competition at PRCA-approved rodeos during the 12-month rodeo season. At the end of the year the cowboy who's won the most money in each event is named PRCA world champion, and the cowboy who's won the most money in two or more events is PRCA world all around champion.

Prize Money: Paid to winners of each event at a rodeo: it is the total of added money - the purse put up by the rodeo committee - and the cowboy's entry fees.

Pulling leather: When a saddle bronc rider touches any part of the saddle with his free hand during the eight second ride, he is said to be pulling leather, or "grabbin" the apple," and is disqualified.

Rake: Spurring action of ride on rough-stock. Bareback and saddle bronc riders are required to continue spurring throughout rides; bull riders are not, but sometimes score higher when they do so.

Re-ride: Another ride given to a bareback, saddle bronc, or bull rider in the same go-round when either the animal or cowboy is not afforded a fair opportunity to show his best, such as a chute-fighting animal impossible to get mounted upon, when the animal falls or drags the cowboy off on chute gate, etc.

Re-run: Timed event cattle used in the same rodeo in the same go-round. (Except in rare cases, a rerun is not comparable to a reride. Generally speaking, the animal belongs to the contestant when he calls for him, regardless what happens, except for mechanical failure.)

Rowel: Circular, notched, bluntly-pointed and freewheeling portion of a spur. They do not cut a bronc or bull. Anyone using sharp spurs is disqualified.

Score: 1) Distance between the chute opening and the scoreline; the head start timed event cattle are given in calf and steer roping and steer wrestling, determined by size of arena. 2) The marking given rough-stock riders by the judges after a qualified ride.

Seeing daylight: When a rider comes loose from a bucking animal far enough for spectators to see daylight between cowboy and animal. This is not always a bad thing and does not always mean the cowboy's about to be bucked off. There's a technique called "floating" used by a few saddle bronc riders which makes them appear bucked off every jump, and it's exciting to watch.

Cody Nite Rodeo and Cody Stampede Program 1996