Interviews

What is your name? Rikki Perezchica 2. Did you grow up roping? Since I was 10 years old. 3. What made you start roping? Met Mike Williams, known to everyone as Uncle Mike. He was a cool guy that let this 9 year old drive his truck around the ranch, eat all of his candy without him getting mad, but most of all had a really cool blue roan, Hobby. He was clear she was a rope horse, I wanted to do what he did, especially if I got to do it in that horse. 4. How long have you been roping? Roped my first steer off Hobby right before my 10th birthday. It was my goal to catch a steer by then. 5. What kind of roping do you do? (Team, Ranch, Breakaway, etc.) Team rope mostly now. I am known as a heeler, I prefer that side, but recently been sharping up my heading skills. In High School I heeled and breakaway roped. I know dabble with the breakaway roping again, hard not too with that sport booming. 6. What is your greatest accomplishment so far? Absolutely the ACTRA Super 7 win in 2010 has been my greatest accomplishment. Best steers I roped all week happened to be in that roping. To be honest anyone who has roped behind Dusty Worsham knows he makes our job incredibly easy! 7. What are your goals for this year? Finish a breakaway horse this year to allow me to be more successful as I become more serious about that sport. I also hope to get a big win heading for Mike Williams this year. 8. Tell me about your horse(s)? Right now my number one is Willard. A gelding Mike owns that I get lucky to ride. If anyone owns a horse out of Charlie Hagens old stud Bucky, you know exactly how cool of a horse he is, we are lucky enough to own two. Button is another horse I raised out of Bucky. She is special because her mom was special to me. Everything big I ever won from high school until she was retired was on her mom, Shady. We retired Shady a couple years ago. My wife Kellie is now learning to rope off Button with also makes her a priceless horse to me. Bourbon is another mare we raised, she is out of my moms mare Annie. Annie has many fans and her daughter Bourbon is growing her own legacy. She is by far the prettiest of the group with the gorgeous all natural long main (lots of upkeep, do not recommend wishing for a long mane LOL) She is intense, all business and a winner! She also babysits my boys when they want to ride. Our horses are not great at anything but they all are good at everything we ask them to do. 9. What do you do outside of roping? I am an Administrator for a retirement community in the small city of Hughson. Been at the same job for 18 years and love it!! Kellie and I have been together 20 years and we have two boys Michael and Alexander, or Big Al as Michael calls him. 10. Lastly, if you could give a beginner one piece of advice, what would it be? Enjoy it!!! Will absolutely lose more than you win, must have fun and enjoy it first! It’s all about the journey not the destination when you get started.

1. What is your name? Layton Lee Oswald 2. Did you grow up roping? To a point yes. But I really didn’t start working at it until I was about 12 or 13 3. What made you start roping? Well my dad [Les Oswald] is known for being a horse trainer. We train rope horses and cow horses. So he was a big factor in what made me start roping. He took me down to one of his friend’s houses when I was prolly 12 and there was a bunch of my kids my age roping. It really bothered me how much better they were than me. That’s what started my addiction haha 4. How long have you been roping? About 6 or 7 years 5. What kind of roping do you do? (Team, Ranch, Breakaway, etc.) I team rope and brand a lot of calves 6. What is your greatest accomplishment so far? I won the jr world finals heading for Caleb Green in 2020. And winning the 10 steer in 2017 7. What are your goals for this year? I’d like to win a roping at actra finals because I’ve never been able to accomplish that. Then I’d like to be able to make the short round at the Rope Horse futurity in Ft Worth this October 8. Tell me about your horse(s)? Well I have a bunch: Ray- he’s 16 or 17 this year and he was the first horse I rode at a jackpot and he’s been prolly biggest part of my success the last few years Smokey- he’s 20 this year and they don’t get much more dependable. I tend to try and save him for the bigger stuff Justin- this was the first heel horse that I trained all by myself and he’s taught me probably the most Sike- I bought him in 2020. I think he’s 8 now. But he’s been my go to head horse lately. He’s about honest as they come and is never going to screw you Not to mention some others that I just started taking a little bit. Then I have some 4 and 5 year olds of my mom and I’s that are getting pretty close to hauling. 9. What do you do outside of roping? Well I like to fish a lot and play poole 10. Lastly, if you could give a beginner one piece of advice, what would it be? This is such a hard sport to be competitive at and I’m nowhere close to where I wanna but all I know Is you have to practice even when you don’t want to. Practice when others aren’t. That’s the only way. Talent will only get you so far. As well as don’t ever be afraid to ask question