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Costume brings home win for Alkali Lake Ranch bronc rider

The Stampede Ranch Challenge consists of a team of three cowboys who generally compete in four of the five ranch challenge-events.
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Alkali Lake Ranch bronc rider Greg Vanwinkle captured the first place win in the Stampede Ranch Challenge bronc riding contest with this colourful costume.

The Ranch Challenge competition held during the Williams Lake Stampede consists of a team of three cowboys who generally compete in four of the five ranch challenge-events.

The fifth event in the contest is the Ranch Bronc riding, and sometimes a ranch team does not have a qualified bronc rider, so, in that event only, the rules state that they can acquire an outside-man to ride their bucking horse.

The Alkali Lake Ranch team were in the unique position of having more cowboys than they needed to compete; so, Greg Vanwinkle sat out the rest of the events (he drew the short straw) but finally made his one-time appearance in the bronc riding as Braveheart (with a fair maiden captured in a raid on a far away castle).

Greg marked 77 points for his bronc-ride to split 2nd/3rd place, but when the performance score (for costume/showiness) was factored in, he wound up in 1st place, adding valuable points to the total, helping his Alkali Lake Ranch team mates retain the overall title once again for 2013.