Valley City Times-Record

Wild Horses: Canadian sister/brother duo to entertain during NDWS rodeo with exceptiona­l horsemansh­ip acts

- By VCTR correspond­ent trpub@times-online.com

Fans at this year’s North Dakota Winter Show in Valley City are in for a real treat.

Sister/brother duo Piper and Cash Yule will entertain during each performanc­e of the rodeo, March 1011.

The pair are still in their teens: Piper is thirteen and Cash is fifteen, and they are Canadian residents, living in Wardlow, Alberta.

Fans will be enthralled with Piper, as she Roman rides: standing on the backs of two horses as they gallop around the arena. She does liberty work, giving voice and visual commands to her horses, without the use of reins or a bridle. She also trick rides, performing gymnastic-like stunts on the back of a galloping horse.

Cash exhibits excellent horsemansh­ip skills, cracking a whip as he is on horseback, as his equine partner spins, does sliding stops, and patterns. Cash even sets his whips on fire, with a horse that doesn’t flinch from the flames!

Piper has been entertaini­ng at rodeos for the past six years and has been selected to perform at some of the nation’s biggest rodeos: the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, the Canadian Finals Rodeo, Denver’s National Western Stock Show and Rodeo, the Calgary Stampede for the past nine years, and others.

Cash is more of a homebody, his mother Kelsey said, and joins his sister on the road occasional­ly.

The two attend public school, Piper in the seventh grade and Cash as a sophomore. They are able to take their schoolwork with them when they are on the rodeo road.

Piper competed in the World’s Greatest Horseman competitio­n in Ft. Worth, Texas last month, winning tenth place. It’s a testament to her horsemansh­ip skills, as the contest is considered to be one of the toughest feats Western performanc­e riders can attain.

The Yule siblings are can’t-miss entertainm­ent

and will put on a new show for every performanc­e of the Winter Show!

The ND Winter Show

PRCA Rodeo takes place Fri., March 10 at 7 p.m. and Sat., March 11 at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are available online

at NorthDakot­aWinterSho­w.com and range in price from $20-$25 for adults and $15 for children ages 14 and under.

For more informatio­n and an NDWS schedule of events, visit the website.

 ?? Photo courtesy Kelsey Yule. ?? Piper Yule Roman rides, standing on the backs of two horses as they gallop around the arena. She and brother Cash Yule are the entertainm­ent for this year’s NDWS Rodeo, to be held March 10-11.
Photo courtesy Kelsey Yule. Piper Yule Roman rides, standing on the backs of two horses as they gallop around the arena. She and brother Cash Yule are the entertainm­ent for this year’s NDWS Rodeo, to be held March 10-11.

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