Tonalea barrel racer wins all-around, takes home roping box prize
Special to the Times | Truman Begaye
Kylie Dodson rounds the barrel in the final four round in the barrel racing event at the 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair Open Indian Rodeo. Dodson finished as the women’s all-around champ.
Naa’ahóóhai | 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair
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Tonalea, Arizona, cowgirl Kylie Dodson was in the market for a roping chute.
She checked on a few and the one she was looking at cost roughly $2,500. She also considering building one for herself, but thanks to her women’s all-around win at the 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair All Indian Rodeo, Dodson will get to save some money.
“I built an arena and that’s what I’m missing,” Dodson said. “I was missing the chute, so that was what I was gunning for, and it worked out for me.”
Dodson stood in front of the bucking chutes with men’s all-around champ Dontre Goff inside the Dean C. Jackson Memorial Arena at the conclusion of Sunday’s championship round. With the most money between the two all-around winners, Goff had first dibs on either the 2025 Dun Filly donated by Cholla Livestock or the Priefert Roping Chute that was gifted by Navajo Engineering and Construction Authority.
Goff chose the horse, leaving Dodson with the roping chute.
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