Riley Webb, Noah Lee claim top Cowboy Christmas timed-event, roughstock honors, respectively
The 2026 PRORODEO Cowboy Christmas run had a mix of old and new at the top of the timed-event and roughstock earnings charts.
For the second year in a row, reigning three-time PRCA Tie-Down Roping World Champion Riley Webb was crowned the top timed-event earner with $46,641.
On the roughstock side, Resistol Rookie bull rider Noah Lee took top honors with $34,518 in earnings.
Webb, who leads the PRCA | Bill Fick Ford World Standings with $207,365, earned checks at seven rodeos during Cowboy Christmas.
The Denton, Texas cowboy collected his biggest checks at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo ($16,047) and the Ponoka (Alberta) Stampede ($11,671). The $46,696 that Webb earned is fourth most in Cowboy Christmas history – timed-event and roughstock combined.
Bull rider Hayes Weight set the overall Cowboy Christmas earnings mark at $52,133 in 2025. Tie-down roper Ty Harris holds the record for most money earned during Cowboy Christmas for a timed-event cowboy at $49,550. A feat he accomplished in 2024.
“It’s just like practicing. You just have to use your horse and beat the calf,” Webb said about his key to success. “You can only do what you can control, and when you’ve got a good one, you’ve got to use them. I was fortunate to run a lot of good ones this week, so that made it easier to keep things rolling.”
A year ago, Webb was the top Cowboy Christmas timed-event earner with $32,537.
“My whole life I’ve been working and driving to be the best I can be,” said Webb, 22. “I never would have thought I would have the success I’ve had this soon in my career. That’s just my Lord and savior Jesus Christ giving me the talent and ability to show up every day and get better.”
Lee, meanwhile, has taken the PRORODEO world by storm since he bought his card in February.
The 18-year-old kept his foot on the gas through Cowboy Christmas earning $34,518.
Lee compiled his total, thanks to victories at the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo, Livingston (Mont.) Roundup Rodeo, along with a share of the title at the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede.
Just days earlier, Lee acknowledged he wasn’t familiar with the recognition. When told the distinction has been associated with some of rodeo’s biggest names over the years, including ProRodeo Hall of Famers Ty Murray and Trevor Brazile, Lee admitted that realization made the accomplishment even more meaningful.
“Oh, yeah, that’s really cool,” he said. “I didn’t know anything about it, and I thought that was pretty cool.”
Lee’s Cowboy Christmas success further strengthened a standout Resistol Rookie campaign.
He’s No. 2 in the PRCA | Bill Fick Ford World Standings, with $183,787 and remains on track for his first Wrangler National Finals Rodeo debut in December in Las Vegas.
While the results have come quickly, Lee said his approach never changed despite the miles, the packed schedule and the pressure that comes with Cowboy Christmas.
“I kind of just go day by day,” he said. “I didn’t really take things too far. I’d think about what I was doing the next day. I kept things simple and small, and focused on the task I had at hand.”
That mindset worked.
Lee won St. Paul (Ore) Rodeo with an 89-point ride aboard Sankey Pro Rodeo & Phenom Genetics’ Humboldt to earn $16,597, before matching world standings leader Tristen Hutchings with a 91-point ride aboard Frontier Pro Rodeo’s Carmen to split the Cody (Wyo.) Stampede title and a $10,313 paycheck. He followed that performance with another 89-point ride aboard Bailey Pro Rodeo’s Cowboy Dreams to win the Livingston (Mont.) Roundup and he walked away with $6,289.
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