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Hobbema, Alta. cowboy Leon Montour was the top cowboy at a crowd-drawing three-day rodeo, held in conjunction with the Indigenous Games.

Montour entered calf roping, saddle bronc, bareback and steer wrestling. He went home with a 16-foot trailer which holds up to five horses, plus a saddle handmade by Robert Yellowhair of Snowflake, Arizona. Both prizes are emblazoned with the words Champion All-around Cowboy 1993 North American Indigenous Games, Prince Albert. Montour accumulated 1,399 points in the four events.

Winning jackets for placing first in their events were: bareback - Kenton Randall, from Paddle Prairie, Alta.; Calf-roping - Montour; saddle bronc - Gordie Lambert, of High Level, Alta., and steer wrestling - Wright Bruisedhead, of Hobbema.

In the ladies barrel racing, Donette Horn of Harlem, Mon. took a jacket, with Sonya Taypotat, of Broadview, Sask. taking one in the junior barrel racing event. Michael Benjamin of Sandy Lake, Sask. took one in the junior steer-riding event, while the team-roping jacket was taken by Lyle Cochran from Arizona and Dion Yellowbird of Hobbema, Alta.

Bull rider Kevin Sanderson of the James Smith Reserve, Sask. bucked into a winners jacket in his event, as well.