Team Wyoming saddle bronc rider Brody Cress drew the legendary Virgil at the National Finals Rodeo (NFR), a bucking horse voted by competitors as one of the greatest bucking horses of the modern era.

This resulted in a much talked about ride Monday night in Las Vegas for a $29,000 purse, and what rodeo fans are calling another highlight in the long career of the retiring horse Virgil. Cress scored 89.5 points, coming in second to Damian Brennan, who posted a 90-point ride.

According to former Team Wyoming coordinator Chuck Coon, Cress drew well at the NFR and left his family and the Thomas & Mack Center crowd with a memorable ride at the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo.

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Virgil is a well-known horse in the rodeo circuit and among the Top 15 in the world. The

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