Ky Hamilton from Australia took fourth place during the PBR Canada Cup Series' Medicine Hat Classic held at Co-op Place on Oct. 19, 2024.--NEWS FILE PHOTO
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The 2025 Professional Bull Riding season is short weeks away from crowning a champion, and the next event on the calendar will take place in Medicine Hat this weekend.
Canada’s best bull riders will compete at Co-op Place on Saturday night as the race for the season title and accompanying $100,000 bonus gets down to the wire.
Four previous national champions will take centre stage on Saturday.
Hailing from Eatonia, Sask., first-seed Dakota Buttar will attempt to hold off British Columbia’s Jake Gardner to win his third title and tie the record for most national titles. Gardner has made seven PBR Canada National Finals appearances but has yet to take home the title. He sits 42.5 national points behind Buttar heading into the weekend.
Other notable competitors include two-time champion Cody Coverchuk, and current national title record-holder Aaron Roy.
Nick Tetz is also staging his anticipated return to competition in Medicine Hat. The reigning title holder and two-time champion was sidelined by a broken femur in March. He is the defending champion of the Medicine Hat competition and he enters the weekend seeded 16th.
The competition kicks off at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at Co-op Place, the Esplanade, by phone and online.
