Gray on top of bareback standings

Another solid week crisscrossing the West has vaulted Cheney’s Ryan Gray to the top of the Pro Rodeo Cowboy’s Association bareback standings as the month of July comes to an end.

He’s won $79,651 to date in 2013 and has moved steadily up the PRCA standings in July. He started the month off with a little more than $36,000 in the bank and in sixth place.

“Yeah I had a good week,” Gray wrote in an email from the road. He was second at Ogden, Utah July 19 and won $1,900.

However, Gray’s big payday came at the legendary Cheyenne Frontier Days in Gray’s home state of Wyoming (he was born in Laramie)...