Mandi Holland | A Committees Perspective about Pro Rodeo Breakaway Roping
What does it take to add the Breakaway Roping to a PRO Rodeo? Mandi Holland, a breakaway roper and a committee member of the “Home of the Champions Rodeo, in Red Lodge, Montana, sheds some light on the production and what it takes to make it happen!
Mandi being a committee member shares with us how to get and ask for breakaway in our rodeos and how to problem solve. Mandi shares her experience as a business leader, and a member of the committee, as well as sharing her skillset on finding solutions to problems! “I love to take all of the ‘No’s’ and find the ‘Yes’ to those problems,” says Mandi, and she did just that to get the breakaway roping added into the Red Lodge Pro Rodeo. Mandi shares a lot of great facts about breakaway roping, and how it benefits the rodeo community as well as the communities of the events that have breakaway roping.
Mandi is a full time racetrack veterinarian in Phoenix, AZ at Turf Paradise Racetrack in the winters and Ellis Farstvedt (Husband and Equine Surgeon) and she owns Performance Equine Specialists and Beartooth Animal Hospital in Red Lodge, MT. Mandi says, “We are the official veterinarians of the World Series Team Roping Finale in Las Vegas, NV and can be found at Rancho Rio in Wickenburg, AZ in the winters. Our family splits their time between Red Lodge and Phoenix. We have 2 great kids, Averi and Logan that are amazing.”
