Tayla Moeykens won the North Dakota Roughrider Cup at 17.00 seconds, the last Cinch Playoff Series stop on the calendar before the Sept. 21 cutoff that sets the Governor’s Cup field in Sioux Falls. Summer Kosel and Lisa Lockhart tied for second at 17.12.

Let’s keep it simple. You came for North Dakota Roughrider Cup results, daysheets and to talk about the money, and it’s all below.

Thirty-six barrel racers got one run apiece at $60,000 added, Sept. 18-20 at the Dale Pahlke Arena on the Dakota Community Bank & Trust Rodeo Grounds in Mandan, North Dakota. The rodeo paid 12 places.

Mandan Results

(UNOFFICIAL)

1. Tayla Moeykens, 17.00 seconds, $12,780; 2. (tie) Summer Kosel and Lisa Lockhart, 17.12, $9,905 each; 4. Alyssa Gabrielson, 17.15, $7,668; 5. Hayle Gibson-Stillwell, 17.16, $6,390; 6. Michelle Alley, 17.21, $4,473; 7. (tie) Emily Beisel and Loralee Ward, 17.24, $2,876 each; 9. Megan McLeod-Sprague, 17.35, $2,237; 10. Tricia Aldridge, 17.37, $1,917; 11. Kathy Grimes, 17.38, $1,598; 12. Andrea Busby, 17.39, $1,278.

Places and times per ProRodeo.com’s unofficial results. The dollars are ours. Mandan’s ground rules set the barrel race at 12 places and ProRodeo posted the payout across 15, so we have rebuilt it on the 12-money ladder in WPRA rule 11.1.2.5, which pays 20/17/14/12/10/7/5/4/3.5/3/2.5/2 percent, against the $63,901 purse ProRodeo posted. Hailey Kinsel, Emma Parr and Blake Molle ran 13th through 15th and are outside the money on a 12-place payout. Mandan paid 12 places in 2025 as well. If the WPRA confirms ProRodeo’s version we will put it back and say so.

The Format

• Dates: Sept. 18-20, 2026
• Where: Dale Pahlke Arena, Dakota Community Bank & Trust Rodeo Grounds
• Performances: Sept. 18 and Sept. 19 at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 20 at 2:00 p.m.
• Added money: $60,000
• Cinch Playoff Series Rodeo
• Format: one go, limited to 36, paid 12 places

How the Field Was Set

The top 32 from the 2026 WPRA Pro Rodeo World Standings, taken seven days before entries opened, are in. The last four spots went to the champions of four qualifying rodeos: Mandan (July 2-4), Deadwood, South Dakota (July 19-25), Aberdeen, South Dakota (Aug. 10-11) and Rapid City, South Dakota (Aug. 23-25).

If one of those champions was already qualified off the world standings, the spot passed to the next rider on that rodeo’s sheet, not past fifth place, then reverted to the world standings. The 30-hour replacement and walk-up replacement policies are both in effect.

What’s on the Line

• Number Crunching: What (Unofficially) Has to Happen for Barrel Racers Chasing the NFR
• Final Roll Call: Four WPRA Circuits Change Hands as the Finals Cut-Offs Close
• Austyn Tobey Wins Mandan 2025: North Dakota Roughrider Cup Barrel Racing Results
• 2026 ProRodeo Barrel Racing Results and World Standings: September 14-20

Money first. Makenzie Mayes went to Mandan holding the 15th spot in the world and Austyn Tobey chasing it. Neither one placed. Summer Kosel did, tying for second for $9,905, and she passed Tobey for 16th on our projected board. LaTricia Duke now holds 15th at $116,618, with Kosel $9,797 back.

A win at Mandan paid $12,780 this year, against $12,938 in 2025. Tayla Moeykens took it at 17.00 seconds.

Kosel was not the only one who moved. Loralee Ward tied for seventh for $3,035, Andrea Busby was 12th for $1,598 and Heidi Gunderson did not place. Where each of them sits is broken down in our NFR bubble report.

Points second. The Cinch Playoffs Governor’s Cup in Sioux Falls, Sept. 25-27, takes the top four out of Puyallup plus the top eight in the 2026 Playoff Series standings as of Sept. 21. Mandan ended Sept. 20 and was the last rodeo on the schedule that could move that board.

The world title race ran here too. Carlee Otero, Hayle Gibson-Stillwell and Emily Beisel were all entered. Gibson-Stillwell was fifth for $5,112 and Beisel tied for seventh for $3,035. Otero did not place.

What a Check Paid in 2025

The added money is the same $60,000 it was in 2025 and the format is the same one go, paying 12 places both years. Here is what it paid last year, per ProRodeo.com’s unofficial results.

1. Austyn Tobey, 18.06 seconds, $12,938; 2. (tie) Lisa Lockhart and Katelyn Scott, 18.18, $10,027 each; 4. Halyn Lide, 18.20, $7,763; 5. Wenda Johnson, 18.36, $6,469; 6. Katie Halbert, 18.44, $4,528; 7. Andrea Busby, 18.69, $3,235; 8. Ashley Day, 18.70, $2,588; 9. Julie Plourde, 18.71, $2,264; 10. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, 18.81, $1,941; 11. McKenna Coronado, 18.84, $1,617; 12. Michelle Alley, 18.87, $1,294.

2026 Mandan Daysheets

Friday, Sept. 18 | First Performance, 6:30 p.m.

• LaTricia Duke
• Lindsey Muggli
• McKenna Coronado
• Emma Smith
• Piper Cordes
• Tayla Moeykens
• Bobbi Olson
• Carlee Otero
• Heather Crowley
• Julie Plourde
• Andrea Busby
• Hayle Gibson-Stillwell

Saturday, Sept. 19 | Second Performance, 6:30 p.m.

• Sydney Graham
• Anita Ellis
• Kathy Grimes
• Blake Molle
• Austyn Tobey
• Jana Bean
• Jordan Driver
• Makenzie Mayes
• Sara Winkelman
• Hailey Kinsel
• Emma Parr
• Emily Beisel

Sunday, Sept. 20 | Third Performance, 2:00 p.m.

• Alyssa Urbanek-Wade
• Raelin Jurgens
• Tricia Aldridge
• Loralee Ward
• Megan McLeod-Sprague
• Katelyn Scott
• Alyssa Gabrielson
• Summer Kosel
• Lisa Lockhart
• Morgan Addison
• Heidi Gunderson
• Michelle Alley

Listed in the order they appear on the sheet, off the Sept. 15 tradelists.

Every other rodeo from this week is in this week’s barrel racing results and standings post, alongside the projected world standings top 70.