Columbia Falls teen a bareback World Champion
Azreal Lara with “the big check” he received for winning the Junior World Finals in Bareback Horse riding.
They say nice guys finish last but the opposite was the case in the Junior World Finals in Las Vegas last week. Azreal Lara, an easygoing, low-key teenager out of Columbia Falls, competed in the senior bareback division and came home a World Champion.
It wasn’t Lara’s first rodeo. The Northwest Montana Rodeo Team member competed and took fifth place in the Junior World Finals last year. He also won NRA Rookie of the Year honors.
The champ had some good advice for any endeavor.
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