Trick rider carries on family legacy

REARDAN – The love of horses is in eight-year-old Laramie Gray's DNA. As the youngest rodeo trick rider in the area, she is highly acclaimed and well on her way to achieving the same success as her parents, Ryan and Lacy Gray.

Ryan, who grew up in Cheney, and Lacy from Desert Hills, AZ, met while on the rodeo team at Odessa College in Texas. Lacy competed in breakaway roping and goat tying, an event in which she placed fourth in the nation.

Ryan holds the collegiate record for the highest score ever recorded in bull riding. He later qualified for the National Finals Rodeo eight times. Ryan ret...