RED BLUFF, Calif. — Culver’s Bobby Mote has become the career rodeo earnings leader among bareback riders. He is climbing up the overall earnings ladder as well.

Mote’s 84-point ride Sunday allowed him to tie another Central Oregon rider, Redmond’s Steven Peebles, for the bareback title at the Red Bluff Round-Up. The $4,852 Mote won for his co-championship at Red Bluff boosted his career Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association earnings to $1,877,065 — the most ever for a bareback rider and past yet another Central Oregon cowboy on the overall career earnings list.

Mote overtook 2004 ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee and longtime Powell Butte resident Clint Corey for 19th place in overall career PRCA earnings.

“I didn’t know I’d passed him,” said the 34-year-old Mote, the four-time and reigning PRCA world champion. “That’s something I’m pretty proud of, because there’s no better bareback rider than Clint Corey.”

Corey, the 1991 world champion, retired with 18 National Finals Rodeo appearances and career earnings of $1,876,206.

—From staff, wire reports