![]() ![]() I asked for some videos, then I flew up there. “That’s happened, but this horse happened to be good. “Bryan messaged me on Facebook and said, ‘Hey, Kory, you don’t know me, but I have a horse that I believe you need,” Kory remembers well. Rudy’s the little 10-year-old sorrel horse Kory had just recently bought from Bryan and Jessica Labelle from up in Washington. ![]() Rudy died at the scene, and Remix was beat up pretty badly. If there’s a bright side, it’s that not one person got even a scratch.” All that damage you see done to the trailer was done by trees. The trailer hitting those trees shot my truck back across the road across both lanes, and I hit another car coming across there on the back passenger door. My left tires hit the mud, my truck slid sideways and my trailer hit some trees. “It was muddy and raining, and when I got into that left bar ditch, there was a slight curve going to the right. I still think I made the only right choice, because those other two options were way worse. Of course I’ve replayed that split-second decision over and over in my head since it happened. So I went to the left to avoid a collision. If I stayed straight, we were going to hit head-on. If I’d gone to my bar ditch to the right, that other vehicle was going to hit my truck and trailer. When I saw that other person coming my way, I was hoping the driver would pick her head up and get back in her lane. A vehicle came over into my lane on that little two-lane highway, and I avoided a head-on collision by swerving left. “It happened really quick, and the first part sort of happened in slow motion. I was about three miles from home when it happened, and only a really short ways from turning onto the little county road that leads over to the road I live on. “I was headed to my house from the World Series roping in Hamilton (Texas, at the Circle T Arena), where I’d just roped at the open and #15 ropings. “It happened two miles south of Stephenville on Highway 281,” said Kory, whose NFR heeling appearances have so far spanned 1992-2018, and won the NFR average with Bret Boatright in 1997. We all know by looking at that horrific photo of the crash scene that it could have ended so much worse. In recognition of just how beloved the 48-year-old, 22-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo heeler and two–time BFI champ is in the roping and rodeo worlds, we wanted to let Kory’s friends and fans know how things have been going since the January 16 scare. It’s been three weeks since Kory Koontz’s scary rig wreck on the outskirts of the Cowboy Capital in Stephenville, Texas, in which he totaled his truck and trailer, and lost his horse Rudy. ![]()
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