AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT
In December 2019, Colby Lovell was standing next to the box at the South Point for the Ariat World Series of Team Roping’s #14.5 Finale, watching his friend Cody NesSmith ride his roan horse, Bartender, as the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo was going on across town.
Lovell, 33, didn’t rodeo much in 2019 but, at a Louisiana ProRodeo, he met NesSmith’s dad, Tony, who told Lovell about his 23-year-old son, Cody, who was battling Ewing’s Sarcoma—a bone cancer mainly found in children—and deeply loved
